This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on February 11, 2014.
I have a history of depression, early onset, as a child, as a teenager I smoked quite a bit, but continued on with life. I was a nurse for over twenty years and was diagnosed with PTSD. I remembered how cannabis helped me relax. I tried pharmaceuticals in the years before and always suffered with unwanted serious side-effects, blurred vision, severe vomiting, to any pain medication, as simple as darvocet to antidepressants and antianxieties. So I started smoking a little again. I believe it helps me with my diabetes too.
This is very good medicine, the reports, the research, the personal testimonies, all concur, cannabis is therapeutic and less harmful then alcohol and ALL American citizens should have access to this plant and its parts.