Montel Williams spoke at yesterday’s medical marijuana conference in Maine. In tears as he shared his pain with the audience, he was encouraged by one attending Sheriff to take his medicine, prompting Montel to light up a joint and take a few puffs.

There have been a number of questions surrounding medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, since the new law was passed in November.

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At the convention in Portland nearly 250 people came out to hear the ins and outs of the law, and learn how they can get involved in growing or selling medical marijuana reported wchs6.com.

Television host Montel Williams was the keynote speaker. Suffering from multiple sclerosis, Williams has been an advocate for the uses of marijuana for medical patients.

Williams uses marijuana to help ease symptoms of multiple sclerosis including the chronic nerve pain and said "people like him shouldn’t be treated as criminals for using marijuana for pain control for a variety of diseases and conditions."

The conference was held to attempt to answer questions about what the law means for patients, health care providers, municipalities, law enforcement agencies and others.

A long time advocate of medicinal marijuana use, Montel Williams has worked diligently in his efforts to provide a face and voice to the debate on the medical use of this illegal herb. He spoke at the conference about Maine’s new law allowing medical marijuana dispensaries yesterday at the University of Southern Maine in hopes that he could be a voice for patients and caregivers who are often not heard in these public debates and conferences around the country on the legality and validity of the use of this form of medication.

When Williams pain level became so intolerable he was in tears, Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion shouted from the audience "why don’t you just take your medicine", the audience applauded and stood as Montel sat down, pulled out a marijuana cigarette and fired it up, lighting up the approval meter of the attendee’s present.

Montel said his pain level dropped tremendously and if not for the use of the drug he wouldn’t have been able to bear the nerve pain he was enduring prior to and while on stage speaking to the citizens of Maine.

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June 9, 2010