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The word "chronic" as defined by Webster's Dictionary is:
1.) marked by long duration or frequent recurrence: not acute
2.) suffering from a chronic disease
3.) always present or encountered: constantly vexing, weakening or troubling
Number three is my favorite.
The word "pain" as defined by Webster's Dictionary is:
1.) punishment
2.) localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder (as a disease or an injury); also: a basic bodily sensation induced by a noxious stimulus, received by naked nerve endings characterized by physical discomfort (as pricking, throbbing, or aching) and typically leading to evasive action
3.) acute mental or emotional distress or suffering: grief
Put these two words together and you have, "chronic pain". Put the definitions together and you now know the HELL of "chronic pain".
When you're in pain, you try to do whatever you can to make it stop. I'm not talking about the occasional headache, or an ache in your knee after walking up three flights of stairs. I'm talking about the severe stabbing pains, the constant burning, throbbing type of pains. Chronic pain.
Severe pain isn't always present, but it's there more often than not. There is some type of pain, somewhere, always. Try living that way. It's difficult, it's depressing, some days you feel it's not worth it and you just stay in bed.
There are medications out there and the doctor's prescribe them. Our government has stepped in, once again, where it doesn't belong, and they're telling the doctor's how and when to prescribe them. I can't take the narcotics too often, my body just doesn't respond to them like it did in the beginning, so, for the most part, I'm in constant pain.
I would love to sit in my living room, crack a window, and take a nice long drag on a joint. Yes, I'm talking about pot, mj, marajuana, mary jane, whatever you call it, I call it relief. I don't know all the chemical blah de blah about pot, but what I do know is, for a few hours afterward, there is very little pain. Once the pain dies down, you feel a great sense of peace.
Why is this illegal? If the "keep it illegal" group could have a day of pain, a whole day, then experience the feeling of no pain, I'm sure the majority would change their mind. Those same people apparently don't understand the money that they would receive from taxing and regulating it. The argument about lowing the prison population is a good one too. I'm not getting into all that
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My aggravation with it all is that I have to choose between pot and pain, and I have to choose the pain. I can't imagine the look on my husband's face if I had to call him for bail money. How could I explain that to my son??
So, until the moron's change their minds, it will remain an illegal substance, and I'll remain in constant pain. Wake up America, stop letting the government tell us what is right and wrong. We should be telling them. They work for us, remember??
If mj is legalized, drug companies would lose billions of dollars in revenue and doctors would lose billions of dollars of business a year. We can't have that happen right? I watched a documentary on MJ and learned that there is certain chemical extracted from the plant that helps/nearly eliminates epilepsy. It is the only thing that has kept a five year seizure free! I'm not talking about a few seizures a year, but having at least one seizure per hour or more. His speech and social skills have suffered greatly, as one can imagine. However, now he is off and side effect-free of all the useless legal drugs. He is learning how to speak and interact and his father is now able to have a relationship with his son who has been in a fog since birth... yep, I said birth. I'll stop now :)
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