I'd be dead without cannabis. With the medical world as unbelievably screwed up as it is, patients need to do a lot of research that is confusing. It is so wrong that the expert tells the patient to go figure it out.

Here is what I can tell you:

If you are pre-transplant, don't. They will take you off the list. Same for nicotine. It took three years for nicotine to leave my little brother's system, and by then it was too late. He died. Not from weed - From doctors.

You cannot die by overdosing on cannabis. The propaganda of the 70s and, especially, the 80s, was mostly lies. There is no such thing ad Marijuana Maddness. It's just outright lies.

The budtender at a good dispensary can help you learn dosing, strains, forms of ingestion, etc. Now that cannabis is legal in the more forward-thinking states, we are beginning to get information about terpenes. THC is the one that is largely responsible for getting high. Other terpenes are better for pain (I like strains that have some CBG in them, each body is different).

Start small. Too much is unpleasant but you WON'T DIE! You won't augment, or get tardive dyskenesia, or ant of those awful "side effects" that can ruin life. It's a pretty low-risk experiment.

For info sake, I have familial heart failure (has killed my mother and little brother in the last 2 years), peripheral neuropathy, RLS, IBS/d, gastroparesis, depression, anxiety, PTSD, scoliosis, and lumbar spinal stenosis, along with a host of nerve pain throughout my body. No heart transplant yet; by the time I need one I'll probably be too old.

Incidentally, my heart improved slightly over the last year, and I use a lot of cannabis. Like I said, it keeps me alive.

Don't fear it. Oh- you don't have to titration off cannabis. You do, over time, develop a tolerance but it's not that significant.

Good luck. My dad doesn't like it, so he just keeps a pipe in little bro's memory. Cannabis isn't for everyone, but if it takes the edge off (it doesn't FIX anything), it is 100% worth it.

All my doctors know. None of them ask about it.