Television personality
Montel Williams has many reasons to support medical marijuana use.
With past military service, Williams is an advocate for Veterans for
Medical Cannabis Access. (Source)
He's a spokesman for the Partnership for
Prescription Assistance (PPA) which emphasizes the desire for access
to medication to all. Montel Williams also suffers
from multiple sclerosis and uses medical marijuana for treatment.
In 2011,
Montel Williams helped start a marijuana dispensary in Sacramento,
California. He advocates for regulation,
quality, and safe dispensary
of medical marijuana. His efforts focus
on people who medically need cannabis,
not those who use marijuana for
recreational use.(Source)
Montel Williams was a
daytime talk-show host for seventeen years but his
advocacy for medical marijuana did not begin until after the show. He
was arrested in 2011 for possession of marijuana and subsequently
released. He recognizes marijuana as an integral part to his
treatment for multiple sclerosis:
"For immediate
cessation I smoke it," Williams says. "Most of the time I
eat it at night because I suffer from extreme tremors in the evening
and I also suffer from extreme neuralgic pain in my feet. If I eat it
in the evening it takes [the pain] from a six to about a three. When
I pop out of bed, I'm normally at my best,
so that's when I work out and I try to get as much work done early in
the day. As I get later on in the day, my feet start to go on fire.
When they start to hit the fire mark I'm easing my pain, it's just
that simple. I've been speaking to politicians all around the country
and all around the world on this issue and you'd be surprised that
more people understand and back it and believe in it." (Source)
Source:
http://www.celebstoner.com/celebstoners/profile/montel-williams/
