Pot kills crippling pain, cancer-suffering medical marijuana user Paul Lawrence says

Cancer-sufferer Paul Lawrence says he survives crippling daily pain with medical marijuana, including a breakfast marijuana smoothie, joints and hash oil throughout the day.

The 52-year-old from Wollongong underwent a world-first operation in 2010 to remove a chordoma, a rare spinal tumour, the size of a football.

At the time he was given just months to live and told there was a high likelihood he would die during surgery.

The operation required removing three vertebra and rebuilding his spine with ribs, a leg bone and more than 55 pieces of titanium.

"That's why I'm always going to be in pain, because people think my back's sore all the time," Mr Lawrence said.

"My back isn't sore all the time. I can permanently feel all the structures in me.

"It's uncomfortable but it's not the agonising part. Where my bones are missing, that hurts like hell."

For the first four years...

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