Hey,I am a cna and will be taking a 55 year old man with M.S he can only move his right hand barly and has no control of any other body parts. I live in ny now ad I was wondering if it would be possible to gt him a prescripttion for marijuana. Or if not a presription being able to buy some for him leaglly. Any help please send to my email [email protected]. Thanks!

I seen your post, it does not look like you will be able to get legal marijuana in NY for your patient at this time. The bill is not law yet.

But for a patient like yours it sounds like he does not have time.

you could go to Canada, check out this link:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1265874&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

I would like to address this to: Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Brunswick)
IF- you could imagine your life being haulted by a deadly disease at the age of 30, while you are in a upswing in your life and the Dr tells you that you have AIDS and you are going to die, not have children, not do the things you hoped for, besides that you will take these drugs and not look or feel too good either. You believe this and you are likely to take these POISON drugs and die. A prescription for death.

I educated myself and went to Switzerland, Germany and other health related places out of the country- I am now 47 and have wasting from 6 months of those dreaded drugs. I wake up nauseous and can't eat.
it would help to have medical marijuana.

I think that medical marijuana is a threat to the pharmecuetical companies...botttom line!

Lets go 100%. I am a senior at my high school doing a reseach project on medical marijuana. I am 100% for this. While during my reasearch i have came across a lady i met who has just had her cancer treatment revoked. They told her that it is not helping and that it is waisting money. I beleive she needs the help. what dose the pharmacies look like handing out morphine, but its not ok for medical marijuana. Or even simpler Alcohol is a form of drugs and thats not even for medical use, people need medical help for that legalized drug.

* I do beleive that there should be a strick distribution of this drug if it is legalized, and the goverentment should ask the public on their beleifs. Its not all about the goverenment. I live in NY and have never herd anything about this medical marijuana bill they are fighting. I would deffidently be a supporter or 1 helping vote.

Ive seen my family after surgey or just in survery pain and just get pumped full of morphine whitch does serious damages to the mind and body some times permentaly, But they wont let some won who is in pain every day by day smoke marijuana to get rid of the pain and make you feel a lot better with no con's.
No person of this earth has ever died by marijuana but my granma and my cousin who had cancer both died by morphine and people die by morphine every year and most people who have cancer die by morphine.
Do you realy think thats how they deserve to have died that way maybe they could of lived longer if it wasn't for the morphine.
Marijuana is the perfect pain killer and has no deadly side effects. I am from Rochester NY and i believe that it should be leagalized for people in pain.And strongly suggest the house to legalize this bill.

How can anyone take Conservative Republicans in the Executive Branch of New York State Gov. seriously ?
I work in the transportation business here is Syracuse, NewYork . An individual who has the right ID can buy Beer, Wine and Hardliquor at a gas station," these are people most likely driving down the same streets as you, and allowed the legaI purchase of alcohol beverage and getting into cars - open container laws my ass !! ", buying alcohol beverages that people should only be allowed to buy in bars or grocery stores, and drink in Bars, or use at home, but Conservatives Republicans have trouble approving medicinal marijuana for the seriously ill .
I say take the alcohol beverages out of the gas stations, and approve medicinal marijuana..., too hard to take educated law makers that think any other way seriously when I am at the voting booth.

phil Syracuse NY

Gov. Eliot Spitzer should visit with seriously ill people that want to be able to use Medicinal Marijuana. Spitzer would make an enormous impression on all of us to sign in approval of Medicinal Marijuana irreguardless of what anyone thinks!

im incredibley upset at the world. there is so many greedy people that overlook amazing things this PLANT can do because they might lose a buck.
I have a perfect situation for example: i belive my father absolutely needs to use marijuana to extend his life. he has had this brain tumor for a few years now. hes had surgery where they take some of the tumor out. guess what? IT DIDNT WORK. it grew back even worse. guess what else? there was also malpractice involved and my father had a stroke during surgery. marijuana completely rules out any chance of malpractice Which does happen often believe it or not(a DR. usually wont just tell you "i kind of messed up your brain, sorry?")....the facts are that marijuana can shrink and prevent tumors and does so many other incredible miracles.its been proven to work so why isnt it legal for people that really need it?

