A 60-year old registered nurse from Missouri says the state ought to permit medical marijuana because she has seen it work.
Delores Halbin told KMBC TV Thursday she supports the plan to put a medical marijuana law on the 20116 Missouri ballot.
“It’s not a narcotic, it’s not an opiate…and it works,”Halbin said.
She says her husband suffers from a severe case of glaucoma.
Regular treatments did not help him much according to his wife.
When he started smoking marijuana, his wife said, the effect were almost immediate.
“He did not have to lay face down into a pillow,” said Halbin.
She says he was able to get up take walks and “have a life”.
Today advocates of medical marijuana filed petitions to put the issue to a statewide vote in 2016.
The group, New Approach Missouri, will have to gather the signatures of about 160,00 registered Missouri voters from across the state. The petitions need to be turned in by early May of 2016.
The plan is supported by the group, Show-Me Cannibus.
Earlier the group backed another proposal calling for complete legalization of the drug in Missouri.
Amber Iris Langston, a Show- me Cannibus member, says that remains a goal, but the group saw polling numbers indicating more support for a medical marijuana plan.
“We didn’t want to wait another year to help those patients,” she said
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