To: The Nevada State Senate

"debilitating conditions" as listed under NRS chapter 453A.050

The recognition of various anxieties and phobias that impede social function and success, as debilitating conditions. The most ready example, and target of this petition, being Social Anxiety Disorder.

Why is this important?

Mental illness isn't a focus of medical marijuana as of yet. The pharmaceutical industry markets a wide variety of medications with severe side effects and risks of dependency, for these illnesses, that have just as many health risks physically, as they claim to fix mentally. Marijuana can be a safer, cheaper, natural, more stable alternative; and the horticultural aspects of cultivation could instill a sense of accomplishment, ingenuity, and self worth in people who otherwise would be forced to take medication they don't fully understand.