Joshua Cook lives in North Carolina, although he hails from South Carolina. In 2006 he enlisted with the Army National Guard and served as a military policeman in Iraq. It was during this time, while conducting room raids and providing convoy security, that he started to have seizures. Cook is quick to point out that he was never near any major explosions.
After receiving a medical discharge, Joshua was prescribed a slew of drugs that either made him sick, caused headaches or simply didn’t prevent his convulsions. As the seizures caused this National Guard veteran to hit the ground with hands clenched spastically into fists, torso contorted and shaking uncontrollably, it was vital that he find some sort of relief. That was when he tried marijuana.
We’ll let Joshua tell you the story in his own words
“Nothing had ever worked. At one point, I was having six or seven seizures per week. Once I started smoking weed, I didn’t have a seizure for seven months.
I can’t help that I have seizures; I can’t help that marijuana controls my seizures.”
I’d never done any (recreational) drugs before; I always looked down on people who did drugs because I thought it made them look stupid.”
Speaking of the thin marijuana cigarillo, or small ‘blunt’ he smokes when he wakes up each morning, Cook says, “Two to three times per day keeps me good.” Consequently, he smokes a second blunt in the late afternoon, and sometimes a third just before bed.
Cook is one of many North Carolina residents who hope their illegal use of marijuana might soon become acceptable in the eyes of the law. N.C. Reps. Kelly Alexander Jr. and Nick Mackey, two Mecklenburg County Democrats, are co-sponsoring legislation that would make North Carolina the 15th state in the nation to legalize the medical use of marijuana.
House Bill 1380 would legalize marijuana for people diagnosed with debilitating conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, who are prone to symptoms such as nausea, pain or epileptic seizures. Producers and dispensaries would be licensed to grow and distribute it.
When the General Assembly reconvenes for its short session in May, the bill’s sponsors hope to give it some traction. It is now in the House Committee on Health, whose membership includes three Gaston County Republicans: N.C. Reps. William Current, Pearl Burris-Floyd and Wil Neumann.
Supporters of the bill say medical marijuana use is becoming more prevalent in North Carolina and Mackey hosted a town hall meeting at UNC Charlotte last week where users described how the long debated drug has reduced their pain and suffering. Sadly, Joshua Cook wasn’t able to attend, but says he fully supported the spirit of the gathering.
Facing long odds
Fourteen states now allow the use of medical marijuana, though few deal with the supply. Under the proposed legislation, North Carolina would actually license growers.
Sponsors say the bill eventually would raise $60 million a year through taxes and licensing fees, which could come in handy in a bleak economy. Critics question how much of that revenue would be eaten up by higher law enforcement costs for preventing abuse of the system, such as what has been seen in California.
The three Gaston County representatives on the House Committee on Health say the bill will face long odds this year. When the bill emerged last summer, Burris-Floyd and Neumann both said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would have to approve marijuana for medical use before they would consider an exemption to the state’s cannabis ban. And their opinions haven’t changed.
“The FDA is the gold standard for approval of medications in this country,” said Burris-Floyd. “If they’re not going to stand behind it, it tells me there’s not really a sound, consistent basis for what some of these (medical marijuana) proponents are saying.”
The potential medical use of marijuana was discounted by the FDA in a 2006 review. That went against a 1999 study from the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine that found the drug “moderately well suited” for treating certain conditions.
Current said he doesn’t have enough facts to form a firm opinion yet. But the prospect of a windfall in revenue will have no influence on his stance, he said.
“What we need to do is ask if this will help people,” he said. “I would make my decision based on whether it’s good for the majority of the people to have this medicinal drug available.”
Neumann said most voters, and therefore legislators, are focused on improving the economy and creating jobs right now.
“I don’t get the feeling that there are a lot of legislators who want to deal with it right now,” he said. “They’re asking us to take an illegal product and modify it, and I really feel like that should be a medical issue.”
Desperate for legal treatment
Cook said he’s been honest with doctors about his alternative remedy. On another visit to the VA hospital last month, a physician prescribed him with Depacote. He said he began taking the prescription and cut off his marijuana usage, and within a day and a half suffered his first seizure in more than seven months.
His girlfriend held his head and comforted him during the painful, 10-minute ordeal.
“I can hear you talking to me and see you,” said Cook, describing what a seizure feels like. “I just can’t control myself.”
