Dylan Mahoney, North Tonawanda
"I'm a deaf Irish-American originally from California. I had syphilis at birth, and growing up my hearing slowly diminished until about the age 18 when I went completely deaf. Unfortunately, many serious health conditions have accompanied my diminished hearing including vertigo, dizziness, a lack of balance and equilibrium, chronic body pain in all of my joints, gout, arthritis, PTSD, sleep apnea, and asthma. I first tried medical marijuana in California in 1996, and for the first time in my life I felt like my body was in control in a state bearable enough to allow me to do my basic daily functions. From 2003 on, I was a registered patient in Oregon, and was able to use medical marijuana to help me with all of my ailments and to make me feel somewhat normal again. Medical marijuana tincture was particularly helpful for my severe arthritis pain and gout, and it also helped make all the other medications I must take more tolerable.
I have now moved to New York, and I cannot currently use the only medicine that allows me to comfortably live. Where is the justice when Oregon state law protects me even while New York will arrest me for treating myself with a very safe medicine? New York legislators, I already have a doctor willing to recommend medical marijuana to me — please allow me to use the medicine I need without fear of arrest."
If you are a New Yorker, please write your state legislators in support of allowing medical marijuana.
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