If anyone has watched the Penn & Teller: War on Drugs episode, you’ll recognize this man. His name is Ervin Rosenfeld and he is 1 of 5 people alive today who is on the federal medical marijuana program.

He suffers from a debilitating disease that causes “bone tumors to grow outwardly all throughout his body.” In this video, Ervin makes an impassioned speech to the Michigan courts for the legalization of marijuana.

Now, I’m not going to sit here and recap the entire video, but here are a few eyebrow-raising points:

• Ervin smokes 11 ounces of marijuana every 25 days
• Ervin’s marijuana is grown on the University of Mississippi campus
• The DEA conducted a 2 year study of herb and it was found to be one of the most benign substances known to man
• In a 10 year study, not one single case of lung cancer developed as a result of using marijuana
• Jail overcrowding has placed non-violent drug offenders behind bars while violent prisoners are let out early
• There isn’t a single death recorded in the history of mankind that is directly the related to an overdose on marijuana. How many substances can say that?

All in all, this is some damn powerful stuff and definitely worth nine minutes of your day.

[via SoulCast]