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Patients are right to fear opioid addiction. It's the doctors' fear of cannabis that really makes me wonder.


None of my doctors are afraid of cannabis. But they are afraid of federal charges and losing the their license or prescription privileges.


It's legal where I live and doctors still give people the drug-seeking-behavior runaround if they so much as mention casual use. God forbid you want to manage pain with it.


Cannabis doesn't do shit for my chronic pain, nor any other pain sufferers I know. It actually makes mine significantly worse. Nothing worse than hearing people say "have you tried marijuana!!?" for the millionth time.


Yeah, it isn't the panacea that some people make it out to be. It doesn't reduce pain for me, it "backgrounds" it -- I can still feel the pain but it no longer bothers me. That isn't going to work for everybody.




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