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Utah Attorney General Shurtleff
approves of medical marijuana after battling cancer
June 12, 2011 - rawstory.com
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said he would support the
legalization of medical marijuana after experiencing months of
intensive cancer treatment.
"Until you've experienced chemo, you can't describe exactly how it
feels," he said Thursday on KSL Newsradio's Doug Wright Show. "It's
kind of like having the flu because you ache all over. But it's worse
than that... Everything feels awful."
The Salt Lake Tribute reported that Shurtleff was declared cancer-free
last week, after battling Stage 3 colon cancer since December 2010 and
undergoing three types of chemotherapy.
Shurtleff said never used marijuana himself, but had talked to other
patients who had traveled out-of-state to receive marijuana treatment.
"They give you pills to help you with the nausea, but if you can't keep
those down, then what do you do?" he said. "You just suffer. That's one
of the reasons I understand why people who are going through chemo are
prescribed medicinal marijuana in states where it is legal."
Shurtleff said it would be possible to control and regulate marijuana
just like any other prescription medication, comparing it to the
highly-addictive "liquid opium" he had been prescribed. Although he
supported the use of marijuana for medical purposes, he criticized
other states, like Colorado, for having laws that were too lax.
"We can use these medicines," he added. "We can use them appropriately.
So I am open to discussions about it, if it can be controlled."
Mormons will never allow medical marijuana. It's ironic, because in 2000 Utah ranked highest in antidepressant and prescription pain medicine use.
It's incredible how ignorant Mormons are about drugs. My aunt is Mormon and she is severly addicted to her prescribed adderall but thinks its totally fine. She pops opiates all the time basically for fun. Yet she would never consider touching alcohol or marijuana