Posted by bogeydune on April 4, 2006, at 2:00:26
I realize that a few of you out there think that the idea of medical marijuana is as out-dated as hippies. This is sad, because it shows that government propoganda is educating the masses, instead of medical fact. I have been dealing with chronic pain for over 3 years now. I have tried various "nerve drugs", and a few pain-killers as well. I was recently accepted into a pain clinic, and was rather shocked to find out that they drug-test for marijuana, and have a zero-tolerance for it. Instead, the clinic prescribed me an increasing dose of morphine to be taken twice daily possibly for the rest of my life. I am 29 years old. How much morphine am I going to need in 10, 15, 20 years? Yet I could use an herb in the privacy of my own home that (when prepared in food with higher THC concentration) eliminates my pain with NO DOCUMENTED CASES OF PHYSICAL DEPENDANCE. The contract I had to sign with the pain clinic states that within 3 weeks I WILL be physically dependant on morphine. It's time to re-read the literature and open our conservitive minds to non-pharmicutical treatments. In reality, which is worse... pot or morphine?
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