Why is my medical marijuana less important than yours?

I understand that someone with cancer or ms is a better face for medical marijuana if the goal is to jerk tears. However I think it also leads to the current view by prohibitionists that the legalization movement is exploiting these sick people.

Why do I use marijuana if I am not dying? I’d argue that my illness is worse than life threatening. I suffer from anxiety and depression. My illness won’t kill me, but it could destroy my life.

I’ll give you some background. I was born to an abusive father and absent mother. I was always in trouble, I was angry, I was heart-broken.

By the time I was in my teens my anger for my situation had grown and I became quite destructive. Mind you I was never into hurting people. I’d had enough of that from my Father. I would, instead vandalize buildings, steal from stores, and smoke cigarettes in abandoned houses.

My Father had me institutionalized in a number of “youth treatment” homes, where I was subjected to all kinds of new abuses. I remember being sedated and restrained for days, while having no choice but to relieve myself in my hospital gown.

I was diagnosed with ADHD, Bi-Polar, Manic Depression, and even as a budding Sociopath. I was forced to eat all kinds of pills that did everything from make it hard to breath, to be unable to get an erection. In my opinion this period was merely a way to do large scale drug trials on youth.

I smoked marijuana 2 or 3 times in my youth. Not the stuff I smoke today mind you, this stuff was weak and smelled like hay. At the time it was not something I did on a regular basis at all.

I ended up leaving home at 17 and tried to make my own way. It would be 6 more years before I would find cannabis, and start to pull myself out of the dark pit from which I had been born. In that time I was imprisoned, homeless, and a wandering vagabond.

Once I began smoking marijuana on a daily basis, my world cleared up. I could think clearly, was less impulsive, and for the first time since my early youth, I would concentrate.

To make a long story short, I now have a family, have not had an issue with the law in over 10 years (baring the occasional fine for having marijuana), and run a successful software development company.

Cannabis saved my life.

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