Melissa Etheridge
b. May 29, 1961
In an interview that aired October 16, 2005 on "Dateline NBC," singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge said she smoked medicinal marijuana to help with the side effects of chemotherapy during her treatment for breast cancer. "Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana," Etheridge said. She said she smoked marijuana every day for her pain and symptoms and "the minute I didn't feel it, I stopped." (This is why smoking is such an effective way to ingest marijuana, rather than taking it orally.) When asked how her doctors reacted, Etheridge said, "Every single one was, 'Oh, yeah. That's the best help for the effects of chemotherapy.'"
At the 2007 Academy Awards ceremony, Etheridge rocked the house and took home a statue for "I Need to Wake Up," her theme song to VIP Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" -- which ought to be an anthem for us all.
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2004-2010
Changing the Face of Cannabis