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The Push to Legalize Medical Marijuana
September 2, 2009 - WKBW
In 2001, a car accident turned Joel Peacock's life upside down. But
even after surgery and years of recovery, Joel is still haunted by
constant and severe pain.
"It's just excruciating pain," said Peacock. "You can't function. You
just feel like crawling into a box and dying."
The South Buffalo man takes powerful drugs, but they don't always work.
So when the 58-year-old was out of town a few years ago, and ran out of
his medication, he tried something else to relieve his symptoms.
He smokes marijuana.
"I went back to the hotel, smoked some and the pain just went away,"
Peacock told Eyewitness News.
Since then, Peacock has advocated for legalizing medical marijuana in
New York State.
13 states have legalized marijuana for medicinal use. All of them allow
users to both possess and grow weed.
New York could be next.
Two bills are being considered by the state legislature. One allows
users to have two and a half ounces of marijuana. The other bill would
give people permission to grow up to twelve marijuana plants.
A doctor's permission would be required for both proposals.
Legal medical marijuana would be welcome news for a Town of Evans woman
who was arrested last week after police found seven marijuana plants
growing on her property. One plant was out in plain sight growing on
Barbara Ober's porch.
The 63-year-old's husband says his wife needs the weed to treat
arthritis and glaucoma.
"It seems to work for her," John Ober said. "She doesn't smoke a lot.
But it does help."
But some members of law enforcement think legalizing any drug is a bad
idea.
"It's illegal for a reason. People, when they smoke it, they do stupid
things and they get hooked on it and they start stealing," said Capt.
Charles Danzi of the Evans Police Department. "No, any legalized drugs
I don't think it's a good idea."
Joel Peacock disagrees. He believes the drug is harmless, with huge
benefits.
"We got people with HIV, AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, it's proven it can
help these people," Peacock said.
"It's illegal for a reason. People, when they smoke it, they do stupid things and they get hooked on it and they start stealing," said Capt. Charles Danzi of the Evans Police Department. "No, any legalized drugs I don't think it's a good idea."
I guess the Cop must have smoked a bunch of Marijuana before he said that.
-------------------- God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful God. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it, so he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad.
Why does God give us anything?
Look at it this way: if you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away. If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, it would have nothin' to cry about. That's like God, who gives us life and love and help just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry, so he can drink the sweet milk of our tears. You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power.
We're making some real progress from the Rockefeller drug laws of just a few years ago, where selling 2 oz. or possessing 4 oz. of weed was the same as second degree murder. NY government is dysfunctional on a lot of different levels but it's nice to see at least a few small signs of hope.
That's great news! New York is the 3rd most populated state in the US (after California and Texas), thus legalizing for medical use would have a positive impact on many sick people in the US.
Also, many people will be exposed to the fact that allowing sick people to smoke marijuana won't make the sky fall down.
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"I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" - Thomas Jefferson
evanspoliceny.com/reports/current/monthly.html Here is the Evans Police Department website. Be sure to email or call them and let them know what you think about their Captain's recent statements! Make sure to point out that there was only 11 drug related complaints taken by their department on their nifty little chart, as opposed to the 53 counts of larceny. I'm not seeing much of a correlation.
-------------------- It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. - Hunter S. Thompson