>>>”“Why aren’t Georgia Legislators listening?” After working in marijuana reform for more than 20 years, I’d be surprised if it was a reason much different from the resistance we have always encountered in every state. Because police and prosecutors build their careers and empires on the fraudulent marijuana prohibition. Because industries like alcohol and pharmaceuticals don’t want the competition. Because other interests like the drug treatment/testing industry and the prison industries depend on it for their life’s blood. Because many banks and shaky corporations couldn’t exist without the laundered money. Because corrupt politicians, like Richard Nixon, use the insane war on marijuana consumers to oppress and prevent community organizing of minorities and progressive groups. The billions of dollars made by drug gangs have not been buried in the ground. They are invested in legitimate business, creating more powerful support of this war on Americans. Add to these all the ancillary industries that sell to or service the above groups, and you begin to understand the enormity of the greed-driven resistance. Thank goodness we are overcoming even this massive resistance. – That’s the power of the truth and dedicated, courageous reformers!
I am a 43 yr old male who has been disabled with horrific chronic lower back pain due to an injury at work 14 yrs ago. I have had 12 back surgeries which have left me w/ more pain instead of getting better. I am currently taking 250 mcg Fentanyl every 48 hrs w/ little pain relief. I write all this to ask when our legislatures are going to finally listen to the voters and let us vote on real Medical Cannabis opportunities, unlike what we currently have which offers no Ga cultivation or ability to purchase legally from a dispensary. I am forced to take opiates, which no longer work due to tolerance, w/out another alternative! Even my pain management Dr. tells me that Cannabis would greatly improve my pain and quality of life. Wake up politicians and do the correct and compassionate thing and DEMAND that all Georgians’ have access to Medical Cannabis cultivated in Ga. I am a lifelong Republican and I can tell you that most disabled and the elderly want/need access to Medical Cannabis choice. Let us the voters decide!!!
I would hope that at least some of those who said “NO” did so because they object to the notion of balancing the government’s budget on the backs of marijuana users, producers and distributors. That would have been the way I would have answered it.
