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I have terminal disease that affects both sides of my head & neck, it's called Dual (both sides) Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia" AKA: "The Suicide Disease". It's a nerve disorder of the brain, I've had 1 brain surgery on the left side of my head which only relieved the pain for approximately 3 - 5 years, after my 4th year the disease came back worst than before. I've also had 2 brain strokes. The pain is excrustiateing, the symptoms feels like a ice pick stabbing in both ears, feels like a pencil being stabbed into both eyes, if the wind blows onto either side of my face or water touches either side it feels like someone threw acid on me, it's very painful to try & brush my hair, my teeth feel like if I could pull everyone of them out maybe the pain would go away,  I'll have a headache 24/7 for the rest of my life, my memory isn't that good anymore, I can't comprehend most things,  if I look at a computer screen more than 15 min or so my eyes start streaming water so I have to get my wife to write most of my post on the internet, my neurologist told me that now I would have all these symptoms & more for the remainder of my life. Now since I have the worst case of this Terminal Disease & all the other complications the disease is now gone into my right side of my head & face, my neurologist recommended that I "not" have the surgery on the right side of my head, it wouldn't improve my quality of life & with all the complications I have I might not make it through another surgery. Now they have tried every medication that they could think of but I wouldn't let them prescribe me any "opiates", I don't want to be hooked on narcotics, I would like to keep most of my bodily functions that I have now, I'm 47 years old. The neurologist as a last ditch effort to try and manage my pain wants me to go to Huntsville Hospitals Pain Clinic in Al. I know there isn't nothing they can do for me because there's no rehab that they can do for this Terminal Disease, only thing left is to start me on Narcotics to try & manage the pain, if that's the only option I have left I would rather give up, no reason to live in a vegetative stage 24/7. I have tried Medical Marijuana, I was amazed for the first time in 5 years I sat down & eat all of my dinner, I ate almost everything in my house, my headache subsided, I didn't feel the ill symptoms that I experience every day, it was great, I ask myself "How can I legally obtain this medicine to improve my quality of life"? I know I probably could grow it & I also know that the police can arrest me, take my land, vehicles, any money I have on the premises and incarcerate me with fines & penalties stacked upon that. I hate to ask you this question but I really need the medication today not in months/years or decades, would you know of any legal avenue I could pursue to receive this medication, please I'm begging, I'm at the point of giving up & commit suicide for I can't live with this kind of pain for the rest of my life and I feel Narcotics isn't the way to go, it's affecting my family life as well as my private life, my wife worries her self sick that she's not going to have a husband much longer? I had to sign up on my SSI Disability, this is very painful & sad for me to do for I always was used to standing on my own 2 feet & providing for my wife & son. The current version of the bill is available at: http://www.ammjc.org/?attachme...

Can anyone tell me when the next Alabama's legislative session will be to introduce this bill, will it be November of this year (2011) or will we have to wait until the 2nd week of Januaury of 2012?

Write to our Governor: Robert BentlyYou'll have to go to his website to write to him, the AAMJC website has a pre-written letter that may help by sending it to him. Also write to your local Representatives in your district.

