This is in response to proposed legislation Senate Bill 74 and House Bill 96. My wife and I met in Elfin Cove in 1984 while she was doing whale research.

We are both biologists. One year after our marriage she was in a wheelchair due to multiple sclerosis.

Today she can barely speak and is virtually a quadriplegic lady with a strong will and mind. Recently she wrote to Alaskans about her medicinal use of marijuana. Though I do not use marijuana, when I saw her suffering from extreme spasticity, pain, loss of vision, and tremors, I became open to the idea of allowing her to.

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