Medical Use... why are we stuck like this?

Hello. My name is Anthony. I am an epileptic. My doctors have been trying to help me for a while now, switching from prescription to prescription, different doctor to a different specialist.... needless to say, i think you realize, that the bills rack up. None of the pills work. Maybe ill get a break from a day with no seizures but the next day i will. Every day i suffer from uncontrollable stuttering, shaking, muscle spasms and seizures. Ever since i broke down one day from all the agony an pain i was going through i smoked some marijuana. Not proud of it let me assure you. But im glad i did it. Once i did it i was calm, no symptoms at all, everything came to a halt. i have now been smoking once maybe 2 times in a day. I will take 3 hits at the most, and i wont have any symptoms for the day. Why should we pay for medically produced drugs that dont work and see doctors that cant help us... when i can spend the money from one treatment an months worth of meds and be able to pay for enough marijuana to treat me for at least 2-3 months. I just do not understand this.
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welcome to the club Anthony

Back in the 70s the government gave pot to twenty people for glaucoma. They were to continue smoking so the man could gather info on weather it helped or not. Since I knew glaucoma ran in my family I starting smoking pot too. I know for sure that pot has lowered my eye pressure by at least two degrees on my last visit. Yet because I am on a state health program they will not put me on the eye drops because it's to expensive. Then they turn around and say they can't write me a prescription for pot because they can lose their license.

For me the answer is simple, I would rather smoke pot that go blind.

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