Marijuana vs Multiple Pills

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I'm coming out of my "Green Closet"! The ongoing debate in California has brought out a lot of people that have been silent for a long time about scrounging around for their medicine!

I am so sick of the people that sit back on their pious asses and hold "court" over MY PAIN! Pain and the relief thereof is subjective! In this case the subject is ME! I am the subject, MY pain! Even if YOU are not CONVINCED that it helps MY PAIN, as long as I am, who are YOU to say it doesn't?

I can walk into any doctor anywhere in any town and get a HANDFUL of NARCOTICS in just a few minutes! Enough to kill me 6x over, they do help with Some of my problems, but the side effects are devastating and leave me unable to function in any NORMAL capacity. The MJ does help take enough of the edge off the pain and nerve action (spasms) that I can function and still get on with life! So, even if YOU believe it is not viable for medical purposes, if it helps me (I do not care if you think it is a PLACEBO) then that should be MY opinion and choice! BTW, I suffered a devastating spinal cord injury that has left me with lifelong, debilitating nerve damage with spasms, pain and partial loss of function on one side of my body!


I had someone say to me that this beneficial effect was all in "my mind", that it didn't really relieve anything. Okay, it's all in MY mind - if I have traded in my handful of "goodies" for a few hits of pot, and it works for me, why does it bother you? Seriously, do you think I would be better off to just continue taking all of my prescriptions like Norco, Valium, Neurontin, Zoloft, Ambien and Flexeril in doses guaranteed to stop me from even crawling out of bed? Besides the physiological ramifications, they also happen to leave me unable to talk straight, drive, cook, shop or any other task requiring a brain or motor skills!


Maybe your right, maybe it won't "take away" my ailments...but I don't seem to care nearly as much! Oh, wait, am I admitting that I ENJOY consuming my medication? I guess so, wow, isn't that a shame? I have to pass on alcohol because it causes me to become violently ill most of the time. Do you think that alcohol is NOT a social "medication"? So yup, I admit it, I like big buds! I rarely use any of the above mentioned drugs, even though I have full bottles in my cabinet and could get pretty much any others from a DR at the drop of a hat! I would rather take a couple of tokes, drink some tea or whatever form of Cannabis "relieves" my symptoms, oh, and I can still get out of bed, hold a conversation above a second grade level and do a little living too!

Toke On!