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Amazing! How Many Powerful Ways Can Medical Cannabis Benefit You?
If you’re taking prescription pills for pain, anxiety, or sleep, medical marijuana may be a gentler and effective alternative.
First: Happy 4–20!
Second, I am not a loadie from way back. I didn’t use cannabis much when I was young, even though it seemed as if it was everywhere, all the time, just like cocaine and booze. Meth came a little bit later on. We can talk about the wonder benefits of all of those addictive substances.
But one of them isn’t very addictive: cannabis, aka weed, herb, pot, ganja, marijuana.
In more recent years, medical cannabis has been part of my wellness journey, and it has been a very important one. Medical marijuana seems to have cured my complex PTSD.
One of the doctors I saw at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California for PTSD told me I would “never be cured” and that my symptoms could only be managed with medication: prescription pills for anxiety and depression.
In 2012, I got a medical marijuana card in California, but I seldom used it. How was I eligible? I was diagnosed with complex PTSD in June 2006. That’s a long story, but you can read the start of it here. Here’s one of the other…
