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A few years ago, a constituent came to Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, with an unlikely complaint: He couldn't get enough high-quality marijuana.
The Bennington County area resident, Mark Tucci, has multiple sclerosis and smokes medically-prescribed marijuana to relieve chronic pain and muscle spasms. For several years, Tucci has been outspoken about how marijuana has helped him manage his illness well enough to raise a family and start a nonprofit group.
Under a 2007 law, Vermonters with chronic conditions like MS, cancer, and AIDS can register with the state and obtain a prescription for medical marijuana. But under the law, medical-marijuana users like Tucci were limited to either growing the marijuana themselves, or having a caregiver grow it for them.
Tucci elected to grow his own and even wrote a how-to book for other medical-marijuana users.
