Susan L Stewart
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read

I have lived with chronic pain for 29 years. I was on morphine for almost seven years. When it stopped working, I went to my pain specialist and asked to have the “pot talk.” He explained that it was the policy of the practice (it was a huge pain management group) is to not allow our patients to use THC to control their pain because it was not federally approved. I asked about CBD. He said they had no problem with CBD, it was the THC and getting “high” that they wouldn’t allow. He told me that CBD was legal in the US and federally approved. The problem I encountered was that every CBD product I looked at also contained THC.

I changed doctors and he put me on a non-opioid medication for my pain. It works really well but I hate the side effects. I’m still trying to figure out how to use CBD for my chronic insomnia. I’ve been using different CBD products for nine months and I still can’t figure it out.

    Susan L Stewart

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    Author/Artist. Full-time writer. Mental Illness advocate. I live with chronic depression, but I’m still an optimist.