Mom is a drug addict. When she gets clean she can have her children back.
So I'm a drug addict for doing all I can to save my life?
I was diagnosed with a very deadly form of breast cancer. Before the discovery of Tamoxifen, millions of women died like flies. Including FOUR of my relatives.
The cancer is found and removed then it comes back and kills.
That's because my own body chemistry is the food for the cancer to grow. Specifically the estrogen and progestin my body produces is the food for that type of cancer to grow.
Up until the 1990s there was no way to stop hormones and the cancer always came back and killed.
I'm lucky. We have Tamoxifen now and the hormones are blocked so the cancer can't regrow and kill me.
Unfortunately I'm one of the ones who doesn't tolerate that drug very well. One of the side effects is that food doesn't stay in me very long. I've tried all the pills and they don't work. The ONLY thing that keeps food in me is medical marijuana. Without it, I couldn't take that drug and I would be dead now. I've lost a lot of weight even with the medical marijuana. I need belt to keep my size 1 pants on me.
The only reason why that woman was arrested is because she lives in a state that still makes people like me criminals for doing all I can to save my life and live to see my child finish growing up.
That is the only reason why I will never go to a state that doesn't have legal medical marijuana ever again.
I'm not a criminal for wanting to live to an old age and save my life.
I don't know what medical problem that woman has but to put her in jail for trying to feel better or to save her life is wrong and cruel.
To call a person who is saving their life a drug addict is wrong.
Is a person who is taking oxycontin a drug addict? They're taking heroin.
Is anyone who is on a drug for the rest of their life a drug addict?
All those words mean is that someone is addicted to a drug. Whether it's legal or not they're addicted to a drug. So being addicted to say a heart medication is bad in your view?
I will have to take Tamoxifen for the rest of my life. Do you call that an addiction?
If you're lucky enough to not have to take a drug to save your life that's great but please stop calling people who take a medication a drug addict. Medical marijuana is medicine to people like me and to put us in jail for it is wrong and cruel.