If anyone that can do something about this sees this-CAN YOU PLEASE DO WHATS RIGHT. MY FATHER WILL DIE EARLY DO TO A BRAIN TUMOR THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. I WANT MY FATHER TO SEE MY FUTURE CHILDREN GROW UP.I DON'T WANT TO LOSE MY FATHER. MARIJUANA CAN SAVE MORE THAN JUST THE PATIENTS LIVES. THEIR DEATHS DEEPLY AFFECT FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
-GOD PUT MARIJUANA ON THIS PLANET FOR A REASON, LETS START SAVING LIVES.

-desperate family member from Binghamton NY

Total idiots. Total fools. No one can even deny it. They are trying to control what we put in our bodies? Nice try government, but you did not create life. Next time you wanna try and tell me what I can and cant put in my body, ask God first (if there is one).

I read all the comments, I pretty much have nothing new really to say about the subject. I think we all can agree we want to use Marijuana to enjoy the feeling and the relaxation and joy it brings to me and you. I enjoy smoking Marijuana because I know that it does not harm your body at all. Watch the movie "Super High Me" it is about a person who smoked Marijuana for plenty of years, quit smoking for thirty days took a bunch of physical and mental test. Then smoked Marijuana for thirty days after and took the same test and actually increased his ability in some test. I really don't see a problem with Marijuana at all other than the fact that it is illegal. Just think what harm would there be if world wide marijuana was Legal, and you applied the same rules and principles as Alcohol has. People kill/hurt people because the plant/flower is illegal. It is not the plant/flower that kills/hurts people. I want the war on Marijuana to stop there is no reasoned for it at all. Now you say to me "It's a gateway drug" from research on other drugs they don't cause Happiness,Relaxation,Joy,Love,Empathy,ect... They cause recklessness,Blackouts,Severe brain damage,ect... So as long as there are simple laws and regulations and certain Strains of the plant you can have and grow, there should be absolutely no problem with legalizing Marijuana. Now for Medical purposes, I feel for the patients and family's that are sick and in pain. I'm sorry but all these Painkillers do is ruin the patients chances and cost hundreds of dollars for what. Marijuana does the body no harm, it relaxes you and gets rid of the pain with no harm done to the body. by making people feel like jello and disabled is not right. I would love to see sick people Happy joyful and filled with more hope because there not disabled or a piece of jello. Please listen to the people!

With some of my clients I do find that marajuna does help their symptoms to subside. Example: I have a client that has schizoaffective disorder, he sometimes sees and hears "things" that arent there . He has come to understand what they are and is getting better at ignoring them. But one the other had his medication either has to be increased or changed. With marajuna and medication he seems to be more able to handle his symptoms. I hope this goes thru in New York I have a son there who has the same difficulty. He refuses to stop using marajuna even tho he is going to loose his daughter due to it. Hope this little note helps someone.

Drug and Alcohol counselor in Colorado

I have been reading these threads for answers but I cant find them so I am just going to ask. Recently I slipped on ice and dislocated my knee twice in one day at work, I have torn mcl's. I have been going to physical therapy for one month already and its just making it worst, my doctor prescribed HYDROCODONES 5-500 for pain and I hate it!
I am depressed and cannot sleep at night due to pain and stress. Few nights ago my cousin came to visit me, we talked about my pains and sleepless nights, he brought me to the porch and packed a bowl and told me to try it so I did (whats worse than hydrocodones),
a relief came over me and for the first time I felt uplifted I did not feel depressed that night and for the first time in months I slept A FULL 8 HOURS with no pain what so ever! So now I am trying to go about it the right way and ask my doctor if it is possible to get medical marijuana instead of pills that make things worst.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THIS IS POSSIBLE I DONT KNOW WHO ELSE TO ASK THANKS FOR THE HELP.

SYRACUSE, NY

it should not matter if people smoke pot at ALL! there not hurting anyone. dont people know how to mind there own bissness! what happend to america and Freedom ur not hirting anyone it shouldnt be against the law. police need too forget about pot and worry about people being killed!

in cali they give out the medical cards to anyone My buddy went there and admits nothng is wrong with him but flaunted me with his card because he knows i hate weed.he runs marathons and is in tip top shape yet a dr gave him the card what a joke

Ive been to many doctors over the last decade had alot of neroligists physicans and i told them all how when i smoke it i feel better im more mobil i speak better and all of them said "they can not prescribe it but they all recommened to continue using it.........it helps me live with being me

I think it's a real sin that people with terminally ill diseases and battling dibilitating nausea 24 hours a day can not have access to something that would help them cope. It's inhumane and all you're doing by not passing this for is kissing up to the drug companies. We all know that cannibus is less harmful than living on pain medication, morphine, codine and such but let's keep the drug companies happy and to hell with what the poor patient wants. What ever happened to quality of life? Should that count for something? Maybe when one of your children are diagnosed with ALS and chronic Lyme disease, you'll whistle a different tune and stop being so judgemental.

