Pubdate: Sat, 25 Dec 2004
Source: Baltimore Sun (MD)
Copyright: 2004 The Baltimore Sun, a Times Mirror Newspaper.
Contact:  http://www.baltimoresun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/37
Author: Beverly Carrigan
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)
Note: All were titled Why deny relief to people in pain?
Individual titles by MAPinc

IT IS HEART-WRENCHING TO WATCH

I absolutely believe that the medicinal use of marijuana should be
legal.

If medicinal marijuana would give a patient some relief when he or she
is undergoing chemotherapy and suffering from extreme nausea, it
should be made available.

I watched two of my dearest friends and my father-in-law suffer
terribly.

They all knew that their prognosis was fatal. And if they could have
had a way to get through those periods of pain and suffering, it would
have made the final months of their lives so much more bearable.

It is heart-wrenching to watch a loved one endure such agony and not
be able to afford them moments of comfort and give them their dignity.

Beverly Carrigan,

Woodbine
- ---
MAP posted-by: Derek