Episode 53: Corrections Officer Uses Cannabis to Alleviate Her Excruciating Pain

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She had more than 1,800 injections to relieve the chronic pain from a work related accident. For Melissa Ellsworth, from Nova Scotia, Canada, the pain was so bad that at times it brought her to her knees. The pain medication she was taking for four years brought little relief. That only came after she tried cannabis and, in her own words, "got her life back".