Bad Eyes, Good Medicine, and a Guy Named Bob
Halos have long adorned the heads of saints, but in the case of the late Robert Randall – the compassionate angel anointed by bad luck and good timing to launch the modern medical marijuana movement – the halos hovered in his eyes. Due to a rare type of glaucoma that began in his youth, Bob couldn’t see very well, particularly at night, when streetlights would be surrounded by halos. Halos are the common symptom of severe though painless pressure on the optic nerve, which is what glaucoma – nicknamed the “sneak thief of sight” – victims experience until blindness sets in.