In January, on two separate occasions, Cook was charged with possession of up to a half-ounce of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. He is scheduled to appear in court in March on the four misdemeanor charges.
Cook said he cannot get a driver’s license due to his history of seizures. He is unemployed and fears his job options may be limited if he continues to smoke marijuana, due to the prevalence of drug testing. He has begun to feel more depressed about his future options.
“It seems like when I came back (from the service), life became more of a hell for me,” he said.
But he said avoiding the pain of seizures is more important right now than abiding by the law.
“I’d rather keep smoking and be persecuted then to keep having seizures,” said Cook. “I’m tired of being discriminated against just because I need this medicine.”
If this bill doesn’t pass, I have no faith left in humanity. Period. Everyone likes smoking weed, they have for thousands of years and they’re not going to stop anytime soon. Ya know? It makes everything better, it makes food taste better, it makes music better, it makes sex feel better for God’s sakes. It makes crappy movies better.
I think it’s stupid. never tried it in any shape or form.
dont be so closed minded. thats like saying hotdogs are horrible although ive never had one
I hope that anyone that reads this, politician or not, reads this, and for once, has a glimpse into my life, and will understand.
I know they chose a soldier for their campaigning, and I’m okay with that – he makes a great poster-child, but they should probably market more faces than just one. Call me insensitive if you will, I thank all the soldiers for their time and efforts, but his efforts don’t relate to his condition… so maybe that’s where my feelings stem from.
I was born in Greensboro, NC. I moved half way around the world, where my father’s job was outsourced for cheaper labor while he made the bigger bucks to keep within the company. While living in China, I was 9 at the time, I started to get migraines. Well and good – I could handle them. They weren’t severe or often, they made me socially awkward and when I did have them they caused problems within the house. I never saw a doctor – you don’t SEE the doctors in China, or anyone, or go to the hospitals there. Their medical practices are quite scary and behind the times when we lived there.
We moved back, and settled in SC – I eventually moved to NC after going through high school (and part time jobs, usual teenager stuff) and tried to go to college. I graduated just barely after turning 17. Tried is the operative word in that last sentence… As I got older, my migraines became more frequent, and not only more frequent, more severe. My family didn’t understand what I was going through – why I holed myself in my room, vomiting constantly, sheets thrown over my curtains in a vain attempt to block out all light, soon I began stealing unused earplugs my dad didn’t use at his engineering job to drown out the sound. What neurology appointments I was referred to through high school my mother cancelled. They didn’t understand the agony. I’ll paraphrase my father on a family vacation, “Just pop a few effing tylenol and go fishing, okay!”
As I lived in Charlotte, NC – I tried to go to college, twice – racking up an expense of almost $35000 and no degree to show for it, because at the time it WAS required for me to be a full time student to keep my health insurance. ‘Tried’ still being that operative word. I couldn’t do it. I only got worse. I appealed my second attempt’s expenses, since I didn’t make it through half a semester. Throughout college, I insisted on trying to pay for my own medical bills. I saw dozens of doctors, half a dozen specialists nearly all of them neurologists – and was even at the Duke University Medical Center for Neurology and pain Management. No avail. If anything, all I did was get worse over time, or was turned into a zombie. While at Duke, I was on 14 different kinds of medications at one point in time, one of which cause me to faint upon standing. Another two of those medications were, at the time, in trial for use in obesity patients – I started the two medications at 139 pounds, and ended at 105 when I forced myself off the medications and quit seeing the Duke specialists altogether. The result of these medications lasted for nearly 8 months, where I had zero appetite, which atop the constant vomiting landed me in the ER to receive emergency IV fluids because I was so dehydrated my tear ducts weren’t producing enough moisture to keep my eyelids lubricated. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen your eyes bleed before, but it’s very scary stuff.
I’m also allergic to aspirin and ibuprofen products, which in terms of PAIN management, is quite limiting. At one point, I had a neurologist try to treat me with just narcotics, because I wouldn’t respond to any prophylactic (preventative) medications – and at one point I became addicted to opiate pain killers. WORST experience of my life. And the worst thing was – it was what the doctor wanted to treat me with.
