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"Before I tell you how and why my hubby and I ended up at Marisol Therapeutics, some background about my longtime support of medical marijuana: More than 15 years ago in Seattle, while working at The Seattle Times, I met an extraordinary man who changed my mind about the issue. Ralph Seeley was a Navy nuclear submarine officer, pilot, cellist and lawyer suffering from chordoma, a rare form of bone cancer that starts in the spine. He had undergone several surgeries, including removal of one lung and partial removal of the other, and was confined to a wheelchair.
Chronically nauseous from
chemotherapy and radiation, weak from a suppressed appetite, and suffering
excruciating pain, Seeley turned to marijuana cigarettes for relief.
Contrary to cultural stereotype,
Seeley was far from “wasted.” While smoking the drug to reduce his pain, he
finished law school — something he couldn’t have done while on far more
powerful “mainstream” narcotics, which left him zonked out and vomiting
uncontrollably in his hospital bed after chemo. Seeley had the backing of his
orthopedic doctor and University of Washington School of Medicine oncologist
Dr. Ernest Conrad. He took his plight to the Washington state supreme court,
where he asserted a constitutionally
protected liberty interest in having his doctor issue a medical
pot prescription."
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