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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
"131 now have marijuana cards"....CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY
"When Rhonda O'Donnell took her first puff of marijuana -- her first, that is, since her teen years -- the effect was immediate. "I'm a nurse," said O'Donnell, 43, of Warwick. "I was shocked." Her legs often burn with pain from MS, an illness that also forced her out of her beloved job at Rhode Island Hospital. But when she took that first hit of marijuana, she felt a cooling sensation moving up her legs. In seconds, her legs "felt like normal legs just sitting there." She was still disabled by MS, of course, but for a time, the pain was gone. O'Donnell waited a long time for that relief -- because she didn't want to break the law. She was among the people who fought to make Rhode Island the 11th state to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, with a law that took effect Jan 3........" |