I have to say a comment related to Doug's comment a bove, I agree that couple arrested by the cops was probably really calm, many are when cought with dope on them but that is recreational smoking and I don't agree with recreational smoking because they were just as "drunk like" as the others and if cought driving should be arrested too no matter how calm they may be. They are out to be high and I hate to see the need for pot as a medicine getting confused with the use of it out on the street as a recreation. The few times I have done it for my pain, I did it in my home and relaxed as a medicine, I did not go out on the town with it on me. There has to be a separation between using it as a pain reliever, a few drags and partying with it. This is part of why it is so hard to leagalize it as a medicinal drug. I know when I was younger I did it as a recreational thing a few times because it was brought to a party and even my house a few times, (not that I asked for it to be brought there) and I never did feel it was right to do it even tho I did it. Now I do if it works to help a pain condition. I just hope when people apply to use it leagally they are doing it for pain and not to have a right to be hanging out on the street or driving a car. I also don't like to see it done in the work place because I have seen people in my old work place who did it and acted like they were the only important ones there, You should see the few I knew who were doing it while driving forklifts around other workers, Hot headed (not so calm like you saw on the cop show). A lot of near miss accidents and even one where a lady had her foot ran over and another where the driver saw a pallet of stuff coming down on him while in his forklift and he stuck his hand up through the bars thinking he could stop it from hurting him. Had he kept his hand in the cage he would have had no injury. Those people are smoking too much and that is what makes it a problem. As I said above, I have in my past smoked enough to get high and have smoked enough to relieve pain and the amount needed for pain is very different. I used a hole pot smoke over the course of over two days when my pain was really bad and it was effective enough to do the job without feeling high at all. Whats more, it was instant pain relief and works for what is called break through pain which many pain med prescribed people find is a real problem too. The sad part is the pain meds I am on need to be used twice daily or they will not work so I have to be on drugs constantly and yet the relief is minimal (only covers day to day continual pain at best and does not cover spikes) compared to what pot has done with so little and yet so fast and even covering the whole pain from the continual to the burning and the spikes that come and go on a bad day. I know if I could use it only when the pain is bad enough to need it with a mild pain reliever for the daily stuff I could probably cope better on a daily basis.

I have known or known of so many people who suffered extreme pain due to neuropathy. I am an advocate for the medical use of marijuana for whatever medical conditions may benefit. To deny people the potential benefit of marijuana because of the possibility of abuse is to "throw the baby out with the bathwater". I hope someday that this country will develop a saner approach to the use of marijuana and other such substances that may have therapeutic benefits.

I have Neuropathic Pain from diabetes, My Mom and my sister also, If cannabis was legal, I would consider it to help my Pain.

i personaly would indulge in smokeing marijuana for pain amoung other things like depression.it has in the past helped me to forget about the things that were depressing me, and helping me to get on with my life.unfortunatly,the work world does,nt care if you are depressed or in pain.neither does the law.so unless something happens in the future,we are bound by the laws of the land and must deal with what ails us in a differant way,or god forbid,risk a life in prison.