Scottsdale resident Todd Middleman plays bass guitar four nights a week in a local rock band called the Instant Classics.
The 45-year-old suffers chronic pain as a result of a spinal-cord injury he suffered when a car door fell on him at work.
“I’m holding a relatively heavy guitar and the pain gets pretty bad after a four-hour show,” Middleman said. “I tried multiple medications when my back got hurt and literally nothing worked. The first thing that worked was medical marijuana and I’ve used it ever since.”
Middleman was one of the first patients at the northeast Valley’s first medical-marijuana dispensary — Nature’s AZ Medicines Inc. in Fountain Hills.
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