I was in a car accident back in january of 09. The jerkoff came flying off the freeway in his work van and decided not to brake at the red light thus spinning me out, totalling my car, and causing ongoing back pain for maybe the rest of my life.

My wonderful doctor (I say this sarcastically) prescribed me about 6 different pain pills/nerve pills (I had several pinched nerves). After about a month of me complaining that I wasn't feeling better and that I was getting depressed from just being told to stay home and rest....so he prescribed me an anti depressant and anti anxiety pills! Well, i'm not the type of person to take anti depressants but he didn't care about that either. So here you have a person who rarely takes an aspirin for a headache now on 7 different meds!

I really started to feel like I was going crazy. I wouldn't leave the house for days and my emotions were all over the place. I cried to my dr. that I was still in pain and i felt like he was ignoring the problem. Masking the pain with a mix of pills was not making my back any better. He told me I should just trust him and that the pills should help. I worried that something could be really wrong and he would ignore the signs!

After that day, I switched dr's., called medicann and got my med card. I had already smoked weed for years and knew the effects and knew that having high quality buds easily and legally available would help me with my back pain. That period of time took alot of out me and put me into one of the darkest places of my life. I will never let a dr. control me like that again. After doing a bit of research on my own, I discovered that 2 of the meds were never supposed to be mixed. The pain pills that were supposed to be helping me feel better made me so depressed i didn't want to live!

Since then, I have been off of every single medication (other than ganja), I go to my new dr. regularly, and see my chiro about once a week. I'll probably always have back pain. But at least I know I have my herbal meds to help me through. It helps me sleep better, relax more, relieves pain and I know it's not going to leave me crazy and crying on the kitchen floor (those anti depressants are awful!)

It baffles me that it's completely legal to put a patient through that kind of torture and face no consequences. but if I want to toke a joint after work to help relax then I'm a criminal!

This justice system needs help! It's time for change!!! Legalize it!! :jointsmile: