Vermont Senate backs medical marijuana dispensaries

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9:39 AM, Apr. 15, 2011 |

MONTPELIER -- Sen. Philip Baruth stood on the Senate floor Thursday evening and told the story of how two relatives -- his grandmother and aunt -- had cancer and doctors told them marijuana might help them.

His grandmother was too horrified to consider it, the Chittenden County Democrat said. In the case of his aunt, he was a college student and found himself in a tough spot.

"I was in the strange position of having my mother come to me and ask me if I knew any way we could procure marijuana," he said. He told her he did, he said, though he was jeopardizing his student loan, his place at college and his record.

It was in memory of his aunt, Baruth said, that he was voting Thursday for a bill that would allow up to four medical marijuana dispensaries to be established in Vermont.

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1. I had the same experience with a friend who died of brain cancer.

I offered it and she refused because she was afraid of getting arrested. Two months later she was gone.

Worse, at the time we both lived in a legal MMJ state. Her doctors never suggested that cannabis might help with her chemo.