i smoked cannabis for about about 35 yrs, occasional sociably at 1st being young at that time,in my early 20s i began to use regulary , i had a dudinal ulcer , it helped with the pain,ever since then up to about 7 years ago i still used for pain,beleiving i still had an ulcer though having so many endiscopys which didnt find anything, but still suffered pain all those years, untill eventualy 7 yrs ago i was taken into hospital as emergency, which they found what this problem was i had suffered for so long, i had a perferated bowel,which when i ate, the reaction to most foods was liken to being poisend,
i had part of my bowel removed, and was at last free of pain, i continued to use cannabis untill just over 2 years ago, i couldnt stop smoking tobacco while using cannabis so it had to go, what i must add is in all that time i never became addicted to the weed,
in my generation all illegal drugs were available, perhaps its the circles you move in wether these things are noticed in your generation, but they have always been there