Grow my own?

Something I feel that needs to be published LOUD AND CLEAR... How can people discriminate against someone because of the medicine that helps them?  I mean...

If I needed morphine, and my doctor agreed, I would NOT be allowed to grow the poppies that my medicine will come from.  I would not need to find a place that would allow me to grow my own medicine.  I would not have to reimburse someone what they are out for raising it for me.  I would not have to be COMPLETELY responsible for my medicine, yet this is what I am expected to do in Montana under Senator Essman's advice.

Why am I writing this? Because I am not able to grow a plant.  Really.  I've killed a cactus - and it wasn't from over- or under-watering!  Plants and I have a love-hate relationship.  I love plants and they hate it when I come near them.  I wish I were exaggerating.  Let me share with you an experiment my husband and I conducted...

We have a nice little house.  In front of our home, we both decided to plant some bulbs and have a wonderful spring garden.  Our order arrived and we each took one side of the front yard and planted our bulbs per directions from the nursery.  My husband's flowers have been BEAUTIFUL for years.

My flowers haven't come up.  The only thing that has come up are two bulbs - a tulip and a grape hyacinth - planted after they were broken apart.  I put them in the ground hoping they might grow one day but expecting nothing from them.  They have grown and flourished.  The other flowers I planted?  Nothing.  I can't even tell they were even there!  Anyone who pulls up to our home sees the beautiful flowers my husband planted.  My side of the house? EMPTY.  Dead.  Sad...

I feel that sorrow, especially when one is told, "YOU MUST GROW YOUR OWN MEDICINE."

Now, I am an intelligent woman, I know a little about a lot of things.  However, I do NOT have a degree in chemistry or horticulture and I will be the first to say when I don't know something.  I KNOW I am NOT ABLE to grow or produce the MEDICINE I NEED.  I need someone who can grow the cannabis for me. I don't have much money but I will pay for what I use - I do NOT expect someone to give me something like this!  I am NOT a person who is ENTITLED to anything other than the rights recognized by the government - the right to LIFE, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

Those rights are being taken from me in the actions of our state legislature and the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration.  I fear my caregiver will be raided.  I fear my caregiver will lose the ability to grow and provide my medication.  This fear is something I wake up with every morning.

Please help those in your community by standing up to the government and saying, "BE REASONABLE!"  I am so disappointed that fear-mongering has caused an issue that has saved my life to become something that has so many untruths and falsehoods associated with it.  Please research the TRUTH, find FACTS, and PUBLISH THEM for all to read!  Write to your paper and tell them how you feel.  Stand with those of us who need medicinal cannabis and pray you'll never need a medicine like this.  When you need it, it won't be there unless you speak up and demand to be heard!

Sorry for all the capital letters - I am getting off my soapbox for now!