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if I got caught, because someone could try to take Hannah away,” she says. “But my daughter was sick, with zero quality of life. I had to help her, so at the end of the day, it wasn’t really a choice at all.” Briggs had the same feeling that Shuker did. She would fly to Colorado to get medication and bring it back with her. Once, because of some change she forgot to take out of her pocket, she was pulled aside and given a complete search, including having her bags searched. They didn’t find the oil, but it made for a tense moment. Because of the cost of going to Denver and the risk, she decided to find a local contact. While she won’t give many details about the person or the transactions, she says the dealer became part of the family. “That first Christmas, I baked him some cookies,” Briggs says. “I didn’t think it was strange at the time. I’m a mom — that’s what we do for family and friends, we bake cookies.” The other thing moms do is help others in need. In order to receive medical marijuana, a patient has to have one of 17 qualified conditions. If the patient can’t get their own medication, they can use a qualified caregiver, and that process takes about a month. Recently, Shuker got a call out of the blue from a man whose mother was in hospice care and completely out of it, during what were the last days of her life. The man asked if she knew how he could get medical marijuana. Shuker decided she would help the man and contacted Briggs to figure out how. If you are a caregiver, you can be a
caregiver to up to four patients. Briggs found a doctor willing to go to the woman’s home to check her out and qualify her for the medications. Shuker then obtained the medication, and the woman began taking it. “Her son said she was in a fog and was hoping that medical marijuana would help make her last days comfortable, but not in an opioid haze,” Shuker says. “I took her the medication, and she was able to spend three days with her family and didn’t take anything other than medical cannabis.”
“THAT MAKES ALL OF THE WORK WE DID WORTHWHILE.” Briggs realized that legalization wasn’t the last hurdle in this battle, because people would still need help getting educated about and navigating through the system. In an effort to help other people, Briggs launched a new business, PA Compassionate Caregivers. Since most caregivers aren’t dealing with four patients at once, they can help people in the interim until their own caregivers get certified. Briggs says the service will connect people with a caregiver and a doctor to make sure they have a qualifying medical condition. “There is a need for this,” Briggs says. “People shouldn’t be deprived
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