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I think nothing will change for the better until, maybe, people running for office or reelection include the terms of their health care insurance as part of disclosure requirements. Florida is making it very difficult for doctors to write prescriptions for any controlled drugs. My physician that it's an effort to push people onto medical marijuana. I was seeing him for bronchitis and he could only write a hydrocodone for 3 days worth. Then I had to call a dozen pharmacies to fill it as most aren't even stocking it anymore because so few prescriptions are being written as doctors hate the red tape requirements. I caught whooping cough while sailing 10 years ago. Hydrocodone made sleep possible, not blissful, but possible. I don't know what I would have done without it but am positive that marijuana wouldn't have been a substitute.
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I was addicted to opiates for 9 months. Don't like being addicted to anything--never smoked when it was considered SOO uncool in my generation not to.
Please don't dismiss CBD (non THC marijuana) if you haven't tried it. We're not talking about your youthful toking here.
I have had "juvenile " arthritis for 60 years. Degenrative discs at both ends of my spine. Every joint in my body hurts. Botched knee surgery that caused my leg to break and have to be put back together with plate and screws and never fully recovered. A hernia that caused my stomach to migrate up against my lungs and had to be moved and anchored. And four colon surgeries with removal of a length of the colon PLUS sepsis in the hospital and now a tortious colon that can spasm and give me sudden pain. I've been dealing with pain and searching for relief all my life.
CBDs work. You just have to find the right one and the right dose. They were the only thing that allowed me to get off the opiates.(That and my caring doctor who kept writing prescriptions as I tried to find the CBD products that would help.)
As I detailed another place in Mayo, I currently use Tommy Chong's Night and Day formulas. Tinctures that you take orally. Nothing in them gets you high--just nano technology that offers relief and the best sleep I've had in years. I also use Nightingale Remedies CBD Relief Cream--topical, no THC, but includes MSM to cross the skin barrier quickly and also a dozen natural herbs that offer pain relief. And because some studies have shown that CBD actually works better with a little THC, on very bad days I use Gron gummies. I don't take this if I'm going to drive but on bad days I mostly want to stay in bed anyway.
I tried dozens of CBD products before I hit on this combination that works for me. But I couldn't live without them now--my quality of life so much better than it was.
Hopefully there are others who want to take a less passive approach to finding pain relief, so it isn't helpful to dismiss CBDs. They work well for some of us.