"Juxtaposing my experiences with pharmaceutical drugs like Vicodin and Percocet, that made me angry and irritable, frustrated, didn't get rid of any of the pain, made it difficult to sleep, increased my heart rate and made me feel crazy," he said, and "on the other side of that there's cannabis that helped me sleep, put me into a healing state of being where I was relieved from stress and anxiety as well as feeling the pain relief."