Sansman, you don’t mention where you live. No need to move. I live in a “hard NO to cannabis” state that is, literally, surrounded by cannabis states. In the last 3 years I’ve had two knee replacements, a prostatectomy, and an Achilles tear repair. I used the big pharma drugs at first but then switched to cannabis. If, like most of us, you haven’t tried since HS things are very different now. For one, the strength is literally 10x what we knew 50 years ago.

I used it for the pain and much better sleep as others have mentioned. I found the “budtenders” at the cannabis stores around me helpful. I told them what I was after and my history of use and they recommended gummies that worked wonders for me. If you’re not comfortable with the person you talk to, thank them and move on to the next store as some train better than others. A big piece of advice is to start slow. You can always take more but you can’t do much for taking more than you like other than riding it out and remembering this won’t kill you. The budtender should help with this concept if you share your history.

Great question. Hopefully, we can grow up and allow the professionals to study cannabis benefits in a widespread scientific manner some day. In the meantime, best of luck to you.