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February 24, 2021
The House Committee on Federal and State Affairs, chaired by Rep. John Barker, R-Abilene, is considering a bill which would make medical marijuana accessible to Kansans with qualifying health conditions. (Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector)
TOPEKA Three years ago, April Hatch sat at her grandmother s bedside, listening as she agonizingly withdrew from prescription pain medications and told Hatch she thought she was going to die.
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Hatch, a registered nurse for 16 years, knew her grandmother would not die that day from the opioid prescribed for her osteoarthritis. Her grandmother had suffered from the condition for 12 years and had just stopped using the medication. Now, Hatch said, a 90-year-old woman was forced into what were likely the worst two days of her life.