Medical Marijuana: Lynn Rubenstein Nicholson's Story

[rubylyron]

I have started a facebook app. for PEOPLE LIVING IN CHRONIC PAIN. If you live with pain please check it out. we can exchange info. and just help keep each other strong.

[rubylyron]

thanks for all the support. It's sad so much energy was wasted on my weight. until the drs got ahold of me i was 110pds. steroids are the worst. even though I was in pain for 35 yrs I took tour groups up Mt. Sinai,raised 2 amazing kids(drug free birth) I have always stayed active until my body stopped. Marijuana helps the pain without killing me at the same time.don't we have the right to the best medicine possible ? What the problem?

[teasnax]

you mean cannabis...?

FREE EDDY LEPP, CHARLES LYNCH and MARC EMERY [and from extradition]; and SUPPORT JACK HERER and RICK SIMPSON!!!!

[rhysie21]

Her eyes are absolutely terrifying.

That was a good example for decriminalization / legalization for medical purposes. I liked it.

[Sco6014]

I love all these haters that say "marijuana is bad and dangerous."

Try it at different times and tell me that your opinion doesn't change.

[themrintellectual]

-then how did she fall through a ceiling? Just a freak accident?

[rhysie21]

She was probably crawling through a ceiling / roof and accidentally stood on the plaster rather then the support beams. She would have fallen because the actual ceiling does not support any weight.

[bunnybaby1]

I have known this woman for years. She was 115lb petit woman on her wedding day. The weight gain is a direct result from years of being bedridden after 10 surgery's to "fix" her back problems, being confined to a wheel chair and bed and not being able to walk or exercise. So enough about the weight BS. This is a direct result of the medical field unable to correct the problems. Give people like Lynn a chance to have some peace and comfort. You go girl!

[themrintellectual]

Where does it say she got hurt as a kid? She said "I fell through a ceiling and compressed 7 vertibre." She's not being forced to suffer. She got hurt because she's obese, any doctor will tell you that's what happens when you're obese. And now she's asking for an illegal substance so she can feel better? Yeah that sucks, but this should be an add for taking care of your body so you don't end up like her, not legalizing marijuana.

[stevethul1]

You sound like you have 0% brain power when it comes to people and medical problems. Have you ever had to sit in a Wheelchair for any length of time? Have you ever had pain that will not go away because of injuries sustained at an earlier time in your life? Do you know what it is like having to take drugs to relieve pain in order for you to function on a daily basis. Maybe one day you will have the opportunity too suffer the same as us that have the Chronic Pain issue in our lives. WAKE-UP FOOL!

[themrintellectual]

I wasn't questioning her suffering, I was questioning whether or not there were unhealthy lifestyles leading her to this place. I am very familiar with medicine, and know that quite often the cause of back problems and injuries is obesity  due to unhealthy living. But now those questions have been cleared up and that is not an issue in this case.

I wish some of the information that has since come out was present in the commercial, all of my objections are cleared.

[themrintellectual]

I'm not saying we should kill her, I'm just saying that a series of bad choices resulting in a massive injury (that she had coming) should not result in the changing of law to accommodate this person's situation.

[mydnytmover]

She hurt herself when she was a kid,I broke my back on a motorcycle in 1981, was 17 yrs old, so did i bring that on myself and should be forced to suffer to ?? You should just crawl in a hole and shut the f up , the world would be a little better place

[stevethul1]

Therm..tual: You're a real A-hole with no idea what it's like to live in pain having to medicine that would knock you out, you've no idea what it's like too be rolled out of bed because pain that keep you there, you've no idea what it's like to watch people have physical fun in their lives while us in pain can only watch. You are a "Sad" excuse for a human being. Don't come back at me for these comments because I too live in this type of pain gotten while protecting your rights as an American.

[themrintellectual]

Well if you sacrificed your life protecting my rights, thank you for that. You did an incredible thing, and I highly respect you for that.

I wish some of the information that has since come out was present in the commercial. Once I saw this story, I immediately questioned the lifestyle that led her to this painful place. Once it was cleared up that this injury was not due to an unhealthy lifestyle, all of my objections were cleared. Thank you for extrapolating.

[themrintellectual]

Maybe if she wasn't so overweight she wouldn't have fallen through a freaking CEILING. She brought it upon herself by making bad choices.

[mydnytmover]

Man your ignorance blows my mind, Alot of people in the are world like you, thats why it is such a discrace, Hitler thought he was the mr intellectual also.

