Prosser commits suicide
by Jessie McQuillanArticle Tools
In recent months, Prosser, 50, would sit at the kitchen table in her small apartment, pain welling up in her eyes, and talk quietly about the victories and defeats the last several years had delivered. Allergic to nearly every pharmaceutical that could render her chronic pain bearable, she had learned that the political fate of medical marijuana also carried intensely personal implications.
She remained proud of the 60-day hunger strike she undertook in 2002 to draw attention to the need for medical marijuana, the effort that first brought her into the public eye. She spoke, too, of her 2004 agreement with the city of Missoula—when police charged her with marijuana possession following a thwarted suicide attempt—that deferred prosecution and allowed her to use marijuana before medical use was legalized.
During the subsequent campaign for medical marijuana, which won support from 62 percent of Montana voters, she became a literal poster child for the effort, appearing in campaign ads. And when the state issued her a medical marijuana ID card, things seemed to be looking up.
Then in March, federal Drug Enforcement Agency agents seized a small shipment of medical marijuana in transit from Prosser’s state-approved caregiver. Though she was never criminally charged, Prosser was crushed. She said caregivers became afraid to supply her with the medicine she needed so badly.
In July, she penned an op-ed piece in the Billings Gazette, pleading with Montana’s politicians and her fellow citizens to speak out against the DEA’s actions and improve the lives of people like her.
“Give me liberty or give me death,” she wrote. “Maybe the next campaign ought to be for assisted-suicide laws in our state. If they will not allow me to live in peace, and a little less pain, would they help me to die, humanely?”
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Robin discusses her views on youtube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuxHvCDdNzc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SfbsnE2C_U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLthAm0WhMo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWTiRhy3-F0 Robin Prosser- Forbidden Medicine Part 1-4 R.I.P.
FBI: US record number of pot arrests in 2006 - 829,625, 89% for simple possession - while the violent crime rate is increasing. Cost: >$10-15 billion/yr., 100,000 behind bars tonight. Alabama: 3 pot possession convictions = 15 yrs to life. 100 million in US have tried pot at least once. No other law is enforced so widely and harshly and yet deemed unnecessary by so many. You are one of my heroes, Robin. I hope you're in a better place now.
What a sorrowful end to such loving, giving and feirce friend. For those of us who have truly known you, watched you in your struggles and challenges, we see this not as a surrender in your fight, but a final and undefeatable statement against the twisted and careless disregard a paranoid system holds for the sick and suffering in our country. Through the years, we, as friends, feared for your safety and health. How little we truly understood the passion with which you fought, how your legacy was being written, and a history yet to be seen is and will be because of you. May God bless you Robin, you are safe and pain free now. But you will always be missed.
So Sorry----I wish I could of helped Robin---... I have a chronic pain problem and am allergic to everything--but I think for the grace of god things are better now for me. I wish the same could of been for Robin. If anyone is going through what Robin is contact me at KAENLM@yahoo.com before you decide to take your life... I can give you tips to try to get yourself out of this ..
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