North Carolina senator pushing medical marijuana bill describes smoking pot during cancer fight

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The North Carolina General Assembly's chief advocate for legalizing medical marijuana in the state revealed publicly on Tuesday how he smoked pot over 20 years ago to withstand discomforts of chemotherapy during a fight with cancer.

Having access to the tokes at home is “the only reason I’m alive today,” he told the. “I know that tens of thousands of people in the state would benefit just as I did” if the medical marijuana bill became law, he added.

David Evans, the head of North Carolinians Against Legalizing Marijuana, said he’s had cancer three times and sympathizes with anyone with a serious illness. But “we do not decide medicine in the United States by anecdote or by stories. We decide it based on science,” Evans told theQualified patients who are at least 21 and their caregivers would have to receive registration cards from the state to buy cannabis at a center. Licensees would have to send 10% of their monthly revenues to the state.

 

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