Currently, I travel a little over 2 hours after seeing an additional specialist and neurosurgeon, for a top in-state headache specialist to treat me with medications that DO not work. I have run out of medications to try. I’m on the maximum dose of Topamax (200mg) my weight level can handle, a muscle relaxant, and for sleep I take a supplement. I have botox injections over my forehead/scalp/neck/shoulders to paralyze nerves that are supposedly causing headaches (on my second round after insurance has finally covered it, because I cannot afford it… I’ve not noticed a difference, after second round I’ve been worse.) My skin is currently paper-thin from steroid-based trigger point injections… so if we do trigger point injections, they have to formulate them especially without steroids to prevent my skin from tearing apart. I receive these trigger-point injections in the places in my forehead where botox cannot go, deep in my back and shoulder, and along my neck and sometimes scalp area if I notice something with the botox not going as planned.
My diagnoses stand at: chronic complex daily migraines and myositis. I have 30+ migraines per month, where I am debilitated… I cannot leave the apartment without thick sunglasses on, if I’m lucky enough to have a “good day” to be able to leave my apartment and spend time outside with my significant other of 5 years… Sometimes I have multiple migraines a day, sometimes I’ll have “the big one” where it’ll be a spanning migraine of 3-5 days long or sometimes longer. I sometimes get retinal migraines, and when I do, I go nearly blind in my left eye. The other diagnosis: myositis – a condition where my muscles refuse to relax. Currently, I do not have the money to pursue treatment to receive a diagnosis for what is likely the early phases of some kind of arthritis – I’ve always had severe joint pain and stiffness, and it’s been getting worse over the last 10 months and arthritis runs in my family.
As if this wasn’t enough, over the course of the last 4 years, I have been hospitalized twice for going into random comas, usually after these hospitalizations, my migraines are “worse.” As in I cannot tolerate any noise levels, any movement, any scents, strongly flavored foods, etc. When I had the migraines after these hospitalizations, they were stroke-like… meaning I could not/had very hard time with speech, very hard time with walking/standing if I could at all.
I am 22 years old. I was a pre-med major(degree: BS in Biology) and studio art minor at UNC-Charlotte. I have been a migraine sufferer for 13 years. I am one of less than 2% that goes on to have migraines at this frequency or receives the diagnosis of “chronic complex daily migraines.”
My daily life has changed from enjoying playing various musical instruments/singing, gardening, painting, playing sports, and spending far more time being ensconced in the world of the living and active. Today, I have lost the touch of what it is to live a happy life, a day without pain. I’ve watched relatives and best friends (some my age and I went to school with) be diagnosed with cancer… some live, and some die. And those that live even move on to a life of happier days. I type this now with an almost bitterness that I cannot pick up my paint brush like my father can. We cannot sit side by side at separate easels anymore – while I’m happy he survived his melanoma diagnosis (entirely operable)… the tremors I have in my hands make me unable paint with the realism and diction I once did. An agonizing reality that despite so much time I’ve had to face, I cannot swallow.
Everything in my life is being stripped from me. If it is my old hobby, I can’t enjoy it. If it is a new hobby, I likely can’t pursue it… because whatever new medication I have has some sort of ridiculous side effects that I seem to be BOUND to get.
I’ve never been the one to want to do illicit drugs… but each day that goes by… Even my own family members ask me, “Why I haven’t given marijuana a try?” Plainly it’s because of the legality of it. The politicians have the ability to give myself, and others, the CHANCE of total freedom. If I did try medical marijuana… and IF it did alleviate my symptoms to a point of functionality… or even better… complete pain relief. Is it so morally wrong and unjust? Aren’t you being a HERO? I am NOT a functional human being. I’ve tried to be. I’m sure many others have. I’m just placing myself on the shelf like many others here have – for others to see and observe, to deem worthy of notice or to pick apart. I’ve tried to work jobs, I’ve tried to go to school. I’ve even refuse Social Security benefits, EVEN THOUGH I QUALIFY because *I FEEL GUILTY FOR TAKING THEM!!!* I qualify for EBT food programs… but I still don’t take them! I live with an employed significant other who shares my hardships and tries to support me and would rather keel over before he lets me take on help like these government programs that I do qualify for.
