SF Bay area chronic pain sufferer in need of serious help!

Hello everyone at cannabis.com, I am in need of some serious help in the SF bay area. I have suffered from chronic pain due to migraines since I was a kid, and have been self-medicating w/cannabis since I was 16 yrs old, I am now 21yrs old. I have plenty of medical history due to headache pain, even a catscan. Now this is my problem, I want to stop being a criminal, and I want to get medical. I can't keep on risking getting arrested just to medicate w/ marijuana when a migraine occurs. My main question is how I can obtain medical marijuana to treat my pain. Is it possible for me? I hope I can, it is the only thing that works for me. Any info regarding this subject in the sf bay area would be highly appreciated. By the way, I live in the south bay area. thanks:)

heres a website that will help California NORML Home Page

my friend owns a smoke shop in the bay, east bay

Go to a Pot dr or a meds dr and tell them what you told us and they will write you a letter, that you will then take to the OCBC in Oakland and when you pay your dough, they WILL issue you a patient card for 1 year.