Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

October 29, 2007

Montana resident Robin Prosser suffered for decades from unbearable pain caused by an immunosuppressive disorder. A former concert pianist and highly paid systems analyst, Robin was left bed-ridden and penniless, confined in her apartment because she couldn't stand the sunlight.

Like many others who suffer from chronic pain, Prosser benefited from the medical use of marijuana.
In 2004, Montana passed a Medical Marijuana Act, but the following year the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could ignore state laws and arrest both sick people who use marijuana and doctors who approve its use.

In March, federal agents seized a package containing less than an ounce of marijuana sent to Prosser by her caregiver. Jeff Sweetin, the DEA special agent responsible for the seizure, claimed the federal government had the duty of ?protecting people from their own state laws.?

Condemned by such federal ?protection? to ever-escalating, unbearable pain, Robin Prosser took her own life on October 18.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.