Instead, I devote my time to trying to support these grassroots programs… and trying to get us the answers we need, because the lofty, wealthy pharmaceutical companies sure don’t have the answers for us. Take what you will from a small glimpse of what I am, what I go through. You don’t feel the pain I have, the vice grip on my skull every single day, the waves of nausea. What I would give to be somewhat of a normal person again – but instead, all it takes is a politician to give that to me instead. I may be 21 years old, but I’ve lived internationally, been to more countries than the average politician, and have seen things that most people won’t see in their lifetimes – and in my current state, I can only dream of doing the most ordinary things like… tolerating standing next to the dishwasher while it’s on. It seems a trivial act, no, to give someone the means to live their life? Doesn’t it seem easy to follow what seems constitutional: to allow us access to something that would normalize and improve our health and happiness – and you deny us our pursuit to that happiness? In turn, by denying this, you force us to take, albeit FDA-approved drug, drugs that cause alarming side effects, ones that are lasting… and at least in my case… can cause permanent and severe damage? When this treatment route can cause none?
Hmm… Food for thought.
I applaud you on your consistent fight with your ailment. My wife suffers from migraines and she smokes as needed to control the pain. I have chronic pain throughout my body from car accidents, sports injuries, and a deteriorating joint pain in my knees, back and shoulders.
Pain medications upset my ulcers and other treatments are ineffective. Smoking cannabis has consistently been the best treatment for my vomiting, as well as my constant joint pain. I hope the North Carolina legislators will open their eyes to the benefits of legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes, tax revenue, and the job opportunities for aspiring future business leaders. Keep up the good fight.
I’m a 3 time cancer survivor and have documented proof of how to heal most cancers with herbs and diets, but I would like to learn more about growing my own marijuana. I’ve had an organic garden for 30 yrs.
How do I get a licence to grow my own weed in N.C. ?
I agree, marijuana is great for medical use.
I’m 19 years old with severe migraines, and chronic back pain from an accident I was in as a child. I have been turned down by several chiropractors. I’ve tried a multitude of prescription medications, and they’ve either did nothing at all, or merely made the pain worse.
I’ve had some days where my back would put me in so much pain, I couldn’t move. Marijuana is the only thing that has completely ceased any kind of pain. Not to mention I had issues with depression a few years ago, and where anti-depressants made me feel miserable, marijuana literally changed my life for the better. I admit I used to be against it, but once I did research on cannabis and actually tried it for myself, I’m literally shocked its not entirely medically legal. Marijuana is without a doubt the most beneficial form of therapy I have ever had.
I have narcolepsy and when i sleep i just go into a deep sleep and never get enough regular sleep.
When i wake up in the morning I feel like i never fell asleep. My doctor tryed to get me to take the daterape drug. I would have to give myself a shot whenever i went to bed and wake up in the middle of the night and give myself another shot. Cannabis helps me sleep throughout the night and wake up feeling rested.
so i am completely with legalizing cannabis
Andrew,
I do understand your plight Though I am not suffering from drastic needs I am on way more “pill type” medication than I ever thought I’d be in my life and now with the medicine changes to Medicare part B and Medicaid.
I am having problems with the new pill medications my body has to get use to and so far. I am not fairing to well do to fighting nausiousness. And other arrising medical conditions because of the new drugs. I long for the legalization of Pot. The prices on the streets are way too outragous for those of us on a fixed in come and If the government wants a its cut ..like they get from cigarettes then I say Let them Get it at least those of us who want to be able to hold something that we eat down. Legalize It for Medical Use!!!!
Vixen
Hello, I completely agree with the legallization of medical marijuana. I have had Tourette Syndrome since I can remember and have been prescribed many different meds but nothing really helped.
So, I decided to do some research myself to find a doorway. I found stories about marijuana… and to make a long story short, I gave it a try. I can honestly say that it is beneficial MEDICINE. There are so many legal drugs out there that people abuse and that are actually dangerous. Marijuana is perfectly safe, and natural. It should be legalized, but controlled. It really is a miracle drug, and should be prescribed to those who need it.
I have narcolepsy, cataplexy.
For this i take up to 80mg of methlyn a day and i have severe spondlitis of the neck for this i take up to 30mg of oxycodone daily, marijuana could cut this in half. Marijuana does a good job keeping me awake beleive it or not, now that i have had to quit smoking because of pain clinic drug testing.
Now i take more ritlan or methlyn than i have ever taken, what we must do is encourage people to vote for the democrats so we republicans can nolonger rob us of our personal freedoms.
Andrew,
You comment that America is “soft” because we write about needing relief from severe pain! You have back pain and since, you’re not “soft”, you just grin and bear it! How many beers do you drink? How much liquor? What’s soft about this country is narrow-minded, ignorant, hyprocrites like you!
