While we were all heading back from Thanksgiving break, Angel Raich was vaporizing some marijuana to bake in her zucchini bread before catching a plane ride to Washington.

That's alright ... thanks to her doctor's consent and a 1996 Californian medicinal marijuana initiative, she has the proper authorization.

Although Raich lives in Oakland, Calif., with two children, she faces many debilitating disorders that have forced her to try many pharmaceutical drugs without any luck.

Marijuana now soothes her brain tumor, seizure disorder and excruciating back pain. She also has severe post-traumatic stress disorder from being abused as a child and from severe non-epileptic seizures.

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