| (Jul. 6, 2004) *On Thursday, talk show host Montel Williams was
in Washington, DC pushing for the use of medicinal marijuana for
qualified patients.
The host of the "Montel Williams Show" beseeched young
congressional staffers and interns to pester their bosses to make
marijuana more widely available to chronic pain sufferers.
"Go back and start looking it up yourself and understand why it is
your bosses are voting against something that will do nothing but
help people,"
pleaded Williams, who has taken marijuana to ease pain since being
diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999.
"I suffer from a debilitating disease that 24 hours a day keeps me
in pain," he winced. "I am in pain right now."
Nine states -- Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine,
Nevada, Oregon and Washington -- allow sick patients to smoke
marijuana with a doctor's recommendation.
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