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Support the MOVEMENT! Needless PAIN and SUFFERING can easily be OVERCOME!!

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12 comments // Support the MOVEMENT! Needless PAIN and SUFFERING can easily be OVERCOME!! // Video

  • RevKen
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      RevKen  
    • My father died of pancreatic cancer Jan. 25 2010. I gave him information about medical pot as it concerned his cancer. He told me that was interesting but pot was illegal, maybe as a last resort.

      I got a little pot from a friend of mine and I bought a vaporizer and I put them in my father's garage and told Mom and Dad about it. Every day when I went over I checked and every day it went untouched.

      My father became very ill from the chemo and radiation and he lost a lot of weight due to not being able to eat. He never would use the pot and his last couple of weeks were so painful not even the pain killers the doctors were giving him could stop the pain.

      I watched the toughest man I ever knew die a horrible death that reduced him to a shell of a human being. I do not know if medical pot could have prolonged his life or even make his life more comfortable in the final days. I do know that because my father refused to break a foolish law we will never know what might have been.

      The argument the legalizing medical pot will make it easier for potheads to get their weed is just plain stupid. Potheads get pot easy enough right now, they do not need any help. I have never used an illegal drug in my life but I know for a fact that I can drive to any city in America and purchase pot within 1 hour of getting there.

      I hope no person ever has to go through what my father went through and I wish that no child ever needs to watch their hero die such a miserable death.

    • 11 months ago
  • nobsartist
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      nobsartist  
    • RevKen:

      I am sorry to hear about this. My father went thru the same pain. He was diagnosed with esophogeal cancer and was given 1 year to live. He refused treatment because he didnt want anyone "practicing" on him. In his last weeks in intense pain, the doctors would not give him anything for pain and even kicked him out of the hospital because he had earlier refused treatment. They couldnt make him a "profit center" so they made him pay for it.

      ANYONE who is against euthenasia or medical marijuana is an ASSHOLE in my eye.
      Jack Kervorkian should be idolized for going against the assholes who call themselves "doctors" yet practice narrowmindedness.

      Since the marijuana laws were created as a way to go after blacks, the racism that created it should be put on trial, not the plant itself.

    • 11 months ago
  • RevKen
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      RevKen  
    • nobsartist:

      I am also sorry to hear that you went through this. I have never smoked pot but if I am ever told that I have cancer the only thing I will do is smoke pot until I die. I will dare any law enforcement to arrest me. I will make sure that my day in court is eventful and eye opening.

      Medicine is 100% about profit. My father was first misdiagnosed by our local hospital. They thought he had an infected gall bladder. They removed it and found out he still had a problem so they sent him to the Mayo clinic. They had an opportunity to remove a tumor when it was only 2 centimeters but refused because it was to close to an artery.

      After doing chemo and radiation for 5 weeks and then waiting another 6 weeks when they retested the cancer had spread to his liver and lungs. They convinced him to do a different chemo treatment and after two weeks of that and two weeks of rest they retested him. They claimed this was showing improvement so he did another round of chemo and again retested and again they claimed he was improving. After this he started his decline, never recovered and soon died.

      The first doctor did not want to find out that my Dad had cancer, he wanted to get paid to remove his gal bladder. The doctors at the Mayo Clinic did not want to do a risky surgery because they would either get the cancer or my Dad would die on the table. Either way they would not get paid to do months of chemo and radiation as they heartlessly watched my father die. They lied to him and told him he was getting better so he would continue with the treatments.

      This crap happens every day and we actually have politicians that claim we do not need health care reform.

    • 11 months ago
  • Kelly_Balthrop
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      Kelly_Balthrop  
    • RevKen:

      I'm sorry RevKen that your Father and your family had to go through that. I lost my Father to Stomach cancer in 1987, So I can attest to the pain and suffering that an ordeal like this creates.

    • 11 months ago
  • nobsartist
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      nobsartist  
    • Between herb and drinking vinegar, there is no need to deal with big pharma.
      Plus, herb is tax deductible just like mouthwash and tooth brushes.

    • 11 months ago
  • hurleyburly
  • dugdog47
  • Frosty46
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      Frosty46  
    • Pot can be cheap to produce, organic, good for you, has no side effects--other than granting one the ability to see through shit and can be successfully grown in ones backyard.

      It would drastically reduce alcohol consumption and best of all it pisses off rightwing aholes!

    • 11 months ago
  • figgdimension
  • TheAmbivalante
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • Absolutely correct about cannabis.

      Add to that, educate, innovate, build using hemp! Hemp has been a casualty in the war on cannabis.

      Cannabis for the people. Hemp for industry. Win, win for America in general. It really is time for 'change' we can believe in!

      Too bad, our representatives are more interested in campaigning than governing. Once again America is in campaign mode, tearing us apart from within.

    • 11 months ago
  • Vic_Romano
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