During
her treatment for breast cancer, Mary Paris couldn’t sleep.
Her pain was “horrible,” she said. Until, she said, a doctor explained how medical marijuana might help her.
The
60-year-old Mundelein resident, who said her cancer has metastasized to her bones, said
that using medical marijuana helps her not only sleep, but also feel improved
mobility with less pain.
Like Paris, many cancer patients in Illinois are seeking
medical marijuana throughout and after their treatment.
According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, between 2014 — when it began approving applications for medical marijuana — and September 2017, it had OK’d 24,000 patients. A year later, the total is 44,000.
