As the founder of Montana Pain Management Inc a for-profit cannabis company I would like you to go to our website and see how a properly structured cannabis clinic can work in any community and be a positive influence.
We employee 15 people at livable wage jobs, we have a disabled OIF 3 veteran who is our Vetrans rep who assist's injured and disabled vets with accessing their medical card and providing assistance with PTSD related issues.
We also are a Medicade spend-down approved provider working with the office of Public Assistance to provide those most disadvantaged with safe access.
If a company is willing to be GAAP standard on accounting and transparent with records a cannabis company can provide many suffering people with the ability to have safe access to medical grade marijuana.
Feel free to contact me at rick@montanapm.com
Sincerely
Rick Rosio
Montana Pain Management Inc
2311 3rd Street
Missoula, Mt. 59802
www.montanapm.com
406.728.5297

Why should anybody be surprised at this outcome? The war on drugs is a tale of a once great and free nation which fell down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world riddled with peculiar and dystopian logic.

No amount of money, police powers, weaponry, wishful thinking or pseudo-science will make our streets safe again; only an end to prohibition can do that. How much longer are we willing to foolishly risk our own survival by continuing to ignore the obvious, historically confirmed solution?

If we continue to support prohibition then we're doing nothing but helping evolve local gangs into transnational enterprises with intricate power structures that reach into every corner of society, controlling vast swaths of territory with significant social and military resources at their disposal.

The advocates of coerced conformity who argue that everyone must not smoke pot may justify their tyranny under democratic cover of majority rule. Would they change their tune if potheads became the majority and coerced conformity against them that everyone must smoke pot?

When you consider some of the side effects of drugs advertised on TV, many for simple problems like having a hard time falling asleep or being nervious when speaking to a group of people. Then you look at marijuana, which is non toxic and impossible to overdose on. And you ask yourself, why are the more dangerous drugs being sold and the less dangerous illegal? It all has to do with corporate profits and lobbyist. Marijuana prohibition is a failed policy that bankrupt states can no longer afford. The public is starting to catch on. If 10% of alcohol drinkers switch to only marijuana, there would be a noticable decline in traffic fatalities and domestic violence in America.

Cannabis (marijuana) was only demonized and criminalized within this past century. Hemp was promoted and grown actively by our country and farmers prior to that. The prohibition was the mistake. Legalizing would simply be correcting that error.

The only possible valid argument against cannabis is that it is a Gateway drug. First off, that's still shooting the messenger, per se, (akin to banning cars since people use them as Gateways to dangerous activities,) but more importantly, that is only true because it is illegal. Legalizing the stuff would resolve the complaint altogether.

Those who need further reason to leave people alone with their choices might consider this: If it were made legal, cannabis would most certainly become taxed once legalized. The money would result in income for threadbare budgets.

People are going to smoke the stuff one way or the other. Our government has better things to do than to try to regulate morality. Decriminalize the plant already!

Here in California we enjoy "de facto" legalization. Marijuana doctors recommend marijuana for a wide range of symptoms. My wife tried marijuana on the advice of her pain doctor (back and neck damage from a auto accident many years ago.).

For us, marijuana has been something of a godsend. My wife is now much more mobile and is able to enjoy life much more.

We aren't kids (we're in our sixties) and my wife only uses marijuana at home. We grow several plants on our patio that we harvest every few months.

If you just met my wife you would have no idea that she is a marijuana patient and, in fact, no one but our closest friends have any ideo that my wife uses medical marijuana.

Until a couple of years ago, we had no real opinion on marijuana legalization. Now we do everything we can to support legalization efforts. Marijuana be an ancient medicine but that doesn't mean that it doesn't work.

I wish Texas would get medicinal cannabis laws soon because we have so many sick people here that would benefit from cannabis. I fear a lot of Texas's are stuck in the dark ages when it comes to common since about cannabis, but we will see

All of the prohibitionists’ arguments boil down to a single point: If my child gets a little off track and starts using marijuana, the prohibitionists want to put them in PRISON or have them pay the so-called "treatment" industry. Prison is not good for my kids or for yours, and it’s much worse than the effects of marijuana, so we can pretty well disregard all of the prohibitionist nonsense about keeping it illegal “to protect the children.” The prohibitionists want to use the threat of prison to keep a steady supply of paying customers. I hope my kids steer clear of marijuana, but I REALLY hope that if they do use a little marijuana, they don't end up in prison and don't have to pay the prohibitionist “treatment” cronies in order to remain free and productive. If you're a California citizen (or if you want to pass this along to any California citizens), and you want to help stop the prohibitionists from putting your kids in jail, register to vote at w w w . sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm Just complete the online form and mail it to the address on the form.

YES, LEGELIZE IT: I have talk with many many law officials past and present HIGH RANKING, and so far NOT ONE OF THEM can show or tell me where anyone who smokes marijuana, WITHOUT using any other drug or alcohol, has commit a crime or done anything DUM...MARIJUANA ONLY RELAXES AND CALMS THE MIND AND BODY (A MELLOW STIMULATION)

Make it legal no matter what. No one ever died from a pot overdose.

Inevitably when anyone speaks out against any law, no matter how bad that law is, someone always says “but it’s illegal” to break the law. The fact is, the drug war and drug prohibition are ILLEGAL. When alcohol was prohibited, that required an amendment to the Constitution to be legal. There has been no such amendment with drug prohibition. I’m pretty sure it was illegal to throw tea in the Boston harbor too but once the founders of this Country got enough of being oppressed that’s exactly what they did.

The Constitutional right to freedom of religion, free speech, a free press, to keep and bear arms, to be secure in your person, house, papers and effects against unreasonable search and seizure, to life, liberty and property, to be protected from having your property taken by the government without due process of law and without just compensation, to confront the witnesses against you, to be protected from excessive bail, excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment, to vote and others have been unjustly denied to millions of Americans in the name of the drug war.

ALL MAJOR AUTHORITIES AGREE THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF DRUG-RELATED VIOLENT CRIME IS CAUSED BY THE PROHIBITION AGAINST DRUGS, RATHER THAN THE DRUGS THEMSELVES. THIS WAS THE SAME SITUATION WHICH WAS TRUE DURING ALCOHOL PROHIBITION. ALCOHOL PROHIBITION GAVE RISE TO A VIOLENT CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER DRUG PROHIBITION HAS.

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Nothing should be left to the black market. As a Capitalist, I hate to see and hear about money being thrown around untraced in a violent sub culture of crime, ultimately going to other countries where the dealers don't have to pay taxes on it; thus not filtering back into our economy. The Black market should not be allowed to exist. Our current laws create the crime we have, why not simply take it all to the legal side and let law enforcement keep it safe like everything else. It's obvious we cant get rid of it (it being currently illegal drugs).with our current strategy. lets try something new.

many western states have it as a medical option for chronically ill: it is widespread in the area I live so as a community standard, why not let free market moderate prices to cut the criminal element, esp , theft to cover costs or trade for it?