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Gordon Jones has taken 13 different medications for his reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
Most didn't help.
One did.
Jones, of St. Louis, who asked that his real name not be used, fought the chronic pain for years before Michigan voters approved the use of medical marijuana.
"Basically my blood vessels misfire like a car motor pumping blood to different parts of my body that cause me to swell up," he said. "It's in my knee - so the bottom part of my ankle will swell up two to three inches bigger than the other one."
Over the years, Jones had used all the typical pain-fighting pills.
"I was taking Vicodin, Oxycontin, Naproxen, blah blah blah ... and the only one that helped me was marijuana."
Today Jones is off all the pain pills, but smokes marijuana.
"I was told that I would never work again, and I'm 42 years old," he said. "I was off work for about two and a half years dealing with it."
Now Jones runs a small business and works about 60 hours a week.
"The medical marijuana just seems to alleviate the pain, pressure and everything else," he said.
Jones has been a member of the Michigan Cannabis Club and helped push the ballot initiative that legalized the medical use of marijuana.
"I have found throughout the years that it does help with different ailments," he said.
Besides his own relief, Jones has seen marijuana help his own mother.
"My mother has breast cancer and she was on a bunch of pills and now she is off of all of them," he said. "I have a friend that has an 85-year-old mother that has terminal cancer, and she uses it every day and doesn't take any pills."
For both of those cancer patients, relief of pain and nausea are the prime benefits, Jones said.
He believes that God planted it, that it grows in the ground and is a lot safer than many medications that pharmaceutical companies produce.
Pills can be very addictive, he said.
"They damage your liver, kidneys and everything else. I was having problems using the bathroom with all that stuff," he said.
"I call it poison because it really makes you uncomfortable. You don't want to go anywhere and you're always wanting that next pill. It's just not worth it."
News Hawk- Jacob Ebel 420 MAGAZINE
Source: sourcenewspapers.com
Author: Ryan Berlin
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Website: Medical marijuana a better fix than narcotics for pain
Most didn't help.
One did.
Jones, of St. Louis, who asked that his real name not be used, fought the chronic pain for years before Michigan voters approved the use of medical marijuana.
"Basically my blood vessels misfire like a car motor pumping blood to different parts of my body that cause me to swell up," he said. "It's in my knee - so the bottom part of my ankle will swell up two to three inches bigger than the other one."
Over the years, Jones had used all the typical pain-fighting pills.
"I was taking Vicodin, Oxycontin, Naproxen, blah blah blah ... and the only one that helped me was marijuana."
Today Jones is off all the pain pills, but smokes marijuana.
"I was told that I would never work again, and I'm 42 years old," he said. "I was off work for about two and a half years dealing with it."
Now Jones runs a small business and works about 60 hours a week.
"The medical marijuana just seems to alleviate the pain, pressure and everything else," he said.
Jones has been a member of the Michigan Cannabis Club and helped push the ballot initiative that legalized the medical use of marijuana.
"I have found throughout the years that it does help with different ailments," he said.
Besides his own relief, Jones has seen marijuana help his own mother.
"My mother has breast cancer and she was on a bunch of pills and now she is off of all of them," he said. "I have a friend that has an 85-year-old mother that has terminal cancer, and she uses it every day and doesn't take any pills."
For both of those cancer patients, relief of pain and nausea are the prime benefits, Jones said.
He believes that God planted it, that it grows in the ground and is a lot safer than many medications that pharmaceutical companies produce.
Pills can be very addictive, he said.
"They damage your liver, kidneys and everything else. I was having problems using the bathroom with all that stuff," he said.
"I call it poison because it really makes you uncomfortable. You don't want to go anywhere and you're always wanting that next pill. It's just not worth it."
News Hawk- Jacob Ebel 420 MAGAZINE
Source: sourcenewspapers.com
Author: Ryan Berlin
Contact: Contact Us
Copyright: Source Newspapers
Website: Medical marijuana a better fix than narcotics for pain
