Jacob Bell
New Member
A hardy amen to your editorial of Sunday! As the former "Mr. Just Say No" of Shasta County for over 10 years, I tried to help youngsters fight peer pressure to use alcohol, marijuana and other drugs. As the father of a daughter who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 17, I did everything within my power to assist her in her struggles with this insidious illness.
When her doctor in Seattle prescribed marijuana to ease the pain of her relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, her mother and I encouraged her to use it instead of addictive pain medications. She tried marijuana and found that it relieved the constant spasms in her legs, allowing her to sleep at night. But she decided that it was too difficult to obtain legally and that she did not like its side effects.
When Suzanne passed away in 2005, it was not from Multiple Sclerosis, it was from an accidental overdose of pain medication, which had been prescribed by doctors in Redding and the Bay Area and which was obtained legally at a pharmacy. It is about time we rethink this issue. Yes to reclassifying marijuana to a Schedule 2 drug. If this had been done in 2005, Suzanne and many others might be alive today.
Marv Steinberg, Redding
Source: Record Searchlight (Redding, CA)
Copyright: 2011 Marv Steinberg
Contact: letters@redding.com
Website: Home | Record Searchlight
When her doctor in Seattle prescribed marijuana to ease the pain of her relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, her mother and I encouraged her to use it instead of addictive pain medications. She tried marijuana and found that it relieved the constant spasms in her legs, allowing her to sleep at night. But she decided that it was too difficult to obtain legally and that she did not like its side effects.
When Suzanne passed away in 2005, it was not from Multiple Sclerosis, it was from an accidental overdose of pain medication, which had been prescribed by doctors in Redding and the Bay Area and which was obtained legally at a pharmacy. It is about time we rethink this issue. Yes to reclassifying marijuana to a Schedule 2 drug. If this had been done in 2005, Suzanne and many others might be alive today.
Marv Steinberg, Redding
Source: Record Searchlight (Redding, CA)
Copyright: 2011 Marv Steinberg
Contact: letters@redding.com
Website: Home | Record Searchlight
