The patients' perception was that this was a drug that was going to get them high, but we didn't find that.

Anecdotally, of course, people have been using it for centuries. We've known in our clinic that patients are using street-based cannabis.

Most important, the quality of sleep was improved, which we know in patients makes a big difference in how they perceive their pain the next day. It's a very fatiguing disease.

Like to hear a vampire folk tale?" Sarasti asked.

"Vampires have folk tales?"

He took it for a yes. "A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.

Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.

There's this perception that we don't like playing with (Iverson) or something, and that's not the case. I still can't figure out how he can miss that many days and come back and play like that.