Why the Addiction Recovery Community Should Accept Medical Marijuana
The first time someone told me it’s possible to consume cannabis without getting high, I scoffed. I was five years sober and my friend, newly in recovery, was telling me about a “special” kind of marijuana. Apparently, she said, it offered anti-anxiety and pain relieving effects without the high of “traditional” marijuana. I didn’t pay much attention. First, I didn’t have strong feelings about marijuana one way or the other – my drug of choice was always alcohol. Second, weed with medicinal benefits and no psychoactive effect seemed like the wishful thinking of a newly sober recovering addict. I wrote it off as a pipe dream of the uncomfortably abstinent.
For anyone who has spent a significant amount of time in a 12-step meeting, any discussion of cannabis brings to mind a familiar scene: a newcomer to the group asks if they can continue to smoke pot, as long as...
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