Medical Marijuana - USA

April 1997
Outside a cannabis co-operative in San Francisco,USA, customers queue up to make their purchases. Looking more like a cafe than a clinic, the co-op sells bark like quantities of marijuana over the counter.

Amongst the smokers puffing on brass pipes, there are some with genuine illnesses - stomach cancer, arthritis, AIDS. 74 year old granny, Hazel Rodge, plays the piano, sings hymns and smokes dope! The founder of the co-operative is Dennis Peron, the co-founder of article 215, drug dealer and jailbird of 2 years. He is opposed by Dr. Robert du Pont who denounces the new law as "just a sham, a fraud." Meanwhile the National Institute of Health has concluded that marijuana does show promise for some medical conditions. Pro-marijuana Dr. Steve O'Brien talks about the recent restrictions imposed by the Federal government and complains, "they don't want to attack the patients because it's politically incorrect". Report on medical drug battles in the US.

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[acamogirl]

ATTENTION ALL AMERICANS

I am a 70% disabled Gulf War Era Veteran. A Wife, Mother of 2 and a cannabis activist. This summer I am going on a cross Country trip to gather signatures to be able to have the AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTE ON THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BALLOT, for the Decriminalization of personal posession, cultivation and nonprofit distribution of Cannabis. Please come and see me on my travels

THIS DISABLED VETERAN WILL NOT FORGET THAT WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE STILL RUN THIS COUNTRY

[bleezy650]

i dont smoke weed but i think they should legalize it. cannabis is probably a lot better then the drugs you get from the doctors or over the counter

[4evaFranyFran]

Ron Paul 2012-He wants to legalize it.

[naturesuphoria]

What ever you used worked out great for the vid! Keep them coming!

[TerryCrodgedy]

Why should it be poeple who are just about to DIE that are allowed to smoke weed???? Most government types need to take a few drags ... FUCKIN NAZIS!!!!

[llotek]

@vaporizerblogger Very true,and nt only is gov a representation of the people,but the people are supposed to dctate to the gov not the other way around.It seems like we have gotten to a point where we take the govs stnce on subjects instead the gov taking our stance,a fed elction is not the fnal sttement we make about our countries polcy,for the next term.after elcted,it seems like all polticians simply bgin to folow there own agnda,rther than what they cmpaigned on?Sadly,Obama is a good example

[Cryptopsy666]

@bleezy650 Safer than Alcohol, Tobacco, Caffeine, hell even water. You can OD on water and die of water poisoning. Can't do that with weed.

[vaporizerblogger]

The government is a representation of us, not the other way around. We can do something about this if we get together and form a force they cannot deny. 80% of the Americans vote for medical usage. So what's the problem?

[MIB205]

while im not saying legalizing weed will stop all the drug cartel killings in mexico which includes american citizens to, we should at least put the ball in our court and cut these bastards off at there nuts which is weed

[MIB205]

see while we do want our freedom to smoke weed we also want it available to patients and to take the power away from criminals. we know damn well that there are going to be people who smoke and drive and we damn well know there are a lot of people who respect these important and reasonable driving laws because we do not wish to do harm to our fellow man. but while your complaining about what people might do on weed were complaining about the poeple how are die right now for a fact in mexico