New bill would ease rules on researching cannabis and other schedule I drugs

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1. I have multiple friends who are helped by cannabis.

The most successful was an older neighbor with fibromyalgia. Cannabis was legalized in my state but she avoided it because she never wanted to get "high". She described having a base level of pain since age 12 that would make a normal person scream because she was accustomed to it. One evening she rode with me to the store and I was searching for a close place to park so she wouldn't have to walk until she said "Can I tell you a secret? I've been mostly pain-free since I started using the drops, so park anywhere!" By "drops" she meant she had acquired sublingual THC tincture and was using drops under her tongue which actually helped mitigate her pain.

She also reported that her doctor ordered a biopsy for a node in her tongue that they wanted to test for cancer. It took 3 months to get the specialist appointment for the procedure, but a month before that she saw her doctor again who said "We may as well cancel your biopsy; there's nothing here to take a sample of anymore." In lab tests, cannabis and its compounds have shown they can reduce tumor growth in mice. We can't be sure the THC had an effect but it's cool to think about.

Other friends of mine use edibles for chronic generalized nerve pain that isn't affected by anything else, and another college friend said weed was the only thing that could stop a migraine in its tracks.