Rocker Melissa Etheridge, a breast cancer survivor, calls for NY to legalize medical marijuana

KEN LOVETT

Rocker and breast cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge has joined the fight to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes in New York—but Gov. Cuomo has serious questions before he’ll consider signing the bill.

“As a cancer survivor, I know the ravages of a serious illness, and patients who are suffering deserve access to a medication that can provide them relief,” Etheridge said in a statement.

Etheridge had previously said that medical marijuana not only relieved the nausea and pain from her treatments of stage 2 breast cancer, but it also allowed her to avoid other pain medication that could be addictive or have side effects.


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