i live in alabama and im 17 years old, i have no illnesses or anything like that, that would cause me to physically need marijuana, of course i have smoked pot(who hasnt). I plan to one day be some sort of physician or Dr. and even tho yeah i may still be a kid, i beleive that usin marijuana as medicine would be amazing for this state and this country. I beleive that marijuana isnt truly something that is addictive or bad if you are a logical, thinking person with a kind heart and good soul. The only con of marijuana in my opinion is the fact that there are certain people in america that are confused and scared and have had bad childhoods and just need to be cared for and they need to know that someone out there loves them. They need to know they have a place in this world. So what i think that instead of the Government being concerned about so many people using drug and selling them and getting there minds off of how we can be better than that country over there and what law can we pass to make our citizens obey and stop commiting crimes. Why dont they think of the base of all of the problems in this country, THE PEOPLE. They arent thinking about us anymore( even tho they beleive they are, and try to make us beleive they are), they are thinking about how much power america can have. That is how our country has become its all about who can have the most everything. I dont think everyone in america is like this but it is the majority. What i beleive the goverment should do is maybe slow down the war on drugs, maybe do a test of some sort. They should try decriminalizing marijuana in a city or state that is known for a lot of marijuana sales and trafficing for a number of days and see its effects. It would never hurt to try that bc they could just make it illegal all over again if it didnt work. I think that the govt and polititions know that marijuana is a basically harmless substance. They need to focus and the american citizens, how can they improve our living conditions, how can they insure that all of america is well educated and have some form of family that will care for them and raise them the way they are supposed to be raised. And from a teenagers point of view( this is for all parents regardless your religion, race, or any other reason you beleive you and your family are unique), instead of teaching your child what not to do and trying to guide them in ways you want them to go bc you think they will be better off, why dont you try not talking about the things that arent supposed to be done, try your best to not allow your child to see something or do something that will scar that childs fragile mind. Instead of being selfish and trying to make them grow up under your rules, why dont you teach them how to love and how to think positive and how to overcome the obstacles of life as they grow up. Never hush your child, yes what they may say or do or think may be immature but why dont you try to just let them speak there minds. The reason kids think that they know how to make the right choices already when they are young are because they dont know what the right things actual are and that is how kids and teenagers learn, by speaking there minds. Listen to your children, listen to how they think. Show intrest in them and if your a normal human being then you shouldnt get mad at your child for his or her ways bc they are KIDS. All you adults where all kids once. You have all felt every emotion there is to feel. But you have to remember your kids arent your age and werent born in the same generation as you. If you are an adult now that has had a hard life that didnt really have the right guidance and didnt get as much love as all children deserve, you should know first hand what those things can do to a child. Does anyone in America even realize the true meaning of life anymore? The way i see it is that everyone in this country beleives that money and nice cars and nice clothing and all the newest technology are the reasons that we humans live. Im 17 years old and i myself know the true meaning of life i dont care if you other people dont respect my thoughts on this and overlook all of this because of my age or if you beleive you are a better person than anyone else and if you only take to heart what people around you say and belive, the true meaning of life on this earth regardless of any difference humans have is the cycle of life, having children. Everyone wants to be immortal in some sort of fashion and the only true clear way to do that is to create another human being that is your from your own bodies genetics. You can live forever through the lives of your children. If you feel that you are alone in this world why dont you gain some courage and realize that you are living because you were created from another human being that has lived, and you should think in your head that maybe if i am not happy as i am now why dont i try to do something about it instead of just laying down and giving up. Think about if the colonist back in the days of the revoloution had givin up on finding happiness and feeling great about what they were doing. Most of you people wouldnt even be here today if you are reading this. What i am trying to say is dont take your life for granted. No birth can be a mistake or an accident. If you have a child or are exspecting one regardless how it ended up being that way, you should take the time and remember that it is ok. No birth could ever be a horrible thing. I dont care what type of person you believe you are, whenever you see your own child for the first time gives a feeling that is indescribable. Whether you beleive it or not or if you just dont think about it, that feeling is called happiness. If you werent raised how you beleive you should have been then that is your oppurtunity to raise your own child how you think is the right way to be raised. It is your chance to possibly save the human race as we all know it. If you think having children is something that is just not for you then why dont you think about if your parents belived that same thing, you wouldnt be here would you? And if your life is great to you and you think you dont need kids just think about if you didnt even exist because your parents beleived that. Not having children is like having children born with a disease or a miscared child. If you want to find a reason in your life then try having children. If you still dont understand how that having children could help you if you are one of those selfish people, it will benefit you as an adult by maturing you in new ways that you dont even think are possible. Knowing that you will have someone that will always love you and think of you and seek guidance in you to find the one thing that they themselves have shown to you, HAPPINESS. Its called the pursuit of happiness and it isnt that much of a pursuit once you know the reason of life. I know that most of my "lecture" i have written may be irralevent in ways but if you actually read this ,which i hope you all do,but tell me this, while you were reading this i hope that this opened your eyes and your heart and i hope you see that if we all as human beings stop thinking that if we prohibit something and try to hide it from the eyes of this world and use propaganda to in a way control the future generations and control what the future has in store for us and stop thinking that life as we know it can be bad, and instead maybe legalize marijuana and set an age limit for its use and legalize it completely for medicinal purposes regardless of age. The "Wise words of Ronald Reagan" ,or should i say the corrupted staff of officials almost all presidents seem to have, Marijuana is a gateway drug. Well you know what maybe that is true. Maybe Marijuana is THE gateway drug. But that may not be a bad thing. What makes me say that you ask? If marijuana was legal and not classed with the drugs that can cause death and diseases and turn a human mind into something ugly, then isnt it logical to think if we stopped talking to badly about marijuana and its so called effects on a human and stopped arresting inoccent nonviolent good american people, i know through a teenagers eyes that it wouldnt interest us kids if it wasnt so publically shown as taboo. We wouldnt be curious if it is something that helps people with diseases. If it did anything it would make the future generations respect the pros and cons about marijuana and other drugs. We would all say hey why would we go do crystal meth and get high and hurt ourselves and the people around us when we can go to a store and buy it legally knowing we will be ok and no one will look down on us and we wouldnt fear the thoughts of going to prison because we are saftley at home with our guardians, no thoughts of abandonment or lonliness. I know first hand that being high from marijuana and having parents that love me and never look down on me, that it does nothing to a person but makes things more interesting, makes you think deeply which is hard for most humans to do becauses of all the problems we are taught that are in this world, it makes you want to feed yourself and eating is supposed to be healthy right?, throught the eyes of a teenager it makes me respect other people no matter what they are, i think of the future accomplishments i want to have, it enables me to think about life at a level that is hard to remember when the stresses of life come at me at all different directions, it opens my mind, it opens my heart, it helps keep me the cool calm and collective attitude that i strive to keep with me. The only reason i have ever thought negatively about marijuana is because it makes me see that people want me to be something that i am not and when those people who play follow the leader use me as something that they can make themselves feel better bc they think they are way better than me because i smoke marijuana and they dont it makes me unsocial with those people and they critisize me even more for not playing there games when im the one who actually respects everyone and thinks of everyone as equal humans. And if Marijuana is so destructive to america and it has been in this country since almost day one, it was even a law at one time that you were regulated to grow it back then, what in gods name was america thinking when we labeled marijuana as a bad thing. What was so bad that it did? the only reason it opened up doors to knew drugs is bc the so called most inteligent people in this country that have made us beleive they will do us good made it illegal and made it hard to get a natural plant that grows from the earth that we live on and are supposed to respect, they even knew this country was based on doing something different when told they are not to do it and we started to go in our basements and make things ourselves that we thought was close to what marijuana did and look how that turned out. Death after Death After Death from trying to find a substitute for something that has been i would say a human tradition for many many years bc the people who dont except people for who they took that away from us and so i think right there is the reason for all of these problems that cease to end in this country. If you read all of this i thank you.I just hope everyone in the world could read this and care and think. This is just a 17 year old kid trying to share his thoughts with the world.

