| From Rebecca
A letter written to Tommy and Shelby Chong,
I want to share with you the saddest day in my life. I am heartbroken. My youngest child, my beautiful daughter died earlier this morning of cirrhosis of the liver.
Unknown to me, she contacted hepatitis C when getting a cheap tattoo as a teenager. This was dormant until a year and a half ago ....she came down with a rare disease and was paralyzed from the waist down, and gradually came out of it over the following year. However, during this time of regenerating her nerves in her legs and feet, she was in extreme pain. She is not and was not a drug user. No medication from the doctors could relive the pain in her legs and feet.
I suggested that she try marijuana to help with the pain she had...but because of the stigma of being a drug, she did not want to use marijuana.
Her pain in her legs an feet was unbearable, so she resorted to drinking Vodka as a pain medication. I knew she was drinking to relive the pain;
However, I didn't realize the extent. I also, being a bit naive, did not know that a person with cirrhosis of the liver cannot drink.
I am devastated at the loss of my daughter. Why is alcohol legal if it kills people, when marijuana is illegal and it may help people relive pain?
I cannot believe my loss, my daughter was the world to me.
Please help me make this point!
From Rebecca
I cried when I read this, knowing so many in the same position. Yet I cannot even imagine Rebecca's pain.
I have been in clubs where one hit on a joint has stopped people shaking so bad they could not hold on to it without help.
To keep this plant illegal is evil plain and simple.
I am so angry now, I am just going to go outside and howl. | 
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