Legalize medical marijuana? See how a decision can affect this cancer patient

What is not to like about medical marijuana? It treats pain, vomiting, fatigue, anxiety, depression, insomnia, seizures, muscle spasms, Crohn’s disease and allows many cancer patients to resume remarkably normal lives. It is not addictive. It does not interact with other medicines. It acts quickly and is easy to adjust. It can be consumed in numerous ways. It is safer than essentially any other drug: 1,500 Tylenol deaths in the USA in the last ten years; overdoses from marijuana in the entire world literature? None.

To that list, I add another: Compared to other medicines, it is down right cheap.

Tom was in my office today. He suffers from severe chemotherapy and cancer induced painful electric shock-like neuropathy of his hands and feet. You know what it feels like when your hand “falls asleep?” Think of that, times ten and all the time.

 

This incapacitated Tom, leaving him house...

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