Michelle Obama #stoptheseizures Cannabis is medicine

S D
Louisville, KY
We are parents, grandparents, and friends of children with epilepsy, cancer, and other conditions potentially treatable by medical cannabis. Many of us helped legalize strains in our home states only to have our children's access stymied by federal restrictions. Some even moved across the country for this potentially lifesaving plant, leaving behind homes, families, and in some cases, spouses and other children. The treatment is proving so effective that our medical cannabis refugee families can’t go home, since federal classification as a banned Schedule 1 substance makes it a felony to even possess the plant or its extracts, much less cross state lines with them.

Even in states with medical cannabis laws patients encounter barriers. Hospitals won't risk federal funding by ordering this Schedule 1 and when admitted patients are not administered their doses. Missed doses can carry catastrophic risks for epileptics. Federally funded schools will not allow children to receive their physician recommended cannabis oil extracts on site.

Research, mostly from other countries, suggests cannabis may treat a host of conditions such as cancer, epilepsy, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Crohn's Disease and other bowel conditions, stroke, and more. Yet, Schedule 1 restrictions all but ban medical research on the plant here in the United States. Maneuvering red tape for trials can take decades and many patients can't wait that long. The world's leading research facilities must be allowed to study this therapeutic plant. Lives depend upon it.

The President has the authority to remove the plant from Schedule 1. We reach out to you, Mrs. Obama, mother to mother. Please meet with us to open a dialogue on this issue so crucial to our children.

Sincerely,

Parents Coalition for Rescheduling Medical Cannabis

This petition was drafted by Suzanne Marie De Gregorio, who is the mother of an autistic and epileptic son, who is a breast cancer fighter, and who is my amazingly brave cousin.

Thank you, Sue De Gregorio-Rosen

I never imagined that a U.S. Surgeon General would support and recommend that marijuana is good for people’s health!

We truly live in exciting times, times of beneficial change. I never thought I would live to see a day when marijuana would become legal in America, and as the Pot Pundit, I seem to be always rubbing my eyes is amazement when I read about cannabis legalization, especially recreational cannabis such as the case in Colorado and Washington states.

However, it gets better than that! I never imagined that a U.S. Surgeon General would support and recommend that marijuana is good for people’s health. Wow! Dr. Vivek Murthy, our country’s current Surgeon General, is yet another top medical professional who is agreeable to amend and reform restrictive marijuana laws that prevent access for medical purposes such as laboratory testing.

On the show CBS This Morning, in an interview with the Surgeon General, he spoke about scientific data which reveals how cannabis cures certain medical conditions and that it can be helpful. He also said, “I think that we have to use that data to drive policy-making.”

I like this man, and I think he’s doing an honest job for speaking the truth about the real benefits of cannabis. That is a difficult thing to do these days, especially when a majority of the federal government’s leaders still oppose marijuana legalization. Hat’s off to you, Dr. Vivek Murthy!

You can read more about the U.S. Surgeon General, and his stance on medical marijuana here:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jag-davies/surgeon-general-marijuana_b_6616194.html?utm_hp_ref=marijuana

John M. Gardener/The Pot Pundit