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(More customer reviews)I find Cannabis or Marijuana a difficult subject to discuss or make up my mind about, there are so many titles about the benefits and (potential) hazards with this ancient plant. This book was touching in the extreme, beginning with a wife whose husband has advanced prostate cancer and how much discomfort he was in. He was on Morphine for the pain and a raft of other drugs and almost house bound if not bed bound (I read this quite a long time back). The writer and wife of the patient was persuaded against all her very real fears, to give her dying husband some cannabis in cookie form. There is a lot of quiet humour also in her recounting of how she stood there worried about weather her husband might go berserk after injesting the first weak cookie. In the end he was up in his bed yelling for her to bring him breakfast! (a first for a long time).
After a short time he gave up his Morphine altogether (so many side effects), and most other drugs. His life was turned around and his quality of life improved so much it was a revelation to both patient (husband) and carer (wife). She became a firm campaigner for reform of Australia's marijuana laws. If I remember correctly, her husband did not require ongoing Morphine until about a week before his death and his quality of life was just so turned around it really seems criminal that, (at least on medical grounds) our drug laws, as they pertain to marijuana for medical use, are so draconion. This book is one that bypasses all the ethical arguments in some ways (until the end), and the health issues surrounding Marijuana, and instead describes how for one person, in great distress, the compassionate use of marijuana eased great misery and brought a measure of quality back into the life of a terminally ill patient. What could be more worthwhile than that? could not recommend this book more. It is not medical theory about marijuana, its not politics its about the easing of human suffering. Please read it!
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In this personal story and compelling call for the legalization of cannabis for medical use, the author portrays graphically the relief her terminally ill husband suffering from prostate cancer gained from using cannabis, the reactions they encountered, and their fear of arrest as they grew plants and spoke publicly of the issue. This is a remarkable account of how this octogenarian couple transformed Arthur's final months. A lessening of pain and nausea, regained appetite, a general improvement in well-being, anda greater degree of independence were achieved through Reilly's use of this extensively used and widely accepted-- but illegal--substance.
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