Despite scant research regarding medical use of cannabis, strong popular sentiment is driving legalization of the flowering plant for therapeutic use.
Nearly two decades have passed, but Stacy Sklaver still remembers the overwhelming nausea.
Her doctor was treating her breast cancer with a six-month course of the chemotherapies doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide and paclitaxel, and she thought the drugs were more likely to kill her than the disease.
“I remember the stuff was so toxic that nurses wore gloves to prevent it from burning the skin on their hands,” says Sklaver, now 60, who typically became nauseated a couple of days after treatment and got no relief from Zofran (ondansetron), the anti-nausea drug her doctor prescribed.
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