ATLANTA — Back during my son's two-year fight against an aggressive bone cancer, he was continually devastated by chemo treatments and the ensuing nausea. The doctors were always chasing that nausea, prescribing one drug after another for relief, a routine that was very hit and miss. Often miss.
It was a hellish existence for Michael and very dire for my wife and I who had to helplessly watch our child suffer so miserably.
Michael inquired about medical marijuana. Four years earlier, in 2015, the Georgia state legislature, in its wisdom, voted to allow those suffering from several diseases to obtain marijuana oil with a doctor's prescription. Michael's oncologist wrote a script but explained that Georgia remained in a bizarre limbo: A doctor can prescribe low-THC marijuana oil and you can possess it, but it is illegal to grow the plant that supplies the oil here. It is also illegal to bring it into the state from elsewhere.
