Using CBD for pain, a user’s perspective

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A car crash victim explains first-hand why CBD is the only alternative for her pain

Linda Biggs claims to be one of the very first patients in Maryland to ever purchase medical marijuana after its legalization in the state two years ago. Now, with nearly 100 dispensaries operating across Little America, the business is thriving and many patients’ lives are being dramatically improved. Biggs is one of those testimonies of people recovering their lives thanks to the benefits found in products that contain cannabidiol (CBD).
Biggs was involved in a severe car accident in 2012 when another car hit her while she was stopped at the I-83 in Baltimore County. “I saw a car coming in my rearview mirror and at that moment I just knew. I mean she was coming very, very fast. The next thing I knew, I was being cut out of a Mini Cooper. And everything stopped. I couldn’t hold my head up, I couldn’t even move,” said Biggs. She had to undergo extreme therapies and many prescription medications to help her deal with the consequences though she thought her life was over at that time. “I was angry and just so frustrated and kind of like, out of the blue, I was introduced into cannabis, and I was like ‘Nah, we’re not gonna do that,” Biggs said.

She was reluctant at the beginning but desperate for a solution to her suffering. She decided to try CBD first for a non-psychoactive effect. “From the first day that I tried it, each day was like another little miracle happened,” Biggs said. As an artist, she was fearing not being able to draw or paint again due to large amounts of pain. “It’s made it possible,” Biggs said. “Now my fairies are telling a story of how CBD has helped heal me because each image is from a portion of my life.”

Critics and opponents continuously argue that more research is needed before cannabis can be legalized. However, a large portion of the products on the market today didn’t have to be submitted to rigorous testing, and even most Big Pharma products only receive a cursory review. When users provide first-hand accounts of how cannabis helped them when nothing else would, this weighs much heavier than any drawn-out research project could.