Ken Unger says he didn't want to be a "morphine addict." He came up with an alternative: Grow marijuana in his home to use medicinally. Unfortunately, Missouri isn't a progressive place willing to let people like, say, a Navy veteran such as Unger, use pot to manage his pain.
Unger told KSHB Channel 41 that he uses marijuana to treat chronic pain caused by an accident during a 1983 tour of duty. Now he's facing felony charges of growing marijuana at his St. Charles home -- but he's not denying the charges.
"Yes, I was growing marijuana, and I was growing it for my own personal
consumption," Unger told the TV station. "I feel like I'm totally
trapped. I'm not allowed to do anything for pain relief other than be a
morphine addict, and I don't want to be a morphine addict."
Unger is getting no sympathy from prosecutors.
"It's illegal. It's flat-out illegal. There's no exception to it," Jack
Banas told KSHB. "We're not a state that has any kind of defense to it
such as a medical defense."
The good news for Unger is that Green Aid, a marijuana legal-action group, is stepping up to help him fight the charges, which could send him to prison for five to 15 years. That'd be a helluva thank you for a man who served his country.
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I personally have died from drinking. Then in a coma for 7 weeks. Has anyone actually heard of a singel person ever dying from marijuana use ? I am seriously considering trying marijuana for my cronic pain. Is that so wrong???
Marijuana has been repeatedly proven to NOT cause cancer, heart disease, brain damage, liver disease, emphysema, or overdoses, and its addictive potential is about on par with coffee. The DEA is 100% misinformed when it calls marijuana "extremely harmful"!
The marijuana prohibition empowers drug dealers and cartels, and makes our children LESS safe! Because of the failings of the prohibition, our children now have easier access to marijuana than to alcohol! We parents have been patient long enough, we must speak up and demand that marijuana be legally sold to adults in gas stations and supermarkets just as beer and wine are today!
We need laws based on logic, not ideology! We need to put an end to Richard Nixon's marijuana prohibition and Legalize Adult Marijuana Sales!!
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