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in
to furthering
Sincerely,
Alex
Carrillo
Director of New Mexico Health Department
Proposal
Along with a few other states, New Mexico was one of the first states to
experiment with medical marijuana. In July of 2007 we began sending out
medical marijuana cards in the mail to patients who qualified and could
really benefit from it. At the time, Governor Bill Richardson called it the Lynn
and Erin Compassionate Use Act after Lynn Pierson and Erin Armstrong, two
cancer patients who were proud advocates of medical marijuana.
Lynn and Erin were two respectable citizens who unfortunately got cancer,
but instead of just accepting their fate and waiting to die they decided to
look for an alternative. Going through extensive treatments and
chemotherapy they were barely able to live normal lives. However, they
heard about how marijuana could ease their prolonging effects of
chemotherapy and were willing to try anything that would make them as
productive as they used to be. After their next chemotherapy session they
consumed a little bit of cannabis and the effects were astonishing they didnt
feel sore and nauseous like they usually would, they were able to continue
their days without as much pain. Thankfully, Governor Bill Richardson was
able to see that they were using this substance as medicine to improve their
lives.
Medical Marijuana can be a great asset to our society if we are willing to put
in the time and money in order to do the proper research and fully
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understand
what
with. In the
we
have
done a
great amount of
we are dealing
last decade
research
and
have had a few great breakthroughs. This only includes a limited
amount of states which are willing to take the risk legal ramifications in order
to bring their citizens some hope. Every time someone does research on
marijuana they are taking a risk of going to jail, even if they state it has
allowed them to do this research, because it is still illegal in the federal
governments eyes.
A limited number of states have allowed their residents to participate in this
research or lifestyle because they live in fear of the federal government.
California was where the movement began and had the most dispensaries
and patients, it was a prosperous community for a while bringing in hundreds
of thousands of dollars. That was until the federal government decided to
raid a majority of the dispensaries in California and arrest the shop owners,
charging them with multiple felonies.
Problem
After the raid in California everyone
that was even remotely related to the
medical marijuana industry was
uncertain of what their future looked
like. However this didnt seem to stop
many people, if anything this publicity made more people believe that
marijuana was possibly a cure. Going from having 8 states illegally providing
their citizens to now 24 states illegally providing their citizens with medical
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marijuana.
This
huge problem
creates a
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Luckily for
this
parents
werent
willing
give
up on her and kept looking
to
for
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day UNMPD
raided
took some of
his
believe that you just want to get high. But in reality all they are doing is
trying to improve their lives by taking their medication in order to live
productive lives.
Solution
We will never know the truth until we run these experiment and only then
are we able to judge what we should do with this plant.
Medical Marijuana is still a pretty new industry in the country and we
honestly dont know enough about it to say whether it should be illegal or
not. With your help and the help of your colleagues, I hope to accomplish
something groundbreaking. We might be able to change life as we know it
being able to cure cancer, epilepsy, and who knows what else. But we will
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only be able
to
accomplish
to
us
Citations
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