Once I began smoking marijuana, my seizures completely stopped. I smoked marijuana for more than a year until I started going to church. Two weeks after I stopped smoking marijuana, my seizures came back with a vengeance.
I'm a devout Christian. I've expressed my opinions about medical marijuana to members, pastors and theologians from different denominations and have found that the majority of Christians I've talked to support medical marijuana.
The Michael Phillips Compassionate Care Act, HB642, is being debated in the state Legislature. It would protect doctors who recommend and patients who use marijuana for medical reasons. Please contact the House Judiciary Committee and your representative and urge them to pass this bill.
Fourteen other states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana legislation. But because I reside in Alabama, I am considered a criminal for trying to alleviate my suffering. Geographic location should never determine criminality. I am a patient, not a criminal.
Samuel Barksdale
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