I truly enjoyed reading this posting. I am a medical user and my son is a recreational user. I have failed back syndrome, he has the owww this is nice syndrome. I was talking to him and relating with him on a different level. I once partied in high school and beyond. Here and there got plowed just like I got drunk. But then I stopped cold, completely for years (over 10) and I am under forty. A couple of years ago we talked to my pain management doctor about medical marijuana, I was fearful of it because I liked it before. But we tried it, and low and behold but I was moving again. I got so bold as to go to a detoxing physical restoration program. Holy Shit, I lost weight, I http://boards.cannabis.com/images/sm...:stoned:argued again, I walked without a cane, I moved. No more opiates... No more strange acting lyrica, no more patches all over my body, no more constipation... A totally different life. Not what it once was but so much better than years of pain have been. I didn't embrace the pot. But I knew it helped but the stigma was so intense. Don't be a "pot head" I am still struggling with accepting that in order to function I have to be a pot head. But I know it works when not mixed in recreationally...