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 96. For two years we had lived and breathed
 cancer. During this time we lived day to days not knowing if
 Josh would be alive the next day. We didn't always know'what
 t_eatment was right or wrong° Eventually, like the doctors_ we
 ! ..... were making reasoned guesses_
 97. However confusing the treatments became_ we were
 perfectly clear about one thing. Marijuana was extremely
 effective in reducing our young son_s chemotherapeutically-
 induced emesis. The benefits of his chemotherapy drugs were
 unc!earo But marijuana was effective and saree About that_ we
 were certain.
 98. Is marijuana effective? It was for Josh. When
 your kid is riding a tricycle while his c, ther hospital
 buddies are hooked up to. IV needles, their heads bung over
 vomiting buckets, you don_t need a federal agency to tell you
 marijuana is effective. The evidence is in front of you, so
 stark it cannot be ignored.
 99. Marijuana certainly made a difference _- we
 believe a critical difference _ in the outcome of Josh's fight
 with cancer. Without marijuana|s antivomiting properties, Josh
 would not have been able to tolerate chemotherapy. He would
 have either stopped receiving treatment early on and died or
 died as a result of complications associa_zed with his
 treatments. About this we have no doubts..
 100o Is marijuana safe? Only someone completely
 unfamiliar with chemotherapeutic drugs like Cispiatin could
 believe that marijuana is "dangerous_ _' Relative to