[rarestia]

It’s the placebo effect, really. I was a heavy pot user in my youth and used to espouse the virtues of it as a calming agent for my anxiety issues. As I’ve gotten older and been sober for many years now, I found my anxiety issues were because of pot, not the other way around.

[TontoKowalski]

I don't recall reading that pot can cure anything, but admittedly this isn't an area I'm likely to research.

I did do some research about the effects on combating the sickness that accompanies chemotherapy when my mother was desperately ill with cancer.

At the time, I was willing to endanger my security clearance and engage in an illegal buy if she thought it would provide any relief and if she was willing to try it.

She declined. Towards the end, the doctors gave her as much morphine as she wanted, for which I am truly grateful.

[shotgun]

So the muscle relaxing and pain relief that I experienced on Friday night was really my mind telling me that the 4 or 5 tokes I took on my pipe was in fact me just imagining that I was relaxed.

That would explain why I didn’t get the munchies, hallucinate and giggle uncontrollably.