Yes. It works for me, but I had a drug problem in the 60's and so don't do drugs now unless there is no alternative. I don't use drugs at all for my PN.

Some thoughts on the subject:

- We shouldn't write about it much here because the DEA monitors internet traffic with computers, looking for hot words. Some of those people are fanatics who will put you and other nice, honest, and decent people in jail for long periods of time. They've done it to hundreds of thousands who you are now supporting with your tax dollars.

- Doctors are usually not open to anything not pushed by big pharmaceutical companies. But, it doesn't hurt to ask, especially if you live in a more open, progressive area of the country.

- The active alkaloids stay in your bloodstream for about 36 hours, so your blood level builds over days. Start with a bit that you take once a day. After three days, up the amount a bit if needed. Do the same in three day intervals, upping or lowering dosage my small amounts. The goal is tolerable pain with tolerable high. You don't what to drive or do detail oriented work while high.

- What were we talking about?

- It's safe, but the smoke isn't. My cousin, who doesn't smoke cigarettes, got throat cancer from smoking pot. It's better in brownies, or grind it into a fine powder in a coffee mill and take in a smoothie or gelatin capsules you fill yourself. You can by the capsules over the web, or from many drugstores. I'm not sure which size capsules would be best.

- Please, please, please don't let the bastards put you in a cage with criminals. If you want to try it, fine, but stay below the radar and don't talk about it with people. A letter to the editor advocating legalization would NOT be a good idea. I'm not paranoid, just practical. I personally dealt with this aspect in the '60s, and my children and friends children more recently. The system is as vicious, brutal and irrational as the Salem witch hunts were. Believe me, the authorities, otherwise decent people, will not see you as the person you are if you come to their attention for this reason.

- You deserve pain relief and this used to be a relatively free country. There is no moral dimension to the use of any drug for pain relief as far as I'm concerned except the immorality of our "War on Drugs".