the lsj said

the lsj said that registered caregivers are limited to 5 patients - did i miss this in the initiated law, or is this a trial baloon for a dch rule?

WHAT NEXT ? Now that the

WHAT NEXT ?

Now that the people of Michigan has passed this Proposal, will stoparrestingpatients.org remain engaged ?

Will this organization be providing information for patients on how to go about registering?

Are there stipulations within the regulations to prevent the Federal Government from acquiring the list of patients names who register and are accepted ? What about those who apply and are turned down?

I also would like to suggest organizing a pool of donations to facilitate and assist patients in affording the necessary equipment to grow their own under this legislation. Personally, I simply can not afford the cost of the lighting or the added cost for energy. Can we hold some sort of campaign to garner equipment for needy patients?

According to the legislation, I will be forbidden from growing my plants under the sun, in my garden. Without proper lighting this measure simply will be a feel good measure.

We need guidance and assistance in moving forward, will stoparrestingpatients.org be providing this assistance ?

does anyone know if this

does anyone know if this covers patients with chronic pain? my husband was diagnosed permanetly disabled due to 11 vertabrae that virtually exploded in his back. hes been to i cant tell you how mny neurologists and orthopedic surgeons that will not operate on him as there is a 95% chance any surgery would give him a risk of paraliztion.

Congrats to those who helped

Congrats to those who helped pass this law....but this only seems like the first step to really help our suffering Michigan residents. As a member of the medical community, I feel that this will greatly assist others in the suffering of their particular disease BUT does the law fall short in setting up marijuana dispenseries or little directions on how to obtain product. What are the next step required to REALLY help our people? thanks

How could this person write

How could this person write such a ignorant and cruel article? I'm talking about the article written by Janet Olszewski on the freep.com website. >http://www.freep.com/article/20081029/OPINION02/810290311/1070. I'm SO tired of hearing this same old woreout agrument against medical marijuana. This person has not done the research on the medical benefits provided from marijuana for many different and serious medical condiations...or she would not had made the cigarette comment. Mrs. Olszewski...marijuana does NOT have to be smoke to be ingested..please haven't heard of brownies?? Or, is it because she has the drug companies in her back pocket. Please Please, anyone wondering about the benefits this herb provides for suffering people, do the research and do the right thing tomorrow and vote yes on 1!!

Wanted to add--HUGS to all of you suffering out there. If cannabis helps..use it period. You only have one life and it shouldn't be spent in pain.

I was diagnosed in 2004 with

I was diagnosed in 2004 with a form of epilepsy that stems from scar tissue in my brain. I have been on multiple medications including dilantin, depakote, tegratol and even a few more that I really would like to forget about. Modern medicine has no clue what the long term side effects of these anti-siezure meds are going to be. However, some instant side effects are insomnia, sleepiness, depression, you can't get it up, you lose focus on simple things and you can even be at risk of suicide on some of these medications. I was laid off from my auto industry job in 2006 and have since been without insurance coverage. So, without medications and access to a neurologist I have had to manage my health pretty much on my own. I have managed to be pretty much siezure free so long as I keep up my spiritual practices and eat a ketogenic leaning diet (lottsa butter and cream) and last but not least I keep a steady stream (2-3 puffs every other day) of THC and in particular canabidiol (the anti-convulsant compound within THC). I found that marijuana and in particular sativa to be a perfect anti-convulsant with no side effects except for munchies. Now, as far as I can tell a case of munchies never killed anyone. However, when the first epilepsy drug, phenobarbitol, was put on the market in the late 80's early 90's, 10 people died from side effects in the first week. It has since been discontinued because it was found to be shutting down vital organs as a side effect, mostly liver shut down. With all this in mind I am concerned that the language contained within the proposal 1 does not specifically name epilepsy as a condition for which I would be exempt from arrest for handling my business. When I called the state board of health they gave me the run around. They are named in proposal one as the one authority that will determine if your ailment exempts you from arrest and barbaric treatment if in fact your ailment is not specifically named in proposal one. However, they were certain to tell me that "weed is against the law" to which i let the operator know that slavery used to be legal and women used to not be able to vote but people learn and grow and things change. Well proposal or no proposal, I am handling my business or if need be I'll move to Cali. Your health and life are far more important than adhering to barbaric laws that were created by a small group of wealthy old white dudes in the first place. Oh, one more thing. Why the deafening silence out of our brightest and best left leaning politicians. Where is the leadership of Granholm, Levin, Stabenow and all of our federal and state reps. They are all totally silent. Punks and charlatans all of them in my book. Where are the visionaries?

I don't reside in Michigan

I don't reside in Michigan although my heart is with them -

In May of 1990 I had a collision with a automobile while driving a motorcycle, forgoing the sympathetic details it resulted in massive head injury, which in turn resulted in a massive brain stem stroke that left me paralyzed from the eyes down.

After several years of being bounced around in Michigan's inadequate health care system, my Mother and Grandmother broke me out of a state funded nursing home. A few months later my case went to trial, during this trial I witnessed multitudes of expert doctors and life care planners testify "that I was all that I would ever be" I left the trial with the attitude "who are they to say my life is over"

A few months passed and I was growing tired of the side effects of traditional medication, along with the added hassle getting into see a specialist that would accept my insurance. In 1994-95 my friend suggested mj to stop a violent spasm, that prevented me from getting out of a storm and into my van, to my suprize the spasm subsided after 3 hits. The next day I made an appointment with my doctor, during that visit I informed him that I had tried mj and from what I could tell, it (mj) worked! My doctor then informed that he was not able to advise me from a legal stand point, but in so many words (I should do what worked best for me).

The next year or so I battled with my family over how I should medicate when I could get away with it I would use mj, and when they would remember the pills I would refuse often I would recive a lecture. (I suppose you think you are smarter than the doctor)

In 96-97 I'm not really sure when, I started following a case out in Califorina a lady named Angel Raich made claims that cannabis helped her condition. the claims she made confirmed the feelings I was having about mj, that it (mj) was indeed improveing the functions on my right side. I spent the next 7-8 years fighting with my family, a family that I loved dearly. In 2005 I recieved a caregiver that shared my views, one day soon after the caregiver went to work for me my pills were not administered. At that moment I decided to go for it, progress had been slow over the years but I had surpassed any diagnosis made I stopped all perscription medication. It's now 2008 and ALOT of the movement in my once paralyzed body has returned, the world is still trying to figure out if mj is medicinally benifital I'm gonna have to say YES!

(And yes, I do realize this is posted in the wrong blog)

I have a message for the medical people that are going to be responsable for prescribing this medication while you can probably get by (as I did for a long time) by using most good herbs off the street, but if you do that your going to have a very emotionally unstable state. You better assign some people that know what their doing, because I searched for many, many years before I found my strain I was very emotionally unstable.