Years and years ago, in my young and wilder days, (ha ha, who am I kidding? I was never that wild!)
anyway, I found that marijuana helped a GREAT DEAL with chronic headaches and trigeminal neuralgia pains, as well as reduced pain and inflammation from tooth abscess.

Then I became a parent, and have not indulged since. I've frequently wondered if it might help the pain I am in now (from back injury) but am not willing to risk my family, etc, in breaking the law as it currently is here is Kansas.

I've heard on other boards, etc, that marijuana can be simmered in a fat based product like butter, to be used in recipes and similarly can be melted into a base for a topical application- which is more what would interest me, with less side effects than smoking or ingestion.