Ah that's a shame no medical cannabis in your state. I honestly suggest trying to express to your doctor the change in the system even though they recently banned hemp formulated CBD formulations attempting to control a market that thanks to state law is becoming free yet regulated. The idea is to compare the negatives to the positives such as avoiding benzo dependancy only for a cannabis dependancy, which is loads safer.... To this day 0 deaths are attributed to cannabis.
No offence to any weed smokers, I smoke it too, but fuck some medical cannabis. First of all, I hate potheads, especially the kind that are always praising pot and how many lives it saves. Morphine saves lives, too, by God, probably saved mine, but I wouldn't advocate anybody to use any narcotics.
I also hate when they say ,"weeds not a drug, its an herb" bullshit, because I've been a pretty consistent weed smoker, and my tolerance is fucking crazy. Considering frequency, amount etc...my Opiate tolerance, using 2-3X a day for about 4 years (weed for only abuot 6 or so) weed tolerance goes up WAY FASTER, and is WAY HARDER TO CONTROL/REDUCE that OPIATE TOLERANCE. And that's a well known fact.
So idc if you wanna be a cool hipster and hang out at the bud bar smoking doobs all day long, just be prepared to NEED your weed for a long long time, because without it, you're gonna be one angry, anorexic, goddamn sonofabitch!
I think marijuana should be a non-issue. If it were legal, Great, everybody grow 45 plants in your back-yard, and smoke that shit like cigarettes!!!
BUT I'M SO TIRED OF SEEING WEED ON TV 24/7, AND HEARING EVERYBODY AND THEIR GRANDMA SMOKES POT!! I don't give a shit, marijuana doesn't mean anything to me, except just another cruch to make my life more tolerable. That's all.
It is not some kind of magical herb with no dangerous side effects at all, it's not some unicorn holy-grail type-a-bullshit that's gonna give you eternal life.
It is a plant, composed of hundreds of active ingredients which happen to be benign enough that it rarely, if ever PHYSICALLY harms anybody.
But if you thing using marijuana 24/7 doesn't have serious effects on the minds of it's users, you're a goddamned fool.
Sure, I could give up opiates forever, just smoke 50 joints of chronic a day to treat my pain/bowels/tension..etc..but anybody who thinks I would be, in any way, a better person, or better off treating my pain with Medical Marijuana, INSTEAD of Morphine/Hydrocodone/Codeine..etc...that's nothing but good old fashioned propaganda right there.
There should be no stigma around any medications, when used for a legitimate purpose.
But there IS a difference between people who smoke weed to get "high" as it were, and people who smoke for relief, or for quality of life, which I consider LEGITIMATE. The prior is trying to get out of life, while the latter are trying to get INTO life, because narcotics are the only way they can actually FEEL decent enough to function.
A few retarted apples can really make the rest look stupid, ya know?