You have chronic lower back pain that just doesn't go away. Or you have inflammatory bowel disease, glaucoma or suffer from anxiety or migraines.
Nothing seems to work and you're afraid on relying on opioids that could lead to destructive addiction. What can you do?
Mary, a Somerset County resident, was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, an inflammation of the bowel, when she was 18. She is now 50 and the pain never went away.
"That's a long time to be in pain," said Mary, who asked that her name not be used.
After a while, she said, "you stop paying attention to it. You get used to being in pain all the time," she said.
Then she started using medical marijuana in June and by mid-August, "I feel a large improvement."
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I have cereal palsy and
I have cereal palsy and multiple sclerosis. I've talked with my pain management doctor while I'm currently taking pain medicine; my doctor has said that Medical Marijuana would help with the ms. I'm putting this out because most people are probably worried about the same thing. The program is costly but the days of pain meds are numbered. At the least if you can afford to try it's worth a shot.