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Up in smoke: A medical marijuana supporter shares his pain

After enduring two rounds of back surgery and suffering nerve damage in his leg, Marshall Parks knows the rest of his life will be a battle against pain.

He’s taken a laundry list of medications and treatments.

The one he said works the best is illegal.

He was rarely a political activist, but now he feels it’s time to be an advocate for medical marijuana. Not just for himself, but for people he has watched suffer, including his late mother.

“I don’t want to live a life where I have to make excuses for myself,” he said.

He’s trying to get an answer to a question that is becoming asked more and more around Illinois — should he be legally allowed to use marijuana for medical purposes?

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