Thank you. I've had this since I was a kid and the fifth year on treatment using Interferon chemo and other massively horrible drugs, I test negative. My father was an IV doper too and he is gone 20 years from HIV. I too thank my lucky stars I escaped HIV. When I quit, it was just starting to enter the IV user community. Till then, it was mostly in the gay community. Now, more junkies have HIV than everyone combined. Except for Africa, which is carried through childbirth regularly.
Anyway, thank goodness for cannabis. I had such a stigma attached to it all my adult life. I didn't want to be high, this and that. Now it is no longer an option and I definitely do not feel bad for smoking even if I do get high. I deserve to relax and be comfortable.