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Marijuana Law is Proving to be a Pain!
Posted by FoM on May 07, 1999 at 16:27:43 PT
Sufferers find it hard to get a doctor's approval!
Source: Oregon Live
Lil Dunham will try just about anything to make the pain go away. During the past few years, the discs that cushion the bones in her spine have collapsed. Now those bones feel as though they're scraping each other. And the pain is excruciating. Dunham says neither her primary physician nor a pain specialist has been able to bring her much comfort. 
"My life is just kind of miserable," she said. Dunham, who loves to garden, hasn't been able to get out of her tidy mobile home much in the past three years. The 80-year-old Newberg woman said she's even ready to try smoking marijuana if that would help. After all, a new Oregon law allows her to use the drug. Medical marijuanaWho qualifies: Anyone who has been diagnosed with a "debilitating medical condition" -- AIDS, cancer, severe pain and nausea -- and whose doctor determines that marijuana might alleviate the symptoms.How to apply: Call Kelly Paige, Medical Marijuana Program manager, Oregon Health Division, 503-731-4011, Ext. 640. Cost: Registration fee of $150 a year. But she's run into two big problems: • She can't find a doctor who'll approve marijuana as a treatment. The law requires a doctor's permission for a patient to join the program. • She doesn't have any idea where to get marijuana. Click the above link to read the whole article!
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