Medical marijuana advocates lobby at the State Capitol

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) — People who want medical marijuana legalized in Kentucky rallied in Frankfort Wednesday.

Among them, a cancer patient who says cannabis has changed his life.

“My name’s Adam Clayton and I have stage four brain cancer. It is inoperable.”

Adam Clayton is going through chemotherapy while still working full-time to take care of his family.

“The only thing that works for me is cannabis and it is making my life better while I’m going through a sh*** time,” says Clayton.

Clayton drives all the way to Michigan to get what he calls his ‘medicine’, medical marijuana.

He says it helps him actually want to eat, something chemo makes impossible.

“I want my kids to watch me live my life versus being a zombie on the couch,” says Clayton.

He says the narcotics his doctors prescribe him make him numb, plus he fears addiction so he doesn’t take them.

Clayton says he has seizures regularly.

“When I was taking large amounts of oil I was only having one or two seizures a day but when I ran out of oil I started having five, six, seven, ten, fifteen seizures a day,” says Clayton.

He describes what they feel like.

“It’ll feel like my foot is going to explode. It’ll make it where I can’t feel my hands no more. It’ll feel like I’m getting a tattoo on the whole right half of my body,” says Clayton.

Clayton has a message for lawmakers.

“Walk in my shoes for one day. I have seizures constantly. My bones feel like they’re breaking. I am constantly sick,” says Clayton.

Republican Representative Jason Nemes of Louisville is sponsoring the medical cannabis bill which he’s done in previous sessions.

The bill will get its first test soon in the House Judiciary Committee.

It has the support of Governor Beshear.

Medical marijuana has its opponents who argue it doesn’t actually have medicinal value, saying there’s a lack of studies that prove otherwise.