In defense of my vice:

why cannabis is a miracle Plant.

I started a couple years out of High School, It was not something i ever saw myself enjoying. I must say that God's greatest Plant, Momma Ganja is my biggest vice(if you want to call it that.) I was introduced to this vice for the first time when i was around 14 years old, i tried it, and when i inhaled for the first time, I coughed so hard, that i blew chunks in front of all of my friends.. Needless to say, the experience embarrassed me so much that i refused to partake with my friends for the next several years. I found out that i could drink alcohol and avoid getting sick by not drinking too much. I was set on that path for most of my youth.

When i was around 20, i decided to try again with the more natural way of catching a buzz, and i loved it. No more alcohol for me from that day froward. I became a medical marijuana patient in the state of California, under the senate bill 420, and Prop. 215. I was now 24, and suffering from sever gallstones and biliary colic.

I soon began to see the benefits of this "vice" for a lot of my aliments. At this time, i also stopped taking sleeping pills to sleep at night. I thought to myself, this is truly a gift of the gods. soon, i was no longer in need of pain meds to manage my gallstones while i was awaiting my surgery. It was truly amazing.

About a month after i became a Legal patient under state law, i became heavily involved in "the cause." I became the manager of my local marijuana dispensary, and learned the in's and out's of the business. I worked with people from all walks of life, including stage 4 cancer patients, Several people with MS, Terminally ill patients with ailments such as inoperable tumors and such, and even a very famous director, who has a sever case of turrets syndrome, and uses marijuana to control the verbal outbursts, and physical twitches involved with his disease. (he was my favorite, he would smoke a little cannabis, and suddenly the vulgar slurs and distracting grunts and moans that usually would come out of him turned into him whistling a beautiful rendition of Beethoven's symphony #5)

in conclusion, i guess my defense is that my vice provides me with medical relief, peace of mind, a creative outlook on life, and most of all, patience, understanding, and compassion for all living things. I cant say that i've meet many people in bars that have the same results with their use of alcohol. And i can guarantee that it would be like looking for a needle in a hay stack trying to find a user of any other substance that carried the same life values as the average daily cannabis user.