A year ago Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer one year ago. The chemotherapy was so bad that she turned to medicinal marijuana to help the pain of the side effects. Smoking marijuana in the state of California for medical reasons is not against the law but it's against the Federal law. It helped Melissa with the pain so much that she did not care about getting caught. It was better than taking a hundreds of prescription drugs to feel better. She never got addicted to the weed. When the pain sub-sided than she would stop the smoking. Doctors actually recommend this remedy, as long as it's legal in that particular state. Melissa Etheridge is now cancer-free.

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