Maine Medical Marijuana

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 13:30

Well for a while I have been trying to advocate for medical marijuana for health and wellness. I even went to court over the issue to argue medications. I have had correspondence with Doctors and Lawyers about the issue and presented my drug related injury during a governmental disability hearing where the board of medical examiners accepted my debilitating disease and use of Tibetan herbal medicine and homeopathic medical marijuana. I know suffer from post traumatic stress induced schizophrenia. This is a biological disorder resulting from the braindamage that resulted in cognitive deficiencies and other symptoms not classified in the medical marijuana law but permissible under "symptoms not classified." I have lost my home. Soon the state will be introducing the new statutes that allow for certain symptoms not in the current system to be addressed. I believe that my injury is a valid case for the use of medical marijuana for the neurological damages of the drugs. How will I ever be able to make a petition and convince people of this? I have talked to some Doctors and a lawyer. I do have the right to have my alternative medication, since, under the premise that the psychiatric treatment was harmful, medical marijuana is beneficial. If the psychiatric treatment was not harmful then there would be reason to continue administering the drugs and not to use medical marijuana. Clearly, the medicine was bad. Bad is anything that hurts. Good is anything that helps. To make it simple, the medical marijuana helps to relieve the symptoms of the drug injury. You may wonder if it is a drug injury? The drug caused the damage. Doctor said so. Doctor prescribed homeopathic medical marijuana. Well anyways...I won in court. It doens't matter. They say they won. Now I have "mental illness." Government says drugs must control it. I have done everything I can. If its true that actually my confession was that demons were the cause of the illness, in speaking with the psychiatrist and that I will be successful in the end, community forced treatment will not work, and I will be free ultimately and live in a duplex condominium then I will be okay. Since demons caused it, gods fixed it. So thats why I won in court. I watched myself win. I said I would win...I promised, I would use medical marijuana or argue the medication in court. Thats what I did. I followed the law very closely. So hopefully this will work out. I gave an advanced directive not to take the medication...I know that it does not affect a cure. Lets see how that works out. I don't believe that any illness is remedied by medication. In fact, I know that I will be successful. I know that medication does not affect the mind. If it doesn't have an effect on the mind, then how can it be prescribed/ordered/forced? Obviously it doesn't work for everybody. Thats why I should have medical marijuana. By my own choice. But Im not sick! The drugs first off, need to be stopped. No more forced drugging. Then, they need to be destroyed. You may think that this is out of the question. The fact of the matter is...the drugs are here. We must learn to deal with them right? Do we actually have to live our lives in servitude and slavery? Or can we stop the bad things in life? Because their is good in life we can have good. Good is a potential. A possibility. The answer is not to avoid the drugs. You don't have to destroy them either because that is ignorant. Every time someone makes you take a drug you are stopping the drug war. Every injection...stopping the drug war. Every new pill...stopping itself. I figure, as long as I am taking the medication: I am following the law of the universe. Someone else is not receiving harm. Even if I have to take on the suffering myself it is okay. It is better than putting the blame on someone else. I think taking ultimate responsibility is using medical marijuana. That is true bravery because it is what's right. My consciousness was affected by the drugs brain damage and only medical marijuana helps. I think another brave thing is saying I don't want the drugs. I did that. The next brave thing is just getting a caretaker. And having a medical marijuana initiative. Also having asylum to use the medical marijuana. So they don't make up some excuse to put me into jail. See, I don't need to do all of this. What really keeps me going is the fact that I believe in medical marijuana 100% and I know that it is the right way to medical freedom and health. Im sure they are going to say all the Doctors and lawyers and citizens are wrong but I know that I am right. And that is where the power is. The power to do good against injustice. If everyone tells you you are wrong and you are actually right yourself there is no question! If you are right, you are right. See the problem here is that in this world it is difficult to use cannabis. It is even an injustice to say that only people with medical problems can use it. It is an injustice to say that the war on drugs is not bad in some ways. What we need is a solution! There has to be a plan. My plan is really just to see if this precedent of argued medication is enough to legitimize medical marijuana on one hand. Next, its to bring justice by proving the trauma of my condition. These two things together should be enough. Im not trying to sit around and smoke. Im trying to do the right thing. They say in court, if its a religious thing you have to use medical marijuana if you want it to be part of your practice. I say hogwash to that! Do you have to use water to baptize? Do you have to use a hammer to make order in the court? Do you have to use your hands to start a fight? I think if anything, one should say, you have to use your mind. If you don't use your mind, then you are not practicing my religion. Taking medication or not taking medication...that is the question. But that is not using your mind! So you are not practicing my religion. To practice my religion you must use your mind. Too bad medication does not affect the mind. It does not control the mind. That is fact in court. So it is not religion...it is a false doctrine. The government is wrong there. There should not be forced medication in any circumstance. See...for me. I say, my relgion, I have to use my mind. The medications are against that. They say I have no mind. So if someone were to ask me, "so your religion is true based on the fact that you must use your mind?" I would say no. How can religion exist? So it isn't a true religion then? No. Its maybe.

Here's something

2. Adding debilitating medical conditions. Not later than 120 days after the effective
date of this chapter, the department shall adopt rules that govern the manner in which the
department shall consider petitions from the public to add medical conditions or
treatments to the list of debilitating medical conditions set forth in section 2422,
subsection 2. In considering such petitions, the department shall include public notice of,
and an opportunity to comment in a public hearing upon, such petitions. The department
shall, after hearing, approve or deny such petitions within 180 days of their submission.
The approval or denial of such a petition constitutes final agency action, subject to judicial
review. Jurisdiction and venue for judicial review are vested in the Superior Court.