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effects of his anti-cancer therapies. Ineffects reasonable
people apparently decided the law did not match the reality of _
Keith_s -- and other patlent_s _- needs_
46° My husband and I came to resent the fact Keith's
marijuana therapy was iilegal_ We felt like criminals° We are
honest, simple people and we hated having to sneak around. T
was uncomfortable with our closest friends_ our minister, and
our other sons Mares having to risk a_est in order to provide
. Keith with the marijuana he so obviously needed. I also won-
dered about other parents who might have a child suffering from
.... chemotherapy who might not know that marijuana could help end
their child's misery, or who did not know how to obtain
mar ij uana_
47. My husband and I _ approached Keith and asked him if
we could tell his story to the newspaper, i told him it might
help other cancer patients° de agreed_ on one condition: that
we not give the newspaper details about the nature of his
cancer or of the surgical procedures which resulted in the
removal of his testes. As a young man in his twenties, Keith
wanted at least this much of his life to remain p:ivateo We
quickly agreed to this condition.
48. A reporter _o: the locai paper (the Bay City Times)
came to our houses listened to our story and wrote an article
which appeased on March II, 1979o The story began:
Keith Nutt of Beaverton doesn't care who
knows he uses marijuana.
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