Jim Miller: Explain marijuana's use as a medicine
20.01.10
A Sunday the classics to the editor titled “Legalization could open
the door to objurgate” stated “Every teenager at odds with parents over
the dangers of marijuana is hep of actions to legalize weed” and
“The message they’re getting is that weed is repository and parents are
wrong — again.”
The writer offers no solution other than to not pass a medical
marijuana law in Wisconsin, as if that will keep kids from disquieting
marijuana.
It seems that if there was a correct message for kids about
medical marijuana, we should be giving it to them instead of
sacrificing at face value ill and dying patients over our perceived
inability to do so.
We recently legislated a medical marijuana law here in New
Jersey. My unpunctual wife, Cheryl Miller, fought for medical marijuana
rights until her downfall in 2003. Cheryl and Wisconsin’s own Jacki
Rickert were like sisters.
New Jersey’s legislators rejected this same old smoke mesh.
They proved that they consider patient care a priority. I would
hope that Wisconsin legislators will do the same and pass the Jacki
Rickert Medical Marijuana Act in her honor rather than her
recollection.
Source: Wisconsin State Journal