This week, we thought we could head in a totally different direction.   We've never been against drugs, medication or anti-medical in any sense of the term.   At Life By Design, we acknowledge that 1) you (the individual) has the right and responsibility to chose your own healthcare - whatever that choice may be. 2) That checking for and correcting interference in your spine and nerve system, although absolutely unique and amazing and vital to your health and wellness, like everything else, has its limitations.    We understand that, since you listen to this podcast, you likely try to avoid medications as much as possible and as a result might be interested in medical marijuana as an option. However, since it's outside of our scope we wanted to bring in an expert from another field.   On this episode, we bring on Dr. Rachna Patel, a medical marijuana doctor, to answer the questions that we are commonly asked in practice about medical marijuana.   The most interesting part of the interview is how and why Dr. Patel turned to medical marijuana to help her patients. It was because she felt that the traditional drugs used to help were "not very helpful, potentially harmful and weren't addressing the cause of the problem."   The purpose of this podcast is to help you shed some light on the topic and ask some important questions about medical marijuana.    What we covered:

• Is medical marijuana safe for your condition?
• Do you have to smoke medical marijuana or are there other, more discrete, ways of taking it so that not everyone has to know that you're taking it?
• Are you going to get addicted to taking medical marijuana?
• If medical marijuana is so effective, then why hasn't the government recognized it yet?