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February 10, 2008
Ex-WI Congressman Mark Green learning as ambassador to Tanzania
Posted by Gary Storck
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Long-time readers of this blog may remember how medical cannabis activists, including yours truly, dogged former Wisconsin congressman and anti medical cannabis zealot Mark Green in his 2006 campaign for Wisconsin governor. Green’s lack of compassion for sick and dying Wisconsinites who need medical cannabis received media attention statewide. When the votes were counted, Gov. Jim Doyle, who has promised to sign mmj legislation if it reaches his desk, was returned to office for another four years.
George Bush later appointed Green US ambassador to Tanzania. I found his assignment apt, for a man who obviously had closed his mind to so much suffering. By being ambassador to Tanzania, he was assured of having to deal with a nation and a continent facing a virtual AIDS pandemic.
Here is how Green himself put it, from an AP article about Green. Sunday 2/10/08 -- AP -- Green not ruling out return to politics after ambassadorship ends:
"Before I arrived here, I couldn't have imagined how this touches every single Tanzanian," he said of the autoimmune disease."I have not yet met a Tanzanian who does not know someone who is HIV-positive or does not know someone who has lost a loved one because of AIDS. It is a cost to every community. It has weakened the generation that would normally be the income-producing leaders in society. It's a huge challenge."
Now, if he could only open his mind to cannabis as an essential treatment for AIDS, from appetite stimulation and pain relief to helping patients tolerate the anti AIDS drug cocktails used to fight HIV. And for patients far from a pharmacy, cannabis can be grown locally. It might be the only medicine isolated African AIDS patients are finding in some cases.
Only time will tell...
Posted by Gary at February 10, 2008 10:41 PM
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