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There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

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Melissa Etheridge
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 29
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