--Use prescribed, heavy duty opiates for pain?=Get fucked with by doctors who got the feds riding their asses. Deal with the possibility of gettin charged with drug dealing by stupid, ignorant-ass, arrest-happy drug task force cops becuz the amounts of pills you are prescribed are so high becuz of your tolerance and extreme pain levels, so that means you must be selling them! eventually, Have to deal with getting your number of pills cut down becuz your doctor is scared of gettin busted for providing legitimate treatment to somebody who actually needs it, so you got to suffer as a result.
--Move to heroin or illicit black market pills cuz your dr aint giving you enough?=get arrested, charged , get criminal record, get branded a drug using junkie, drug-seeker, etc. more pain and suffering physical and emotional, drug record makes it even harder to get the care and treatment you really need becuz it makes you look shady and people not believe that your issue is legit.
--Use illegal marijuana medicinally becuz it helps reduce the pain and reduce the amount of meds you need to take? = get arrested, more drug charges, treated like shit by the justice system, they dont take you seriously, deal with all the same shit that a person smokin weed for nothing but fun.
--Get medical marijuana?

eal with retarded restrictions and regulations, forced to buy weed from gov't distributors who grow shitty middys, not be allowed to grow/possess as much as you actually need, go thru tons of bullshit and jump thru flaming hoops to get the prescription--that is if you even qualify, since if you aint got mutha fuckin cancer you prolly wont even get approved for it.
There really aint no way out of it for people who suffer from severe chronic pain....you fucked if you do, fucked if you dont, ther needs to be more options becuz every where you turn these days is a wall in front of you. its a terrible situation to be in, and people in power should be supporting every possible option instead of makin it harder. i would love to see a governor or senators daughter or son or wife or husband crippled by a horrible accident or medical problem like tumor, etc, causing them to need massive doses of super strong painkillers, become dependent on them, and get dicked around by pussy doctors scared to lose their license for defending their prescribed treatment for a legit pain patient, so they underprescribe....Maybe then they would be a lil more interested in doin somethin about makin MMJ more available for people other than ones who are already dying...