Comments on: Alabama paper writes about medical marijuana

By: Voodoo

Voodoo — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:54:53 +0000

Because of the ignorance of certain physicians there is so much NEEDLESS suffering. So many studies have pointed out how the medical community undertreats pain. Dr.Rack , not everyone who has pain is a drug seeking loser. Evidently you don't have severe chronic pain and have no idea of the hell we live with. Perhaps you aren't aware that the high number of suicides of veterans is because of inadequatley and undertreated pain. The DEA has brainwashed so many people into thinking medical marijuana makes people axe weilding murderers-give me a break. Paradoxically it's OK to prescribe medicines that can have profound side effects, sometimes fatal, are priced beyond the grasp of many, yet a simple. effective herb, that has NEVER been shown to have a lethal dose, that can be grown for nearly free in your garden is somewhow "inappropriate". Oh, and Dr. Rack, if you ever are afflicted with the curse of fibromyalgia, I bet you'd change your tune. I hope for the sake of your patients you recieve some continuing medical education on chronic pain.

By: Caleb

Caleb — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 04:43:04 +0000

I was diagnosised with epilepsy in 2006 and was have seizures atleast 1 to 2 times a week along with having anxiety and also chronic pain due to 9 knee surguries. With all this going on I got very depressed and none of the anti-depressants seemed to help. I was giving several different types of seizures medicine and also plenty of pain medicine but when I started smoking marijuana my seizures where reduced to maybe 1 every 2 to 3 months and I very rarely take any pain medicine. Also my anxiety and depression is not even an issue any more. Thank God For Marijuana!!!! Please give us are medicine we really need……….

By: Margie

Margie — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:59:56 +0000

Hello, I am a chronic pain suffer, and a wife of a fibromyalia patient. Our life is a living nightmare also, He suffers daily. We have five kids. I feel he should be allowed to smoke marijuana also he has chronic arthritis, and chronic pain to go along with his condition. He has been on pain medication for three years, and nothing touches his pain, sleeplessness, mood, depression, and the list goes on. Unfortunately we live in Alabama, and they have yet to approve medical marijuana so he has suffered along time. He has tried marijuana and it helped him greatly, well he could not get help so yes he tried to grow his own for his use. BIG BIG MISTAKE!!! How long should a person have to suffer before someone does something about it? It is not fair at all, and consider everyone in different states have got it approved what is the problem? People can only go so long before they take it into there own hands and try! It is not fair that what works isn't leagal, but doctors don't mind shoving narcotics down peoples throats. All though they have major side effects, shuts down kidneys, liver, and so on! I feel if you need it, it's natural, and it works what is the harm of allowing people to use it! If anyone knows any way that my husband can get help from a doctor in Alabama please email me at mrsstevens1991@yahoo.com Thank you so much and may God Bless and be with you all. Margie

By: dubie

dubie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:51:59 +0000

I have fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue sydrome and narcolepsy. Also, Bi-polar disorder, throid problem, IBS . So basically I am screwed up mentally and physically. I take a lot of meds. The latest is GHB. You used to be able to get
GHB over the counter until it became a rave or party drug and date rape began.
Now it is a schedule 3 narcotic. I had to read a book, watch a dvd and talk to my Dr. for about a hour. If I lose it I need to call the police and the pharmacy. I can only get it from a central pharmacy and it costs over $1,000 a month. My point is
if I can get GHB for Narcolepsy, why did my Pain Management Dr. cut me off of pain meds. when my urine tested positive for THC? My life is a living hell. I wish I could just move to Amsterdam! (or Cali.)

By: smokinbull MCKEEVER

smokinbull MCKEEVER — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:29:06 +0000

