IF DRUG GIVES RELIEF, CAN IT BE ALL BAD?

I've never done drugs or anything near that, but I have been in pain.

This summer I got in a go-kart accident. I now have a 5-by-4-inch
scar to show for it. To say the least, I swung off, my foot got
caught on something, and my leg landed on the tire.

After riding it for a few yards, it stopped. Not shedding a tear, not
wanting my peers to see me crying, I got up from the pavement and
walked back to my friend's house.

To this day I can still remember that feeling -- as if an orange
peeler was moving across my leg.

What I'm trying to say is people who use medical marijuana -- I mean
the ones who really need it -- actually need it. People who are
suffering from cancer or terrible accidents, living their life in
pain, all they want is peace. Marijuana gives that to them.

Windsor voted for it leaving. They claimed it's "bad." What is bad?
Is bad the sensation of wanting to feel better?

Just because people abuse this privilege, it doesn't mean there
aren't real people with real illness and real pains who need it. Not
to get rid of their pain but to get rid of the feeling of death.

Who are we to say that just because we haven't felt it, it isn't
real? Think this before you go off judging someone for something you
don't know.

I ask you, who are we to say?

Elsa Perez, Johnstown