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Source: www.pocketburgers.com --- Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Jessica Van Berkel, The Oregonian Jamie Francis Lindsey Bradshaw, 62, spends most days in his Southeast Portland home, where he can quickly access his painkillers and keep tabs on his health. Bradshaw's battle with cancer in 2003 left him without his spleen and a kidney, part of his stomach, colon and pancreas. Medical Marijuana is one of the methods he uses to deal with the pain. With one hand, Lindsey Bradshaw hoisted his food bag onto his back, arranging the tube that has helped feed him since cancer ravaged his stomach seven years ago. In his other hand, he clutched a small gold bowl of Marijuana and a pipe. He depends on both devices to get through the day. One of 36,380 patients registered with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program , Bradshaw is a gardener who grows most of his own Medical Marijuana -- one of two options that program participants have. They can also buy from a producer who sells to four or fewer people. Those options leave people dry if they don't know a producer and are too sick to grow their own, Bradshaw said. But that could change, if a ballot measure to create a system of Medical Marijuana dispensaries passes. The measure certified for the November ballot July 16, but has not received a ballot number yet. It would establish Oregon as the seventh state to set up a state-regulated dispensary system. Growth of state-regulated models began popping up across the United States after October 2009, when President ...