Finding refuge from relentless pain By BEVERLY BRIDGES
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Orange Appeal | 2022
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s a teen, having your parents give you a serious talk about taking drugs is one thing. Giving that talk as an adult to your parents is another. What’s more, instead of guiding my folks away from drugs, I advocated for my mother to take one very specific drug: cannabis, more commonly known as marijuana. I had my reasons. My mom was riddled with arthritis, causing her spine to twist and collapse into her pelvis due to polio as a child. Combine this with a number of other ailments in someone of an advanced age and the result is pain. Lots of it.
BEVERLY BRIDGES; POSTER ART, 1936 FILM MARIHUANA
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