Arizona Medical Marijuana Patient #9 Jim McMahon
We all believed #9 would be a Quarterback, a Chicago Bear Quarterback forever both literally and figuratively. Known both on and off the field as the ultra-tuff former Chicago Bears Quarterback. As a player in his heyday he was well known as being one of the roughest toughest QB's in the league. Playing the game with such reckless abandon which so many times led to him miraculously making something from nothing on the Football field as a result. McMahon it seemed while playing in the NFL had no idea he was a Quarterback often taking on Massive Linebackers head-on trying to reach the end-zone.
Unfortunately the hits did add up and Jim was diagnosed with Arthritis as a result. Read more...
Former Chicago Bears quarterback, Jim McMahon, has kicked pain pills
out of his life. The combination of medical marijuana and chiropractic
treatment to relieve pressure in his neck have improved his quality of
life.
McMahon used to take up to 100 pain pills per month. Now, he uses
medical marijuana three times a day to treat his arthritic pain from
injuries sustained during his NFL career, reports the Chicago Tribune.
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McMahon is a patient in Arizona’s medical marijuana program.
When asked about treating his pain with pain pills, he said, “They were
doing more harm than good. This medical marijuana has been a godsend.
It relieves me of the pain — or thinking about it, anyway.”
One of the main reasons that the former NFL player is going public
about his medical marijuana use status is because of his struggles with Illinois’s medical marijuana program,
which does not currently have chronic pain as a qualifying condition.
Illinois lawmakers believe chronic pain to be too broad of a category
that could lead to abuse.
Maybe the most telling aspect is that McMahon’s advocacy for medical marijuana is purely from his own
personal experience. The relief he’s found for his arthritis from
marijuana he has said on many occasions that the Medical Marijuana does a much better job than the hundreds of Percocet painkillers he was taking previously. Without any of the side-effects that come with medication, all medication.
Fortunately since kicking the pain killers out in exchange for Medical Marijuana the former Quarterback readily admits that his quality of life has greatly improved in many ways. Jim McMahon one of the most well-known Quarterbacks ever to play in the NFL is a great advocate for the Pro-Medical Marijuana initiatives here in Arizona. Hopefully as acceptance grows with education more and more patients will be allowed to openly attest to just how successful Medical Marijuana really is as a natural medicine...Thanks Jim!
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