Federal medical marijuana patient: Cannabis worked a ‘miracle’ for me

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster

LOS ANGELES — In 1988, Elvy Musikka (pictured, left) became the first woman in the United States to be legally permitted by the federal government to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes, due to a case of Glaucoma that threatened to render her blind.

Armed with a mountain of paperwork, a dedicated doctor and a savvy attorney, she managed to get both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to sign off on her right to access the only medicine that alleviated her symptoms, joining a tiny, exclusive group who have successfully used the legal system to gain access to medical marijuana grown by the feds.

To this day, reform advocates point to the Compassionate Investigational New Drugs program as a glaring hypocrisy. After all: How can the government continue to insist that marijuana has no medicinal value when it is also producing it as a medicine for this select group of patients?

Each and every month, Musikka eligible to receive 300 marijuana cigarettes, grown, rolled, packed and shipped by employees of the U.S. government, as part of a program that officially stopped accepting patients on orders of President George Bush, Sr. in 1992.

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[demigoddess]

1. and I'm kinda pissed at this because I would like to try

medical marijuana for my handicapped daughter's problems of self abuse (she hits herself and bites herself) and all these stupid laws mean I cannot even try it. It is not like she is going to drive a car, or get hooked and score harder drugs. Self abuse is a problem with many handicapped kids as they get older.

[Tsiyu]

2. that's rough

:hug:

[Scuba]

3. Good luck with your daughter. I wish our government had her best interests at heart. n/t

[MN TN]

4. A friend of mine's sister finally managed to get medical marijuana

It was for her arthritis and other health problems. Up to that time, she was dying and in extreme, unbelievable pain.
Her family's attorney somehow managed to get her some of this medicine.
She still died but she died with a smile on her face.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.