Meet the Plaintiffs of ASA v DEA
October 15th, 2012Posted by Jonathan Bair
Tomorrow morning, the United States Court of Appeals in Washington DC will hear oral arguments in the landmark case, Americans for Safe Access v Drug Enforcement Administration. The case argues that the Drug Enforcement Administration acted irrationally in ruling that cannabis belongs in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. The plaintiffs argue that this scheduling of marijuana has harmed them physically and financially. Below are the courageous patients and caregivers who have taken on the federal government in this important case.
William “Bill” Britt is a 52-year-old resident of Long Beach, California, who developed polio as a child, which caused him to have scoliosis, a fused left ankle, shortened left leg, and bone degeneration in his left hip. Mr. Britt also suffers from epilepsy, depression and insomnia, and uses marijuana to treat chronic pain in his leg, back, and hip. Marijuana has reduced Mr. Britt’s seizures and depression, and helps him sleep. Although Mr. Britt has taken prescription medication such as Marinol, Robaxin, Soma, and Xanax, none has proven as effective as marijuana. Read Mr. Britt’s post about why he is suing for safe access.
Al Byrne is co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of Patients Out of Time, a national non-profit devoted to educating health care professionals and the general public about the therapeutic uses of marijuana. He works with five of the seven remaining federally supplied Cannabis patients, who are enrolled in the Compassionate Individual New Drug (IND) Program. As the son of a cancer patient who used Cannabis in 1966 to relieve the negative aspects of cancer chemotherapy, he has maintained activism in reforming Cannabis laws since that time. He served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) from 1989 to 1994 acting as Managing Director of the organization during 1991 and 1992 and as the National Secretary 1992 to 1994. Mr. Byrne is the United States representative of patient advocacy for the European based International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines (IACM). He sits on various Boards of Cannabis orientated organizations. He has moderated a number of debates and confer- ences about Cannabis reforms including the ongoing clinical conference series of Patients Out of Time. He is a consultant to several state representatives actively engaged in writing legislation to reform Cannabis prohibition.
Catherine Jordan is a medical marijuana patient. When she turned 36, she was diagnosed with ALS and given 3-5 years to live. Catherine was told she would choke or drown in her own fluids or suffocate from the total collapse of her lungs and chest muscles. By 1989, the disease had devastated her body. While vacationing in Florida, Cathy tried a strain of cannabis called Myakka Gold. She went back home to Delaware and attempted to explain this to her neurologist, who immediately suggested she be institutionalized because she wasn’t handling the bad news of her health well. After assuring him she would never speak of it again, he relented. Now she has seen 30 Neurologist, and been to 4 Universities. Not one doctor has suggested she stop smoking cannabis, though she has been warned that her use of cannabis would prevent her from getting a cure if one is found. In 2004, she met with doctors working on the theory that cannabis would slow the progression of ALS. While meeting with the doctors she realized she was living proof of their research. She soon contacted Gov. Jeb Bush that this issue, who said this was a federal matter that he had no control. So with the cards stacked against her, she committed herself to activism. Currently she is the president of FL CAN.
Michael Krawitz is a 49-year-old resident of Elliston, Virginia, who suffered an automobile accident in 1984 while serving in the United States Air Force. Mr. Krawitz has been rated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as being totally and permanently disabled. Mr. Krawitz uses marijuana to treat chronic pain and trauma associated with his accident. He also uses marijuana to treat central serous retinopathy. However, because of Mr. Krawitz’s medical marijuana use, he has been denied pain treatment by the VA. Read Mr. Krawitz’s post about why he is suing for safe access.
Mary Lynn Mathre received her BSN from the College of St. Teresa and began her nursing career in the US Navy Nurse Corps serving at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia and at the Naval Hospital in Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico. In 1985 she earned her MSN at Case Western Reserve University and began teaching at the University Of Virginia School Of Nursing. In 1987, she changed her specialty to addictions nursing and returned to clinical practice. She served as the charge nurse of an inpatient addictions treatment program and later as the addictions consultant for the UVA Health System. She then worked as the Executive Director of a private opioid treatment center and now works independently as an addictions consultant. Ms. Mathre’s focus on medicinal cannabis began in 1985 with the completion of her graduate thesis, Disclosure of Marijuana Use to Health Care Professionals. Ms.Mathre served as the Director of NORML’s Council on Marijuana & Health from 1986 – 1992 and on NORML’s Board of Directors from 1988 – 94. Ms. Mathre is also a co-founder and President of Patients Out of Time. Ms. Mathre has written resolutions for several professional organizations in support of patient access to medical marijuana, including those of the Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions, the Virginia Nurses Association, the National Nurses Society on Addictions, and the American Public Health Association.
