Auburn Mayor Defends Helping VA Patient Smoke Marijuana To Help With Chemotherapy

AUBURN (CBS13) — The mayor of Auburn says he helped a patient smoke marijuana inside a Northern California Veterans Affairs hospital.
Dr. William Kirby is a practicing urologist, and he revealed during a discussion on medical marijuana at the City Council meeting he sent someone to find marijuana on the streets for a patient.
The mayor is defending his decision, saying he made it not as a politician, but as a doctor.
“I treated a patient appropriately, and he survived. There’s