Segregating Medical Marijuana Patients Isn't The Answer
In 1997 my father was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. He underwent treatments, both conventional and alternative, and despite a courageous fight, he passed away in the spring of 1998.
During his illness I visited with him and my mother quite often and remember how people looked at him while he had the stent that delivered chemotherapy drugs directly to a vein in his chest. There was a palpable sense of discomfort.
I have to admit, I had the same feeling of discomfort; the strong and vibrant man I remembered wasted away, as much from the treatments as from the cancer.
As if the pain and suffering from the cancer and the treatments weren't bad enough, he had to suffer the indignity of people's discomfort with his illness. It made him retreat from social interaction, and perhaps that isolation accelerated his demise. At a minimum, it reduced his...
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