Steph Sherer is a resident of Washington, D.C. and the founder and Executive Director of Americans for Safe Access (ASA). In April of 2000, Ms. Sherer suffered a physical attack that has caused her to suffer from a condition that produced inflammation, muscle spasms, pain throughout her body, and decreased mobility in her neck. Because of multiple pain medications she was prescribed, Ms. Sherer suffered kidney damage. After her doctor recommended medical marijuana, Ms. Sherer successfully reduced her inflammation, muscle spasms, and pain. This prompted Ms. Sherer to found ASA in April of 2002 to share what she learned about the therapeutic value of marijuana and to change public policy.
Americans for Safe Access is the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. ASA works to overcome political and legal barriers by creating policies that improve access to medical cannabis for patients and researchers by engaging a multifaceted strategy that incorporates public education, impact litigation, grassroots development and advocacy, media campaigns, and direct support services. The scheduling of cannabis as “without accepted medical use” forces ASA to spend its organizational resources fighting for patients.
Jonathan Bair is ASA’s Social Media Director.
October 15th, 2012 at 10:01 am
THE FACTS ABOUT PRESCRIPTION PAINKILLERS
For every 1 overdose death from prescription painkillers there are…
• 10 treatment admissions for abuse
• 32 emergency department visits for misuse or abuse
• 130 people who abuse or are dependent
• 825 people who take prescription painkillers for nonmedical use
According to the CDC, more than 15,000 people a year die from opiate pain relievers (OPR) overdose in the US.
Medical marijuana is a SAFE, non-toxic alternative to prescription painkillers—and there has NEVER been a reported death from primary use of marijuana.
October 15th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
This is a big case. I just did an interview with a the researcher and clinician Dr. Sexton (http://www.ndupdate.com/medical-cannabis) who has studied the biochemistry of cannabis at the University of Washington and wants to do more clinical research. Her hands are tied though because of the current scheduling. So where are we now? 17 states and lots of clinicians and patients that say cannabis has medicinal value, but a dearth of research because of it’s scheduling.
October 16th, 2012 at 12:35 am
I found much personal gain with marijuana after 180 pound torque impact & coma after automobile accident of 1989. The affects of the Justice Department actions brought with the altercations new and interesting problems of physical damage. Situation has left me with no legal representation and no assistance from american system.
October 16th, 2012 at 4:58 am
Marijuana is the 21st Century “Boogey Man”. It suffers from purely unfounded
accusations and fears with a corrupt political system having an interest
in keeping it illegal and the Prohibitionists who profit from
this shameless, morally bankrupt policy. How can they refute the
following?
Lie #1 Gateway Drug.
Marijuana is NOT a Gateway Drug. Here’s a 12 Yr Univ Study that says so;.
Andrew Hryckowian – University of Pittsburgh.
http://www.pitt.edu/~ugr/Hrych2.pdf
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – Quick View.
December 11, 2006 • University of Pittsburgh • 6. PH. O. TOS.CO. M…
ever before,” Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Raven-… Marijuana is not a
“gateway” drug.
Lie #2 Marijuana is addictive.
Marijuana is no more addictive or and less harmful than Caffeine;.
Dr Henningfield is a former NIDA Staffer;.
Addictiveness of Marijuana – ProCon.org.
http://www.procon.org/view.background...
urce.php? resourceID=1492
In April 1997, after reviewing the literature, Dr. Henningfield changed
his ratings of marijuana and caffeine’s tolerance and dependence to 5′s
and 6′s.
Lie #’s 3 & 4, Marijuana has not Medicinal Use and is Dangerous.
AND, In 1988, a DEA Administrative judge wrote, in a report
Commissioned by the DEA; “16. Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of
the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any
measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a
supervised routine of medical care.”
http://www.ccguide.org/young88…
Without Lies and Propaganda, Prohibitionists would be Mute!
