Researchers first to uncover how the cannabis plant creates important pain-relieving molecules that are 30 times more powerful at reducing inflammation than Aspirin. The discovery unlocks the potential to create a naturally derived pain treatment for relief of acute and chronic pain beyond opioids.

Au contraire, mon ami. Happiness is an emotion I rarely feel and that was not the feeling I intended to invoke.

Rather, fulfillment. Or an appreciation of beauty and wonderment, awe of nature, a close friend you can be hundreds of miles away from and only speak every few months but you love each other enough to maintain that friendship, a hobby you feel deep satisfaction with whenever you master a new technique, etc.

I'm 27. The (probable) love of my life died 7 years ago. My friends are people I would die to protect even if we are separated by distance or distanced by separation due to divergence of life events. I have hobbies and continued my education with no end in sight. That doesn't mean that I don't also have chronic pain, am haunted by trauma, and every day in mired in mental illness. Illness is my bread and butter, my soup and my salad. I don't think I'll live past 30, truly.

I wouldn't say I have or will ever have a happy ending. Happy-ish, though? Why not. If I weigh it out honestly, my bad experiences far outweigh the good in both frequency and in how...destructive it has all been.

Then again, the good is so good. Everything I've been given, what I've fought for, what I've bargained and struggled and BLED for, and all of what I haven't yet found my way to, all of it is precious to me.

Right now you have no hope. That is valid in my eyes. Looking at this world and having hope is a fool's errand. So for now, I will keep hope alive for you. And if the day comes when you feel the spark of hope within you, come relieve me of my watch. Cool?

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