Affliction / Illness: Inoperable brain tumor, wasting syndrome, Scoliosis, TMJ, Endometriosis, Uterine tumor, and several other serious conditions
Angel McClary Raich is a mother, a wife, and an activist. She is also seriously ill, and since 1997, she has used medical marijuana legally, under state law, to manage the symptoms of several life threatening illnesses. Raich is currently battling an inoperable brain tumor, seizures, and life threatening wasting syndrome, accompanied by perpetual nausea. She also suffers from several conditions that cause severe, chronic pain, including fibromyalgia, endometriosis, scoliosis, uterine fibroid tumors, and rotator cuff disease. Raich has been permanently disabled since September 1995. Raich’s primary care physician, Dr. Frank Lucido, said, “Angel has no reasonable legal alternative to cannabis for the effective treatment or alleviation of her medical conditions or symptoms associated with the medical conditions, because she has tried essentially all other legal alternatives to cannabis and the alternatives have been ineffective or result in intolerable side effects. Angel will suffer imminent harm without access to cannabis.” “I am a mother of two teenage children. My children know more than anyone how medical cannabis brought their mommy back to them. The hardest part of being disabled is watching the suffering in your children’s eyes as they watch you endure such suffering with no end in sight.”
