It’s almost as if people don’t understand what the ‘standard’ drugs that are prescribed actually do to people. Most of the heavy duty pain meds makes you worthless. The pain may be gone, but so is most of what you need to walk and talk. There are all kinds of things prescribed that have warnings about driving or operating heavy machinery because of possible side effects.

All of the NSAIDs including aspirin are blood thinners and can cause internal bleeding.

Lance Mackey won 1000-mile dogsled races while using marijuana for the effects of the chemo for his cancer. That sort of shows that ‘grass’ is not as debilitating as the standard drugs.

If we lived in a reasonable country you could get marijuana for your pain without becoming a Federal felon. Alas, we don’t.

It grows wild all over the US and was cultivated for decades as fiber crop like flax, but the attitude that gave us Prohibition didn’t want anyone having fun.

I didn’t personally use it, but you couldn’t avoid a contact buzz in the military in the late ’60s, it was everywhere. You floated through the Army area of barracks on Shemya on a marijuana haze.

When I was working, I avoided seeing it, because it wasn’t worth the paper work or overtime costs to make an arrest for marijuana possession unless there was a very substantial amount.

All my young life I remember being told that marijuana had “no legitimate medical uses” so I didn’t use it. Not surprisingly, the drug is still around, distributed in its classic illegal form, and people are still sent to jail when they are caught with it.

I now believe that sanity has no legitimate medical uses…

(I’ve seen references to the fact that in some states where medical marijuana has been legalized, some town law enforcement authorities are rejecting the change and arresting people for possession anyway. There’s a reason some communities call the police “the law” …)