Contact Your State Reps - Pass This

http://www.ksn.com/news/local/story/Bill-proposes-legalizing-medical-marijuana-in/6NECExD14UqKrMZE4IIB5A.cspx

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I know this is going to be controversial, but this needs to happen. Stoners aren't real productive members of society because they tend to forget what's really going on and spend their stoned time sitting around with not much concept of reality. They are able to ignore reality and enjoy a world where the only thing really significant is whatever happens to be entertaining them at that moment.

Now, think in terms of a cancer patient who is staring death in the face and watching their life crumble around them as the effects of the chemo and radiation destroy their lives as they knew them.

I was one of the fortunate ones who had a really positive long-term diagnosis going into the nastiness of the chemo and radiation. Even with that, there were times when the best thing that could have possibly happened for me was to forget. Even for a moment. Maybe have a laugh or two about something meaningless.

Just give me a chance to forget that I'm fighting for my life and I'm never going to be the same person after that fight is finished. Having to deal with that stuff is just brutal. I would have given anything to be relieved of that for a moment, an hour, a day - anything - just don't make me face that day in and day out for months on end.

The drugs the doctors prescribed for that are some of the most dangerous and addictive drugs in modern medicine. When I was at my worst, I was taking 2 of the 4 drugs Michael Jackson died from - and I wasn't taking the really addictive ones I was getting prescribed. That was just so I could go on from day to day and I had to have the sedatives so that I could stop caring about the damage that the "cure" was doing to me.

I'm not even talking about pain. I'm talking about an unavailable drug (marijuana) that could have let me forget what was going on, could have given me a laugh at something meaningless that isn't even funny, and could have helped me sleep during times when sleep was terrifying, but was my only escape from a truly horrible life.

That would have made my life during the tough months so much better.