Small Missouri village legalizes medical marijuana
To show you medical marijuana can and should be accepted even in the smallest towns across America. When it comes to pain and medicine, it is time to look past these abolitionist ideas and promote a healthy and safe life style even for those who choose to use cannabis.
A small southwest Missouri village has passed an ordinance to allow the use of medical marijuana.
Mayor Joe Blundell said Cliff Village, with a population of about four dozen, wanted to show grass-roots support for Missouri to legalize medical marijuana as 13 other states have.
“This is symbolism, pure and simple,” Blundell told The Kansas City Star for a story published Tuesday. “I would like to be the brave one who grows the first plant, but they’ve built a lot of cages for the people who stick their necks out.”
It takes courage to fight for medical marijuana.
Cliff Village’s ordinance allows someone with a doctor’s approval to possess a few ounces of marijuana and grow a few plants.
Cliff Village passed the ordinance on Feb. 1 by a 3-2 vote. The mayor’s father was one of the council members to back him.
Columbia passed a similar ordinance in 2004.
All Americans should be able to have safe access to medical marijuana for whatever they need to alleviate.
The 30-year-old mayor said his interest medical marijuana comes from a painful past injury from a train accident that left him in a wheelchair.
“When I got introduced to this flower, it not only alleviated my pain, it got me out gardening,” Blundell said. “I’m not just stoning myself out. It allowed me to function.”
More and more people report what medical marijuana users have known for years, the plant can help those who have health problems or issues, to live a better, more productive and pain free life.