re: Forget Spice.. It's now Shatter

I think that there's likely some hope in medical marijuana for your pain relief and sleep issues. The main issue, as you seem to already recognize, will be in seperating the pain/discomfort of your opiate withdrawal from the actual pain/discomfort from your injury/condition.

Legitimate chronic pain issues suck in this day and age for so many reasons, not the least of which is that some doctors overprescribe opiates as a panacea. Then there are the issues of people looking at chronic pain sufferers as normal "junkies" who are just using their "pain" as an excuse to get high.