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I just hope that marijuana legalization will never happen, I just hope that people will understand once and for all that such efforts have been already made in other areas and they didn't have the success we all hoped for. We don't need more people in drug detox and legalizing marijuana would bring significant bad effects.

I was diagnosed with hepatitis c when i was 15, I had a botched blood transfusion when i was born in the mid eighties...Fortunatly there was a treatment made available around that time 8 yrs ago. The treatment consisted of interfuron injections and a antiviral pill i had to take everyday...this treatment was the equivalent of chemo meaning that i was horribly sick everyday for a yr. In order to function normally I smoked pot everyday and at the end of the treatment the virus was gone...In 2001 the success rate for this treatment was less than 20%...now 5 yrs after i completed the treatment i am still negative for the virus meaning im cured...Recently a study came out that showed marijuana increases the success rate of the hep c treatment by almost 50%...How can we deny people a medicine that improves quality of life for soo many sick people and now is proven to increase the effectiveness for a diesease that silently effects 4 million people in the US today...Kurt seems to think that the ability to help cure millions is a "bad effect" which makes me think he's a moron who has no real understanding of marijuana or the releif it provides millions of people...read a book kurt dont always beleive what the gov. tells you.