What is the bottom line here????? with so many people wanting this legal.....are the only opponents the politicians??? This is just stupid...its our country...we voted for these politicians....when we as a majority want this legal how can, after all these years, the goverment still deny us as a majority what we want... can someone please answer this??? I'm sorry, but after all these years its just ridiculous that we are still fighting for this...what a ass backwards state we live in..im speechless in NY. And don't tell me to move to another state, i'm an American and served my country...

what happened to democracy in america? if the majority of the country wants it legalized, i dont see why its not done. democracy what is the constitution is based on, and the basis of democracy is that the majority rules. Doctors can legally prescribe morphine, oxycontin, and cocaine, but not marijuana. Marijuana isnt a drug that you can overdose on, it does less harm to your body then alcohol does, which is sold at every corner store and gas station. This bill should be legalized, and any politician that thinks they have the authority to tell the american people what they can and cant put in their bodies should go visit someone that is dying of cancer or aids, and just wants to be able to have an appetite.

First, I'd like to point out that I have been a constant sufferer of back pain since 1991, and a young lady was in a hurry to get home from work so she could go out PARTYING that fateful Saturday evening. I was 34 years old and the happily married, working mother of 2.
I have used every prescribed narcotic, muscle relaxer, and nerve-calming manufactured drug on the market. If I wasn't swallowing it, I was getting it pumped or injected into, or plastered onto my body. There wasn't one damned medicine that actually HELPED relieve my (sometimes) debilitating pain. I won't go into what all those FDA approved chemicals did to me or how sick I would get.
Yes, I have also used pot to relieve my pain, calm my stomach, and help me relax so I could get through the episode.
I am convinced that now is the time for the people to be heard, and medical marijuana needs to be made available to those in real need.
Jackie, NY
P.S. Think on this: The difference between a drunk and a "pot-head" is that the drunk will blow right through a stop sign. The pot-head will wait for it to turn green. (author unknown)

Look I am a. Licensed CA medicinal user who just recently had surgery and now I'm in new York for my uncles wedding and am in loads of pain and can't find shit, I do not believe in perscription drugs, the so called miracle drugs that our governmnt says will help, that's why THEY DONT WORK. I've been in ad out of the hospital my entire life and at first I wasn't as optimistic as I am now about medicinal marijuana, but after being told numerous times xannex and lithium ect will calm me down and help relieve the head aches and the vicadin and oxy cottons and even morphine will help Reduce the pain from my tumor or my hernia surgery. After being told I wasn't going to leave the hospital to go home with my parents made me lose hope... Now 20 years old I have regained the happiness and the hope taken away from me, through medicinal marijuana, and if I didn't have tht then I am almost 99.9% sure iwouldnt be here or even ALIVE without medicinal marijuana... So for all you Jon belieera and people who think oh pot is bad, well try being told you have no hope of living or having any type of relationships with Nyone, and your so called god won't answer your prayers you begin to lose hope, my hope is replaced by my medicine, Mary Jane is my hope, my future and my answer. If you can not handle yor medicine it's because maybe your nt using the right kind or the right wy of using it.

Hello there. My mom is a 62 year old woman suffering from really bad Diabetic Neuropathy. She has taken all sorts of medications, some make her sick, some do absolutly nothing. The only thing that does work on her, is the one thing that's illegal.. you guessed, marijuana. I have mulitple friends with illnesses as well, MS, Cancer, One has a tumor. Medical Marijuana should be legalized in NY state. There's so many people that need it, to help with pain and nausea, but they can't get it due to bad propaganda concerning Marijuana in general. I myself, don't really use it, but I don't see no harm.. "And god gave to us all seed bearing plants " Marijuana isn't a man made thing. Alcohol and tobacco are more of drugs than Marijuana.. at least that's not tampered with. Well, for the most part that is.

