Boston Globe
Marcy Duda, a former home health aide with four children and two granddaughters, never dreamed she’d be publicly touting the medical benefits of “pot.’’
But marijuana, says the 48-year-old Ware resident, is the only thing that even begins to control the migraine headaches that plague her nine days a month, which she describes as feeling like “hot, hot ice picks in the left side of my head.’’
The Patriot Ledger
BOSTON — Attorney General Martha Coakley expressed her support for the use of medical marijuana, "only with a prescription," during an appearance on the Eagan & Braude radio show on WTKK-FM Tuesday.
During a 40-minute interview with hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan, Coakley was asked about the New Hampshire Legislature's passage of a bill allowing chronically ill patients to receive medical marijuana, and her take on the possibility of a similar measure in Massachusetts.
By Matt Allen, Massachusetts Patients Advocacy Alliance.
Cape Cod Today
Don Parker is a father who holds down two jobs in the Cape Cod area. Though he looks like a healthy middle-aged man, since childhood Parker has suffered from cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) - prolonged, debilitating bouts of vomiting which can leave him bed ridden with nausea, dehydration, and migraine headaches. The cause is unknown, making CVS very difficult to treat.
James Mylett
January 12, 2009
Daily News Tribune (Waltham, MA)
Lexington —Just a couple of months ago here in Massachusetts we voted to decriminalize marijuana possession.
And in Michigan they voted to legalize medical marijuana, making them the 13th state to allow medical use of marijuana. I think now is the time Massachusetts considers legalizing medicinal use of marijuana as well. It could be prescribed by a doctor if it has been decided there is a legit medical condition in which a patient could benefit from the medicinal use of marijuana.
March 28, 2008
The Herald News
What if there were a natural medicine that could help reduce pain, relieve nausea, increase appetite and decrease stress, all with minimal side effects?
What if it could help cancer patients deal with the impacts of chemotherapy, help glaucoma patients retain their sight by relieving pressure around the eyes, help AIDS sufferers maintain their strength by stimulating their appetites, and ease the effects of multiple sclerosis.
His campaign says you can "Ask Mitt Anything," but not if you're medical marijuana user Clayton Holton.
Holton, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair, created another YouTube moment for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney this week. In front of a bank of video and still cameras, Holton asked Romney if he should be arrested for using medicinal marijuana.
March 22, 2007
The Republican (Springfield, MA)
Angel Raich, a California mother of two, has an inoperable brain tumor and other serious ailments so painful that she needs drugs every two or three hours.
Her doctor prescribed nearly three dozen drugs before he found a drug that actually relieves her pain and stimulates her appetite - the only medicine that is keeping her alive.
It's marijuana.
Lynda Gorov
May 2, 2006
The Boston Globe
AT 9 O'CLOCK on the night of my first round of chemotherapy, exactly six hours after I left the oncologist's office wondering what all the fuss was about, my stomach tumbled into my knees, my knees refused to work altogether, and I crumpled to the floor in a clammy, shivering heap.
Newburyport—Scott Mortimer uses marijuana to relieve crippling lower back pain that has tortured him since he was a teenager, following an operation to correct a spinal defect.
November 20, 2004
The Boston Globe
Don’t miss a chance to help enact this compassionate bill.