By Phil Riske, managing editor | Rose Law Group Reporter
“C’mon, man” is a popular phrase used in sports when something is seen as a screw up. With that in mind, we turn to The Arizona Republic Editorial Board, which recently opined patients’ statements about the benefits of medical marijuana use are “subjective and unprovable assertion(s).”
Just when we thought we were past the notion marijuana use is a front row ticket to heroin hell, the editorial board attempts to take us back to Haight Ashbury by headlining its piece: “Cheech and Chong would love Arizona’s medical-pot law.”
C’mon, man
The board writes “medical marijuana laws are more about normalizing a recreational drug than getting medical treatment to sick people.”
C’mon, man! There are hundreds and hundreds of testimonials from patients and physicians as to the palliative effects of cannabis on everything from back pain to nausea from chemotherapy to chronic hiccups.
Does alcohol ease the pain of post-traumatic stress disorder?
The Republic harped about abuses in Arizona’s medical marijuana program. If there is abuse in the system, it is because of the clubs and caregivers police refuse to shut down or arrest.
Is alcohol abused? C’mon, man.
Attorney Ryan Hurley, director of the Rose Law Group Medical Marijuana Dept. and a nationally recognized advocate for medical marijuana, reminds us of the 5-year- old Mesa boy with life threatening epilepsy and was one more surgery away from death or coma is finally recognizing his grandparents and walking normally for the first time ever thanks to medical marijuana. He is and now seizure free.
Hurley is blunt (pun intended) in his statement about the newspaper’s position on medical marijuana: “The editorial board should go tell [the Mesa boy’s] parents —his Mormon conservative parents — that they are a Cheech and Chong joke and see how they feel after that.”
Right on, man!
