Doing volunteer work for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) here in Washington, DC I've met quite a few people over the years who have used marijuana medicinally. Until the other day, I had used it only recreationally, but on December 23rd...
...I had double hernia surgery. As I left the hospital, a nurse gave me some crackers and two percocets. The crackers weren't really enough for my empty stomach, and by the time I got home I threw up...not a fun thing to do with 4 inches of stitches across one's belly!
I smoked a bit of my formerly "recreational" weed, and immediately felt better and went to sleep. Four hours later, I got up to use the bathroom and immediately felt very ill again. Right away I smoked two small bong hits and within one minute felt fine. So fine, in fact, that I was able to eat something, take another percocet, and sleep well.
The goverment marijuana pill, "marinol", would have been worthless in this case: I couldn't get anything to stay down, and even if I could, the pill would have taken much too long to have had any effect. Smoking just a bit of marijuana provided effective and immediate relief.
The truth about marijuana: The government is lying.
MRPLUTO