In stark contrast to my last post on Christianity and faith, this post will be about marijuana. Similarly controversial to faith, but much more fun for me to write about, I’m tempted to say marijuana played an almost equally important roll in his cancer battle. This is something we didn’t talk about with most people during his treatment and I never mentioned it on CaringBridge for a number of reasons. For starters, it wasn’t legal at the time. In addition, I think there was a part of us that didn’t want to worry about the judgement. Meh, whatever. Judge away, if you wish. But regardless of your feelings on marijuana use and its legalization, I will make the bold statement that I believe it extended Mike’s life. About a week into starting PLX (the clinical trial drug), Mike started to feel a little better. He was keeping some food down and his pain got a little better. Our levels of anxiety eased slightly. It all started that day he got some IV fluid and at...