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Tell President Obama what you think about medical marijuana

 President Obama say he is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history.  To send questions, comments, concerns, or well-wishes to the President or his staff, please use the email form link or better yet call the White House Hotline at 202-456-1111 or (202) 456-1414 and tell the staff what you think of medical marijuana.

 Below is my letter using the above link to President Obama.

Congratulations on winning and providing hope.  You have made some substantial policy changes which I applaud.  But you have let the DEA continue to raid medical marijuana in California.  

 

Citizens support medical marijuana more than any of the presidential candidates including you in Michigan.  Medical marijuana has won in every state ballot in presidential elections with more votes than the winning candidate.  It is time to recognize that fact.  Please change the policy you have inherited.

 

Please not you are limited to 500 characters so type out your letter before you go to the link.

 

Rob Ryan

Ohio Patient Network,President

 

Medical Marijuana News

AMA question marijuana’s federal  classification of as a deadly, addictive drug with no medical use.

COLUMBUS, OHIO — At the November American Medical Association conference the AMA reversed it's position on marijuana as a schedule I drug and urges that “marijuana’s status as a federal Schedule I controlled substance be reviewed with the goal of facilitating the conduct of clinical research and development of cannabinoid based medicines.”  This is a reversal of the AMA position, which has equated marijuana in the same class as heroin.

Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug by Ohio and the federal government.  A achedule I drug is defined as a substance with high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States and a lack of accepted safety standards for its use under medical supervision.  Schedule I drug can not be prescibed by doctors, but the federal government for 40 years has been supply in 300 joints a month to a small group of citiizens.

The AMA now appears to be ready to join other medical organization such as American College of Physicians, American Nurses Association, and others in questioning the federal classification as a deadly addictive drug with no accepted medical use.  Ohio classifies marijuana similarly.

The American College of Physicians, a large organization representing internal medicine doctors, made a similar statement as the AMA. The ACP "supports programs and funding for rigorous scientific evaluation of the potential therapeutic benefits of medical marijuana and the publication of such findings”.

"The American Nurses Association (ANA) recognizes that patients should have safe access to therapeutic marijuana/cannabis. Cannabis or marijuana has been used medicinally for centuries. It has been shown to be effective in treating a wide range of symptoms and conditions." {Providing Patients Safe Access to Therapeutic Marijuana/Cannabis," American Nurses Association (ANA) website, Mar. 19, 2004}

Ohio and the federal government is going to find it increasingly difficult to support their claims that cannabis (aka marijuana) as having no medical value.  A majority of Ohio citizens supports medical marijuana as evidenced by the University of Cincinnati's Institute for Policy Research recent poll results.

Ohio Patients are working to change Ohio laws concerning medical marijuana.