ALABAMIAN MAKES CASE FOR LEGAL MARIJUANA

A medical marijuana bill known as the Michael Phillips Compassionate
Care Act For Alabama will be introduced in the 2011 session of the
Alabama legislature.

I've lived over half of my 77-plus years in chronic and debilitating
pain and used many prescription drugs to try to alleviate my pain
which has grown increasingly worse over the past few years. None of
them helped and several of them hurt me.

I'm a law abiding citizen, so I've never used marijuana in any form
because it's illegal in Alabama to use it even if my doctor might
recommend using it, although I've read numerous studies stating that
marijuana might provide relief from my pain. As the law stands now, no
doctor in Alabama would prescribe marijuana for pain relief lest they
and their patient become criminals.

Any legislator or editorialist who won't support this bill, in my
view, is neither caring nor Christianly concerned about those of us
who suffer from pain and don't deserve the position they hold.

Please do everything you can to get legislators to pass this
bill.

Don Seibold

Wetumpka