As a Colorado Christian, I voted to allow sick citizens to use the relatively safe God-given plant cannabis (kaneh bosm/marijuana) legally and it works (New Jersey Lawmakers Consider a Medical Marijuana Bill, May 29, 2008). How sick citizens acquire cannabis is inconsequential. The important component of legalization is to stop government from caging sick citizens for using a plant that was arguably created by God, the Ecologician to be used for the healing of the nations. Stan White Dillon, Colorado [end]
TRENTON - Lawmakers debating whether New Jersey should become the 13th state to allow the seriously ill to use marijuana got hung up last Thursday on how patients would acquire the illegal drug. "I think this is a question you should ask your children," Assemblyman Reed Gusciora said in response to a question about marijuana's availability. "I don't mean to be flip, but marijuana is out there. Many people obtain it." However, several lawmakers on the Assembly health panel considering the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act said they'd be uncomfortable passing a bill that allows patients to possess marijuana without also providing some way for them to buy the drug. [continues 454 words]
