MORE READERS RESPOND TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA ISSUE

Show Compassion, Vote 'Yes' This Fall

There are patients throughout Michigan with debilitating illnesses
like AIDS, multiple sclerosis and cancer who could benefit from
medical marijuana. I suffer from the intractable pain of degenerative
disc disease.

The available medications have their own price: Addiction, intestinal
disorders, the potential even of death -- and are expensive to boot!
Yet none are as effective or as benign as medical marijuana. Were it
discovered tomorrow in some remote jungle, marijuana would be touted
as a miracle cure.

I only want to relieve my pain in a safe, effective way, without fear
of prosecution. Very few people know what I live with, nor what
they'd do in my situation. It's like being adrift on an ocean and
coming upon an island, only to find it covered with "no trespassing" signs.

This is an issue about compassion. Please register to vote and
support patients like me this November.

Mike Hall

Hastings