Thanks to marijuana, I don't need to visit Dr. Kevorkian. Multiple sclerosis is a very common ailment among those seeking physician-assisted suicide. Now he supports upholding the laws which result in patients like Cheryl being arrested and imprisoned. Rogan voted for favorable medicinal marijuana legislation in the California legislature in 1995. Tens of thousands of patients nationwide are using medicinal marijuana.
Patients are ready for civil disobedience.
Patients will target not only the congressional leadership, but everyone who supports laws that criminalize patients for using medicinal marijuana. She and her husband Jim live in Silverton, New Jersey. Cheryl has taken all of the standard prescription drugs for her condition. She had to stop taking both Dantrium, because of liver toxicity, and injectable steroid ACTH, because it is no longer available due to several harmful side effects. In 1992, Cheryl's neurologist prescribed Marinol, which consists of THC, marijuana's primary active ingredient, in a gelatin capsule.