I suffered from Tourette's as a child until I started smoking marijuana. Today I lead a normal life, and my Tourette's never came back.

Here is a transcript of my message on my religious forum explaining my stance on medical marijuana.

Growing up I suffered from a neurological disorder known as Tourette's syndrome. It really made my life a living hell. The schools had some kind of deals with doctors and pharmaceutical companies, and they put me on every medication you could think of (a lot worse drugs than marijuana) -- medicine to keep me awake, medicine for ADD, medicine for Tourette's, and medicine to counteract side effects of every medicine I was taking, even medicine to counteract side effects of the counter side effect medications. We're talking 14+ various prescriptions. The stuff they gave me for Tourette's made my ADD worse, and the medicine they gave me for ADD made my Tourette's worse, and so on and so on. It was a nightmare!

Thus I was robbed of my education. I had to go back later in life and literally teach myself how to read and write, and everything else I missed out on in public school.

Needless to say, I started doing drugs because I was depressed. My drug of choice was marijuana. I probably smoked pot every day until my early 20's. One day I woke up and realized that my Tourette's had disappeared. I checked into Emory University for neurological studies, and they determined that the marijuana must have corrected the chemical imbalance in my brain.

Once more, even after I quit it never returned. Thus, contrary to popular myth, marijuana actually helped me lead a productive life. It didn't make me stupid. I'm a computer science major, and I will soon be starting my internship for NASA.

Before my experience with pot, I couldn't go to movies, I couldn't attend worship meetings, I couldn't do much of anything -- especially have a social life. People thought I was nuts. So IMO, I had always supported medical marijuana:jointsmile: