Newbie needs advice on small setup

Hi My name is Kelly, I live in Los Angeles, Ca. I am 32 yrs old, and I suffer from Chronic Pain: I have had 8 back surgeries, I have developed Fibromyalgia, Athritis, and they think possibly Lupus. I am currently completly dependant upon pharmacuticals, (Oxycontin to be exact) I am tired of taking harsh pills, I feel my kidneys hurting. I want to use Medical Cannibis to help eliviate my pain. I have a small basement area, about 5' wide by 6' long. and about 6' tall. I know it's not a lot of space, but this is my only option currently. I would love anyones input. I have heard the following:
1) Paint walls WHITE (or should i put up drywall?) and then cover with aluminum foli. (Ive heard that can burn the plants tho?) 2. I was going to start small, say 3 plants, one Indica, One Sativa and a Hybrid. Any recommendations.??? 3) What about a "Pully system for the lighting (to bring lower then higher from plant) 4) I have seen on this Forum, people suggest using gas genorators? why? How much is that up front and how do i set up? Any of these questions answered is greatly appreciated.

A few videos to help... (I'm a visual learner)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avipzVVmpL8

Watch the entire series. You should do something pretty similar, so you can keep a constant supply of meds.

Divide your rooms into a 5'x2' veg room (about 2'x2' for plants) and a 5'x4' bloom room (4'x4' for plants). I would use either a 600w or 1000w HPS for your flowering room, and either a 250w MH or a fluorescent setup for you clones and mothers.

Good luck, and HAPPY GROWING!

Easy dude sounds like your having a hella time of it with the pain i would do like beginningbotanist420
and set up your space into 2 areas a flowering and a veg/mother area i would advice start basic and smal and build it up with experience. i would like you say paint the walls white as a minimum requirment, DO NOT USE ALUMINIUM FOIL FULL STOP!!!!!, it does not reflect light rather than absorb it and heat things up. your second point starting small is a good idear but the space would fit alot more in i would recommend going soil/cocco rather than hydro less can go wrong and when it does soil is much more forgiving. i have used canna cocco and all there nuts for the past 4 years and have had great results. as for the type of plants to grow for your pain management i would check out MRNICE seed bank as they give a review of the medicinal side to each plant, i would consider a pure indica and indica sative hibread mabe something like but i would also consider the stronger sativa hibreds as they wond nock you out as much as an indica and you will be able to function better. i know that greenhouse seeds do a strain called big bang wich has been developed for madicinal qualities.
you also asked about a gass canister not to sure what it could be apart from a co2 bottle inprove the plants photosinthasis, ignore that till later, and light pullies are usefull to easaly move lights up and down.
other things you want to consider is how much money do you want to spend on the set up how much time and effort your abble to put into actually maintaining your grow and how much bud you need .
hear is a free link to greg greens cannabis grow bible http://trava.kiev.ua/doc/The_Cannabis_Grow_Bible_by_Greg_Green.pdf if unsuccesfull put it into google, this will give all the info you need to get started.
any other questions feel free to ask or mail me and good luck ......