Instead of having compassion and recognizing how fortunate and blessed you are to have limited pain problems, you rail on people who aren’t as lucky! As if cancer patients CHOOSE to have cancer! As if any of us CHOOSE to have pain disorders. I have fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and a variety of other medical problems.
There are days when it hurts to get a hug! I don’t get enter REMS (the restorative mode) of sleep, and so the pain continues. None of this is my CHOICE. It’s just my particular burden to bare. And, being a college graduate, I’ve smoked my share of marijuana and can definitely say that it gave me quality sleep, made me relax, and drastically reduced my pain, something that all the variety of prescribed narcotics (including methadone, oxycodone, vicodin, morphine, just to name a few) have NOT been able to do.
Smoking marijuana in college did not stop me from graduating with honors, making the Dean’s List 7 of 8 semesters, or make me escalate or desire more powerful and more damaging drugs! I KNOW that medical marijuana will work for all of us who have these high levels of pain, and the risk to the general population is MUCH, MUCH less that the societal damage done by the legal drug of most, ALCOHOL!!
You’re not going to be inclined to go speeding down a highway because the booze has made you feel invincible, nor is MJ going to become violent, aggressive or abusive! Whatever “damage” done by medical marijuana will probably be related to smoking it, but consider the extensive damage to your liver, kidneys, brain and heart from prolonged use of narcotic pain meds, I’m more than happy to take that risk!
I’m glad, Andrew, that you only have back pain — now. By, like my grandmother said “God don’t like ugly”. And you comments just now, have probably ensured that your days of “just back pain” are quickly coming to an end.
Let’s see how “hard” you stay when you get cancer, or RA, or get in a car accident, or any of the vast diseases medical marijuana can help reduce the pain for! When those days come, I hope God let’s you remember the lack of empathy, compassion or human decency you’ve demonstrated here!
I have Crohns Disease and I am always throwing up. Smoking Pot is the only way I can eat or feel decent enough to get out of bed daily.
I was a cop for many years and until I got sick I did not understand.
I like you to look at Marijuana. All woman and teen and man to smoke at homes. At is good and not man made it is god made. And I am on Clonazepam 0.5MG tab and Sertraline twice daily 100MG teb the marijuana is helping wend i smoke.
I have no good days wend i don’t smoke marijuana my had is no good wend the 666 is in my had all the time but wend i smoke Marijuana I have a good day. Pres.Oboma can you do this for all of the USA teen and woman and man. Can you made now law on Marijuana for all of the USA SAP.
Hi, for those of us who medically need the marijuana. Its absolutely necessary!
I have an uncle whose doing chemo and couldn’t go through it with out it. I myself being a diabetic, which causes severe nausea and my wife who suffers from a cronically painful disability called spina bifida, the doctors won’t give her a strong enough pain reliever for her back pain, she tried the marijuanna one time and she said that was the first time she went without pain!
I would like for everyone to tell anyone they possibly can to vote for prop 1380! Let’s all stop hurting without having to take addictive pills, alcohol, and prosecution. LET’S GET TREATED WITHOUT GETTING IN TROUBLE!!!!
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OMG YOU all make me sick so reliant on your pills your marijuana america is getting so soft dont do drugs lil johhny well you go get you benzo perscription filled life sux people deal with it I have back pain yea but im not a sxxx bag so im not going to smoke arent there worse issues going on like the economy get real people.
The state will make 60 mill a year.
Go econamy! think it would help? And just because you don’t want it don’t stop the rest from making there own choice. We just want right to do so.
With all due repect it may help some people and this needs to be determined by a doctor!
Secondly there would be people whom would use it for the wrong reasons and there would be more people driving while under the influence of a narcotic ! How would you tell the parents of a drug user that they are dead and they also killed inocent people as they were under the influnece of a narcotic ??
Yes i can see the positive affects but with positives also come negatives so how do you protect the genral population from people whom have no respect for others !!
Studies have proven that driving while under the influence of cannabis has no effect what-so-ever on your driving capabilities.
Why drink and drive when you can smoke and fly?
Man way more people have died in an alcohol related car crash dude weed is way better there’s soo much medical purposes for weed just can’t we all see tht and legalize don’t the states wanna make a lil more money hell yeah pull our economy up man legalize in nc please
Andrew,
I am glad to hear you can function with your back pain and do not find it debilitating. Unfortunately there are many who are not as lucky as you and it is not because they are “soft”.
