Op-ed: Why medical marijuana? Because it may be the answer

• I want medicine to help patients with inflammatory conditions like Crohns disease.

• I want a better medicine to treat patients with cancer. I want a medicine to help treat the pain and injury endured by our veterans.

• I want a medicine that will not kill patients if they accidentally take a few pills too much.

Medicinal marijuana may be the answer.

I carefully studied the current studies, met with the researchers themselves face to face over the past two years and I have had independent examiners look at the existing…