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Baraka_Guru · 10-21-2009, 05:47 PM

I know someone who would be considered a prime candidate for medical MJ. This is one who has suffered years of pain that cannot be adequately described, and it is a constant battle (24/7) just to manage it to a level that is bearable. This is one who hasn't had a full night's sleep, not because they don't need it or don't have the capacity to sleep, but because the pain won't let them. This is one who cannot find comfort for more than a few minutes in any one position, whether lying down, sitting, or standing, and has spent many late nights leaning and occasionally falling down, having fallen asleep. This is one who's had countless single-dose hits of morphine that could literally kill a healthy horse.

They've had a morphine pump installed and then removed. They've missed far too many social events involving friends and family because their mood or the pain would be too disruptive. They've been unemployable for more than a decade, not because of an employer's lack of faith in their capacity to do even a basic office job, but because of their own.

I could go on, but what's the point? I think you get it.

If medical MJ can alleviate even a fraction of the suffering that people like this go through...even if it is just a tiny bit....if you've seen what I've seen in people like this---being helpless to do anything---you too just might support the idea.

When all else has failed, the social stigma of certain alternatives become ridiculously trivial.

10-21-2009, 05:47 PM	#50 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	I know someone who would be considered a prime candidate for medical MJ. This is one who has suffered years of pain that cannot be adequately described, and it is a constant battle (24/7) just to manage it to a level that is bearable. This is one who hasn't had a full night's sleep, not because they don't need it or don't have the capacity to sleep, but because the pain won't let them. This is one who cannot find comfort for more than a few minutes in any one position, whether lying down, sitting, or standing, and has spent many late nights leaning and occasionally falling down, having fallen asleep. This is one who's had countless single-dose hits of morphine that could literally kill a healthy horse. They've had a morphine pump installed and then removed. They've missed far too many social events involving friends and family because their mood or the pain would be too disruptive. They've been unemployable for more than a decade, not because of an employer's lack of faith in their capacity to do even a basic office job, but because of their own. I could go on, but what's the point? I think you get it. If medical MJ can alleviate even a fraction of the suffering that people like this go through...even if it is just a tiny bit....if you've seen what I've seen in people like this---being helpless to do anything---you too just might support the idea. When all else has failed, the social stigma of certain alternatives become ridiculously trivial. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 10-21-2009 at 05:49 PM..