Medical marijuana held hostage

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. I am working on my letter to my reps this weekend

Didn't pay much attention until my dx, and a friend suggested it. If it has possibilities for healing ALONG with the incredible pain management, we could be looking to boot the entire Pharma industry on its tush (and where the real fight is...)

Charlotte Figi's family has formed a NFP with the Stanley Brothers called Realm of Caring. http://theroc.us/ The Stanleys are the ones who developed the strain of high CDB oil that is called Charlotte's Web, named for Charlotte.

Even Governors Scott of Florida and Haley of SC signed their respective Charlotte's Web bill into law. That said, Schwarzenegger did the same thing in CA purposely to stave off the legalization movement - so there are political factors in play with it all.

Last night, I posted about education being the key to people understanding why we want to study this. This Rep from Oregon did a superb job nailing down the problem that the federal government has created for itself with its Just Say No approach by telling people that weed (that one cannot OD on) is equally as dangerous as meth and heroin - and then trying to figure out why so many suburban kids are ODing on heroin these days.

The video is 6 minutes and a makes some really salient points that I plan to incorporate into my letter.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11702375

We have an uphill battle ahead, but if there are tumor blasting properties in cannabinoids - we need to fight that battle with everything we have. The Israelis are WAY ahead of us on this (as are the Canadians), so it isn't like we would be starting from scratch. We just need to work on our Reps to allow the studies to happen.