Granted, if legalized it shouldn't just be given out to anyone claiming to have medical issues, one first needs to be checked and made sure that they aren't getting it to abuse it. But let those who need it, who can really use it, be able to have some if they have the pain. My mother only uses it in dire emergencies, and I don't want to see someone like her get caught and in trouble due to trying to relieve pain that was brought on to by laws of age and life. Someone needs to tell the government to open their eyes and see how much money they could make from legalizing medical marijuana,and how they could save people. You'd think they'd care about something like money :D

~A girl watching out for her friends and family

WHAT A HUGE WASTE OF TAX PAYER MONEY TO PUT INNOCNET MARIJAUNA USERS IN JAIL. HOW DARE OUR GOVERMENT WASTE OUR MONEY PROSCUTTING MARIJUANA USERS. WE THE MANY MARIJUANA USERS WILL NOT STOP OUR CONTINUED ORGANIZED EFFORTS TO GET OUR POT TOTALLY LEGAL.

It's pathetic how this is even something to debate on for such a long time. I'm 18 in my first year of college and I was told I have Crohn's Disease last year in my senior year of high school. I missed almost 70 days of class due to surgeries on my intestines due to inflammation from my disease. My case was so bad the acid in my intestines was literally pouring out of my intestines into my body cavity. Sounds painful right? I stayed in the hospital for a month, lost 50 pounds and so much muscle mass. I wasn't allowed to eat since I didn't have an open intestine and I would just vomit anything including water. I went for weeks with just a central IV in my neck supporting me. I grew depressed, my friends saw me when they weren't busy and I started to feel like life wasn't worth it any longer. I had to have an ileostomy bag for three months after they removed my damaged intestines, and I could barely eat. It was so embarrassing I couldn't control my bowel movements in my class or when I would hangout with my friends at a party. I got such a low self-esteem and became paranoid that my friends didn't want to deal with my new condition. Marijuana helped me gain my appetite back and gain weight. I grew less depressed and the severity of my symptoms diminished greatly. I calmed down and grew to accept what had happened and I found peace with myself. It gave me hope that I would live long enough to have a decent life and a family. No 18 year old should have EVER gone through what I did, because I lost my childhood and the best year of my life due to a chronic illness. If I cannot get access to Medical Marijuana this year, I think I'm leaving because I will not feel like a criminal for trying to live my life without suffering and guilt. I only wish my representatives would respond to my emails and talk to me personally. I garuantee I could even convince the Republicans to stop being greedy dooshs and let us get what shouldn't have been denied to us in the first place. It is my right to live a normal life, and screw this government if they turn their back on me and basically sentence me to death.

We all know the benefits of hemp or better known Marijuana (Cannabis Sativa) even our founding fathers made it law for farmers to grow this marvelous plant, not only for its medical benefits but for its other properties as well. For instance its fiber to produce material for paper and or clothes, rope ect. During the wars a high production of its fiber was needed for the war efforts. Please check the government reel on "Hemp for Victory” from the department of defense. Our government is being a hypocrite not legalizing it because lobbyist won’t benefits from it. Now the our economy is so fragile why don’t we give Hemp a try and I assure you our economy would be as it was once before stable and strong. Think about it, the answer is closer than we think.

The government and health care industry has done such a lousy job with pain care that it is long overdue to allow medical marijuana. As Dr Landis- of NIH pain consortium called treatments for pain as woefully inadequate it is time for humanitarian reasons to legalize medical marijuana. Opioids which are legal have far worse risk profile then marijuana-and the government has allowed their medical use for some time- it is just irrational and unjustifiable for the govt to continue their cruel practice of denying the public the pain relief that marijuana can provide-and at a remarkably cheap price compared to traditional ineffective pain treatments

Hi I am an extremely busy 20 yr old who has MS i was diagnosed at 18. I am in constant pain and have an eye condition called optical neuritis from my MS. The medicinal marijuana would help all of my MS symptoms but especially those. Imagine being as young as me and you are told well your going to go blind eventually. One the pain scale from 1-10 on my best days i am a constant 4 but on an everyday basis im a 6-8 and when i wake up its always elevated.

ive smoked illegal most of my adult life and its helped me with my severe pain and mental angrish but ins not legal here in ny yet i dont like pills so i have to deal with the pain most of the time and no sleep cause of the pain marijiuana helps me cope please help me find out where and when we can find out how to obtain it in ny or and when will it be passed here ty

I think they should stop jerking the people and country when it comes to medical needs. At every turn it's something," We the people" meant something once now it's become "I the special interest" it's time to let go of outdated laws, change with the season's and move forward with new legislation for reform.

