The only reason I didn't vote for Barry Goldwater was because I was 9 years old at the time. I support it because of my politics and because I've had to use it. As a political journalist, I mark the milestones of my life by election cycles. On the eve of Ronald Reagan's election I got married. On the eve of Bill Clinton's I got testicular cancer.
Any chemotherapy is harsh, because all chemotherapy is poison.
You're dumping poison into your bloodstream, killing millions of cells in order to kill the thousands of malignant cells, which will not recover. Because it is poison, the body wants to get rid of it. That's why chemotherapy causes nausea. But beyond that point, I needed extra help, so I smoked marijuana. I had smoked marijuana maybe 10 times in college, during the '70s.