Commutation for Quawntay Adams

Over 60 percent of Americans believe that marijuana is no more dangerous then alcohol, including the (President of the United States) he also believe that marijuana should be decriminalized, 23 states have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes and 2 states and several municipalities have completely decriminalized marijuana, and 3 more states are expected to decriminalize it November, 2014.

POSTED: 10/05/14, 3:48 PM PDT
People who went to the hospital with traumatic brain injuries were more likely to survive if they had marijuana in their system, according to a new published report by Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute.

The study, published in the October edition of The American Surgeon, was drawn from the records of trauma patients admitted to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance from 2012 through Jan. 1, 2010 through 2012. LA BioMed, as it’s commonly called, is an independent research institute on the campus of the hospital.

“Previous studies in animals showed that giving tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active compound in marijuana, would improve survival after a traumatic brain injury,” said David Plurad, an LA BioMed researcher, Harbor-UCLA critical care physician and co-author of the report, titled “Effect of Marijuana Use on Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury.” “We’ve known that in humans this may also be the case.”

Plurad and a team of fellow doctors and medical students reviewed 446 records of patients who sustained a brain contusion or other traumatic brain injury and were also screened for illicit drugs, which is a test done on many trauma patients so doctors can properly treat them.

Patients with marijuana in their system constituted 18.4 percent of the total study group. Both groups suffered similar levels of injury, but the group that tested positive for THC mostly consisted of men in their 20s to 40s. The other group was older, on average by about 20 years.

Only 2.4 percent of those who tested THC-positive died in the hospital as a result of their injuries while 11.5 percent of the patients who did not have THC in their system died.

Previous studies have linked marijuana use to reductions in pain and anxiety, increased appetite, reduced ocular pressure and decreased muscle spasms, among other health benefits. But no one has previously been able to measure the effects of natural forms of marijuana in the system at the time of a traumatic brain injury.

Experts predict that the U.S. will decriminalize it within the next few years. Marijuana companies are currently being traded on the stock exchange, an legitimate businesses are making billions of dollars selling marijuana, so why should Quawntay and others like him deserve to serve lengthy prison sentences, for a plant....You can help by simply signing your name to this petition support of Quawntay's plea for freedom, your support is greatly appreciated.....

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