Meet Gary
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I don't care. Gary.
Since I began in mid 2008, medical marijuana (a.k.a. medical cannabis) has helped me tremendously,
maybe even helping to stop my brain tumor cold. And so I am grateful for the people involved in
providing safe access.
My life changed when, one morning, at age 47, my wife was unable to rouse me from sleep.
She called a neighbor over. Gradually, they saw me stir. We thought that was the end of that.
Later that week on my way to work, I was sitting in a two-lane highway, stopped behind several cars.
Suddenly, I was rear-ended in a powerful crash, and left unconscious.
Coming to, I was in a hospital emergency room with my wife at my side. Semi-
conscious, I leaarned that doctors had ordered a CT scan. The scan happened to reveal an
old, calcified growth in my head. Doctors determined it to be a benign brain tumor.
Lethal only when it grows, it first formed when I was young, possibly around age 5.
Only now it was growing. "Marijuana May Stall Brain Tumor Growth."
"Marijuana Might Cure Brain Tumors." Reading such headlines roused me to action.
Enter Dale R. I first contacted him from an ad I'd seen on a NORML. Then, for the first time,
the doctors had good news. They actually said I was cured.
Scans showed there was no more tumor growth. Previously, they insisted I would have,
without treatment, only 4 years left to live. Enter Dale R.: I first contacted him from an
ad I'd seen in a NORML website.I was fortunate, as few people are as knowledgeable as
Dale on the subject of cannabis and its medicinal qualities. I think of the ruthless,
bloodthirsty warlords in the drug trade, drug lords and their ilk that butcher up a
family
or two at will, caught in a grotesque war on drugs. This is why I am grateful to live
in a place of semi-rational mandates, which allow for the compassionate use of cannabis.
The number of times we give politicians a blank check, and watch them throw huge amounts of
tax money at a complex problem, is obscene. And politicians waste money by launching programs
without ever testing them. In the corporate world, when preparing to launch a cam-
paign, companies will not spend a dime until they conduct focus groups, and do all the marketing
research needed to show that their campaign will be effective.In government, politicians only need
to look like they are doing something. This makes us wonder about how they deal with problems that
require intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom."You will need no further treatnent." I couldn't believe it.
While I do believe mainstream medicine saved me,
the cure was announced only a few weeks after starting a medical marijuana regime.
Now, I wonder how much of a "kicker" effect the marijuana medication had. The science says it had plenty
of effect. In the meantime, San Diego County fought against California voters,
who legalized medical marijuana...a fight that constitues an insane waste of tax dollars.
* editors note: Gary is alive today because of the holy herb. His caregiver is out on bail, having been
entrapped by SD police working with Naval and other Federal resources.
