To the editor:

I am 32-year-old mother of two and currently a patient in Rhode Island's medical marijuana program. My life was normal and happy until a couple of years ago. Since then I have be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, fibromyagia, and anxiety disorders. As a result, chronic intramuscular pain, weakness, pins and needles, neuropathy pain, cognitive difficulties, tremors and painful spasms have become a daily struggle for me -- physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

To be so young, managing a household, raising my children, and having to fight these illness every day is just so incredibly hard. Prescription drugs left me unable to be a productive mother and homemaker. These powerful drugs were turning me into a person I did not like. I did not even feel human.

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