What impact has the DEA had on Medicinal cannabis or medical marijuana?

Medicinal cannabis

Arrest and harassment in the 1980's and Beyond.

In this section I mentioned parents having to go underground for medicine for their children. It should be said sometimes the situation is reversed. A caring parent said this about the risk, "I was very uncomfortable getting my son involved,". His son said this about the matter "When he told me he was using cannabis, I think he expected it to be a bigger deal for me," and added "But it opened my eyes to what he was going through." (1 )

Make no mistake this is a war on Americans and their families. On with the body count.

Cancer Sufferer, and medicinal cannabis user Lynn Pierson, died eight months after the New Mexico legislature promised to help him meet his legitimate medical needs. He never received any legal Marijuana due to Federal interference(2 ).

"Brownie Mary" ( Mary Rathbun ) was arrested in July 1992 for baking cannabis laced brownies for AIDS patients. The governments case began to unravel, leaving only a misdemeanor possession charge. This was dropped on Dec 15 because according to Gene Tunney it would be too costly to prosecute(3).

Paralyzed Chris Woilderski tried to get FDA approval for medicinal use of cannabis, he said about his experience "FDA officials lied to me and my doctor" he also said " The bureaucrats gave me the red-tape run around. My Senators were useless. The Bush administration simply killed the compassionate IND program and ignored my pleas for help"(4 ).

Tim Braun said "To someone with AIDS marijuana can be the difference between living and dying. I'm attached to a morphine pump, but the Bush administration won't let me have legal access to medical marijuana. That's crazy" he continued "They've given me a death sentence." shortly after saying this he died(5 ).

Post Millennium harassment

Medical cannabis advocate Grant Krieger was convicted of drug trafficking for providing cannabis to the disabled, his reaction to this, made him say he was "ashamed to be Canadian"(6 ).

Two men were sentenced to prison, one for 21 years (Oliver W. Wanger) and 20 years for the other (Ricardo Ruiz Montes) for their part in running a Modesto California medical-marijuana operation. Modesto attorney Robert Forkner, who represented Montes, said "This is a sad day for all California voters and citizens who approved Proposition 215 by an overwhelming majority," he also said. "Mr. Scarmazzo and Mr. Montes do not deserve 20 years in prison for operating a legally licensed business."(7 ).