If you're not familiar with pot you're in for an education. Do not smoke it. Spend the big bucks and buy the expensive personal vaporizer, three to four hundred dollars. Use it on the lowest setting that it has and take very small doses in the beginning. You will build a tolerance very quickly but if you go to quickly with this vaporizing thing you're going to scare your pants off especially if you're not familiar with marijuana and even if you are familiar with marijuana this is not the marijuana of the 60s and 70s it's not even the marijuana of the 80s and 90s and 2000's. Vaporizing is a whole new game. You can get the equivalent of a whole joint in one small Puff. It may not take your pain away but it'll give you something else to think about, like how much money you're blowing on it. Good luck have fun, love and blessings