How time changes views....

For the longest time, I always felt that marijuana for medical purposes was a fluke. I always thought that it was just people looking to get high and abuse the law. But over time I have met people and seen documentaries that have swayed my opinion. Before I was very conservative and didn’t believe that there was a real need for it in our society. But after I met some now close friends of mine, I have come to realize that it does have a very big impact on their lives. Now I still do not believe that it can help people with the emotional pain, to me I see that as something people just need to work on, in the own way and not try to use it as an out to just get high. Now with physical pain, I see the effects it has on the user. To many it is not about just getting stoned for fun, people need it to help reduce or ease the pain away from them. This change in my life has allowed me to become more open minded in my ways of seeing how people attempt to treat pains, but not only that it has also allowed me to help spread my thoughts and ideology behind the drug. This change did not just happen in a snap, I took a few years to even come to terms with the idea that people actually even use this drug for medical purposes, let alone try to tell people that it actually works. My friends and I have a better friendship because I have become more accepting of what they do, and not to say that they needed my approval before, but having a friend that is openly accepting of what you do is very helpful in supporting them.