DMDC

Hi as I read someof these posts re pot, Marijuana etc. I realize it is not legal at the federal level. Here is my experience. I'm disability retired and still work on occassion. I'm a excellent nurse and have been for over 30yrs. With letters and evaluations to show for it. When I was retired I was told I would never get off the couch again and given many narcotics, muscle relaxants, etc. I knew and thought there was another way. I was right I only use them on a prn basis. Now I'm very active and work part time. Marijuana is part of my treatment. I have nerve, muscle and bone damage. These are what I use I have rx for fiorinal with cod., They give me 100 for a month. I use that many in about 6 months not one. Motrin a few times a week (and I am a bleeder so that is very limited), xanax once or twice a month as it works for my muscles spasms and broken sleep at night. He tried klonopin but it gave me a hang over type headache. Soma does nothing but make me sleepy) as does all the other stuff tried over the years. The thing that has helped the most that doesn't cause me any side effects is Marijuana. So as my condition worseness I am more limited but what has helped me the most is movement (excersise 6 hours a week)prn for all my meds, including MJ. I may use a little over a 1/4 ounce per month. I do not do anything before working. At my job we detox patients from all the narcotics they get from thier MDs. SO those of you that think that its for drug abusers, or excuses, think again. For me my meds are prn only and I have a serious condtion or I would not have been disability retired since 1997 and working part time now. The fact that it MJ stays in your system so long is a problem. I see people hired that use meth, and many other things. They just doesn't show on the test because of the time frame. Everything can be abused even food and that causes problems but we don't monitor that. Just tired of people who don't know blaming everyone using it being drug addicts or users etc. There are a couple of companies I know that do not drug test becasue they hire patients that use, and they cannot test them and test the nurses. All hires are tested or they are not. I work for one that does drug test. So you quit when you need to. My supervisor herself has a card. Unless you know what your talking about you shouldn't judge if I listened to my MD's in the beginning I would be 6 feet under or a heavy drug addict by now. Alcohol is more of a problem and it is legal. It's all about the person and how they use thier meds. Thank you for reading my opinion.

I think it should be legalized and there are companies that do not test for it. As they hire patients that use it. However No one should go to work high no matter what med. etc. it is. As MJ stays in your fat cells you can test positive when not high. I have seen patients it helps quite a bit. I think it should be legal recreationally also. People need to make informed choices. Is alcohol going to be illigal again? People use that to excess frequently. You could get a script for that when it was illegal. For me, my license is too important to risk even as a caregiver until there becomes some firm guidelines. I have been licensed since 1979 and value my license.