Here's hoping this pass's I have had crohns for 8 1/2 years and have found nothing works besides medical marijauna use. I can't drink which is legal and causes disease and addiction, I can't smoke cigerette's which cause cancer. I also can't eat chocolate, red meat, anything spicy or salty. Nothing acidic, fried or fatty. On a bland diet, no vices aloud and no apetite due to the pain, doctors can prescribe me meds that give me lupus, cancer, pancreatitis, fibromyalga and that's just the beginning of a 3 page article of side affects. All of which don't work on me, but I do have pancreas issues and fibromylga now do to the medication. Government is going to try and deny me the right that I desperatly need to help me in my battle. The one thing that gives me an appetite and calms my stomache and has healed my colon. What is wrong with giving peole hope that there drug that may kill them or make them wish they were dead, could have an alternative or something that will ease them not cause more problems? I hope they know that and pass this bill!! Besides it would generate more jobs and has taxable options!

I have stage iv lung cancer and before that i had bc nine yrs ago..i think it would be advantage if nyc would pass the medical mariquana bill because it helps you with no appetite and nausaua and also your pain...Its not fair that we have to go out on the streets and get it while we are so ill. Ill be the first one knocking at obamas door to tell him how i feel. not for recreation use only for medical use...

Is Bi Polar Disorder I considered a serious enough illness to be prescribed medi-juana? I suffer from the condition and honestly marijuana has been my best form of medicine to stabilize my moods.

Medical marijuana is not only remarkably effective in a variety of medical conditions but, according to Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook, 4-th Edition, cannabis use suppresses violent crime. It is only a matter of time before cannabis use is also shown to be a "barrier", instead of "gateway" to hard drug/excessive alcohol use. The following quote illustrates well why medical marijuana must be legalized in all 50 States ASAP, as well as made available to our veterans like in Canada:

" Cannabis will one day be seen as a wonder drug, as was penicillin in the 1940s. Like penicillin, herbal marijuana is remarkably nontoxic, has a wide range of therapeutic applications and would be quite inexpensive if it were legal." - Dr. Lester Grinspoon, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2006

I do know one reason the Gov...especially in New York State will not legalize marijuana is because it's all about big politics, big Pharmaceutical and Big Money.

Big Pharma kills people every year with their synthetic drugs and they pump the Gov. with more $$ than any other industry. Politicians and big Phama are truly criminals. The drugs they make trillions of dollars from are killing people all over the US.

Personally, I don't take ANY prescription pharmaceutical drugs and I will not. I refuse to put poison into my body. Big Pharma and Big Government are criminals.

I am not currently smoking MJ but I smoked it recreational for many years. I smoked it daily as a teenager and in my early 20's. I feel because of my past marijuana use, I have never had any illness in my life. I truly believe that marijuana is a medicinal preventative medicine. I am almost 50 years old, have never had one surgery, no diabetes, no high blood pressure...no illness whatsoever. And the friends I've had that use alcohol and pharmaceutical drugs are either ill with a disease or dead. I also believe that Big Gov. and Big Phama knows this, but they are not allowed to put a patent on marijuana so they jail people for using it. They destroy peoples lives by jailing peaceful, law abiding, tax paying citizens for smoking a medicinal weed, Now that is TRULY a crime!!!!!

I suggest to New Yorkers that don't want to deal with black market drug dealers to obtain a medicine...grow your own. I did. I did it to avoid shady people and it took up a small place in my home and I grew it for my own use. As yes, I feared that I could get arrested for it...but it was a safe way, and better way to keep myself healthy and worth the risk.

The Government keeps people enslaved for $$$ purposes only.
"We the People will stand United in Peace for the cause of Freedom, No longer giving our power away to be ruled by a criminal minority."
TO THE PEOPLE THROUGH PEACEFUL UNITY, WE ARE FREE WHEN ENOUGH OF US KNOW IT!

I was injured a few years back and had neck surgery. I still to this day, because of other disk issues in my neck, Have to deal with chronic pain. I will not take pain killers because of the effects but have found marijuana, Helps with the pain without the side effects. Can I be prescribed medical Marijuana?

I am prescribed Marinol for HIV/AIDS here in New York state. It's a pharmaceutical made drug (synthetic) and is pure THC mixed with some seame seed oil. Why am allowed THC this way, but not allowed to grow my own plants to harvest THC for cooking from plant material? Marinol is like $1,200.00 a month for my script, I could grow my own THC equivalent for $10/month! This is not fair, its forcing me to overpay for my medicine!