LETTER OF THE WEEK

LEGALIZING MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES NECESSARY

By Jeff Bissonette

Marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes especially for
cancer patients. My father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma
and passed away in August. The cancer really was not the killer but
the chemotherapy was. He lost 7 to 8 pounds every treatment because
he was unable to eat after the chemo.

My mother and I tried everything to get him to eat, but he said
everything tasted terrible. So I told him he should try smoking some
marijuana to increase his appetite, and he looked at me like I was
nuts. But he didn't have much to lose at this point, so he tried it
and he actually started putting weight back on - but it was too late.

For years, there's been natural drugs to cure us that the good Lord
put on this planet for a reason, but our government is too caught up
in the mighty dollar and how they can screw the public. If you want
to see our trillion-dollar deficit disappear in a three-year-period
of time, legalize marijuana. If patients get caught selling it, they
can get such a steep fine they would never do it again. Or better
yet, take it away from them all together. Our country is in terrible
trouble financially, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel,
so legalize it and get the U.S. out of debt.

Jeff Bissonette

MSU staff

Pubdate - Wed, 5 Dec 2007

Source - State News, The (MI State U, MI Edu)

Referenced - http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1376/a07.html