Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

I live in the 19th century state of fucking florida. We just voted down medical marijuana.

I have had gastritis for years with my main symptom being pain in my upper stomach. I had just read somewhere where pot may help this situation. And now the neanderthals say, "NO"

Plus because of the pain and my inability to take otc pain meds because they CAUSE the pain I take narcotics. And yes I have the constipation which makes the initial problem with my stomach worse. I get so frustrated.

Then I find out from the pharmacist that the government decides how much of certain pain pills they will allow to be sold to the store, which is why my doctor called 10 different pharmacies trying to get a certain drug, (a strong one I'm sure) for an elderly man with 6 different types of cancer because his caretaker couldn't get them for him. And that even didn't work. They were going to the grocery store pharmacy when they left the office. And that is where I am going to have to go for my script too.

I feel like taking a trip to a state with medical marijuana and just trying it. If it works I'd try and figure something out.