For World Series of Fighting's Jon Fitch, Medical Marijuana Activism Is Personal

When Jon Fitch had surgery to address the torn rotator cuff of his right shoulder in early 2011, he was handed a prescription for pain medicine. As a professional fighter, Fitch was quite used to handling pain in its many permutations; it was, after all, the one guarantee of his job. But something about this treatment didn't sit right with him. His mind immediately traveled back into time.

Years earlier, in 2007, his friend and fellow fighter Eric Wray died in what Fitch says was a prescription pill overdose. The thought troubled him greatly, but like most post-surgery patients, he gave in to the hurt and took the medicine. It was a decision he soon regretted; the medication that was supposed to dull his pain instead left him feeling dehydrated and stiff and generally horrible. He threw away what was left in the bottle and instead applied for and...

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