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Old 06-21-2024, 08:05 AM
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When we lived in Charleston SC in 1976 my 3 1/2 daughter was diagnosed with cancer.
The treatment was radiation and chemotherapy for two years. Her reaction to the chemo was violent - constantly throwing up. An oncologist who came on aboard said he could not legally advise it but that there were medical studies that even at my daughter's age a small dose of marijuana could help relieve the symptoms. I worked in a music store, went up to our guitar section and asked Scott if he knew of anybody who could help us get MJ. He said he would help. Five minutes later he came down with a bag he said he knew was clean.

Over the years many people gave up MJ. After trying it ourselves (we had never had MJ before) we made a method of delivering in pills to our daughter. After the first time of taking the pills and getting chemo that morning when I came home from lunch she was feeling great and hungry as hell.

She was one of the lucky one and did have a full remission.

The point is many of our friends had access to MJ. Good people - not potheads.

As long as it's out there let's make it legal, clean up the industry, stop the bad guys from making money off of it and reap tax revenue from it.

I'm voting yes.

As a side note my then wife led a successful campaign to make medical MJ legal in SC. It was and is still illegal for federal purposes.
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