Medical marijuana has always caused debates as it is one of the most controversial topics that emerges. As per The Washington Post, some studies have found subtle structural changes in the brains of marijuana users, which gives out a conclusion that it causes no harm on human anatomy over all. It has however have numerous uses when it comes to medicine and cure for certain ailments.
As per Middleborough medical marijuana advocates gathered on the state house steps for a prayer vigil to commemorate the patients that have lost their lives before they could even gain access to medical marijuana, describing them as victims of the state's slow implementation of the medical marijuana program.
Executive director of Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, Nichole Snow stated:
"We've seen a lot of patients struggle, and a lot of fallen family members and friends while we've been waiting for the implementation of the medical marijuana program in Massachusetts, It's been three years since voters passed the Humanitarian Care Act of 2012. The slow implementation and rollout has cost lives."
One medical marijuana advocate, Bill Downing, spoke on his friend's passing [Ken Roberts] who was hit as a child was hit in the head with a baseball bat and suffered from trigeminal neuralgia, a neuropathic disorder characterized by severe pain
"Ken suffered so horrifically that he was basically bed bound for five or six days out of the week. Even the days that he has been able to get out of bed, he was in horrible, horrible pain," Downing said. "He found that there were a few strains of marijuana that actually moderated his pain to the degree where he could function...but he had terrible difficulty getting a hold of marijuana that had been grown from those strains, basically because there is so little available to patients due to the restrictions of the law, lay the blame, in some part, on the Department of Public Health, for having had such a restrictive medical marijuana program,"
