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OREGON POLITICIANS SHOULD SUPPORT MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Marijuana ( cannabis ) is a medicine.  Edibles, tinctures, creams and oils are potent medicines and should be recommended by a physician who understands their properties and side effects.

Allowing a person to get anything they want at a dispensary is the same as allowing them to go to a pharmacy and get medicine without seeing a doctor or a pharmacist.

Our bodies, just like the cannabis plant, make cannabinoids ( major ingredients ) and we have receptors for them everywhere including the brain, blood system, liver, lungs, ovaries, kidneys, etc.  The cannabinoids in marijuana are very therapeutic.

Getting high is a side effect of cannabis.  Historically it was used by the plant to protect itself from animals that liked to eat its leaves but would go to sleep when intoxicated.  Most of my patients do not like to get high and have learned to adjust the dose so that the psychoactive effects are minimal.  They use marijuana because of its remarkable medicinal properties ( research-based - pain, nausea, appetite, seizures, anxiety, depression, Alzheimer's DX, neuropathies, PTSD, cancer ).

Like all medicines marijuana can be dangerous for patients who have not been educated in its appropriate use and have not seen a physician.

Politicians have a moral and legal obligation to protect the citizens of Oregon.

Please use your God-given privilege of serving others to promote what is right and honorable.  Keep medical marijuana as a separate entity and do not legalize the purchase of edibles, tinctures, creams, and oils without a doctor's recommendation.

Do not cater to those who think that money is more important than human lives.

Also, please save our small farmers.

Judy Emanuel

Ashland