[Lurker]

I've known a couple of people with cancer, including my own mother.

Until you've seen someone puking their guts out from chemo, unable to even keep chicken broth down, you don't have much room to talk.

I'll tell you this; if black market heroin worked on the nausea I saw my mother suffering, I would have found a way to get her some in a red hot New York minute.

L

[vin-one]

I'm with you on this one
Watched my brother waste away to nothing from Cancer.....

[ClintonBeGone]

I'll tell you this; if black market heroin worked on the nausea I saw my mother suffering, I would have found a way to get her some in a red hot New York minute.

I'm sorry to hear about your moms suffering. What did the doctors offer her to ease her pain?

[Conspiracy Guy]

When my Grandfather was going through chemo in the late 70's my brothers and I figured out ways to get it for him at tremendous risk to all of us.

I'd do it again if I had to. Leagalizing it for medical purposes is the minimum thing to do.

CG

[robertpaulsen]

"if black market heroin worked on the nausea I saw my mother suffering,"

I understand.

Would you, therefore, support a proposition that would make "medical" heroin legal for (from Proposition 215) "the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana heroin provides relief."?

And that "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no physician in this state shall be punished, or denied any right or privilege, for having recommended marijuana heroin to a patient for medical purposes."

If Proposition 215 were written differently -- restricting the use of marijuana for readily identifiable and confirmable diseases -- that would be one thing. But over 50% of the medical marijuana use is for "pain". Not cancer. Not AIDS. Not glaucoma. Not MS. Pain.