Vets with PTSD call for medical marijuana expansion
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A few months later, Evans, 66, surprised his family and friends by dancing with his daughter, Amanda, at her wedding.
"I feel so much better," Evans said in an interview last month in the Mount Laurel home he shares with his wife, Donna.
The dramatic change, he said, came about after he replaced the morphine with two ounces of pungent medical marijuana buds he bought each month from a dispensary in Woodbridge.
It was a battle, he said, to enroll in the state's restrictive marijuana program and to find $12,000 in cash for the $500-an-ounce drug and...
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