
That changed in 2016 when a friend convinced him to try cannabis as medicine.

“So I’d kind of resigned myself to living with the pain.” “I couldn’t afford to go to a specialist, and I’ve always just avoided all kinds of drugs because I’m allergic to penicillin, and I’m just generally scared of opioids,” he explains. He suffered from chronic discomfort, but renounced traditional treatment and pain medication for multiple reasons. I was only going 35 mph, and I can’t imagine what would have happened if I’d been going faster.”Ī lifelong rider, Derek had to garage his Kawasaki Ninja 300 for months while he recovered from the crash, though his knee continued to plague him. My jeans were torn up and my knee was smashed up. “When I stopped moving, I was on my back. “I didn’t anticipate the tar snakes, and I felt my rear wheel slip-I still don’t know if I hit the guardrail or the road,” recalls Derek, describing the 2013 motorcycle accident that left him with a limp. But before Derek W., started the ride back down from Tucson’s majestic Mount Lemon, a construction crew had filled parts of the pavement with lines of black tar, still sticky in the morning sun. The road was perfectly smooth on the way up the mountain. With the aid of medical cannabis and the cosplay community, the force remains strong with this one.


spiraled after a motorcycle accident left him with a limp. Sci-fi enthusiast and prop-maker Derek W.
