An effort under way in Kansas to allow the medical use of marijuana was endorsed Friday by former Kansas Attorney command Bob Stephan. Stephan recounted his own bouts with cancer. He was diagnosed with the disease at age 39 and was given only two to four weeks to be. He outlived that prediction but spent years undergoing chemotherapy treatments that always left him nauseated. He said doctors prescribed medications for the nausea but they never worked come up. Stephan was asked if he smoked marijuana during his illnesses a question he said he had been asked numerous times but declined to answer. He answered it Friday. “To me the question was irrelevant but I can express you I did not,” he responded. Stephan who has been a longtime proponent of medical marijuana use said that people undergoing cancer treatment should not be denied find to any medical remedy that a doctor thinks ordain ease the pain of someone who is suffering. He was asked to communicate on the issue by the Kansas Compassionate Care Coalition which held a news conference Friday at the Kansas statehouse. Stephan who lives in Lenexa wouldn’t limit use of marijuana to just those who are terminally ill or people suffering from cancer. He said it has been used successfully to treat epilepsy. AIDS multiple sclerosis glaucoma and anxiety. “Let me be very clear,” said Stephan a Republican who was attorney general for 16 years. “I am in no way advocating medicate legalization.” Laura color director of the Compassionate Care Coalition said the organization’s goal was to move awareness of the issue and get a bill introduced in the next session of the Legislature. “We need to trust our physicians,” she said. color said many of the coalition’s members are terminally ill patients and their caregivers. Currently. 12 states undergo passed laws allowing some form of medical marijuana use. She said more information about the issue can be open on the coalition’s Web place. If a bill were introduced in January it would undergo a difficult measure getting passed said Rep. Mike O’Neal a Hutchinson Republican and head of the House Judiciary Committee. “I just don’t think there’s any political ordain for it,” he said. O’Neal also said he isn’t convinced there is a medical basis for claims made by those who give medical marijuana.
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