Mar 1
Medical Cannabis in Colorado
“Kip Strean finally has found his cause. The day he met a ‘soft-spoken, gentle guy’ named Don Nord, Strean joined an increasing number of people in Routt County [CO] — and across the country — who see themselves as activists, helping Nord carry his oxygen tank into battle. ‘It just broke my heart when he told me his story,’ Strean said. In mid-October, agents from GRAMNET, the Grand, Routt and Moffat Narcotics Enforcement Team, raided Nord’s home and
seized his marijuana, pipes and growing equipment — despite the fact that he was registered with Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Registry program. Since then, Nord has been in court fighting to get his medicine back.” (02/29/04)
This from Rational Review.
While over at Dean’s, he reports that Kerry supports medical cannabis. Not enough of a reason to vote for him, but encouraing, nonetheless. The post has gotten the requisite knuckle-dragging response. (Its just stoners trying to get around the law.)
“Support continues to build for Connecticut’s medical marijuana bill, H.B. 5355, as physicians, patients and legislators shared both medical information and their personal experiences with medical marijuana today at a statehouse press conference, followed by a hearing in the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. Mark Braunstein of Quaker Hill discussed his experiences using medical marijuana to treat the constant pain he endures from a 1990 spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed. ‘It is the one medication that treats both the muscle spasms and the pain,’ he said. Reps. Jim Abrams (D-Meriden) and Penny Bacchiochi (R-Somers) also spoke at the news conference. On the House floor last year, Rep. Bacchiochi recalled how medical marijuana helped her late husband during his struggle with bone cancer and the debilitating nausea caused by chemotherapy.” (03/01/04)
