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Paul S's List: Medical Marijuana Celebrity Quotes

  • Latest News - The Stars Come 'Out'

    • Dangerfield tells of drinking heavily to counter his depression,
      but had better results with marijuana. He writes, "Booze
      is the real culprit in our society. Booze is traffic accidents,
      booze is wife beating. In my life I've seen many doctors and
      psychiatrists, and all of them have told me that I'm better off
      with pot than with booze." Dangerfield now has a doctor's
      recommendation from a California physician to use marijuana medicinally
      for high blood pressure and pain. He cautions against smoking
      on the job, however, saying his comic timing is off while "high"
      and he does not perform under marijuana's influence.

  • On Marijuana | Montel Williams explains medical marijuana to Illinois

    • When someone suggested I try marijuana, I was skeptical. But I also was

      desperate. To my amazement, it worked after the legal drugs had failed.

      Three puffs and within minutes the excruciating pain in my legs subsided. I

      had my first restful sleep in months.

    • In my case, medical marijuana has allowed me to live a productive, fruitful

      life despite having multiple sclerosis. Many thousands of others all over

      this country — less well-known than me but whose stories are just as real —

      have experienced the same thing.


      Here’s what’s shocking: The U.S. government knows marijuana works as a

      medicine. Our government actually provides medical marijuana each month to

      five patients in a program that started about 25 years ago but was closed to

      new patients in 1992. One of the patients in that program, Florida

      stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld, was a guest on my show two years ago. If

      federal officials come to town to tell you there’s no evidence marijuana is

      a safe, effective medicine, know this: They’re lying, and they know it.

  • US: Web: Transcript: Melissa Etheridge's Anthem of Hope

    • Etheridge: I decided instead of signing up for the drugs that-well,
      there's the drug that you take for the pain.  But that constipates
      you.  So, you have to take the constipation drug.  But then that
      actually gives you diarrhea.  So, you need a little diarrhea drug. 
      Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a
      natural route and smoke marijuana.Phillips: Medicinal marijuana.



      Etheridge: Medicinal marijuana.  Absolutely.  Every doctor I talked to
      that I asked about it said that's the best thing to do.  The doctors know.



      Phillips: You spoke to your doctors about using marijuana?



      Etheridge: Oh, yeah.  From the surgeons to the oncologists to the
      radiation.  Every single one was, "Oh, yeah.  That's the best help for
      the effects of chemotherapy."

  • US: Wire: Etheridge: I Used Medical Marijuana

    • "Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a
      natural route and smoke marijuana," Etheridge says in an interview to air
      Sunday on "Dateline NBC" ( 7 p.m.  EDT ).



      When asked how her doctors reacted, Etheridge says, "Every single one was,
      'Oh, yeah.  That's the best help for the effects of chemotherapy.'"



      The singer said she smoked marijuana every day for her pain and symptoms
      and "the minute I didn't feel it, I stopped."

  • Drug Policy Alliance: Ram Dass: Longtime Spiritual Leader, Opponent of the 'War on Drugs'

    • First of all, I use medical marijuana for my stroke…to control spastic movements, and for pain. These are my legal reasons for using. But that’s the minor use of it. More important, I use marijuana because the stroke captures my consciousness—and I use it to free my consciousness from the stroke. I use it to free my words.
    • It has helped me quiet down the spasticity and the pain. It’s also given me a perspective toward the stroke that’s spiritual. I haven’t found many doctors who understand that medical marijuana is good for people who have had strokes, although there are data that show it has been good for stroke victims, because it’s good for brain function. I’ve had to fight my way against doctors to use medical marijuana.
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  • ABC News: Drew Carey: Medical Marijuana Pitchman

    • "I think it's clear by now that the federal government needs to reclassify marijuana," Carey says in the video. "People who need it should be able to get it safely and easily."

  • E! News - Drew Carey Shares His Pipe Dreams

    • "I think it's clear by now that the federal government needs to reclassify marijuana," Carey, standing in a gas station parking lot, says in closing. "If that bothers you, it if makes you nervous that people are out there using marijuana to ease their pain, drive down to any old gas station in America like this one, buy yourself a nice, cold brew and pop the top. They really take the edge off."

  • Dana Rohrabacher - Medical Marijuana ProCon.org

    • "If the voters have seen to it and a doctor agrees, it's a travesty for the government to intercede... to get in the way of someone using something to alleviate their suffering. This is something that should be left to the states as American tradition dictates."

  • Bill Maher - celebstoner

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    • "Prescription drugs are the real killer in this country. When you hear a
      lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they
      do not want a drug-free America. They want an America free of the drugs
      that are their competition: Marijuana, which never killed anybody.

  • Myths about Medical Marijuana, by Joycelyn Elders, ex U.S. Surgeon General

    • It is simply wrong for the sick and suffering to be casualties in the
      war on drugs. Let's get rid of the myths and institute sound
      public-health policy.

  • Medical Uses of Marijuana

    • According to Dr. Jocelyn Elders, MD. In the Providence Journal (2004), : "The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS -- or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day."

  • Marijuana: West Hollywood Passes "Lowest Priority" Resolution | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)

    • "We've seen that marijuana use is certainly no more dangerous and destructive than alcohol use," Duran said. "The whole 'reefer madness' hysteria has worn thin."
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