Imagine that every waking moment was consumed by pain and nausea caused by an illness, would you not ask for medication? What if the only medication legally available would leave you unconscious or do nothing at all? If you were the one suffering from illnesses that offer little treatment, would you not resort to the only treatment that allowed you to live normally even though it was illegal? Thousands of people across the country are …showed first 75 words of 1212 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1212 total…the pain caused by illnesses such as glaucoma, AIDS, and cancer. So they can not understand the need for a fast acting medicine only offered by the chemical THC found in marijuana. Patients would not go out of their way and break the law if there was another treatment available, but there is not and more and more patients have been prolonged with suffering due to the governments choice to keep marijuana illegal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**