Thanks for sharing your experiences. This has already been established (unfortunately). If there was one treatment that worked for everyone, we'd all be doing it but with the complexity of PN, it's all about trial and error to find what works best for us.

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medical marijuana law just passed in nystate and includes neuropathies. no smokable marijuana under the new law.

Found this:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...explained.html

Cuomo is expected to sign the bill. Many restrictions for using MJ. Read the full article. Interesting.

Unfortunately, it's the most restrictive MM law I've seen so far, and the strings attached are so convoluted as to make it—IMO—very difficult to implement/work. It will not go into effect for at least 18 months, and possibly longer.

It's so early in this development/story, that some conflicting/incomplete specifics are appearing in different sources, so I hesitate to cite any specific source or comment as yet. (Plus I'm still trying to put the whole story together myself... )

Instead I encourage anyone interested/curious to read several stories (at least) to try to get something close to the whole picture.

medical marijuana nys

Doc

Minnesota's law has plenty of restrictions including not smoking it. It can only be used for certain conditions. The bill was signed but hasn't happened yet. Here is a site to read about it all.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0E91TN20140529

It starts in July, 2015. Toward the end of the article it lists the few conditions to be eligible of which they say perhaps only 5,000 people will qualify.

It is a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, time is never on your side when you have PN. But still, it is good. It will not help everyone but it will help some and we need as much of that as possible. I have experienced much relief from pain with CBD (and CBD:THC combo) and I would be in great shape right about now if not for the numbness from PN for which CBD has no effect. No drug or compound so far has been found to reverse numbness or weakness.

You do not have to smoke MMJ it to reap the benefits and hey, smoking is not good anyway.

I hope so. Without getting into specifics (politics), IMO it's a bad(ly written, if not conceived) law, which often happens when politicians/bureaucrats push/rush a severely compromised/modified version of a bill through in the final hours of the legislative session—no time to think through the ramifications of all the last-minute concessions/compromises.

Doc

nothing new here concerning our current governor who operates like this consistently. everything is a rush, everything is done quickly with major oversights and unintended consequences which have to be addressed in the future.

I'm in NY and any level of excitement was quelled by the scope, especially restrictions. I will be in Colorado late this year for a few weeks. I will be testing out the waters for sure. Indicas, edibles and lotions oh my! If I find relief it would make me consider moving to a medical approved state that isn't cobbling legislation that feels very big pharma influenced.

Smoking may not be the healthiest method, but there are ways to minimize the negative impact. We have no idea what side effects vaping my reap, yet that is approved. It makes no sense.

The feds need to reclassify to allow for more testing- usefulness, drawbacks, ratio of cbd-thc. It is extremely absurd that it sits in the same category as meth.

Damn, who put that soap box under me.