HOT SPRINGS — Nearly three years since medical marijuana saw its first legal sale in Arkansas, residents are weighing in on how using the drug has changed their lives.
Hot Springs Village resident Dale Worthington, who was diagnosed with head and neck squamous cell cancer five years ago, said cannabis helped him get through his chemotherapy treatments “relatively untouched.”
“I didn’t even realize how much I wasn’t feeling until I started looking around at the other patients, because some of them were just absolutely miserable. They were ash-white,” he said. “Some of them would have to get up to go to the bathroom multiple times because they were sick.”
Worthington said since he’s started using cannabis while undergoing chemotherapy, he’s had no nausea, and is able to eat whenever he wants. He was even able to drive himself to and from his chemotherapy sessions.
“Chemotherapy is horrible,” Worthington said, but he’s still alive and in good health, and the treatments appear to have worked, with his scans now coming back negative.
Worthington makes edibles or mixes it in his coffee. He smokes some, he said, but uses water filtration when he does, not going “straight in,” and also uses CBD to counteract the effects so he doesn’t get “stoned.”
He doesn’t like using the word “marijuana,” noting it was a term used to make the plant seem more alien; he uses the word cannabis instead.
For anyone on the fence about using it, Worthington said he would tell them to forget all the…
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HOT SPRINGS — Nearly three years since medical marijuana saw its first legal sale in Arkansas, residents are weighing in on how using the drug has changed their lives.
Hot Springs Village resident Dale Worthington, who was diagnosed with head and neck squamous cell cancer five years ago, said cannabis helped him get through his chemotherapy treatments “relatively untouched.”
“I didn’t even realize how much I wasn’t feeling until I started looking around at the other patients, because some of them were just absolutely miserable. They were ash-white,” he said. “Some of them would have to get up to go to the bathroom multiple times because they were sick.”
Worthington said since he’s started using cannabis while undergoing chemotherapy, he’s had no nausea, and is able to eat whenever he wants. He was even able to drive himself to and from his chemotherapy sessions.
“Chemotherapy is horrible,” Worthington said, but he’s still alive and in good health, and the treatments appear to have worked, with his scans now coming back negative.
Worthington makes edibles or mixes it in his coffee. He smokes some, he said, but uses water filtration when he does, not going “straight in,” and also uses CBD to counteract the effects so he doesn’t get “stoned.”
He doesn’t like using the word “marijuana,” noting it was a term used to make the plant seem more alien; he uses the word cannabis instead.
For anyone on the fence about using it, Worthington said he would tell them to forget all the…
