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Medical Marijuana is `Humane'
Posted by FoM on July 05, 1999 at 15:32:29 PT
By Toni Leeman - Coalition Advocating MMJ!
Source: Miami Herald On line
Thank you for pointing out the madness of current law in your June 22 editorial Dazed and confused on medical marijuana. Florida has flip-flopped on its attitude toward medical marijuana.
The Legislature allowed its use under controlled studies and encouraged research in the early 1980s. Now the politically popular sentiment is to denounce marijuana's medical benefits -- even as the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine released a report finding medical uses for marijuana.In 1988 Broward Circuit Judge Mark E. Polen, now in the Fourth District Court of Appeals, issued an opinion in State vs. Musikka, a case against a legally blind woman arrested for cultivating marijuana to treat her glaucoma. His words bear repeating: ``The absolute prohibition against marijuana's use, even when such use may be therapeutically required to avoid grave and irreversible damage, appears on its face to be irrational. To ignore the plight of such people renders the law callous to the most basic of all human rights; the right of self-preservation.``There is a pressing need for a more-compassionate, humane law.''Eleven years later, there's still a pressing need. Our Legislature is adamantly against carving any compassionate niche in the law. That's why there is currently a citizen-led initiative drive in Florida -- as there was in California, Arizona, Washington, Nevada, Oregon and Colorado -- to legally protect medical-marijuana users who have a doctor's recommendation.The politicians don't listen to reason, science, evidence or even opinion polls. It is up to the public to educate them with our votes.TONI LEEMANCoalition Advocating Medical MarijuanaFort LauderdaleCopyright 1999 Miami HeraldPublished Monday, July 5, 1999, in the Miami Herald 
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on July 05, 1999 at 15:42:33 PT:
Dazed & Confused on Medical Marijuana! 6-22-99
Here's the link to the article discussed above!
Dazed & Confused on Medical Marijuana! 6-22-99
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