[net-gold] MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: PAIN : INDOOR GARDENING : DRUGS: MARIJUANA: Growing Pains
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:28:06 -0500 (EST)
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MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: PAIN :
INDOOR GARDENING :
DRUGS: MARIJUANA:
Growing Pains
Growing Pains
The Herald Palladium
By JULIE SWIDWA -
H-P Staff Writer
Published: Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:08 PM EST
<http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/
2010/01/10/local_news/1102755.txt>
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ST. JOSEPH - In September 2008, Jeff's doctors told him he would be in a
wheelchair within 18 months.
A construction accident 11 years earlier had destroyed the lumbar section
of his spine.
"I had had multiple surgeries and was on ridiculous amounts of
prescription opiates," Jeff said in a Herald-Palladium interview. "I had a
hard time finding a doctor willing to do surgery because of all the
prescription drugs I was on. I went through the process of getting off
those medications, and I had surgery a few months ago."
Jeff, 45, who asked that his last name not be used to preserve his
daughter's privacy, does not want to get dependent on pills again and has
chosen to self-medicate with marijuana.
For Jeff and people like him, it's an option that wasn't available before
November 2008. Michigan voters that month approved a system legalizing
medical marijuana, and the law took full effect on April 4, 2009.
Since then, thousands of patients have been approved as legal cannabis
users.
Significantly fewer people have been approved as caregivers, people who
can grow marijuana and supply it to patients they are legally designated
to care for. Jeff and other marijuana users say that is a problem.
Long waiting line
The Michigan Department of Community Health takes applications for the
legal growing or use of marijuana. The department can't keep up with the
number of requests and is behind on issuing registration cards to
patients. It's even more behind on caregivers' cards. That's creating a
problem, because patients who are legally registered to use marijuana are
waiting four to six months to get a legal source for it, Jeff said.
"I think the state should have been better prepared for cards to be issued
in a timely manner," said Terry Coleman.
She and her husband, Mark Coleman, own H20 Grow Supply, an indoor
gardening supply store near Coloma.
They are both in their 50s. They sell supplies needed to grow indoor
plants, including cannabis. The Colemans are approved as medical marijuana
patients and caregivers, but they are still waiting for their registration
cards.
"Once a patient has his or her card, they can buy legally, but the seller
could be arrested," Jeff said. "There's no legal way for some patients to
get their medicine."
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