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06-08-2006, 01:49 PM
TRENTON, N.J. — Television personality Montel Williams plans to tell a New Jersey senate panel on Thursday how marijuana relieves his chronic pain caused by multiple sclerosis, and wil urge New Jersey lawmakers to enact medical marijuana laws as 11 other states already have done.
Williams, 49, who was diagnosed with MS seven years ago, said he turned to marijuana to relieve debilitating knee and foot pain after trying Oxycontin and a variety of other drugs to no avail.
Williams, a registered medical marijuana user in California, said he became an activist pushing for medical marijuana laws after being stopped at a Detroit airport by an Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms officer for carrying drug paraphernalia. The charge later was dropped.
"For me, marijuana eases the pain in my feet — on a scale of 1 to 10, brings it from a 6 down to a 4 and keeps it there — makes it manageable so I can deal with the rest of my day," said Williams. "Why should it not be available?"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198520,00.html
Williams, 49, who was diagnosed with MS seven years ago, said he turned to marijuana to relieve debilitating knee and foot pain after trying Oxycontin and a variety of other drugs to no avail.
Williams, a registered medical marijuana user in California, said he became an activist pushing for medical marijuana laws after being stopped at a Detroit airport by an Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms officer for carrying drug paraphernalia. The charge later was dropped.
"For me, marijuana eases the pain in my feet — on a scale of 1 to 10, brings it from a 6 down to a 4 and keeps it there — makes it manageable so I can deal with the rest of my day," said Williams. "Why should it not be available?"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198520,00.html