God is so awesome. He put canabinoids in our body so that our body wouldn’t reject Marijuana. A person can be treated for many things with pot without concern over becoming addicted.
I watched a special on it and they interviewed a woman with cerebral palsy. It took her what seemed like forever just to introduce herself.
“My my my name my name is…”
After they recorded her smoking, she spoke again and this time it was in one continuous sentence and it was amazing to see the difference.
A scientist wrote an article about the effect it had on his son who had cancer which most people now know is the very best drug known to man for surviving cancer, a disease that can be killed in the body just by cutting off its source for food. 
If you have been taking pain pills long, I assume you are addicted. The danger with the type of drug you are taking is that it has a half life so if you take a 5mg Xanax today, you still have 2.5 mg in your body tomorrow.