One of the first things you learn as an RN (Registered Nurse), is that despite all of your best wishes - usually there are NO magical remedies or solutions. In many cases, medication will not suffice by its merit in treating complex chronic ailments, in other instances, it may work but there will be a drawback - as expressed by significant adverse effects or side effects. The more potency a drug possesses - at times the potential ramifications will be accordingly, and if it does work solely by itself and has zero consequences - wonderful! However… If you move or relocate even a district/county away – it's possible that the drug will not be in the local drug store or they'll have a different supplier - thus the switch to a GENERIC substance may very well throw you out of balance. Cannabis on the other hand.. is not a magical senzu bean that will solve all of your problems, heal your illnesses and make you immune to all diseases, can cause potential side effects, short and long term at times, and is accompanied by many interactions. At times, using medical cannabis to deal with multiple problems at the same time is challenging – every strain is unique and its effect differs from person to person and differs in the same patient with every method of administration that the mind boggles. You can treat Hypertension and stabilize the blood Glucose levels in the strain thing that you've been prescribed for treating chronic pain. And a lot of the side-effects and adverse effects are fleeting as the substance wears off. All drugs must undergo several clinical trials and usually are proceeded by a vast knowledge and know-how and are accompanied by a protocol which is ironclad, therefore they're very easy to manage as it requires knowledge but not a lot of clinical thought, the patients are instructed according to the protocol and then it is up to them to take the drug and voilà - you're done. But cannabis differs from that because it is in most places a remedy - herb or drug - which is administered simultaneously to the research being done and before a working understanding of all the different aspects of treatment and therefore poses a challenge to the caregivers. A lot of the information that patients have derives from the leisure partaking of cannabis which is very different from medical use as the medicinal use requires matching strains of cannabis to the patient's ailment, background, and underlying problems. In addition, one must mention that due to the personal recreational usage experiences of your surroundings and the abundance of recreational use and information on the world wide web and darknet - I've seen gaps in knowledge and misperceptions in patients, so it has become my goal and mission to provide the information and guidance to the best of my abilities and knowledge in the hopes that this field, which requires more guidance from medicinal and nursing staffs - will receive. But providing instructions and guidance to the patients is not a walk in the park, it requires research, knowledge, and commitment to the patients and to constantly further your knowledge. This is a task only made harder by the fact that cannabis has been illegal even for research purposes for so long and therefore wasn't taught in medical and nursing schools - which means that the vast majority of current nurses and physicians are lacking the grounds to provide such care and guidance. There's a lot still unknown, but it is my intention as a Nurse qualified to do so by my studies to try and change it, one step at a time.