Quote Originally Posted by BarkingDog
Bummer. I was hoping there was a legal way to get around this. I have tried the holistic methods and it offered only temp relief.

I did some reading last night about Marinol, sounds like an experimental drug. I dodn't want to be a guinea pig.
Marinol's definitely not experimental. It's been around a long time and is used fairly widely, although it is labeled for anti-nausea/anti-vomiting use, not analgesia (pain relief). It's simply a synthetic, non-psychoactive version of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. In other words, it's made in a lab instead of grown from a plant. Its chemical name is dronabinol. Marinol is its made-up brand name.

I have fairly chronic back pain, too, as a result of some surgery I had and more that I need to have in the future in a different area of my spine. I'm not able to smoke cannabis legally where I live and can't do so illegally because of school. I don't know how committed you are to the idea that you must have something that's herbal or plant-based, but I have good luck with a prescription muscle-relaxant called tizanidine that is used for folks with neuro-orthopedic back spasms. It doesn't have a lengthy period during which it's effective, but it does work well. Something to think about asking your doctor for. . . .