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BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Lawmakers are making history in Vermont this session by passing a law to allow chronically-ill patients to use marijuana as medicine to ease their pain and suffering.
As other states have discovered, a new law doesn't always help.
Judith Auderieth lost her husband to cancer almost three years ago. He smoked pot, but she was the one who had to go out and get the drug for him. She said getting the drug is a wrinkle in the bill that still needs to be ironed out.
Prostate cancer had taken over Steven Auderieth's body, but near the end of his life it wasn't the pain that was unbearable, it was the nausea.
After a while, the Zofran just wasn't working anymore, so his wife got something else that would.
She bought pot on the street. She said she didn't have any other choice.
"Growing marijuana plants would have been a joke because it takes a (long) amount of time to get the plants going and to get it into a smokeable (state)," said Auderieth.
She said that the new medical marijuana bill needs to make pot a whole lot easier to obtain.
Otherwise, she said she and her family are happy about the legislative milestone.
"I'm really proud of the state of Vermont that they've taken this step forward to acknowledging the fact that this is a product that can be used to help relieve human suffering," Auderieth said.
She said she had full support from her doctors and even hospice, but one person who doesn't support the new bill is Gov. Jim Douglas.
Douglas said he won't veto it, but won't sign it either.
As other states have discovered, a new law doesn't always help.
Judith Auderieth lost her husband to cancer almost three years ago. He smoked pot, but she was the one who had to go out and get the drug for him. She said getting the drug is a wrinkle in the bill that still needs to be ironed out.
Prostate cancer had taken over Steven Auderieth's body, but near the end of his life it wasn't the pain that was unbearable, it was the nausea.
After a while, the Zofran just wasn't working anymore, so his wife got something else that would.
She bought pot on the street. She said she didn't have any other choice.
"Growing marijuana plants would have been a joke because it takes a (long) amount of time to get the plants going and to get it into a smokeable (state)," said Auderieth.
She said that the new medical marijuana bill needs to make pot a whole lot easier to obtain.
Otherwise, she said she and her family are happy about the legislative milestone.
"I'm really proud of the state of Vermont that they've taken this step forward to acknowledging the fact that this is a product that can be used to help relieve human suffering," Auderieth said.
She said she had full support from her doctors and even hospice, but one person who doesn't support the new bill is Gov. Jim Douglas.
Douglas said he won't veto it, but won't sign it either.
