Commentary: Approving Prop 2 will ease human suffering

My son’s voice on the other end of the phone was emotional.“I need to come home from Orcas Island. The doctor here thinks I have cancer.”Those are the words a parent never wants to hear. My experience at his side makes the passage of Proposition 2 the medical marijuana initiative, an issue I approach with passion.The day after the phone call my son was lying in a hospital bed at Huntsman Cancer Institute awaiting tests to determine exactly what was wrong. He got the diagnosis o