Talk show host Montel Williams joined a group of medical marijuana advocates Wednesday in imploring Congress to allow him and other sick people to use the drug without fear of prosecution.

"This is really so simple it's ignorant," said Williams, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1999. He said legal drugs do not help the pain.

"I'm hurting right now. I'm hurting. Why? Because I knew I had to come to Washington, D.C., and I can't carry anything because I know I'd get busted," he said.

Williams spoke at a Capitol Hill news conference where a bipartisan group of lawmakers said decisions about medical marijuana should be left to the states.

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Posted by Lawren at May 5, 2005 07:35 AM

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I'm all for this. People have been smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes for centuries. If the government would only realize how much money they could make off taxing it...we could clear up the deficit!

Says: swankygirl at May 5, 2005 08:18 AM

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