HIV/AIDS Patient Stories

Taken from letters written by Arkansas patients:

HIV/AIDS - marijuana relieves nausea and allows her to take her medicine.

HIV/AIDS - depends on marijuana to make him eat

HIV/AIDS - can't take his medicine without marijuana to relieve nausea and it helps him face life every morning in spite of terrible depression

AIDS PATIENT -- Mr. Greg Cooley came before the Arkansas House of Representatives Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor in January 2001 to testify in behalf of a medical marijuana bill. At that time, he was unable to walk and was brought in a wheelchair. At the present time, he has become bedfast and is not expected to live to year's end. Click here to read full testimony