Painful wait for medical marijuana
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The neuropathy, as it’s called, is a side effect of the chemotherapy drugs used to combat her gynecological cancer. Few things help relieve the pain, which at times is so intense DiFranco has trouble simply going for a walk. Doctors have prescribed her several medications to combat the side effect, but they have side effects of their own, and their ingredients are sometimes questionable.
One thing that does help relieve the pain of neuropathy as well as other side effects from chemotherapy is marijuana, DiFranco said.
“One of the medications is tincture of opium,” DiFranco, a Democratic state representative from Portsmouth, said.”So how can opium be OK, but marijuana not?”
Yet even though New Hampshire passed legislation in 2013 permitting medical marijuana, no one has been given the OK to grow it and while four proposed locations for dispensaries have
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