Neither, he smokes it because he's a stoner. I know he's got some damaged tendons so he'd probably know if it helped for the pain.
Weed doesn't make pain go away, just makes it a little easier to deal with. It's a brain drug, not a nerve agent like opiates or the *caine drugs (novocaine, lidocain, coke caine etc)
For me, it just made me feel stupid(er) and took away other distractions so the pain was more obvious.
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