| I read your article in the latest issue of Playboy with interest. I
gave my late wife Toni (Shirley) a cannabis-based brewed tea to relief the nausea brought
on by chemotherapy. I made the tea because she did not want to smoke the weed. It is hard
to brew, but with persistence I managed to make a decent "West Indian Herbal
Tea." She tolerated the cannabis tea well, then tolerated the treatment better. The
senior partner of the oncologist group did not believe in the use of cannabis to alleviate
the nasty side effects of the chemotherapy. I did get him to prescribe synthetic THC, and
that helped some, but was not as effective as the real thing. I managed to keep my wife
comfortable up to her death from complications of metastasized lung cancer 3½ years ago,
so I know that it works and would use it if I were ever in the same position. Oh, by the
way, I am a ten-year survivor of thyroid cancer. Radiation and surgery plus early
detection was enough to help me combat this type of cancer. Thank you! Stephen "Paul" RuskPrsarge@hotmail.com or prsarge@juno.com |