Re: what's the most important thing to say at the hemp rally? help me with my speech, folks!

On Apr 21, 8:32 am, medicineso...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
yep... they've asked me to leave the hermitage, my beloved remote
outpost of rainbow ex-central, require from me that i get all dressed
and gussied up and fancy, put on my Tibetan sailing shoes, my activist
speaker sombrero and get up there in the face of all that Babylonian
apathy and ignorance and SAY SOMETHING IMPORTANT!

what can i say? two people out of a crowd of maybe 1000 or more will
probably listen to me...
they say, if you share an idea, and two people get it, and they go
out and share that idea with two people, and so on...

is there time? how much time is this going to take???
i'm sick, i have a disease that's rare, an orphan disease, a killer,
crippler disease that has for ten years and some put me in a world of
pain! it's not going away! it's getting worse! and no one is
researching my disease! no one can tell me how to treat it, there's no
cure in sight... no one famous or important is calling for research,
nothing! nobody even knows the name of my disease! i can't even
remember it, it's so obscure. spon- diddly-osis, or something. so...
in my own extensive research into the championing of lost causes, i
have personally hit on a regimen that at least slows the deterioration
of my bones and nerves, that eases my pain, that actually gives me my
mind back, and my ability to focus, and to employ perspective, and
humor, and even some hope, and some wisdom, i daresay, to my
predicament. part one of the regimen involves prayer, or meditation,
you know, mindfulness, awareness, presence in the moment, just being,
acceptance, nonattachment, breathing in and out slowly, peace...

part two is medication... ooh... you would not believe the gobs and
globs of ooky ooky pills and meds that have been thrown at me by real,
medical doctors for this... everything that's the latest, the newest,
the most modern approach to the management of- nope- not the disease,
i've told you already, there's nothing for it... but the good doctors
are compassionate... they want to manage my pain, at least they tell
me these nice little pills are going to alleviate at least some of my
pesky symptoms so i won't hardlyeven notice my disease... i won't
freak out because there are anti- anxiety pills i can take...oops but
watch out, not too many they can be habit forming you know... and pain
pills... don't take too many, you'll get ulcers, but then again, don't
wait til the pain gets outrageous cause then the pain meds don't work
all that well...
anti depressants... well, taking them may be associated with thoughts
of suicide and liver damage, but what the heck... who wants to be
depressed? five years after i started taking antidepressants several
thousand of my fellow serazone users got involved in a class action
suit and no doubt they are extremely depressed about the irrevocable
damage to their vital organs... so.... no no no no i don't take pills
no mo....

raise your hand if you can guess the name of my medicine of choice?
the gentlest, oldest natural remedy of choice for what ails me? say it
with me...
MARRY! WANNA?

can we? how long? i'm sick... and i'm tired of waiting for me ganja.
i'm tired of being marginalised and laughed at and made into a cheech
and chong because i take a stand for the end of a law that oppresses
me and millions of other people.

How many of you believe there's valid medical uses for marijuana...
have you talked to anyone with ms lately, or who's dying of cancer or
AIDS? Or who lives with chronic pain 24 /7?
And how many of you are convinced that there's another piece of this
puzzle... you know the little problem we've just started to notice
we're having with pollution and global warming, the need we have for
fast, easy to grow biofuels that could save all the struggling family
farms, and maybe the planet, before its too late???
ARE YOU LISTENING?

DO YOU FEEL ME< OFFICER SHERPA? DO YOU HEAR ME< LEGISLATORS?
ARe you awake and aware fellow citizens?

LEGALISE IT! DECRIM IN 2008! GET THE U*MASS MEDICAL RESEARCH UP AND
RUNNING! FREE THE MARIJUANA PRISONERS! FREE THE MARIJUANA!

I don't know if this will help with your speech much, but here's a bit
of my own history with pot. At 7 years of age I developed asthma and
lived with it through out my childhood. At 15 my older brothers
turned me on and on one occasion while at my oldest brothers place I
became stoved-up. With an asthma attack coming on and I had forgotten
to bring my medication, my brother hands me a joint and tells me to
smoke the whole thing by myself, which I cheerfully abliged. Some
time later on after I had finished the joint, my brother asks how I'm
doing, with regard to the attack. And I had forgotten all about it
till he mentioned it. The asthma attack had past. I'm not suggesting
anyone with asthma should do the same, I'm just telling my experience.
Anyhow I had a real tough time through my teens knowing that pot
relieves my asthma, but its illegal. What did become evident is that
it would also cause an attack if I over did it. So marijuana became a
true medicine for me. It never failed to relieve an attack if it
wasn't the cause. I've not had an attack for over 10 years now so
maybe I've out-grown it, but my doctor says I'm still clinically
asthmatic. If I should ever experience an asthma attack again you can
rest assured I will get me some pot and take care of business myself.
The medication I was prescribed didn't always work, so what's the
point. I can honestly say "marijuana never failed me".

Chuck

PS Looking back I believe I was blessed, with the knowlegde of truth.

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