We love Missouri and have no intention of taking a bus anywhere. It saddens me that such a usefull and benevolent plant is so demonized.

You ask If anyone will fight with you. I will to rid our state of any other drug than marajuana. The benefits gleaned from this plant, for my wife, have greatly enriched her quality of life and mine. All the other HARD drugs out there definitely need to go. I want to erradicate them as bad as you do. I will also fight to make marajuana legal.

So please have some compassion for a man who wants the best for his family and must risk jail and fines and God knows what else so his wife can look at him and their children without the fog of powerful pain killers. And please dont assume that anyone who smokes pot must also be addicted to every other illegal drug out there. Its not right and its not fair.

Today she must suffer the indignity of an addiction made possible by her doctor. I dont know what the exact medical nomenclature is for this drug, but it comes in a patch that I beleive is commonly refered to as a morphine patch. Every other day she needs to apply a 100 mg patch in addition to a pain drug called neurontin twice a day just so she can feel as normal as possible. She pays a price to control her pain with these drugs. She is often groggy, unable to speak clearly has a very difficult time just walking down the hall, and forget about driving a car. Ever. Because of marajuana she can now drive, walk, speak, and have the normal alertness of anyone else. She was able to cut her morphine patch dosage by 50 mg taken every 3 days instead of every other day, and her daily neurontin pills to only as needed.

You sound like a reasonable woman with a great deal of compasion for children and an all around decent person person. I do not begrudge you your prejudices because I once thought as you do. I will also admit that there are "Drug ridden people", out there that use marajuana along with every other HARD drug they can get. However, you should not assume that every person out there who uses marajuana is also addicted to cocaine, meth, acid, heroin etc.
My wife, many years ago suffered a dibilitating accident that left her right hand from the wrist to the finger tips completely numb. She has no feeling at all in most of her fingers. Her wrist however is alive with terrible chronic pain that she tries to manage with numerous surgerys and a whole host of pain killers both over the counter and prescribed by her doctor.