This one is in Chile and the disease is epilepsy.
Bobadilla’s desperation to ease her daughter’s condition is an emotion familiar to other Chilean parents who say medical marijuana can help their children and who, rather than wait for Congress to act, have taken matters into their own hands.
Despite the risk of jail time, about 100 parents have formed a group, Mama Cultiva or “Mama Grows,” to share knowledge about cultivating marijuana to extract cannabis oil for their seizure-stricken children.
In clandestine meetings, the parents exchange tips and listen to cultivation experts explain how to grow and reproduce plants. Bobadilla and most of the members grow marijuana in their backyards, even though they could face up to 15 years in jail for doing so.
And in case you missed it:
Cannabis cures cancer. Cancer kills 586,000 Americans every year. Every Prohibitionist is complicit in mass murder.
Isn’t it past time to end Prohibition? For the children.
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Fifteen years in prison for growing a plant. And this particular plant was considered a gift from the deities in ancient times due to it’s healing properties and it’s ability to bring one closer to the deities.
Tyranny is the only word that describes such a situation.
It sickens me that this modern tyranny was incubated and exported from the “Land of the Free” to the rest of the world. It’s things like this that make me ashamed to be an American.
The War on Drugs has always had two parts.
One part is persuading the masses that select drugs are evil.
The other part is ensuring that only criminals may benefit from the drug trade.
Randy,
When Prohibition is over world wide I think Americans will have a hangover similar to what the Germans had post WW2.
And better (worse?) it will mean the destruction of the Republican party because of this:
“Look, we understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue…that we couldn’t resist it.” – John Ehrlichman, White House counsel to President Nixon on the rationale of the War on Drugs.
And worse. Gerald Ford ordered all the records of cannabis’ effect on cancer cells destroyed. That would have been around ’76.
St. Reagan will be coming under fire as well.
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