Here's why medical pot isn't going away

[n2doc]

By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times
March 8, 2013, 5:00 a.m.
Bill Rosendahl lifts his walker over the threshold and carries it into the grow room before anyone in his entourage — press secretary, pot shop owner, pot consultant and bud tender — can rush over to help.

Even after 13 hits of radiation and seven rounds of combination chemo, Rosendahl moves steadily, straight as a poplar, past 2-foot-high cannabis plants labeled Hindu Skunk and Humboldt O.G. And, he says, Herbalcure, the Westside pot dispensary we're touring, is responsible for his vigor.

This is what decades of battles over marijuana use have come to in L.A.: A city councilman taking a journalist around to show where he scores his dope.

Rosendahl doesn't find it as incongruous as I do: After the Westside councilman was diagnosed with cancer, Herbalcure and The Farmacy, a Venice dispensary, developed a weed regimen for him that he says wiped out the pain that once had him writhing in bed, incapacitated.

"The brain is back, the energy is back," he said. "Life is now worth living."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-holland-pot-councilman-20130308,0,5689068.story

[zappaman]

1. I love The Farmacy!

Bill Rosendahl...not so much.

[wildbilln864]

2. k&r! eom

[DiverDave]

3. This thread will drop like a rock

for some reason DU doesnt like the cannibus threads.
There should be a cannibus group, there should be a real progressive outcry to get REAL science involved in testing this stuff.
But not a peep from DU.
Why?

Oh, and I wont be surprised if someone alerts on this post.


Just.dont.get.it.

I take pain medication that I HATE, and would like to try some weed, but my governor (corbett) has called
it a 'gateway drug' and anyone using it is a criminal.
He has promised to veto it if the legislature votes for it.
I will work hard to get it on the ballot.

Oh, and I am happy this guy is feeling better.

[Le Taz Hot]

6. If I could send you a hit or two I would

as it sounds like you could use it.

In reality, cannabis threads usually do pretty well on DU. The problem is that they're usually in GD which is a fast-moving forum. And I'm not sure why anyone would alert on this post. There's no violation here and most DUers are pro-legalization (a few exceptions, of course).

Sorry you're feelin' so poorly. If you're ever in CA . . .

[FirstLight]

4. thanks for sharing!

good stuff...

[TeamPooka]

5. k+r!

[xtraxritical]

7. Just a K&R.