September 10, 2007
Mike Berwert, 64, from Topeka, has been using marijuana for many, many years to relieve pain caused by polio, which crippled him as a child.
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Da herb. Bette Hulser couldn't stand it, wouldn't tolerate it and was estranged from her son because he smoked it. Things began to change in 1991. That was when her son, Mike Mallonee, fell again, this time into a scalding vat of beans at Giorgio's in Topeka, where he worked as a chef.
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