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[Billydude]

I live in the "green triangle" area of Northern California and it seems like every other house is a grower for medical Marijuana.   Its almost a joke. Noone even hides it anymore and practically grow it on their front lawn.  All you have to do is go in to these special doctors and say you get headaches and two minutes later you have your certificate saying you can get it.    For myself Marijuana only intensifies anything that is wrong or hurting on me so its the last thing I need.

[anita]

Just my opinion:

It is impossible to avoid topics that might affect someone or bring up hard memories, since EVERYONE probably knows of someone that may have had a bad/negative experience to a particular medicine, treatment or even , condition...this might include illegal drugs.  In other words we can't avoid talking about cancer or certain chemo drugs because someone close to an individual died and/or suffered.  This is a forum to "discuss" openly all aspects of Sjogren's, pain, and other symptoms...and that includes ALL forms of pain mgmt. 

I don't use marijuana for pain mgmt and have no intentions of doing so in the future, but understand that it works for some people in certain medical situations, so it's totally appropriate to discuss it here.  It IS legal in many circumstances.

I am VERY sorry that some have family/friends who suffered from it's use and there didn't seem to be any intention to hurt others on this board.  If the topic isn't suitable or comfortable for someone here, then please just move on to another thread.  There is so much to read here, so many other options.