The Billings Gazette, 30 Oct 2012 – Cancer has been trying to kill me for a while now, which is why I hope Montanans will vote "no" on this year’s medical marijuana ballot issue. Let me explain. I was diagnosed with lung cancer six years ago. The treatments I went through were horrendous, the pain I experience is excruciating, and the various modern medications I am given cause hideous nightmares. Let me tell you, cancer is a cruel way for a person’s life to come to an end.