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29. Keith told us that while he was in the hospital in
Columbus he had met other cancer patients who were receiving
chemotherapy. These patients told him about smoking marijuana
to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy. According to
Kelth_ these other cancer patients said _arijuana really helped
reduce the vo_itingo
30. As a parentw _ was strongly opposed to marijuana
and other illegal drugs. My husband and _ made sure that our
sons knew exactly how we felt. We told them that we never
wanted them to use such drugs for any _eason. We do not doubt
that our sons may have tried smoking marijuana at one time or
another while growing up, but we are also sure our sons had no
drug problems and no illusions about our stern opposition to
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..... drug use.
31. Xt was hard to believe that an illegal drug could be
of any help. We thought the government would know if marijuana
had medical value and, if sos would make it legally available
to patients by prescription° We made a few calls. One of the
people we contacted was our State Representatives Robert
Young. We asked Representative Young if _:here was any way we
could legally obtain marijuana so that ou_: son Keith could try
it and see if it helped.
32. I was surprised when Representative Young told me
that a bill to legalize marijuana for the treatment of glaucoma
and cancer was scheduled to come before the Michigan legisla-
ture. Representative Young also gave me the name and phone
number of Mr. Roger Winthrop, a man who was working with a
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