Surprise! Surprise!
By Victor M Adamus
Obviously the President has not been diagnosed with
cancer. We hope he never will be. But for those of us who counted on his
promise to support Medical Marijuana, research shows that Obama has been more
hostile to medical marijuana users than any President in U.S. History. This flies in the face of a poll that shows
nationwide 77% of voters want medical marijuana legalized. That’s quite a voting block.
Campaign talking heads for the re-election committee say “get
over it” but those of us with cancer can’t.
It makes a difference in our quality of what life we have left. So it was important to cancer groups that the
President carve out cancer patients and introduce a health bill allowing cancer
sufferers and their doctor to access drugs that would make it easier for them
to survive.
Five Presidents have supported marijuana research. Jimmy Carter allowed patients to apply for a
waiver to use medical marijuana legally under federal law. MS patients, in dire need of the weed, were
successful in the majority of states to use weed as a daily drug. Marijuana is successful in treating returning
Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Medical marijuana is more popular than the President
is. He told ABC News “we’re not going to
legalize pot anytime soon”. Yet a more
recent poll reports 81% of Americans support legalizing marijuana. This promises again to become a campaign
issue. It’s as important as stem cell
research.
So what if the President was stricken with cancer? Do you think it would make a difference? No doubt he would gain access to whatever he
needed to survive. But that’s not my
point. He promised when he ran in 2008
to support State Rights on the issues of medical marijuana. His Administration has reversed that and is
attacking small businesses in states that have legalized dispensing the weed to
cancer victims. I’m wondering now if
this President is standing to the right of Ron Paul.
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