20 Years Using Uncle Sam's Medical Marijuana
a Press Advisory from Irvin Rosenfeld
(contact information below)
posted at DrugWar.com Nov. 15, 2002
November 20, 2002 will mark the twentieth
anniversary of my use of medical
Cannabis provided by the federal government. This is the longest
period of the seven living American medical patients who now receive
medical marijuana from the federal government.
I have had a very successful career as an
award-winning stockbroker and a rewarding, high quality of life.
That life would have been utterly impossible without my use of
this medicine. I would have been unable to serve my clients and
contribute to my community and the economy. Indeed, I would have
been an enormous economic drain, consuming vast quantities of
medical resources -- if I were to have survived this many years.
As the use of marijuana to treat disease
remains a matter of intense nationwide controversy, I will hold
a PRESS CONFERENCE at 10 a.m., Nov. 20 at the Coastal Towers,
2400 East Commercial Blvd., Suite 708, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
(Southeast corner of Commercial and Federal Highways).
I suffer from multiple
congenital cartilaginous exostosis, a variant of the syndrome
pseudo pseudo hypo parathyroidism. To treat this rare condition,
I have had to smoke 10-12 Cannabis cigarettes daily for thirty-one
years (the last twenty years exclusively supplied by Uncle Sam).
This experience gives me a unique perspective on a timely subject.
I will also make predictions on the future of medical marijuana.
I will able to answer almost any question:
from how the government program began to where it is today; how
my disease developed and the failure of conventional medicine
to control it; my legal fight to obtain a legal source of Cannabis;
my participation in the litigation to change the federal scheduling
of Cannabis; to the fact that I get no euphoric effect from Cannabis
-- I have never gotten high.
A key point is that there are terrible obstacles
for legitimate medical patients in the use of a medicine that
scientific research has found has value. These obstacles apply
to medical patients such as myself, whose treatment with marijuana
is completely recognized by the Federal and Florida governments,
and to patients whose treatments are not yet recognized by the
Federal government. For example, my ability to travel interstate
has been obstructed by the illegal prejudice against my legal
medicine by interstate carriers such as Delta
Airlines, which I am suing.
As a stockbroker, I will also explain the
economic considerations that have contributed to the unavailability
of medical grade marijuana to the hundreds of thousands of very
seriously ill persons who would benefit from it.
Contact me at 954-722-1919
or cell 954-536-9011
or email at skipperirv@aol.com.