[stevenbarrysux]

It would be great for a close friend of mine with nueropothy, but I bet he won't sign it. he will then approve a new stadium just cause he's a dick

[sellernodoubt]

themrintellectual

How heartless can you be? someone who is over weight is battling allot within them selves as well as battling off jerks like you.

She is a human being and deserves respect, and her back hurts because she feel thru a freaking window, you fall thru a window and let's see how you feel after!!

[themrintellectual]

Maybe if she wasn't so overweight her back wouldn't hurt so bad.

[Falconxxxfaith]

Fucking dick, what sellernodoubt is saying. Lets push you through a window and see how you feel.

[RevGreen]

FREE GANJA !!!!!!!!!!

[Heavyarmskai2000]

Its great how worked up and pissy you all get. My job here is done.

[mydnytmover]

so your goal in life is to go around and get people worked up and pissy?? I feel sorry for you

[kemplam]

I feel sorry for the folks that MMj helps and are going to go to jail or die from not being able to use it. Someone has to get people worked up over this issue. do research on it. Learn and educate yourselfs on these issues..ask who does the research?

[pgravity]

Seriously... all the people that are so fixed on her weight obviously missed the point of the add. This add is not a Jenny Craig ad, its for Medical Marijuana. So even though soldiers would have made a bigger impact and are in need of MM too. You try unexpectedly falling off your roof and having your whole life be changed because of intolerable pain. Have you broken a vertebrae? U know how it feels? Go ask someone...

[Heavyarmskai2000]

Oh she broke her back boo hoo what about our soldgers in Iraq who get limbs blown off and keep excercising even though it hurts. Their is no excuse for lazyness ya it may hurt but she can reduce her weight to help herself out.

[mydnytmover]

Are you for real? Alot of soldiers use medical marijuana or drink themselfs silly for pain, she hurt herself when she was 10 years old. you cannot even spell soldiers, You most be D.E.A. or a cop worried about your job busting people in wheelchairs

[aSnowDog2]

Certainly take cannibus if it helps.Might add to your weight as side effect. I would ask your Doctor if Norco 10\325 is right for you and get even stronger if needed.

[TonyBeazley]

so really what is so bad about marijuana? It has medicinal purposes for alot of diseases and body pains.... and it is proven to be very helpful. Good luck with it.....

[Heavyarmskai2000]

What you need is excercise and a diet 20 bucks says if you stop being overweight you will feel better.

[TonyBeazley]

she's over weight because of her back problem she can't exercise so there fore you gain weight.....duh

[mydnytmover]

she broke her back in 10 places , alot of people are overweight, just like there are alot of idiots

[FUCKTHENAU]

recommending exercise for someone in a wheelchair? ooh, real sound advice...what's next? maybe she should get on a stairmaster? lol, you, lol

[brumaleon]

/watch?v=1UEOZGFzPas

[JodieEmery]

Fantastic advertising campaign, judging from this first ad. Real stories from real people can make the difference in ending the drug war.

[k2dart]

I think this is going to happen. The senate passed it last year. Now its the house's turn.

The people of Minnesota deserve to be treated as adults and the doctor patient relationship should be respected along with state's rights. Great day in America!

[MsHerbalist]

The compassionate bill needs to be passed!

It makes no sense to let people legally take man made medicines such as Oxycontin, Morphine, Codeine, etc., that we know has bad side effects, compared to a natural plant such as marijuana that has proven far better for a human being to use and treats so many things combined.

[RevGreen]

DO THE RIGHT THING PAWLENTY !!!!!!!!!

[mydnytmover]

I Broke my back in 5 place's 26 yrs ago, I'm tired of being a criminal also,and Im tired of hating stupid polititions

[rayofminneapolis]

Minnesota medical marijuana bill passes out of final House committee; headed to the House floor for historic vote!

By a 13-4 vote, S.F. 345-- the MN Medical Marijuana Bill-- passed out of the Ways and Means Committee this afternoon! Having already passed the full Senate last year, House ways and means was the final committee the bill needed to clear in the Minnesota Legislature. It's now headed to the floor of the MN House for its historic, first-ever hearing by the full legislative body.

[rayofminneapolis]

And if the House joins the Senate, the medical marijuana bill will go to Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) for his signature -- and Minnesota will become the 13th medical marijuana state, the first in the Midwest.

[rayofminneapolis]

I second this movement urging Governor Pawlenty NOT to veto the medical marijuana bill (S.F. 345/H.F. 655)

It's time to grow up and face reality, as an educated state. Marijuana is and always has been medicine and nutrition.

ALLOW S.F. 345/H.F. 655!

[evanj21]

DO NOT VETO PAWLENTY

[RevGreen]

PRAISE JAH Minnesota........