Campaigning for cannabis
Richmond County’s leading advocate for medical cannabis is taking his fight to the campaign trail.
Perry Parks — along with his cousin, Darrell Davis, who is a disabled veteran —plans to attend the Donald Trump rally in Florence, South Carolina tonight, in uniform, to ask the candidate what he plans to do to make cannabis available to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
“I want to see if he is aware of the disparity in treatment for the veterans,” Parks said Thursday evening. “Half the soldiers can be treated with cannabis, the other half can be arrested for it.”
Parks added the he wants to know if Trump will “stand up to the powers that be and remove cannabis from the controlled substances list…(and) stop the disparity, making cannabis available to patients everywhere.”
The federal Controlled Substances Act lists marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance — alongside heroin, LSD and peyote...
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