Joel Peacock, 57, Buffalo

"I'm a Conservative Party member who was forced to retire from my job as a construction project manager due to the chronic, severe pain I have from a 2001 car accident. Every month, I use thousands of dollars of prescription pain medicines that offer me little relief. And, my wife is unable to retire because without her insurance, I wouldn't be able to afford my medicine. I know medical marijuana could work at least as effectively as the medications I now take. I tried it once when I was unable to access my prescriptions. Please give me and thousands of other suffering New Yorkers the legal option of the relief that medical marijuana can offer us."

 If you are a New Yorker, please write your state senator in support of allowing medical marijuana here or call him or her here.

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