Medical Marijuana 2020

[gwadSIG]

CBD

Do they produce a grade of pot that will give a patient relief from their illness but not get them high?

It’s not necessarily a grade, but another compound from the same plant. It’s called CBD oil. I know several people with kids who suffer from epilepsy who have tried it with success. My grandmother has a wound from a broken hip that won’t heal and is in pain and also suffers from dementia that causes her go into panics. We’ve had great success with it.

https://www.healthline.com/health/cbd-vs-thc

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

There's a bunch of pills that cost a whole lot more than $7 each. That's about what a cholesterol lowering statin costs. Drug costs are ridiculously out of control.

Are you implying that Jeff Sessions might be dishonest? **

THIS is the biggest issue that all Americans have that gets NO press coverage.

I'd give anything if the newsgroups out there spent 1/3 of the time they use to ***** about or praise Trump to talk about the over-pricing and corruption in this industry. My Dad worked for a pharmaceutical company for 35 years but felt the same way when his health declined and he had to spend a larger and larger amount for his scripts and health care. He lost most of his money to medical and drug expenses.

One of my best friends was just diagnosed with cancer and I pity the amount of money he will have to shell out.

It's very expensive growing old or dying in America.

 

[Digging dog]

Definitely has become a hotter hot topic subject in the last few years.

 

[PineGroveBully]

But not tobacco, which again, different God create it??

 

[PineGroveBully]

You know why you never carry just one Baptist fishing with you? They'll always drink all you're beer. Carry 2 and they won't drink a drop. And I was Baptist for a long time.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

This is about uneducated bias and money. Period. Those who aren't already hoodwinked by the Baptists are influenced by a very, very powerful pharmaceutical lobby.

It's more of a cultural bias than uneducated bias. For decades marijuana has been portrayed in our culture as a group of lazy people who are bumbling stoners craving food. Until we start having good information as available for people out there as say movies like Pineapple Express, people, in general, are going to continue to feel this way.

 

[Awwhellnaw]

Couple questions. Can someone explain the theory of pain relief and “good sleep” they get with marijuana use? I have never exiperenced either. Had major back issues in the past that it has not helped and it has never helped me sleep. Marijuana is in fact a stimulant.

I realize drugs treat everyone different but in my own personal experience, I have not seen any true medicinal use. Of course, I would love to see it legalized but they only reasons I would use would be for recreational purposes and/or replacing alcohol.

 

[johnson86-1]

But not tobacco, which again, different God create it??

I suspect a lot of them are against tobacco also, but probably to the extent they are not the argument would be that drugs like nicotine and caffeine don't make you more susceptible to doing sinful things. I think "recreational" can fairly be used to apply to nicotine or could fairly be limited to mood altering drugs.

 

[PineGroveBully]

It is in no way a fact that marijuana is a stimulant. Some strains may have more of these qualities than others. Pain is nothing but you're brain interpreting signals. A lot of times it just tricks the brain into misreading those electrical signals. But you are kinda correct that to me it helps with nerve pain better than with shoulder or back pain related to a disc or whatever. Now I'm a novice at the different strains but I do know some help with this more than others.

In my case my spinal cord was not severed but due to 3 fractured vertebrae in 98 it had immense bruising and swelling due to it taking 6-7 hours to get me to The Med due to weather. Tupelo at that time while only 30 mins away by ambulance was not the level trauma center it is today. Emergency medicine has come a long way. Now they'd just give me a cortisone shot immediately for the swelling and I'd been playing ball a month later. But the swelling causes part of the cord to die. So now this is just a similie, but while the brain is constantly getting signals from below saying hey everything is good down here those signals never make it. So the body below the injury never gets the message back that everything is ok, carry on it becomes like a person on a cellphone on a long bottom loosing signal and ppl start talking louder thinking that will help. The brain never gets these complete communications. So it says Houston we have a problem and starts to panic subconsciously, hence the nerve pain. The cannibas calms all this hyperactivity over nothing down. So while it helps me rest, lot of it is just bc of the nerve pain gets worse when I stretch out and get still. I don't know why this makes it worse. But without the pain I get more natural sleep without needing medicine to sleep which turns me into a zombie. More natural sleep makes these nerve signals less intense the next day so that the pain during the day is less. Then it becomes a cycle. But when I have some I generally don't take use it during the day as I generally don't like the feeling, but this again would be more helpful if I could better choose the strain that had certain qualities. Maybe that helps in understanding my particular situation. I've been fighting this injury and the various medications for nearly 20 years now so I know what helps and what doesn't. This long posts probably needs numerous proofings but hopefully the point is clear.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Airline lost my luggage in Colorado and still haven't found it. Coincidence? I think not.***