Months after his death, Pete Frates’ legacy lives on
in family’s push for ALS patients to try medical marijuana
By the time Pete Frates tried medical marijuana, he and his family felt like they had run out of options for treating his anxiety.
The Boston College graduate, who had been diagnosed with ALS years earlier, was already seeing top psychiatrists and therapists at Massachusetts General Hospital. He had tried every anxiety drug made available to him. All his family wanted was something — anything — that would ease the anxiety Frates felt as his diagnosis left him trapped inside his own body.
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