XPost: alt.politics.immigration, alt.drugs.pot   
   From: tdshadow@onelink.net   
      
   On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:31:10 -0500, Tiny Human Ferret   
    wrote:   
      
   >Personally I am opposed to the Prohibition, but I personally wouldn't   
   >smoke herb, though if I started to develop glaucoma or needed something   
   >to fight chemotherapy nausea, probably a nice cup o' tea would work for me.   
      
   After I was diagnosed with glaucoma, I spent eight years in a stupor;   
   doped out on the alphabet soup of medications they gave me.  As they   
   failed to help me, one by one, they kept giving me newer and newer   
   drugs - damaging my liver, giving me bladder infections and kidney   
   stones and doing my eyes almost no good whatsoever.   
      
   Then the surgeries.  (Scalpel, not laser)   
      
   Then experimental non-approved drugs.   
      
   Then experimental surgeries.   Then the ocular implant.   
      
   Nothing helped.  I was going blind.   
   After the last drug failed, I had no other alternative.   
      
   Now I wonder why I went through the decade of hell.   When you smoke   
   pot every day, eventually there is a "burn-out" point where you don't   
   get high any more.   I function better on a day-to-day basis than I   
   ever did on those pharmaceuticals.   I can hold down a job outside of   
   the house (I branched out from writing into filmmaking) for the first   
   time in what feels like an eternity.   And the weed costs less than   
   1/4 the amount as the pills/drops did.   
      
   - T.D.   
      
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