Pain management is one of the places where the rubber truly meets the road in healthcare, a multi-billion dollar business. Non-toxic cannabinoid therapy has a very real place there. And non-toxic is good, as the very first rule of medicine should always be "to do no harm". So, shouldn't cannabis, from the get-go, do it differently than the Vicodin/Oxycodone "take these pills by yourself" delivery model? After all, cannabis and all its users, medicinal or not, have been long defined by society as "counterculture", so shouldn't we be expected to do it differently, when we got our turn to create legal marijuana??? How about creating a non-profit medical cannabis delivery system whose central focus was on the patients, not profits for starters?

Patients will have better results in chronic pain relief in the social setting of a Cannabis Cafe, where having people to talk to makes one's problems feel lighter and one's pain (medicated or not) easier to bear. Classes will be starting soon at the Cannabis Cafe on everything from aerobics, yoga, and weight management to plant propagation. Figuring out ways to provide free medicine to the indigent has been part of the design of the Oregon NORML's Cannabis Cafe since its very inception. (Imagine that, the poor thought of first in the NORML model, not dead-last like in the standard corporate model.) Perhaps a "Buds on Wheels" program for shut-in medical marijuana patients, too... A hemp products emporium, you get it, a place for everything cannabis, and you, too.

At NORML's Cannabis Cafe, feel better...get better And then...What if... patients could meet at NORML Cannabis Cafes all over the country and the revenues generated driving a host of programs, in the area of healthcare and post drug war reparations, like freeing the thousands in jail today on pot charges? Think about it. Is that the kind of future you want? We can have it.

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