Fayetteville City Attorney Supports Medical Marijuana
Emily Williams battled cancer and said there was one thing that relieved her suffering, but using it made her a criminal.
"Your whole body hurts, your insides hurt, your head hurts. Everything hurts."
During Emily's battle with lymphoma, no anti-nausea medication eased her pain.
"I stood there and thought to myself, my body has given up on me. My body doesn't even want to be here. My body wants to just lie down here on this ground and give up."
With reluctancy, she tried marijuana and said it allowed her to manage.
"The immediacy, how quickly it works, how quickly it makes it possible to even be functional is incredible."
But doctors could not prescribe it and would not talk about it, so she had to figure it out for herself.
"I had no guidance on how much, how often, how, so I'm shooting in the dark trying to medically take care of myself... I had to put my family at risk, I had to put the person who brought it to me at risk, I put myself at risk."
Stakes were high. She is married to Fayetteville City Attorney Kit Williams.
"My husband, who is one of the best men I know, who does a fantastic job for the city, could lose everything."
"When I saw the effect on my wife and how she really needed it, then that changed my mind, that opened my eyes, and I could no longer just hide in the shadows, I thought that we needed to be truthful."
With truth came reality, the possibility of losing a job, or his wife going to jail.
"She should not have to be an outlaw to get the kind of relief that she needed to get. It really hurt her to break the law, she doesn't break the law, she had to in this case."
Regardless, he loves Emily unconditionally.
"Love is I will go out there myself and I will stand on the street corner and I'll buy it from somebody, and I'll bring it to you rolled up in a piece of paper or pipe, and I'll stick it in your mouth and I'll light the match and I'll help you suck it down if I have to because I love you and I want you to survive this and feel okay. That's love. That's morality."
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