Another Buffalo-area Child Dies Waiting for Emergency Access to Medical Marijuana.

 

Donella was fighting stage 4 brain cancer. Her father, Nate, joined Compassionate Care NY from Donella’s bedside, fighting for emergency access for his daughter and pleading with Governor Cuomo to take action. This October, the Times-Union published Nate’s powerful op-ed about his fight to ease his daughter’s pain.

 

Statement by Nate Nocera, father of Donella: “More than five months after Governor Cuomo signed a bill into law that was meant to bring vital treatment to our family, my daughter Donella is dead. Governor Cuomo, I know you cannot turn back time to get us the medical marijuana that could have slowed the aggressive growth of the tumor in her brain. I know you cannot give us back the days, turned into weeks, turned into months that we lost Donella to a narcotic-induced sleep. But you have the power to end the needless suffering of so many New York families, and I urge you to use it. In the name of my little girl and at least two other children who have died waiting for medical marijuana, I urge you to take action. When you gather with your loved ones this holiday season, I ask that you keep my family in your heart as we suffer the loss of our dearest Donnie."

 

Prohibition is killing people! There are thousands of people waiting for the US to end their war on cannabis, to end Medical Tyranny and as prohibitionists continue to stall cannabis legalization more people will die. The deaths of these medical patients are on the heads of those who support prohibition. It's time to end the madness, it's time to enter into an age of compassion, an age of medical freedom. 

 

While Cannabis can't heal everyone...it gives them a fighting chance! Why limit that chance?

 

How many more must die before medical cannabis is legalized?