As in all medications, not all works for everyone in the same way!but who is anyone to tell someone that they can’t have something that makes them feel better just because it don’t help them in the same ways? to deny anyone the right not to suffer is just plain cruelty and flat out wrong!!! I hope the ones who promote suffering have to suffer in the same way someday if thats what it takes for them to finally open there eyes!!!drug companies lie to us and the government about what they make and force us to have to settle on toxic poisions to get ridd of pain that that has far worse side effects than pot ever could!!I know first hand,after ten years of suufering I use the Blood money Medications that they demand or I lose everything that I own!and trust me the buzzards circle over sick people just trying to catch them useing pot so uncle sam can take there hard earned property to a government sale and give it away to there rich buddie’s behind the scenes,and in california they twist the laws from federal to state to get the issues all mixed up so they can pick on who they want to and let the currupt go free,the ones who suffer like me who care about freedom!!!care about my country! who fears GOD!!!and the commandments that he has set forth for me to follow in life,and yet my country reats me like a common criminal!!!!,it just makes me sicker than I already was just thinking about it,further more I trust GOD in the natural medications that he has laid out for us a hell of alot more than blood money medications and the crooks in our government and the kickback lobbyist that support them to force us to take the toxic pills thats filling up rehabs coast to coast with more sick people than any other time in history,most are not in there because they cant get off street drugs,there in there because of treatments from toxic addictive pills that they cant get off of!!! and most will tell you that the pills no longer work for there pain any longer but there still addicted anyways!! and now there sick and have this moster addiction to the toxic pills to deal with too!!!I hope the lobbyist have paid the crooks in washington well!!!for theres no price tag on the kays to get out of hell for what they have done!!!ouch some might say well that sounds drastic!tell it to my father whos in the ground six feet under from the toxic blood money pills that took him out far before his time 2 years ago!!!! may god have no mercy on the ones who have sold out there fellow man for perks of the job as they call it!!!! SMOKINBULL

By: Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer

Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:33:59 +0000

I agree with many of the comments, in Los Angeles where I practice I have seen a growing acceptance of medical marijuana by law enforcement. Even though thye federal authorities continue to resist the push towards national medicinal marijuana, I see this happening one day.

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By: debra

debra — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:24:33 +0000

Having read through the list of everyone’s post, I have cried and laughed, and rolled my eyes. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2003 by the United States Army. It took over a year of a long drawn out battery of tests.
I remember the nerve tests and them sending shock after shock of lower voltage through my body at specific points. I remember looking into my boyfriends eyes and thinking: ” I don’t want you to see this pain let alone know this pain.” I held his hand through the whole thing crying and screaming and weeping uncontrollably from the pain. As you can all imagine, the results were normal.
It took another four months for the Army to decide they could not keep me as they felt I could not do my job. The depression and anxiety I had been feeling started to take its toll.
As a young adult I was very active in high school. Playing everything for volleyball, powderpuff football, soccer, tennis, etc….. Right out of high school I became a stay at home mom. Now you are telling me I can’t serve my country! What a blow to the spirit!!
I have a hard time coping let alone telling anyone the pain I am in. I hear people moan and groan about their lives and think: If you only knew. Just Shut up!
I am a twice surviving cervical cancer survivor. I have minor depression and general anxiety disorder. I suffered from anorexia in high school and self-esteem issues.
I HATE taking narcotics. I argue with every doctor I have about them giving me a prescription for what I have. I am tired of being told that its all in my head. I am tired of being told they mis-diagnosed me. I am so tired of hiding from the pain. I am a strong willed person. I am an independent person.
I wake up every morning and do a freak self inventory of my body. Does this hurt too much? I’m I gonna cry today? Do I really need to take that? Can people tell how much I hurt?
There’s nothing worse than living with this. There are somedays I can’t get out of bed. There are some days I can get out of bed and go mountain biking (though I pay for it the hours later).
DO NOT TELL ME WHAT I AM FEELING! IT’S NOT IN MY HEAD. You think I like living like this? You couldn’t hang with me for one freaking day you slime ball!
You don’t like seeing someone’s anger?
LET ME SMOKE MY WEED IN PEACE AND MAKE IT EASIER AND LEGAL FOR ME TO USE!
I am not like this when I smoke. I’m calm. Very little to no pain. I can enjoy life.
Unlike some of the people that have written here my ex-husband had a drug problem. If he knew that I was doing it illegally I would NEVER see my kid again. So I weep and cry and try everything you tell me too and hide the weed so he never knows.
SOME ONE help me! I hate this disease.

By: edwina

edwina — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:43:58 +0000

i wish i could believe that i would be well from this stuff but so far i just cannot.
even when i smoked pot a long long time ago- i couldnt see how now a days it would help me feel less pain.
all i got back then was buzzed and the munchies… and parinoid.

By: RI Patient Advocacy Coalition

RI Patient Advocacy Coalition — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:48:43 +0000

Deb et al,
Check out http://www.RIpatients.org for more information on the state of Rhode Island’s Medical Marijuana Program!