Montel Williams backs legalized marijuana

TV host Montel Williams has thrown his support behind legalizing medical marijuana in New York, saying pot helps him cope with multiple sclerosis.

Williams, who was diagnosed with the neurological disease in 1999, said he uses marijuana every night before bed to relieve the pain in his legs and feet. “I’m breaking the law every day, and I will continue to break the law,” Williams, host of the syndicated “Montel Williams Show,” told reporters in Albany, N.Y., where the Legislature is considering a bill to prescribe marijuana to terminally ill patients to treat pain.

Williams said prescription painkillers and even morphine failed to control his tremors and spasms.