Preparing for Victory

ASA sent me the following and I'm passing it on here to you:

Consider joining us at Preparing for Victory -- April 17-18 in Rhode Island.

http://www.AmericansforSafeAccess.org/PreparingforVictory

Preparing for Victory is a special series of workshops on organizing and advocating for safe access to medical marijuana.

The ASA event will follow the National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics (4/15-4/17), which is organized by Patients Out of Time. If you are already attending the National Clinical Conference, add an extra day for Preparing for Victory.

At the National Clinical Conference, you will learn the science behind medical marijuana. At Preparing for Victory, you will build the political skills for securing safe access.

Early Bird registration deadline -- April 1st!

http://www.AmericansforSafeAccess.org/PreparingforVictory

Thanks -

Sanjeev, ASA Field Director

Personal Note:

I live in chronic pain with migraines, arthritis, bursitis, crooked joints (not the medical term) and a few other problems. I have tried every pain med, muscle relaxant, anti inflametory and migraine medicine on or off label with the full support of my pill pushing western medical doctors and the only one that did any good at taking away the migraines even temporarily almost put me into anaphylactic shock. If medical marijuana were legalized, I could get a tincture to put under my tongue in specified amounts and never have to inhale pot (which can be as dangerous as inhaling any other burnt object, toxins entering your lungs) legal medical marijuana would mean safe access to the only drug that has managed to even break through the kind of pain I live with on a daily basis. It would mean access to a perscription medication that would WORK! I hope you can not understand on a personal level the kind of frustration one who wants to live within the laws of his or her country experiences when he or she can't get safe, legal access to the one medicine they know works.

Please do what you can in your part of the world to make medical marijuana safe. I don't want to be high all the time, but I do want the pain relief. Even if it only meant being able to take a break from teh pain for a day or two here and there, such as on weekends I would be grateful for some relief now and then. Maybe it would mean I could return to work and resume being a productive member of society if I could just get something to break through these migraines and move these aching muscles and joints! I just don't understand why this is not common sense to everyone. A drug that is less detrimental than already legal substances? It's a no brainer.