[420 Girl]

You know you have crossed some irreversible line in the parent/child relationship when your 68 year old mother asks you if you know anyone who can get her marijuana.

This request didn't come from some Woodstock-era hippie looking for a trip (no pun intended) down memory lane. No, this came from my very square mother who was looking desperately for a remedy for my father's unrelenting nausea.

Her request came several months ago, during a particularly bad patch of time during my father's treatment for pancreatic cancer. The combination of the cancer and the chemotherapy was causing almost non-stop nausea and none of the prescribed medications, OTC products or anecdotal remedies was helping. In fact, it was their very own doctor who suggested they try marijuana. Of course, he couldn't get it for them, but if they knew someone…

After, I picked myself and the phone receiver off the floor and steadied my spinning head I said, no, I'm sorry I don't know anyone who sells the stuff.
It wasn't long afterwards that she told me a friend of a friend had some and even came over and showed them how to roll a "joint" and smoke it.

My reason for relating this story to you is that I believe it's time for this country to pass a national law legalizing marijuana for medical use. According to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana laws website only 14 states - Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington have some sort of medical marijuana law on the books, allowing its use in some shape or form for medicinal purposes.
I think it's time for this country to stop making the moms, dads and grandparents of this country into "criminals".

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