Had I not gotten old and ill I would not have been given a prescription for time release morphine. At the time I was forced to sign a contract saying my prescription would be withdrawn if I smoked pot. There was drama in the room when I said the doctor was made into a cop. I asked the doctor why they gave me the prescription. "I've seen the XRays." This is a long time ago now. I am disabled by pain without this prescription. I had for a long time stopped any use of pot 3 weeks before doctors visits as concerns their prescriptions. I am fairly certain the psychiatrists I visited told them what I was doing. I told them I didn't like it that they kept writing. I had developed the habit of expecting confidentially from Psychiatrists. I don't see psychiatrists on a regular basis and in the system of the doctors in the hospital conglomeration don't care about my "Privacy"? secrets. This is about pot mind you. The Pain Clinic doctors allowed that marijuana represented no threat to my health. It did not interfere with my other battery of drugs. So far as I have been concerned, and finding it helps me get along, I smoked it when I could get it. There was more drama that ended up putting me through morphine withdrawals. The experience of that was terrible and painful. My wife found for me another pain clinic. I probably failed many of the piss tests and the doctor just discontinued speaking of any failures and continuing my necessary prescriptions. Now they have retired. I was handed off to another Clinic that demands I use no pot and don't drink beer. I drink 3 beers a day. I smoke pot. While these vices do me some good here and there they cannot keep the pain at bay, at a level that allows me to do much of anything else but pace in fury around the room, consumed by pain and Dis Ease. I am in the grasp of fear. Today I would fail the piss tests upon which my prescriptions rest. What gives them the right to punish me in the manner facing me? If I could live without these drugs, I would. I have written my Congressman. While their is a bill, it does nothing but extend Decriminalization federally which does nothing for my situation for I live already in a state that has decriminalized marijuana. Our Federal Government made marijuana illegal in 1952 or '53 against the recommendations of doctors. During the Nixon years there was created a War about it so that hippies and beatniks could be captured and their lives disabled. I forget Blacks. Especially urban Blacks were targeted. Police became soldiers of the Drug war more than peace keepers. Probably 30 percent of policing has become about arresting people for having pot and using it. "It's our policy." is the position of the doctors demanding piss tests looking for THC markers and nothing else. Has nothing to do with healthcare. I encourage my followers to do what they can to bring us to the day when pot is "LEGAL" Federally. If they haven't figured out how to make money from it, aside from retail business taxes, that is not our problem. Our problem is our doctors are hurting us.