Fellow Cannabis Enthusiasts - We Need Your Help

1. Cannabis saved my life when my medical condition was considered terminal and I weighed 86 pounds (I am 5 feet, 8 inches tall) and lost the ability to walk due to a very rare condition. Due to being born with "weak" and/or "lacking" certain brain receptors, most meds don't work on me (as well as other members in my family).

2. Of the three doctors that told me to try marijuana, as a last resort, two of them said this [paraphrased]: "If I could personally destroy all alcohol products in this country (USA) and make pot legal, I would, because pot is far safer, and alcohol destroys so many people and families in society today."

Sad coincidence: My eldest brother was killed by a drunk driver.

3. At the end of 11 months, I gained weight to a much healthier 125 pounds, and could walk again. In fact it worked so well, two years later doctors declared I was, and remain, currently in remission. In fact my remission is so sucessful, I'm not remotely close to worrying about ever being listed as "terminally ill" due to the rare condition I suffered for almost a whole decade, while docs tried everything under the sun to stabalize it. Not once did they ever come close to doing so until after they suggested the cannabis. Also, I ate the cannabis, which saved my lungs from additional stress.

4. Marijuana is not legal in my state in any way. All 3 doctors knew that when they made the suggestion. They did not know if it would work at all. So they knew I was using cannabis that did not come from a governmental source. To say the least, we were all amazed with the results.

5. At the time we decided to try this tactic, there were already scientific studies proving that cannabis does have both painkiller abilities, helps a great deal with nausea, and was the only med they ever gave me that enabled me to eat again. Since that time, the UK has released the results of a double-blind study proving that cannabis has also been found to have unique anti-infammatory properties as well. The UK has also significantly lowered the fines connected to being arrested with an amount of cannabis (sorry, I don't recall the amount, but the results of that change in law, and the anti-inflammatory study, are both easy to find on the net).

6. Due to the medical properties listed above, doctors were able to give me LESS dangerous narcotic, anti-nausea, and anti-inflammatory meds. In fact there are books available in America that spell out the fact that cannabis in connection with other meds (such as painkillers like hydrocodone and oxycodone and morphine) has been proven to make those meds work better, thereby allowing doctors to prescribe less of these more dangerous medications.

Famous people like Montel Williams fully support medical use of marijuana (he found it to be helpful after his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (sp?) and he admits such openly in at least one of the books he's written. Several other famous people in all walks of society have also used it to help themselves or ill members of their family (such as the famed writer William F. Buckley obtaining it for his sister when she was battling a serious illness).

Two of the original 3 doctors credit marijuana with literally saving my life (we lost contact with the third, so I can't speak for him). Now ten years have passed, my weight is great, and I still use it from time to time in connection with a different health problem I have, and it helps every time (I don't consume it daily). My family and I *always* tell every doctor and specialist and ER doc I've ever seen about this matter, as we believe in full disclosure.

Thanks for your time,

"A Survivor"