In the April issue of Northern Connection magazine, I started the conversation regarding the legalization of pharmaceuticals that contain extracts from the cannabis plant - also known as Marijuana.
As I pointed out in my column, I do not understand why it needs to go through the government. The FDA has proven beyond a doubt that the plant contains medical properties that help many different kinds of illnesses such as seizures and epilepsy. The medical properties can calm the electrical firing - or misfiring of the brain. So why can't a doctor just prescribe the medicine where he or she deems necessary?
Afterall, pain killers filled with highly addictive opiates can be prescribed without government interference and all these pain killers do is mask the pain. They don't cure or remedy anything. They also build up a higher and higher tolerance - not to the pain but to the pain medicine. So, patients require higher and higher amounts to kill the pain.
Unlike medical cannabis that actually does something for sufferers of certain illnesses and disorders.
But as always, I am interested to know what you think. Please feel free to leave your comment below or email e at NorthCon@consolidated.net or send me a "Letter to the Editor" at P.O. Box 722 Wexford, PA 15090-0722 attn: Marianne Reid Anderson
Source: Medical Marijuana Passes in the PA House of Representatives: http://patch.com/pennsylvania/
