Opinion

Pot is medicine; legalize it

Posted November 04, 2011 5:00 am

It’s against my constitutional rights, not being able to use cannabis if I want to. Without fear of getting my door kicked in by law enforcement, for using a pain medicine.

Is this war on drugs working? Did prohibition work? It led to gang violence and murder then and it does now. Will our state representatives please let us know where they stand on medicinal cannabis? Fifty percent of Americans want to see cannabis legalized outright (in the latest polls). I have seven children and I have talked to them about drugs, alcohol and smoking. It starts in the home. None of them use today and I am a grandfather of four.

I need this medicine since a car wreck in 2007 and the four surgeries that followed that left me with 30 screws in my neck. Cannabis would improve my quality of life.

To our local representatives, please vote “yes” on House Bill 30.

Bobby Day

Huntley

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