Neuropathic pain and Marijuana

I find it funny, how fundamentally opposed to marijuana I used to be when I was younger. i grew up the son of a forensic police officer. The part of marijuana that I grew up knowing was the heavy gang influence. the shootings, the break and enters, the grow-ops that would burn down houses. I knew the criminal element of marijuana fairly well. I also saw the “stoners”, the Cheech and Chong’s of this world.. I never believed in the gateway drug propoganda, but I did know that smoking pot was bad for your health. I read the stats that x amount of brain cells per puff, or that one joint was the equivalent of smoking 3 cigarettes (although I the chain pot smokers I knew where the minority, compared to the, 3 packs a day smokers, that I knew.) So when I heard that they were allowing marijuana…