I have chronic pain from an ancient skiing injury to my neck. Ever since I started availing myself of medical cannabis 4 years ago, I've been like a new person.

I had been using a lot of naproxen with zero results and just didn't want to start with any opiates EVER. They are notoriously useless for neuropathic pain.

I'm sure it would allow me to lower my own dosage with improved relief. The problem is that Ultram doesn't have much of a buzz and cannabis does. The buzz is something I'd really like to avoid since it makes me put things in places where I can never find them again.

I don't use any pain control at night, which means I wake up a lot in pain. I can see cannabis being a wonderful nighttime medication for me, inducing sleep and keeping it a lot less painful.

Whether it's an adjuct or a primary medication for pain, it should be available. I want to see the plant legal, period. Things like refined oils and edibles need to be a little more controlled since people can run into temporary trouble with them.

More NM dispensaries are working on high CBD strains and oils. Very slight buzz but cuts the pain.

themselves. Marijuana is not addictive like opioids. If I had a condition that would benefit, I would certainly want to use all reasonable options available. The opiod epidemic is killing our people, destroying lives, and hurting our economy. We need some options. Marijuana seems a great thing to try and side effects are already well known by the tens of millions who use it, legally or illegally.

Prefer a body high as opposed to mind altering high.

I had a biking accident...taking percocet 4 times per day. It helped the periphery of the pain I had, but when I added cannabis, the combination reached deep where the Percocet could not. It could certainly keep people away from the more potent and addictive opioids.

This is why Ganja will probably never be rescheduled.

people have been saying for 5000 year, "yep it works". What the fuck more do you need, to say, well maybe there is something to this stuff. I have SEVERE neuropathy from 30 years of solvent poisoning. AND IT WORKS.

2 a day, supplanted with Ultram if needed. A few times a year I call upon a nephew to buy me some pot. It is so wonderful, I smoke it before I go to bed, wake up nearly pain free, I don't have to reach for a vicodin until I've been up for about 5 hours vs. almost immediately having to take it upon waking when I don't smoke any.

My 86 year old mother also uses vicodin, 3 a day is the ususal, but she is prescribed 4 a day. I asked her if she would like to use pot for her pain. She said "when it's legal." I said "from your mouth to God's ears."

and 2014, and the health and social costs of abusing such drugs are estimated to be as much as 55 billion a year... Things that make you go hmmm.

and that amt will probably keep increasing