For some chronically ill patients, pot succeeds where painkillers fail
Staff photo by Bob Hammerstrom^^Taking a break from a computer game, 23-year-old Clayton Holton takes a hit from his marijuana pipe at his home in New Hampshire. Holton suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy and chooses to smoke marijuana, rather than take pain killers. He is confined to a wheelchair, and said the marijuana makes him hungry but doesn't make him sick like pain killers did -- At one point, he was down to 79 pounds. The medications, right, are for his other ailments. Check out a video about Holton on www.nashuatelegraph.com. Enlarge
Staff photo by Bob Hammerstrom^^Taking a break from a computer game, 23-year-old Clayton Holton takes a hit from his marijuana pipe at his home in New Hampshire. Holton suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy and chooses to smoke marijuana, rather than take pain killers. He is confined to a wheelchair, and said the marijuana makes him hungry but doesn't make him sick like pain killers did -- At one point, he was down to 79 pounds. The medications, right, are for his other ailments. Check out a video about Holton on www.nashuatelegraph.com. Enlarge
Staff photo by Bob Hammerstrom^^Taking a break from a computer game, 23-year-old Clayton Holton takes a hit from his marijuana pipe at his home in New Hampshire. Holton suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy and chooses to smoke marijuana, rather than take pain killers. He is confined to a wheelchair, and said the marijuana makes him hungry but doesn't make him sick like pain killers did -- At one point, he was down to 79 pounds. The medications, right, are for his other ailments. Check out a video about Holton on www.nashuatelegraph.com. Enlarge
