The real question is, now that hard core painkillers and heroin are so plentiful, why do so many people complain of chronic pain normal painkillers cant take care of? Did you hear of thousands and thousands of chronic pain suffers in the 50s? 60s? 70s? 80s? People just want an excuse to get high. They even claim pot cures pain now??? I have smoked weed since the 70s and never once has it even cured a headache for me. Again, people just want an excuse to say they need to smoke pot. Recreational pot is great, I smoke it for fun. I dont have to get sick to enjoy a good buzz.