There are many levels of pain it is not up to us to judge each individual’s pain levels. There are actually diseases that cause severe feelings of pain even at the slightest touch in some cases. Medical marijuana addressees issues other then debilitating pain also, one such being severe nausea from cancer treatments.
Please give some thought to the many different situations that exist before making your final decision or spreading your thoughts further. I appreciate your time & attention.
Jamie
I am 67yrs.old and have used marijuana for 37yrs, for my copd, asthma.
In 2001 I had back surgery that left me with an open spine and chronic pain whitch I have kept at a tollerable level with Oxycontin. I am now hooked on that opiate an unable to use marijuana because of drug testing. If found with marijuana in my system I’d loose the pills. psalms 104:14 says God gave herb to man for the service of man.Genesis 1:11 for you it shall be your meat.
When will The gonernment realize marijuana is not a gateway drug that leads to coccaine,ect. If pot was decriminalized the coccaine problem would go away over night. But they won’t do that because the courts, law enforcement are making to much money off it. It’s a money maker for them. Marijuana is god made and given,why and how can the government say we can’t use what the Ceator has given man kind to heal thier inflictions with.
It’s time the people stand together and demand our freedom of personal choice in how we treat our selves.
OMG to you. It must be so special for you to be viewing a website that deals with MM and you post something like this. Grow up. It’s apparent that you have no clue as to what people must go through in order to deal with their pains and ailments. Hop off your Great White Buffalo.. Signed, The Good Dr.
I do not know how old you are andrew but lets talk about back pain that you say deal with.
I have been dealing with the back an neck pain for years as you state you deal with. The just living with it will has lead me to more back problems from bad poster from compinsating for the other pain. Then do to these problems you start getting shrinkage in yor spinal column and your nerves and blood flow get restricted, now the brain gets effected even to the point of seizures and memory loss because of oxygen and blood flow not including the pain you will be getting in arms, legs, neck.
This is what happens when you deal with it over time. So while you keep thinking deal with it the price is heavy . So if you could relax without the pain and help your spine so that you can use it properly by smoking a little mary jane. I do not think your statment is proper how ever in years to come i suppose you will be the one wondering why this happened to you. please do not make judgements without the facts.
I wish you well Andrew good luck on your stubbornness.
Andrew,
Take your head out of the sand son. Or is your Daddy one of those Hypocritical Religious Nuts and has taught you how to be close minded.
Empathy is a word you should look up in the dictionary. I am a former detective and I am well aware of the problems in society with drug use. The most prevelent problem in the USA is not Pot it is now opiad pain pills such as Oxy.
OK you can go back to your Televangalist show now. Don’t give away all your money you JACKWAGON.
I also suffer from degenerative disc disease from an automobile wreck in 2000. On pain meds every day since.
After a few hits from a volcano vaporizer and I felt pain and a stress release that helped me deal with my pain. I have no problem with having to get a medical card and a script if it helps me get a natrual medicine leagally without prosicution. We should be able to choose.
End the black market street dealers with high prices and crime, help our sick contact your local representives in NC and sponsor bill 577 for Medical Cannabis.
legalize marijuana in N.C. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have had chronic back pain for years.
I have seen four doctors over the last 20 years and all they will prescribe are muscle relaxers that effect me well into the next day. My first warning signs after a day of physical labor is back spasms. One marijuana cigarette before bed will usually relieve the spasms and allow me to sleep comfortably.
If I don’t use this controlled substance I literally may not be able to get out of bed the next morning! I’ve found that marijuana not only reliefs my suffering but also seems to help me psychologically be a happier, more social individual.
This down economy forced me to take a more physical position causing me to use this substance more often. I just failed an pre-employment drug screen and lost a $140,000 position overseas. This substance needs to be legalized for medical use.
Im so with this guy. i have severe unexplained nausea wevery single morning and vomit when i wake up every day…. until i tried marijuana.
i havent vomited but once or twice since i started smoking one bowl per morning… god i wish this medicine was legally available to me. im in legit pain like the gent in this article. the state legislators or whoever has to do with this, they could never understand because im sure most of them either dont have health issues or have never seen the TRUE benefits of marijuana USED PROPERLY. and not abused. legalize it… for gods sake help us all!! not to mention crime would drop like WHOA!!
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