I never thought I'd say this....

....but kudos to Montel Williams for stepping out and admitting that he has to use marijuana to control his pain from MS and wants to see it legalized for medical use.

Mr. President, I am not alone. Tens of thousands of Americans, your citizens, make this daily choice. They are people like me who suffer from pain and spasms from MS, wasting from AIDS and cancer, and from numerous other symptoms. Because of medical marijuana, those of us with chronic or life-threatening illnesses have emerged from the haze of narcotic-based or morphine-like painkillers and other toxic medications to continue being productive citizens.

For people like me who have been through the gamut of FDA-approved drugs with no relief, marijuana has given us our lives back. It allows us to sleep through the night, to gain weight and strength, to read a bedtime story to our child, to run an office. It offers us the liberty — the freedom to live with dignity — that is one of our inalienable rights as American citizens.

There are few things more telling than the government's hardline anti-medical marijuana stance. This is a democracy, and the people have spoken all over the country in places where the citizens have voted to make it legal. And yet that mean asshole we have for Attorney General just sets his jaw and lets it be known that cancer, MS and AIDS patients can just go fuck themselves if they want pain relief. There's hippies out there laughing at cartoons and until this wretched plague is stamped out, weaknesses like sympathy for those with chronic pain cannot be tolerated.