MEDICAL POT: PURE HOOEY

When I read Ed Glick's letter of Sunday, May 1, 2011, concerning the
growth of medical cannabis in Oregon, I can't help but chuckle. As a
cancer survivor myself, and having had radiation accompanied by
severe, severe nausea, I can tell you personally that even 10 years
ago, there were much better alternatives out there, at least for nausea relief.

I can remember coming home after my first abdominal radiation
treatment, and having such severe nausea that I felt as though my
shoes might come up through my stomach and out. At the time, Zofran
was available, and I was able to take the medicine, take the
radiation, and actually go to work every day. I did this for 22 more days.

In my mind, the move to legalize medical marijuana is actually an
underhanded move to legalize pot in general. If that's the issue,
then fine. Let's just legalize pot. But let's stop cloaking it in the
fiction of "medical marijuana." There are much better alternatives out there.

Ten years ago, I could've gotten a drug called "Marinol," which is an
FDA-approved synthetic cannabinoid. The only problem with Marinol is
that it doesn't get you loaded.

Jeff Limon

Corvallis (May 3)