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trhrh

It's too bad the internet is the only place you can find stuff like this. I, too, am pissed that I have to pay what I pay to get it and face getting into legal trouble. Ohio, for some unknown reason, decided to go with many other states and make possession of less than 100g a civil citation like a speeding ticket. That is great, but it's still illegal. Who knows, maybe lobbyists truly are on the way out in this country. It is widely thought that the paper industry lobbyists are responsible for MJ being made illegal in the 30's because hemp is a sustainable crop and beats the shit out of having to make paper from wood pulp. I don't know, I just get really hacked off that I can get things prescribed to me that marginally help and can kill me if I take too much. Yet I can't take something with no danger of overdose, and is VERY helpful because someone convinced Washington it should be illegal.

Hopefully we will look back on this time and laugh because marijuana is so much weaker on your body than alcohol, yet that's legal and celebrated. I'm going to grow my own this summer in protest of having to pay about $1,200 a year for it. Just saying 'growing it' sounds funny. I mean MJ is completely unprocessed. It is like no other substance in terms of being 'au naturael'. I mean anything else that has effects like that is refined, processed or something. With this, it's dried; that's it. So I have to listen to a society that tells me that something that grows right int the ground wild is illegal. After reading all these stories and living one myself, it just pisses me off.

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This is unbelievably sad, reading it made me cry

Crazy what gets to us, Matt.
A while ago, I watched a movie called Go Now, about a guy with MS. The only part of the movie that got to me at all was during a scene when the guy was leaving the hospital and his girlfriend carried his bag. He couldn't stand to have his bag carried for him, and he took it from her. I cried like a baby.
This has absolutely nothing to do with this thread, except that I wanted to tell you that I understand about things hitting a raw nerve sometimes.
Terry

Legal issues aside - I believe I am an outlier as MJ makes me almost instanly worse and unable to function even more than before. I get tremor and almost imediate balance issues. I even had a "friend" speculate that the MJ caused my MS - Arshole he was!. Anywho I will not participate in any trials for MJ & Ms as I do want to pollute the study with my atypical results. Bummer for me...no relief with MJ.

Arti - sorry to hear your story. Sucks

This is a really good description of the way I and many feel.
I remember watching the movie In Pot We Trust and I got all misty when the DEA cut down about 1000+ plants, but a really good movie to watch to learn about the struggles of legalizing medical marijuana in the U.S up here in the north we got it figured out mostly.
It helps, I notice mostly for spasams.

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Had ms for over 19 years now.

gnfsgnsfnsrnsrnsfgn

it's hard to take thinking that adults make this decision for other adults regarding how this can help the symptoms of their particular disease.

~it will come it has to~

yes have gotten it for a year and a half now.

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Had ms for over 19 years now.

you can get sativex in canada now i think??....also...a possible problem with buying the street stuff/maybe gov too/is the possibility of insecteside usage....

I have never tried it. My mum has talked about getting some for me but it is illegal here and possession alone would lead to criminal record. In addition, my employer screens for drug use and if I got caught using then it is a sackable offence.

hi,

i don't know much about it...not sure whether it would have an active ingredient for positive testing/i.e. supposedly it doesn''t get you high

jack

I've heard some decent stuff about it, but when it comes down to it, the Sativex costs more with my copay than buying weed does.

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hi,

a website called psych central has an article on MJ and preventing alzheimer

jack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeNfKrMnc1E&NR=1
something that works

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Had ms for over 19 years now.

That was a great video Rob.

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