LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — In an effort to save her son, medical marijuana patient advocate Melissa Fults got involved in the ongoing fight, and later realized how much impact medical marijuana could have on generations of Arkansans.
“We knew that there would be a cure period. There always is, and we’ve done this a lot of times. We didn’t stop. we continued from the day we turned in the first time, and just continued to gather signatures.”
“We were in the office 3 o’clock Friday morning finishing, counting, sorting, putting in the boxes and getting them ready to turn in again, so it’s a process.”
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“Back in 2011, he had been in an accident 14 years prior, and it did some damage to his neck and his back, and he has had several neck and back surgeries.”
“As you know, people on opioids that are prescribed opioids, they just get more, and more, and more, and more. It got to the point where they told him ‘We’re killing you, we’ve destroyed the lining of your stomach. Eventually it will rupture, you will bleed out before you get to the hospital, and you’ll die.”
However, another doctor mentioned a solution which would include the use of medical marijuana and elimination of other medications that would give an increased chance to live.
Melissa, along with her husband Gary, worked with a college student who was in the midst of getting an amendment written and approved by the state Attorney General’s office.
Despite missing the push to having the amendment placed on the ballot in 2012, by just 1.75%, Melissa and her team re-wrote a new one for 2016.
Through the tireless work of volunteers, the amendment was placed on the ballot again, but was kicked off.
Despite the continued fight, Fults continued her efforts to ensure her son finds a healthier, alternative route to embark on his journey of healing.
“I’m very proud of him. Now he doesn’t even use cannibis, he was using it to get off all the drugs, and from that point on he just work out to build muscles around the damage, and he’s a great story.”
“We found a good source that was safe. He was able to get off his opioids, hehad never graduated from high school because they kept him so zoned out. He went back to night school, got his hs diploma, went and got an associate degree, then a bachelor’s degree, and just got hi master’s degree, and he is giving back to the community with his master’s degree as a social worker, so I’m very very proud of him.”
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“We knew that there would be a cure period. There always is, and we’ve done this a lot of times. We didn’t stop. we continued from the day we turned in the firs Read More