Deana Martinez Patient Story
Deana Martinez Patient Story – Medical marijuana patient and advocate Deana Martinez discusses how her quality of life has dramatically increased for her and her family now that medical cannabis has been introduced into her AIDS treatment. Deana is also an advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention and has been featured in local Denver media. Transcript to follow: Hello my name is Deana Martinez. And on December 2, 2008 I found out that I had advanced AIDS. That is when I began to educate myself as far as cannabis and its medical benefits. I had 21 surgeries, they began when I was 18 and I had never been tested for HIV. I had injections for 3 ½ years, every 6 weeks, into various parts of my body due to nerve condition, pain, we thought. And had no idea. So I just got really sick. Got sicker and sicker. They tested me and came back and told me that I was HIV positive but they thought I was much sicker than that. And needed to have me checked. So I went and did a test and on December 2nd I found out that I had 12 T-cells. And for those that are familiar with T-cells, and what that means, it meant that I was in full-blown AIDS. The advanced stages, and I was very sick at the time. So that’s when they told me that I was in the advanced stages I needed to get things taken care of, that I would never see 100 T-cells, come home and prepare my son, take the meds and we’ll see what happens. And so that’s what I did. I came home and told my son. Prepared him, at 16, for me to die. Prepared myself to die …
Medical marijuana and the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race
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Governor Tommy Thompson does NOT support the use of marijuana for any reason… and opposes decriminalization for medical use. He says that would send the wrong message to kids. Democratic challenger Ed Garvey disagree… saying it should be all …
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Marijuana ordinance is focus of town hall meeting in Springfield
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New Evidence that THC (in marijuana) Is Effective Against Cancer and Other …
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