Op-ed: Why I broke the law to use medical cannabis
After using cannabis for 1 ½ years to keep myself alive, I was recently reported, apprehended, and charged with a felony. Now a medical refugee in Colorado, I'd like to explain why I need cannabis — and why I'll be working to change Utah's laws to allow people like me to have safe, legal access.
Like many people, I have a disorder that is hidden — unseen and ignored too easily. I have an unclassified form of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a rarely diagnosed disorder that causes a mutation in my collagen. It is hereditary; we recently learned that my two young daughters have it as well.
I did not choose this life of excruciating pain. I did not choose to have the collagen in my body betray me, and within a year of the initial diagnosis have all the bones in my body dislocate. I did not choose the frailty of...
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