Dear Sir:
I suggest you talk to the person who wrote the article on Medical Marijuana. The author admitted he was a Christian, which is great. However some of the so called side affects of marijuana are based solely on personal opinion. Like him saying that the use of cannabis leads to "idol worship" which may have been true for the Hindus years ago, but not those Christians in America. Patients who use marijuana for medical purposes do not worship any other god than they did before, some worship the one and only true living God, some others.
Also he mentioned that medical marijuana is like a patch that needs to be reapplied over and over therefore it is not a cure. Wake up your stoned head (brain turned to stone) that's the exact reason for medical marijuana, to relieve symtoms for patients with life-long diseases and terminally ill patients.
One thing he mentioned about the side affects of marijuana is that it controls nausea, this is true. I have a life long disease called Gastric Paresis. Paresis is Greek for "paralyzed" stomach. Hence I am in a state of mild to extreme nausea 24/7 365 days a year and followed by 12-24 hour vomiting sessions 60 percent of the time. I use marijuana to control my nausea and I am still a son of God.
Jesus Christ is alive and living in me. I suspect Christ is not in the one who wrote this article for in taking an anti-medical marijuana approach he is leaving the door open for the use of highly addictive opiate products which is proven to cause physical and strong psychological dependencies.
While marijuana is not physically addictive it might be psychologically addictive, small price to pay for relief of my nausea and other problems in other patients. We have documented proof for 2,000 years that cannabis is of great use in controlling many, many, symptoms of these diseases that no other medication can. I took other anti-nausea meds but after 6 months of use they began to show their side effect nausea, the exact symptom I am trying to get rid of, but just three hits of good quality marijuana and my nausea is gone for up to eight hours. I smoked marijuana for 27 years then I quit because I got bored with it, I had no withdrawal effects, nothing. But I started using marijuana again when I got this life long disease called Gastric Paresis caused from diabetes another life-long disease.
Also smoking cannabis does not cause cancer, tests have shown, but the US government has denied these facts for the last seven years and holds on to them in hopes it will prevent the legalization of marijuana for medical and personal use, tobacco does cause cancer, plus you don't get all those chemicals in you system from the cigarette paper, also the dangers of smoking can be totally removed by the use of a vaporizer which heats the cannabis to the degree it needs to release its cannbinoids the best and most effective being Delta 9 Tetrahydracannibinol or THC. 80 percent of the population in America want marijuana legalized for medical purposes, plus the growing of hemp (non-THC containing marijuana) grows wild in Iowa because of the hemp farming done in our state and others for ropes, clothing, duffel bags, etc. to help win World War II, if hemp farming were to be made legal we would have an economic boon for it is used in making fiber, fuel, food, clothing, and medicine.
But with all these uses you can see how many big corporations would like to keep it illegal. Any other complaints about marijuana are based on personal opinion which is created from closed minds, ignorance, and fear.
Please pass this on to the writer of this incorrect article, also I suggest you use facts not personal opinion just look at what the comedy now but a health documentary then "Reefer Madness" this shows is so completely incorrect it is laughable.
Yours in Christ,
Jeffrey D. Elton | 
