[420 Girl]

Arresting the ill for trying to alleviate their afflictions should be offensive to us all, regardless of political affiliations.

Numerous prestigious medical organizations support legal medical marijuana access for the seriously ill, including the American Public Health Association, the American Nurses Association, the Illinois Nurses Association, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Studies have shown that marijuana relieves debilitating symptoms including nausea, appetite loss and severe pain. It has been shown to increase the chances that HIV/AIDs and hepatitis C patients will stay on life-saving medications.

Despite the overwhelming practical argument for medicinal marijuana, there is a strong philosophical argument for it as well.

What right does the government have to tell these sick adults what substances they can use to heal themselves? All these patients ask is to be left alone, to live and let live, and for the government to allow consenting adults to make their own decisions.

Legislating lifestyle and micromanaging medicine is not the American way. A significant policy change is long overdue.

Please support Senate Bill 1381, the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act.

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