States with Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths
I'm a big fan of recreational weed (ideally sativa strains), but my experience with indica strains for pain relieve is not good.  I find that rather than making me forget about chronic pain that I currently experience (neck cramps, sore muscles, etc) it makes me remember/re-experience pain from years-old injuries.  Surgical scars I got when I was in my teens and haven't felt since suddenly have dull unignorable sensations of pain.  A toe I broke a year ago starts hurting again.  Etc.<p>Nobody that I have mentioned this too has ever said they experienced the same so I've usually just written it off as some sort of strange psychosomatic thing, but the article's passing mention that <i>"marijuana doesn’t replace the pain relief of opiates.  However, it does seem to distract from the pain by making it less bothersome."</i> makes me wonder if something is actually going on here.