[philman_36]

If marijuana works so well for pain, how come the guy needed prescriptions for oxycontin and morphine?
Read the article...pain for which he'd been prescribed morphine and Oxycontin, among other narcotic drugs, says St. Pierre.
"he'd been"...as in "he had been" as in "in the past he had been prescribed...".
Though Tuck has taken morphine as prescribed by doctors for about 16 years to help with his pain, he was given no painkiller or treatment at the jail other than ibuprofen, Hiatt said.
I would proffer that the marijuana was for low pain days and the morphine/oxycontin was for high pain days. Makes sense.

[bk1000]

"I would proffer that the marijuana was for low pain days and the morphine/oxycontin was for high pain days. Makes sense."

MJ can also offset the nausea caused by taking narcotic pain killers as it does for chemotherapy patients.