October 16th, 2012 at 11:36 am
Thank you.
October 16th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
It’s a sad that Prohibitionists greed is what keeps this farce, cannabis prohibition, going. Money is the bottom line, money for DEA, money for Police, money for prisons. All about the greedy American way of the Prohibitionists. Prohibition has never worked and never will.
think why Al Capone became so powerful, thanks to alcohol prohibition with
the 18th amendment.
October 16th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Heroes! Cannabis oil cures cancers. It balances our bodies via our endocannabinoid system. It is perfection in a plant. So many uses, so many cures. Sanity will rule the day. Thank you.
October 16th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
I keep praying for groups like this. It will never be tabled as a discussion in a government review because the pockets are lined with lobbyists. Were still 10 years minimum before the right legislature will consider it. Then they will shake in their boots over their statements. So ridiculous and sad that this country has cowards for leaders
October 17th, 2012 at 6:56 am
Does any body know what happened in the Court Room whats the next step?
October 17th, 2012 at 8:08 am
[...] We’ll find out whether the judges felt the DEA’s science is adequate, or if patients can sue for a medical necessity defense against harsh marijuana laws, when the judges rule. We don’t expect it for a few months. This opportunity is thanks to the brave plaintiffs who took on the federal government on behalf of many others. [...]
October 17th, 2012 at 8:09 am
[...] We’ll find out whether the judges felt the DEA’s science is adequate, or if patients can sue for a medical necessity defense against harsh marijuana laws, when the judges rule. We don’t expect it for a few months. This opportunity is thanks to the brave plaintiffs who took on the federal government on behalf of many others. [...]
October 17th, 2012 at 8:09 am
[...] We’ll find out whether the judges felt the DEA’s science is adequate, or if patients can sue for a medical necessity defense against harsh marijuana laws, when the judges rule. We don’t expect it for a few months. This opportunity is thanks to the brave plaintiffs who took on the federal government on behalf of many others. [...]
October 17th, 2012 at 8:17 am
I met Richard Nixon in 1969 when he was campaigning for president. I immediately didn’t like him and refused to shake his hand. For that he gave me his famous scowel.
Then I watched him put cannabis on the schedule one. Then I watched him resign from his presidency for the Watergate scandal.
So cannabis was placed on the schedule one by a man with no moral character who was himself a criminal. He did it as a payback to the old croonies who put him in office. They had to do something about those f**ing hippies after all.
All of these years later this old hippie has chronic hereditary migraines for which there is no cure. I’m given Relpax and am allergic to an entire spectrum of drugs that would help with the pain. Medical cannabis is the only thing that will stop a migraine in its tracks since the Relpax takes 1 1/2 hours to work…if it works.
I also have P.T.S.D. It has actually subsided to the point where it is almost non-existent. Cannabis for everyone! It has been used by mankind for some 8,000 years. Shame on the politicians who keep their heads in the sand and therefore allow so many people to become addicted and die from “legal” medications.
October 17th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
[...] medical marijuana defense group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and a number of individual plaintiffs took their case for the rescheduling of marijuana to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals [...]
October 17th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
[...] medical marijuana defense group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and a number of individual plaintiffs took their case for the rescheduling of marijuana to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals [...]
October 18th, 2012 at 1:03 am
I am transitioning to using cannabis to treat Complex Regional Pain Syndrome after a lifetime as it turns out, having developed it after a Traumatic Brain Injury initially when I was 7, worsened when I was 14, then it rolled downhill when surgeons could not put thier knives away.
Last year, I am told/diagnosed if it can be called this: and laughably so. Because what are the treatments? Narcotics don’t work on nerve pain. To get them to, the dosages are so high, you can end up dead from it. The anticonvulsants offer only partial relief. Other drugs needed for spastic movements. Nothing arrests the progression. This is a proven autoimmune disorder being chased with ketamine treatments. Veterinary tranquilizers that fortunately are providing relief for some. Thank God. Because the pain from this disorder, the spasms? The swelling, sweating, temperature, and ungodly changes in your body? It violates so many acts of God, of nature, and of any humanity and humane way to live any life of anything but misery, that if cannabis is what offers relief, thanks, I accept; and guess what.
