Border a no-go zone for Canada's medical pot patients
Dangling uselessly at her side, Jan Rieveley’s right arm has become a “paper weight.”
A bad fall in a dark cave in Ohio four years ago tore nerves previously made weaker from cancer radiation treatment.
“It’s pain 24/7,” says the 61-year-old owner of a small Riverside business.
Rieveley said her previous opiate “cocktail” of Percocets and other pain medications permitted her to work about two hours a week.
Rieveley hated what those opioids were doing to her. So, six months ago, her doctor prescribed pot, and it worked wonderfully. Her life on pot has improved to the point she’s working a couple of days a week.
“I like control in my life,” Rieveley said of her decision to avoid the powerful opiates of the pharmaceutical companies.
But now there’s another problem. She can’t visit family in the United States.
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