ASA Introduces New Video Testimonials
March 25th, 2008Posted by Sonnet Seeborg Gabbard
Watch 3 Medical Cannabis Supporters Share Their Stories
As the National Field Coordinator for ASA I meet patients, medical professionals, caregivers, and people from all walks of life on a daily basis. When meeting people new to the movement I am regularly asked who supports medical cannabis and why should I get on board? In the past, I would then take several minutes to explain, but that is about to change today!
Over the next month on each Monday, ASA will be releasing video testimonials through our blog of medical cannabis supporters to help educate people about medical cannabis. Below are three Bay Area medical cannabis supporters who volunteered to share their stories to help spread the word about medical cannabis.
The video testimonial project has been designed to help educate people about medical cannabis by having patients and supporters share their stories. This project was also designed to help people like you educate your friends and family about medical cannabis by sharing these videos with your community. Forward this blog to family, friends, and community members and help spread the word about medical cannabis. Also, check back here next Monday for the next installment of the video testimonials.
Steve from Oakland, California
Yvonne from Richmond, California
Carole from Fremont, California
Thank you to Carson Higby-Flowers for volunteering to record, edit, and produce the testimonials. Also, thank you to all of the brave patients, supporters, and advocates who took the time to come in and participate in the video shoot.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Thank you to the brave people who took part in the testimonials! I am a patient in Colorado, and I have very similar feelings about the benefits and challenges of using medical marijuana. Opening the lines of communication with my friends and family has given me an unexpected support network, and they seem to understand how much of a blessing that this plant is for me, and others who are suffering through serious illnesses. Thank you to ASA for being part of the movement to educate and connect patients and proponents!!!
March 25th, 2008 at 10:55 am
This is what I have been wanting to see happen for a few years now. We need more people to voice their opinions through video and show the world who they are and why this is needed so badly.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:28 am
This is important work on getting the word out, kudos to ASA and Carson for making it happen. These should be required viewing for anyone running for any political office.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I have brain cancer, I have had it since 1993, I had surgery with radiation for six weeks. The radiation almost killed me, I had the shakes all the time but I slowly came back. I was in remission for 13 years and it came back, I had surgery in 2005 witch I probably should’nt have because I’m really weak now in my legs. I had a gamaknife afterwords and I’ve been doing kemo therapy for over a year and it has’nt helped me, so now I’m set up for another gamaknife which costs 40,000 dollars thank god I have medicare so I only have to pay 20% hopefully it will work this time. I am a medical mar, user and it helps me tramendacy but I have to pay for the medicine whitch is quite costy mt only concern is can I find it for free, or not as expensive. I know nothing is for free you even have to pay for a cup if you want a cup of water in a gas station. Thanks for hearing me out and god bless everyone who in my situation.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I do hope you all the very best and encourage you to take these to our “leaders” in Washington. I recently broached this subject to my Senator and Representative. I found their responses to be totally unenlightened and woefully ignorant of the facts and to how I believe a majority of the people feel. They desparetly need the education. Thanks for your brave actions!
March 30th, 2008 at 7:29 am
This is my Statement for the use of Marijuana.
I used to be a security guard in 1985, The place I was guarding had TNT and some people tried to steal it and I got in the way. I chased them to the back of the Complex and they tried to cross a train bridge and stalled in the middle.
I walked up to the two people in the truck and a 3rd person came up from behind and hit me in the middle of my back with a baseball bat then pushed me off the bridge.
I fell backwards 15 feet down onto boulders where I was left for dead. After they left I tried to stand and found I had no feeling from the waist down.
It took six months of no feeling down and seven years to walk again. It ended up to where they found I broke nine bones in my back and I have been on every pain killer known to man.
At this point let me ask YOU the reader of this, Would YOU want YOUR loved one to suffer so much pain that they go through pain seazures so bad that they make you leave the ground and then you pass out from the suffering?
That was what I have had to live with since 1985 at least 13-30 seazures like that a day. This is with even taking 500MG of morphine and 60MG of Endocet.
Medical marijuana is the ONLY thing the doctors have found that stops the convulsions and blackouts but in Washington State where it is Legal if you live in Low-income housing then you don’t have a right to have this as medicine.
My family was thrown out of our home after a State Judge told my DOCTOR that it does not matter that this is the Only thing that works and with that we were tossed out of our home.
I have been fighting this in court and it is NOW headed to the U.S. Supreme Court as the ninth rulled that as long as the Federal Government did NOT file charges that they could do whatever they wanted and I have no recourse.
I thought we lived in a Country to where the Government could not take things away without being convicted of anything, But now it looks with this Ruling that the Feds can do what they want without you being found Guilty in a Court of Law.
Please look at my Court papers as they are on my Website.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I’ve been HIV+ for 13 years, I have Hep C, HPV, a herniated disk in my lower back, Neuropathy in my hands and feet and thats just a start…I moved from Fort Lauderdale, Fl. one year ago to New Jersey. What a mistake medically….They wont give me pain meds, marinol works but these fools wont give it to me here in NJ..I have hope because of places like this and wish there was something I could do. I get marijuana when I can but it involves a trip to the city..Whats a girl in pain to do? Keep up the good fight for the right to relieve ones pain without narcotics….God Bless