It does. I do. I am so blessed that I am in a state that is smart enough not to allow reimbursement for IV ketamine, but benefit from nassal spray so no long-term damage can be seriously done; yet relief can be given to those who want that route, cannabis can be given to those who pick this route.
My frustration is the years of damage of the “progress” that the “victory” in research has done to my body. Dentures at 38? Just what I wanted with my weed cake! But the weed cake helped, I have to admit. My dispensary is very good to me
GO PROCON. VOTE OBAMA OUT!!! LEGALIZE ALL 50 and every territory. The NHS has done it, and even our system says they are in the dark ages? Excuse me? Who has it backwards?
My body has an immune system.
I have an operational thyroid.
I take a fraction of medication.
I have cut house hold expenses.
I am back in PT.
Many nights I can even sleep.
My mood is stable.
I can smile and laugh. I have moments. Everyone does.
It is being human. Not a lab rat. I was not born to be experimented on by someone with a chemistry set while they watch me run circles on a wheel in excruciating pain they can’t begin to fathom. Nor can the docs who are treating it. My vet has given my cats better and more compassionate care than I have seen in 7 years-except the neurologist.
My pain doc realized he was fired. Did the mature thing. Sent me a registered letter and fired me back. I faxed a note finally this afternoon, stating recieved, “Grow up.”
October 21st, 2012 at 6:17 pm
[...] medical marijuana defense group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and a number of individual plaintiffs took their case for the rescheduling of marijuana to the US Court of Appeals in the District of [...]
October 21st, 2012 at 7:34 pm
[...] medical marijuana defense group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and a number of individual plaintiffs took their case for the rescheduling of marijuana to the US Court of Appeals in the District of [...]
October 23rd, 2012 at 12:40 pm
They need to let the DEA know that the Government has a patent on cannabinoids registered with the US Patent office. Here is the link.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507
October 24th, 2012 at 6:10 pm
It is just insane to say that one cannot use what grows naturally to relieve and reduce any pain one may have……it is the doorway to cancer cure….if in the least, it should be explored at any cost…..
October 28th, 2012 at 8:16 am
I think, we all know, in our hearts, that our biggest stumbling block to legalization is money. There are too many people making too much money from having hemp illegal.
We have the government stealing our property, shooting our dogs, paying people to hunt us down, then imprison us for doing that which was made illegal in an extremely illegal and racist manner.
We have weapons suppliers (from the manufacturer to our government, the terrorists, arms dealers, and drug cartels), street gangs (because we spend money on jails, wars, drug raids, etc; when it should go to education), and the highest percentage of prisoners in history.
We have the chemical companies, cotton industry, petroleum industry, timber, and the list goes on. The rich getting richer, at the cost of people attempting to retain/regain those rights we were guaranteed by the Constitution.
GREED is the main reason we are having such a hard struggle for our rights. This land was based on free will, not, MY GOD SAYS YOU SHOULD NOT DO THAT, so nobody should be allowed to do it!
’1984′ was a warning, NOT A TEXT BOOK or PLAN.
October 31st, 2012 at 3:06 pm
weed is better does not give hang over/ boozes give hang over
kill gangs / not drug dealer /
November 11th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Been smoken 40+ years. Have no desire to drink booze. No desire ever to harm any one. help one cope with life’s every day drama’s. My health has allways been better than most my age. Yes smoken weed to me is just a way of every day life. yo ho wah bless you all. Please free the weed.
Their is no more need to inslave our young or our old.
November 18th, 2012 at 9:47 am
I’m proud of everyone that has the guts to testify. Especially my friends, William Britt & Steph Sherer. End this useless “Drug War” and the Prison Industrial Complex. NOW!
