Letter: Medical marijuana a life extender

My wife and the love of my life, Janet Eisele (she didn’t like my last name), died. She had battled cancer for over 40 years, but it wasn’t the cancer that struck her, it was a combination of damage from chemotherapy, age, and recurrent pneumonia that brought on her when she was 85. It was also the case that until then she only had one functioning lung.

Eight years earlier she had been sent home to die by her doctors at the James Cancer Center in Columbus.

The last time The James sent her home, she weighed 83 pounds. Her family traveled from California to see her alive one last time.

There were churches in three states that prayed for them.

In my desperation, I wouldn’t take everything as the final answer. I started looking the internet to find a way to keep her with me.

What I found was a large number of anecdotes about the healing and cancer-fighting properties of a form of medicinal marijuana called “Hash Oil”. It was illegal both federally and in Ohio at the time.

I suppose we could all have gone to jail for what we did next. Some of her family members on the left coast bought Hash Oil and sent it to us. It increased. She started to feel better.

With my approval I can get myself into legal difficulties, but what now? I am 83 years old.

Martin Schultheis

Lima