In 2011 I was diagnosed with cancer in both of my breasts. It was carcinoma. A cancer that grows fast and moves to other organs fast. So it kills very fast.
The carcinoma I had was 100% receptive to 2 hormones that my body naturally produces. Which means that my own body chemistry is the food for that carcinoma to live and grow. Which guarantees that it will return to kill me just as it did to 4 of my relatives in the past. They all had full mastectomies but it came back to kill them anyway. They didn't have a form of chemo that blocks those hormones. It wasn't invented yet.
I'm lucky. It is here now. I had to be on that medication for 7 long years. A pill I took every day for 7 long years. It came with a very long list of side effects, as all chemo does. One of the worst was it made everything I swallowed come right back up. I was even vomiting in my sleep waking up choking on it. I couldn't take the other medication that blocks the hormones. It caused heart fiberlations and I get anaphylactic allergic reactions so if I was on it and had a reaction, I would die. So Tamoxifen was the only one I could take. If I didn't take it, I would be dead now.
The ONLY medication that made it possible for me to stay on Tamoxifen was medical marijuana. I tried all the anti nausea pills only to see them floating in my toilet after I vomited them back up.
No, medical marijuana didn't cure the cancer. Medical marijuana made it possible for me to be on the chemo to save my life.
Medical marijuana was one of the medications that saved my life and is the only reason why I'm alive today.
All I have to say to those who want to take it from people who need it so badly.
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. If you don't want to use it for a medical condition you're perfectly free to not use it.
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DENY IT TO ANYONE ELSE. Especially in the states that legalized it.
All I have to say to everyone one of you selfish people. I hope you never have to fight for your life. I hope you never have to live with knowing it can return to kill you at anytime. I hope you never have to wake up in the middle of the night choking on vomit. I hope you never have to go through what millions of cancer patients like me have to endure just to stay alive.
I'm not a cruel and selfish person.
Unlike you.