November 24th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
I myself sulfer from a number of things,but the thin is to change minds,u r not gonna change theDEA thats their job and an easy one to,Marijuana is not a drug per say,it has a lot of potenial for everything from oils,to fiber,extracts,clothes,shoes,that last a long time,but it is time we can’t have 1/2 country able to get it and others not,ain’t right 30 yrs i been smokin it helps me with everything, the people r speaking we r trying hard to work with u we won’t stop at this,
December 2nd, 2012 at 1:58 am
I’ve got a feeling that “they” will prolong their deceptive game as long as they can. Think about it, they are too invested and have banked on this revenue generation source for far too long to just give it up because now We the People, see the light and reality of the consequences of a war waged on every day citizens, even your own selves often family members. It took them a lot of time, money and planning to shut down their natural competition in the 30′s. And be damned if they’re gonna just walk away from their cash cow that allows them to say they won’t prosecute, but then as soon as safe access is implemented, they swoop in like hawks to pillage and confiscate, in the name of what? Goodwill, charity,. They forget that their only jobs are to protect and serve. They honestly don’t want it legal because they can’t stand the fact that anyone could just produce their own medicine naturally without jumping through their hoops and without them getting a cut. Do you really think their mafia will let us do what we believe and have voted for? Only when they figure out how their going to recover their losses by solving real dangerous crimes, meaning that yes, they will have to go to work now instead of easy pickings from the dispensary list. Doesn’t show an honorable justice system that is actually working for the best interests of all human beings, but instead shows a lot of cowardness, laziness, and regressive policy. I really think they’re just scared and desperate. If they allow us to do research, they know what we’ll find without having an agency’s hand to fudge the numbers and then the absolute truth will prevail: that yes, natural Medicine is so much more effective and less harmful,and not to mention good for the earth and made specifically to fit custom nueroreceptors in our brain. How would their drug dealers,who have paid plenty to lobby over the years continue to stay in business
December 2nd, 2012 at 2:22 am
So with that I bid you all adieu and encourage everyone to continue with the grassroots level movement, Until we know that the Fed’s will actually respect good citizens wills, and actually use common sense in their policy, I say careful what lists you sign up for. Anything you say can and will be used against you. In the meantime stand up for yourselves and your beliefs and stop eating what you’re being spoonfed by some profiteers and their “out of gas” accusations, like how they make it seem like you’re neighbor who was only growing a harmless plant was threatening the safety of the whole community and had to be eradicated. The truth is really about an all natural, nontoxic, cancer fighting, therapeutic, enlightening sacrament that was with humans before government was and will be here long after. Just remember kiddies, if they allow recreational cannabis to be legalized, that would mean hemp would also then be legal and a natural sustainable resource that could end all these non declared wars for fossil fuel. That being said take an look
December 2nd, 2012 at 2:50 am
That being said take a look at the weapons manufacturers and oil tycoons and who really own them and ask yourself if these owners could profit from peace or renewable energy. The answer is no, We are the ones who will profit from peace and a symbiotic relationship with the Earth which naturally provides everything we need. So our sick corporate minded government just views us(peace minded, independent thinkers) as competition, trying to take food from their tables. Just look at every major influential person in the last century who preached peace and had people starting to question the motives of those in charge and you’ll find a bloody trail of assassination and “suicides” that largely go unsolved or some idiot Patsy (usually seemingly incapable of the Master plot) takes the fall and their plan continues on without a hitch. I should probably stop there before the black SUVs show up and commit me to the asylum for these “totally irrational” independent thoughts. Just want to remind everyone that cannabis is a plant that belongs to Mother Earth and will not be stopped just because a certain faction(war pigs) of one the species thinks so. Live as you will, it is your life. Assert your God given rights to make the best decisions for yourselves based on your beliefs and not many made artificial laws.
December 3rd, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Rescheduling would be “better than nothing,” however, cannabis does not belong anywhere on the controlled substances schedule. Abolishing the controlled substance schedule would be a better idea. Complicated prescribing regulations artificially inflate the cost of medical care, and medications. While there is no doubt that cannabis is a powerful medicine, by legalizing cannabis as “medicine,” legitimacy is granted to a governmental authority over individual human bodies that never should have existed in the first place. Even saying “it should be regulated in the same manner as alcohol” gives too much power to the state, and implies that cannabis is as toxic and addictive as alcohol. How did we lose the right to our own bodies? See “Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market” by Thomas Szasz for the answer to this and other questions.
