Pubdate: Thu, 02 Dec 2004
Source: Tennessean, The (TN)
Copyright: 2004 The Tennessean
Contact:  http://www.tennessean.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/447
Author: Dixie Tanksley
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)

MARIJUANA CAN HELP THE ILL FEEL NORMAL

To the Editor:

In 1985, our son was treated at Vanderbilt for Hodgkin's disease.
Vanderbilt provided him with marijuana for nausea relief. As our son
started smoking it, relief came over his face, a look I will never
forget. I would have broken any law, done anything at that point to
help my child.

I am a firm believer in marijuana's soothing effect on nausea from
chemotherapy. That look of relief will be in my memory forever.

I don't see what all the fuss is about. Any drug out there can be
abused. And as I told our son, "This marijuana is to help you be
normal. It is when it's used to become abnormal we have problems."

And I thank God and Vanderbilt for his recovery.

Dixie Tanksley,

Madison
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