And don’t get me started on medical marijuana use….which is “legal” in Oregon since 1999, but the red tape is so restrictive that most of the cancer patients I work with in a hospital setting die long before they can jump through all the hoops, pay the application fees and manage to grow their own plants. In the very least it takes months to get the proper documentation and plants big enough to harvest. In the meantime, people who suffer from chronic nausea or intractable pain are forced to break the law if this medicinal herb works for them. How humiliating.

This “comment” is getting way too long and veering dangerously close to soap box territory, but since we’ve been getting a peak at what Courtney is reading I would like to recommend an excellent book written by a psychiatrist named Dan Shapiro called “Mom’s Marijuana”. It is his true story about battling cancer and having his mother grow marijuana for him, a tea-totling lady who wouldn’t dream of jaywalking let alone growing pot. But for her son, she does. It is a wonderful book.