December 16th, 2012 at 8:08 am
I don’t know about everybody else but I’ll not candy coat what I’m about to say. The lies used to make cannabis laws are just that “LIES.” When government uses lies to make laws the the “criminals” heald or arrested under such a law will not get a “fair trial” that in my opinion is impossible! Also, people are not prosecuted under such a law they are persiquted! Also, When a government uses lies to make such a law and fines anyone thats a dollar stollen, when they jail a man/woman under such a law thats time stolen, when they take property from a person again thats thieft! This stupid, unjust, cruel, and racist law has made liars and thieves out of this government. I don’t understand how under such sercumstances the courts or any judge can consider himself “honorable” as they say in every court room I’ve ever been in. I just don’t see it. So far the only terrorist I have ever meet have been in a court of law aka district attorneys and judges. I hear attorneys and judges on occasion speaking about “the word of the law” which brings me to the question… What about “the lies of the law?” I hate and dispise this government for thier lies and the practice of stealing from people for whats called “victimless crimes”, theres another bullshit term for you. It’s time to stop these lies and legalize. Let the harmless pot heads and all drug addicts out of jail. Who ever the idiot is that thought that the way to help an addict is to put him in jail is just an idiot. I stand against these laws and this waste of a “drug war.” I believe that if we were to give this government a good enima, we could burry whats left of them in a match box! I’m Gene Lewis from NC and I stand by what I have said in this comment!
December 28th, 2012 at 6:42 am
When they lose they use our tax dollars to appeal the SC. I hope your asking for damages in the amount needed to recover ?
December 29th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
I want to know why, if marijuana has no medical use, marinol is on the market? The fact that marinol exists shows that marijuana does have some medical use and therefore is mis-scheduled.
January 6th, 2013 at 3:19 pm
To all of you right wing conservatives. This is not an issue of liberal or conservative. This is an issue of truth vs. lies. Facts vs. Fiction. Fact: Alcohol, Tobacco, Pharmaceutical Prescription Drugs, and Over-The-Counter Drugs, kill one MILION AMERICANS per year. Marijuana kills none!!!!! And just a note: Bing Crosby, the most famous crooner ever, the man who has sold more copies of “White Christmas” than any other song sung by any artist or group, the man who was a strong Republican Conservative, well guess what, he used marijuana his entire life. It helped him stay off alcohol. And guess what folks, he broke the law every time he bought, smoked and possessed that horrible drug. Let’s stop the hypocrisy and lies folks. How can the DEA, who has a strong self interest in keeping pot a schedule 1 drug, be in charge of rating drugs? That’s like letting Coors decide which beers are safe to sell in this country. What a farce.
January 11th, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Exactly, in addition to the marinol hypocrisy, and on top of Nixon wrongfully leaving marihuana in sch. 1, since the 70′s we’ve had federal patients who’ve received 300 pre rolled joints, grown federally and distributed through the mail every 25 days, in 2003 the govt was awarded patent # 6630507, a patent on chemicals from marijuana as antioxidants and neuroprotectants, now in 2013, 18 states and DC have enacted medical marijuana laws and over 500,000 patients have been recommended by thousands of licensed physicians in states with medical marijuana laws, it is time we get justice, get cannabis out of sch. 1 (&theCSA)!!!
January 16th, 2013 at 7:27 pm
Abolishing the controlled substance schedule would be a better idea.
Then the DEA. Then release all Marijuana convictions. Then treat any “DRUG” addict as a medical problem.
January 17th, 2013 at 7:46 pm
I normally don’t contribute to causes, but I am more than convinced that ASA is doing a mountain of work and has certainly earned my few dollars. I will continue to support ASA with my meager monthly contribution. Give em hell guys!! Impressive victories in major court battles.!! WTG!!
January 19th, 2013 at 7:23 pm
I’m in the same situation as you, Bruce Tanner. No legal representation, denied care, denied disability. Made homeless with children for 3 years. I have late stage Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. (As soon as I learn how to scan documents, though, I intend to put my case on facebook – all the documentation that has been ignored by the state and the Social Security Administration) So, as Borrelia and Rickettsia, eat more holes in my brain, the MS symptoms get worse, along with the organ pain, and all the other pain, and being told to go crawl in a hole and die a slow, painful death by the powers that be, marijuana is the only thing making all this pain bearable. Way to go, ASA!
January 20th, 2013 at 4:44 pm
My attatude toward the war on Marijuana… I have read the bible many times in my life, but nowhere in the book does God give any man the right to stand in judgement of anyone that uses something that God created.
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