The Straight Toke - THE Marijuana Blog

One of our readers alerted us to this account from a chemotherapy patient about their use of marijuana (from the LA Times.)

While it's absolutely heart-wrenching to hear about the pain and suffering caused by cancer (and its subsequent treatment), we think that Mrs. Wagman's account of her medicinal use of marijuana provides an excellent example of the value of cannabis. The article also contains several items of interest:

Marijuana use is more frequent than many people expect:

No, what really shocked me was how many of my old, dear, married, parenting, job-holding friends smoke pot. [...] Across the ideological spectrum, a lot of my buddies are stoners. Who knew?

Unfortunately, many children are indoctrinated with extremely negative stereotypes about marijuana users:

My 15-year-old daughter was shocked. The look on her face was proof that her elementary school D.A.R.E. program had really done its job.

Fortunately, even in cases when traditional medication has failed (or produced undesirable side effects), cannabis can provide a measure of relief:

I was willing to try anything, so I lit up. It helped. A lot. I collapsed on the couch, I zoned out watching "Project Runway," I was able to take deep breaths without puking.

We'd like to thank Diana Wagman for writing such an excellent, honest, and informative article on medical marijuana use.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 at 3:51 pm and is filed under Experiences, Health/Medicine, Legal, News, Philosophy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.