Dear Editor:
I was trapped, prevented from seeing my friends and family. Recollections of masks of blood, five failed brain surgeries, countless drugs, and thousands of seizures, imprisoned me in Colorado, away from my loved ones residing in my home state of New Jersey.
Discovery of a curing anti-epileptic was bleak, as hope began to fade.
Then, after 11 years, I began utilizing my sole effective treatment—the medicinal use of marijuana, as a state-registered medical marijuana patient. There was only one problem that remained, I couldn’t return home to share my remedied state of health with my family. Acknowledging that an abrupt abandonment of the drug would provoke seizures, and aware of the fact that marijuana was illegal in New Jersey, I was barred from visitation.
Until now, when I have been presented the opportunity to safely return home under New Jersey’s recently enacted medical marijuana legislation. A senior at Colorado State University, I am at last able to spend time with my loved ones healthy.
Kind regards,
Tim DaGiau