MARIJUANA CURES

I am writing in regard to your Dec. 6 Science Spotlight article on H.
Pylori.

I am one of those few who had severe problems from H. Pylori for over
20 years of my life. I am glad to see that the Future is getting the
word out about this debilitating bacteria. It's important that
information like this be disseminated to the general public so that
those who are sick with the infection can take this information to
their doctor to get tested and get cured if necessary.

If you are a person who is experiencing chronic heartburn, weekly to
daily vomiting spells, severe lower back pain, complete loss of
appetite, weight loss and/or abdominal pain so bad that it makes you
contemplate suicide for relief, then go get tested for H. Pylori
because if you are sick with this bacterial infection it can lead to
stomach cancer and eventually death.

The good news is that if this happens to be your illness, then you
will be cured immediately by the Prevacid/antibiotics cocktail that
was discovered in 1996. From my long experience with doctors, I have
found that most doctors really aren't that good and you, the patient,
will have to ask explicitly to be tested for H. Pylori.

Another reason I wanted to write this letter is to inform people that
before I was cured in 2000, my only consistent relief from pain was
cannabis, or marijuana. For the last three years of my illness, I was
so sick and in so much pain that if it were not for the pain relief
that cannabis provided, there is no doubt I would have committed suicide.

Not only did cannabis give pain relief but it allowed me to function
on a daily basis. When I was sickest is when I made straight As in
school for the first time in my life, and this is when I was smoking
cannabis at least 15 times a day for pain relief.

So when I hear our government's claim that cannabis is a Schedule I
narcotic, meaning "no medicinal value," I know that this is a flat-out
lie. When I hear our government talk about how cannabis will destroy
your life, I know that this is ignorance because it simply depends on
the person, their background, and their individual chemical makeup.

My grades, my knowledge, my experience, my ethics and my morals are
proof of this because I have been there, done that.

In the end, my message to everyone is that there are many illnesses
that are both understood and not understood. When you are in the kind
of pain that I have experienced in my life, then there is no law or
person who will stop you, and no lengths that a person won't go to,
just to end the pain.

Every person should ask themselves in the land of the "free" why are
lying, cheating, stealing and murdering politicians deciding who can
or cannot have pain relief from a plant that was put here by God!

Let God's gift to mankind be free at last to provide the healing that
is so needed by mankind at this point in time.

Brian Cregger