Parents Coaliton for Rescheduling Medical Cannabis

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

PCRMC Endorses the CARERS Act of 2015

The Parents Coalition for Rescheduling Medical Cannabis endorses the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States Act of 2015, or the CARERS Act of 2015.

This legislation reschedules cannabis to recognize medical uses, respects federalism in drug policy by clarifying the primacy of state laws, removes cannabidiol from the definition of marijuana, provides for comprehensive banking regulations, expands opportunities for much needed research, and enables Veteran’s Affairs health care professionals to provide recommendations regarding veteran participation in state marijuana programs.

The reforms proposed in this bill responsibly and comprehensively represent a significant and much needed step forward in allowing expanded and responsible access to marijuana for legitimate medical purposes.

As the parents of severely ill and/or neurologically impacted children who could be helped by medical cannabis, we are dedicated to advancing safe, legal and viable access. Rescheduling efforts must also guarantee access to whole plant extracts that are already helping patients. We feel it is crucial to support state rights in all current and future medical cannabis programs. Thus, we strongly endorse this bill as it is written.

About the Parents Coalition for Rescheduling Medical Cannabis

We are parents and grandparents of children with epilepsy, autism, cancer and other conditions potentially treatable by therapeutic hemp and medical cannabis. Many of us helped legalize strains in home states only to have our children's access stymied by federal restrictions. In 2014 we joined forces nationally, urging the federal government to remove hemp and cannabis from its list of banned Schedule 1 substances. Rescheduling or other reclassification of these plants would foster patient access and hasten medical research.

To learn more about Parents Coalition for Rescheduling Medical Cannabis and our children see our #stoptheseizures video below.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Cannabis IS Medicine Pictures

What if your child had dozens, maybe hundreds, of seizures a day? You've tried scores of medications but the fits that stop. There is something that might help, a plant, but the only thing standing between it and your child is federal restriction.

We are the Parents Coalition for Rescheduling Medical Cannabis and this is our story. A large part of it, anyhow. Though mostly parents of children with epilepsy, some of our kids have other conditions potentially treatable by medical cannabis such cancer, autism, Crohn's Disease or other bowel issues. We advocate the removal of medical cannabis from the federal government's banned Schedule 1 list to save lives and improve research.

Here you will see pictures of children and adults with debilitating conditions from almost every state in America and several foreign countries. They are being sent as postcards by the thousands to First Lady Michelle Obama from February 9th-February 20th 2015 so they arrive approximately at the same time in an avalanche.

Why the First Lady? In the past we have reached out to the Attorney General, the Health and Human Service Secretary and even the President himself to little response. This time we reach out to the mother figure of America, Michelle Obama, mom to mom. Our message is simple: talk to your husband for us. Ask him to remove whole plant cannabis from Schedule 1 so that patients everywhere can access this healing plant if that's what they and their doctors think best. Our objective: to meet with the First Lady's office to open up dialogue on this issue since she has such keen interest in children's health.

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