Medical Marijuana

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This is a subject I have tossed around in my head wondering if I should write about this from my perspective. I have decided to write about it.

It was back in October of 2005 when I was too ill to work anymore. I was in daily pain and hardly able to move. One day my son asked me if I had ever tried pot for my pain. I told him I smoked pot when I was a teenager occasionally but have not tried it for a very long time. He could see how much pain I was in and told me he had heard that marijuana was supposed to be great for releiving pain.

Not too long after our discussion of the pot I was having a bad day and even crying from the pain thinking to myself how much longer I could take this never ending pain. The pain was there all the time. I was hardly sleeping at night and through the day I could hardly move. I wanted it all to end one way or another. Yes folks "One way or another". Thoughts of suicide began appearing in my head. I never fully understood before what would make a person commit suicide. I never looked at it from this angle before. Relentliss paincan make a person see things in a different light. Anything to take it away. I even prayed to God to please make it go away. The suicidal thoughts took me to a place where there was no pain and no bill collectors hounding me all the time. This was going to be a much better place. I even glanced at my prescription pills wondering which pills would just make me go to sleep and never wake up.

Just then my son came home and I immediately realize why my plan of suicide will not happen, my childrenMy son asks me what is for dinner and that is all it takes for me to realize I am mom and still needed by children. Then I remembered my son saying "please try the marijuana mom, just once and if it doesn't help I will never ask you again". I gave in and asked him to fix me up.

A little while later my son asks me to close my eyes and hold out my hand. I did and when I opened my eyes there was a marijuana joint in my hand. Hoping this would at least take an edge of my pain level, I lit up the joint and enhaled. One puff and it all came back to me, how to smoke this joint. Three puffs I took. Within ten minutes I felt the pleasant rush start at the top of my head and work it's way down through all the places where my pain was. My pain level was dropping immensly. A half hour later my pain level had dropped to the point it was barely noticeable. I had found a miracle is all I could think.

Since then I have spent countless hours on the internet researching Marijuana for Medical use. I have also become a Health Canada licensed user. This plant that grows from the earth chemcial free has been my saviour. It has to make a person wonder why it is an illegal drug unless you have a license from Health Canada. After all it is just a plant.

I also know there are still mixed feelings regarding the use of marijuana. We all have our own opinions and this is just my story how marijuana saved my life.