Pubdate: Thu, 02 Dec 2010
Source: Tribune, The (Greeley, CO)
Copyright: 2010 The Greeley Publishing Co.
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Author: Elsa Perez

IF DRUG GIVES RELIEF, CAN IT BE ALL BAD?

I've never done drugs or anything near that, but I have been in pain.

This summer I got in a go-kart accident. I now have a 5-by-4-inch 
scar to show for it. To say the least, I swung off, my foot got 
caught on something, and my leg landed on the tire.

After riding it for a few yards, it stopped. Not shedding a tear, not 
wanting my peers to see me crying, I got up from the pavement and 
walked back to my friend's house.

To this day I can still remember that feeling -- as if an orange 
peeler was moving across my leg.

What I'm trying to say is people who use medical marijuana -- I mean 
the ones who really need it -- actually need it. People who are 
suffering from cancer or terrible accidents, living their life in 
pain, all they want is peace. Marijuana gives that to them.

Windsor voted for it leaving. They claimed it's "bad." What is bad? 
Is bad the sensation of wanting to feel better?

Just because people abuse this privilege, it doesn't mean there 
aren't real people with real illness and real pains who need it. Not 
to get rid of their pain but to get rid of the feeling of death.

Who are we to say that just because we haven't felt it, it isn't 
real? Think this before you go off judging someone for something you 
don't know.

I ask you, who are we to say?

Elsa Perez, Johnstown
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