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CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) - Michelle Teel sees a pain specialist to help her manage the devastation that five years of breast cancer treatment has wreaked on her body. The 35-year-old Deptford woman suffers from bone pain and a stubborn six-inch leaking wound on her chest that won’t heal.
Oxycodone does little to ease her discomfort.
“I’m in pain every day,” the former reporter said.
“If I come up with the money, I want to try the (medicinal) marijuana,” Teel said. “I want to be on something that works.”
Though five alternative treatment centers are now open across the state, including two in South Jersey, patients still face hurdles accessing legal cannabis. Widely praised by doctors for its strict regulations, the state’s marijuana program faces bitter criticism from patients and their advocates.
“The program is so artificially restrictive, the vast majority of people who can benefit from medical marijuana therapy...
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