Medicating with Marijuana

[jy76]

In fairness to the forum, the proponent in Congress is a woman doctor whose son died of cancer (I didn't catch what specific cancer it was). Her stand on medical marijuana for such patients with agony in physical pain is the natural relief unlike the pain reliever. The effect of marijuana is lasting and more potent, according to that congresswoman doctor. By the way, the medical marijuana she is espousing is not the joint or stick that is smoked but marijuana oil, that's how I understood it. I didn't get the full details because you know that there are many people in the forum and sometimes there are many side remarks. But for me, I haven't smoked marijuana and I do not have the intention even recreational marijuana becomes legal here... unless I have the need for it to relieve the physical pain. 

No, I understand there are legitimate cases of people who have been helped by medical marijuana.  My comment wasn't made to insult those people.  I was simply being cynical due to the fact that some of the cases might be shady.

 

[janemariesayed]

It's such a shame that this wonderful herb has such a bad reputation. Because it is illegal it has made the majority think that it is a bad thing to use it. I have used it all my life and it is the one thing that helps with my depression and anxiety. I have never understood how anyone can have a bad experience with it, but they have so maybe it just won't help all people. Not all chemical tablets are good for everyone, some have bad side effects from them.


The Doctor gave me a chemical man made tablet to take for my depression and anxiety. It gave me the shakes, I was too embarrassed to go out as I was so much worse. The shakes on top of depression and anxiety just gives something more to be anxious about. When I checked the side effects of the pills online, I found that they could give me a stroke as well as heaps of other problems. Well, that just made me more scared than ever, so I have stopped taking them.


It is true that you can take too much cannabis, and end up passing out on a 'whitie' but this can be avoided by watching the blood sugar levels when taking it. That is why you can get the 'munchies' when smoking it. The thing to do is to eat properly and moderate the cannabis that you smoke, or however it is that you like to take it.


Cannabis helps depression and anxiety by relaxing the mind and body. I'm sure I wouldn't be alive today if I had to face all that I have without it. I don't think it should be illegal, I think that tablet which could have given me a stroke should be though.


Years ago, someone told me that it was illegal because the governments could not control it and would lose out on taxes. I wonder if that was true or not?

 

[thisnthat]

From experience I know marijuana isn't the answer for everyone with anxiety. There are people who will find it helpful and there are others who won't. For the latter group instead of marijuana helping, it actually makes their problem worse. Different reactions. If someone wants to try marijuana then you should do so with caution. After using marijuana if you find out that you feel even more anxious then let it be the last time you use it.

That sounds like good advice. Just like any drug, it will impact different people in different ways. For some people, it may be relaxing and ease tension and pain, while for others, it may cause problems including even make them feel paranoid.

Since some areas have legalized marijuana, I think healthcare providers need to learn about it before prescribing it. They should have some idea of which conditions it may be most beneficial for and which conditions would be cause for people to avoid it most (or at least have a general idea).

 

[Zeesi]

I used to do a lot of self-medicating with marijuana, but after almost a decade of smoking it, I had to stop. My main problems with it came from when I was unable to get any, and therefore unable to smoke. Also, I grew to not like the feeling of being high all the time, for me it was like looking at life through a fog. Everything was kind of surreal, and way too... chill.

I've heard people say that you can't get addicted to weed, but for me, there was a point in time where, if I was not smoking weed, I became really angry, short-tempered, abrasive. Not a good look. If I didn't have it I was mad. Irritated. I became almost a slave to it, I needed it, or else.

Besides all that, it made me really horny, which was not a good thing. After a couple of hits of marijuana, my defenses came way down, and after a few more hits, they were basically non-existent. I can't tell you how many times I was saved, through no power of my own, from sleeping with, well, not sleeping with, but from sexing the "wrong" person.
Divine intervention is real, because it seems like almost every time I was getting ready to have sex with the wrong person, due to smoking weed just prior to seeing that possible sex-mate, or, due to smoking with them, something would happen to stop us.

Another thing I disliked about marijuana is, when I stopped smoking in 2004, marijuana was sometimes very hard to come by. There were no dispensaries, I had to get my supply from "the weed man". The quality would vary, the availability was iffy. And I was tired of spending my money on it. It all became too much, so I decided to leave it alone.

Now a days, a few sips of wine does the trick for me. Wine does not give me the same feeling as weed did, but I still like wine better. Wine is cleaner: no smoke, no ashes, no weed smell. I think if I tried the pill form of marijuana, or drops, or whatever, that would entice me to go and get the 'real' thing, and that's something I don't want to go back to.