During group, we were asked how we cope with neurological pain.
I’m not going to write a college essay on the benefits of medical marijuana, even though it may read a little like one. However, I’m a strong supporter of using marijuana for Multiple Sclerosis.
Take Ellen, for example. Ellen is a 72-year-old woman in my support group who attends church every Sunday, plays bingo every Wednesday and has 12 grandchildren. Ellen also smokes weed. She’s suffered from pain associated with MS for years now, and she tells me it helps her tremors, symptoms and overall health and happiness.
For thousands of years, human beings have attempted to find ways to get passed the struggles of their lives. With chronic pain stopping people from enjoying simple pleasures, there is an urgent need for help. Marijuana brings millions of people relief from the pain they feel on a day-to-day basis. The THC in marijuana causes its users to experience a mild high. The effect that marijuana has on a person has prevented the product from being legalized.
However, in the state I live in, a bill was passed to legalize medical marijuana (I’m going to have a lot of new friends soon). Bottom line, marijuana alleviates several symptoms associated with MS; I don’t think I could go on with daily living without it.
You don’t necessarily have to SMOKE marijuana… you can bake it, vaporize it and it is also prescribed in pill form.
The headaches, the shakes, and the pain – they all go away, like magic, after a little marijuana. Most importantly, marijuana helps neuropathic pain.
I'm not saying that you will be lounging around all day in a fog, unable to get your tush off the couch. I'm a straight A, Dean's List student on my way to medical school... all the while I'm smoking marijuana.
I feel marijuana is much safer than a drug like Oxycontin, a synthetic form of heroin.
Be open-minded.
