I has RSD and I find my medications make me very nausuous, I find that if I smoke a little I can hold down my food. I have to work to get insurance, but sometimes I am so sick or in so much pain I have a hard time getting to work, I can't take my apin pills then go to work. I have found, however, that if I wake up and take a couple puffs I mean 2 or 3,not a ton) that my stomache settles, my pain subdues enough to get up and long enough for my Gabapentin and Zanflex to start working. Without Marijuana I would be up 2 atleast 4 Percocet a day, I take 1 everynight that's it. My son is concerned about me smoking (he is almost 17, just don't want you all to think he is young like 5 or 10yrs old). He has actually encouraged me to bake the marijuana into butter then using it to cook food with. It gives me a different high, more of a body high that allievates alot of the body pain. However it helps less with the nausea. So I just try to use moderation, as I do with all my meds. I think that smoking areas in high schools are a seriously bad idea by the way. If the child is that much of a mess he should be at home under the care of his guardian. I don't think marijuana is bad, but it can easily be abused. We need to teach our children about moderation, and use moderation ourselves so that we are good role models for our children. I have RSD and I'm not letting it take over my life, I will try anything to help the pain. I am enrolled in my doctorial degree program, I will be a doctor and RSD will not stop me. I wish great sucess and much pain relief to all. Keep your heads up and keep up the good fight.