Federal Marijuana Program
There is a little known federal program that allows and sends marijuana to patients for medical reasons. This program has been in effect since 1973. It came into being when a patient won a court case because cannabis was the only medicine that could control his glaucoma.
Shortly after the program started people began petitioning to become part of it, with a high number of fourteen participants at one time. At this time there are only four left because the program stopped taking new members back in 1992, under Bush Sr.’s “War on Drugs”.
One of the remaining participants is an outspoken pod advocate named Elvy Musikka. The federal government has supplied her and the other participants of the program high-grade marijuana for years. She also uses the drug for glaucoma and is completely pain-free.
She has been known to criticize those against the program and pot legalization in general. They don’t acknowledge that it is a highly effective drug. She has stated that she doesn’t even have “an aspirin” in her home.
All of the weed for the program is grown at the University of Mississippi. This is where all the pot for federal research is grown, stored and effects studied. It is of the highest grade.
The National Institute of Drug Abuse is the agency that runs the program. The AP (Associated Press) asked them for data about how much marijuana the program had given out over the years and they supplied what they could. Data before 2005 have been destroyed, but the documentation given stated that between 2005 and 2011 the program had given out 584 pounds of weed. This would have a street value of approximately $500,000.
The program sends the herb in the form of cigarettes from a high security lab in North Carolina, which can be used as is or used in the patients preferred form (such as vaporized). They are sealed in metal tins.
While Musikka is legally able to have more marijuana than the others because she is also part of Oregon’s State Program the other three participants who live in Iowa and Florida are not. These states do not have medical marijuana programs and therefore this is the only way they can receive it.
The four remaining participants in the Federal Program are all highly active and vocal in trying to legalize pot for medical use. They are afraid that when they are gone the government will try to sweep the program under the rug and forget about it like a dirty little secret in its history.