MEDICAL MARIJUANA BILL SHOULD PASS

I respectfully request that your newspaper support HB434 in the
Alabama House of Representatives and any companion bill that is
introduced in the Alabama Senate.

This bill would change Alabama law to allow certain citizens
described in the bill to use marijuana under the conditions
prescribed in the bill to deal with their medical situations.

In 1970, after 16-plus years in the military, I was medically
discharged because of a physical condition that rendered me
physically unfit for further service to our country. Before then, I
underwent two invasive surgeries to try to correct a condition in my
lower spine, neither of which brought relief for the pain I suffered.
So, for half or more of my life I've lived with chronic pain which
has gotten worse over time.

As a law-abiding citizen I have never used marijuana, even though
I've read and heard that using it might give me some relief. If HB434
changes the law to make medical marijuana legal, at least I will have
the opportunity to legally use it to see if it will ease my pain as
it reportedly has for so many other people around our nation.

Don Seibold

Wetumpka