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Categories: Affordable Healthcare, Research & Technology, Crime & Penal Reform
Striking another blow for what is right and just, Aaron Houston of MPP has helped move the issue of medical marijuana further into the mainstream. Later today, the federal House consider an amendment to the FY08 Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill by Maurice Hinchley (D-NY) that would prevent the Justice Department from using funds to block marijuana use for medical purposes in the 12 states that have laws allowing it. Hinchley's amendment last year attracted 163 votes and Mr. Houston predicts that support will increase to 183. He has been working very diligently so that patients suffering from the symptoms caused by cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other diseases can safely receive effective and inexpensive relief.
Opponents assert that substitutes, such as Marinol, are effective and even "better" than what they call "smoked marijuana," but they are never physicians, are they? The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiencies published a persuasive study on June 21st that demonstrates the emptiness of their arguments (click on the link to read the abstract).
Ave to our own Aaron!