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I  am glad that we have support from him.  I have heard comments from others in office and they oppose it.  If they oppose it that is OK but we the voters want to vote on it.  Just because others say no the majority says yes to Medical Marijuana.  This is a right that we be able to vote on this.

I have ptsd and if I didn't have it some times I think I would go crazy.  Retired Gulf War Veteran

prohibition only turns our neighbors into criminals.  I hope to see the bill pass.

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Can someone answer the Bentley question, has he ever stated his position?

I highly doubt this will go any where. When the Baptist get wind of it they will kill it. I think Alabama is still too conservative.

I hope it does pass but not holding my breathe. Living next door to Alabama it would be nice to see it happen so close to my state. I live 10 miles from the border. I would move in a heart beat if this thing ever passed. I have 2 diseases that benefit greatly from it. Chron's and Ankylosing Spondilitis.

Good luck guys.

For those who oppose this:  I think what it boils down to is that no one should stand in between a patient and their physician.  Perhaps some are not aware that an actual medical doctor that you have a bona fide relationship with will have to approve you as a legal patient.  Everyone will trust a doctor with their lives at some point or another in their life...to deny this right is like saying we can't trust their 12 years of schooling and residency anymore.  Think about what you're implying...you are basically insulting a large group of hard working, dedicated and caring professionals who have YOUR best interest in mind.

Also, for those who say that a medical rights law will increase the supply to children:  This is a fallacious argument which is intended to provoke an emotional reaction in those who are unsure what this is all about, and of how greatly important this issue actually is to so many people.  There is no factual evidence to suggest that teen use has gone up in California since 1996 when the first medical rights law was passed. The notion that a sick person who is using marijuana for symptom relief will take their supply down to a school parking lot and sell it to children is so absurd that I don't even know where to begin.  Please base your reasoning on common sense and not hyperbole.PS----Has Gov. Bentley ever stated his position??  This is a very important question I haven't seen discussed.

I'm proud of Rep. Brown for standing up for what's right, even when it may not be all that popular with his base.