Libbie Whited-Seabourn

Patient name: Libbie Whited-Seabourn
Age: 47
Condition/Illness: Calciphylaxis, chronic pain, chronic migraines, high blood pressure

Using medical cannabis since: 2012

Why did you start using cannabis?

My cousin had told me to try smoking cannabis to see if it would help alleviate the pain caused by the calciphylaxis.

Did you try other methods or treatments before cannabis?

I tried Percocet, Vicodin, (I soon found out that I am allergic to those), dilaudid, imitrex (which I am also allergic to), hyberbaric oxygenation treatments and an internal pain pump.

What’s the most important issue or problem facing medical cannabis patients?

Not being able to obtain the medications legally.

What do you say to folks that are skeptical about cannabis as medicine?

I tell them what I deal with on a daily basis and how cannabis has helped me to live a little more of a normal life. Without cannabis, I am a hermit because I am unable to go out and do the things that I used to do. I am unable to be the mother I need to be to my children— although my older two are grown—without the help from cannabis.