Medical Marijuana
 

Has anyone asked their doc for marijuana, or have tried it for pain for neuropathy from cancer? Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks

Besides whatever individual responses you recieve, this is an excellent resource. You can click on medical marijuana, policy, etc. It is reliable.

http://www.druglibrary.org/

rose

Yes. It works for me, but I had a drug problem in the 60's and so don't do drugs now unless there is no alternative. I don't use drugs at all for my PN.

Some thoughts on the subject:

- We shouldn't write about it much here because the DEA monitors internet traffic with computers, looking for hot words. Some of those people are fanatics who will put you and other nice, honest, and decent people in jail for long periods of time. They've done it to hundreds of thousands who you are now supporting with your tax dollars.

- Doctors are usually not open to anything not pushed by big pharmaceutical companies. But, it doesn't hurt to ask, especially if you live in a more open, progressive area of the country.

- The active alkaloids stay in your bloodstream for about 36 hours, so your blood level builds over days. Start with a bit that you take once a day. After three days, up the amount a bit if needed. Do the same in three day intervals, upping or lowering dosage my small amounts. The goal is tolerable pain with tolerable high. You don't what to drive or do detail oriented work while high.

- What were we talking about?

- It's safe, but the smoke isn't. My cousin, who doesn't smoke cigarettes, got throat cancer from smoking pot. It's better in brownies, or grind it into a fine powder in a coffee mill and take in a smoothie or gelatin capsules you fill yourself. You can by the capsules over the web, or from many drugstores. I'm not sure which size capsules would be best.

- Please, please, please don't let the bastards put you in a cage with criminals. If you want to try it, fine, but stay below the radar and don't talk about it with people. A letter to the editor advocating legalization would NOT be a good idea. I'm not paranoid, just practical. I personally dealt with this aspect in the '60s, and my children and friends children more recently. The system is as vicious, brutal and irrational as the Salem witch hunts were. Believe me, the authorities, otherwise decent people, will not see you as the person you are if you come to their attention for this reason.

- You deserve pain relief and this used to be a relatively free country. There is no moral dimension to the use of any drug for pain relief as far as I'm concerned except the immorality of our "War on Drugs".

A vaporizor is the best way to use cannabis.

Even though there have been studies showing that there is an anti-cancer component to cannabis (which is most likely responsible for the fact that expected cancer levels in heavy long-term smokers have not been found) one can get the efficient tartration benefit along with the therapeutic benefits without the smoke.

A small percentage of people get lung cancer even though they never smoked.

Vaporizors are made to use with tobacco, so they can be found in tobacco shops.

rose

Thanks Rose,i was just going to mention this,but you did it in
far better way....Sue

Thanks Sue. I'm sure you could have done as well. :)

rose

"Vaporizers are made to use with tobacco."

Are you talking about the same Vicks Vaporizers that my mother used (and that I used to use but now have a humidifier (but it leaks so now I'm buying a cheap vaporizer), are you talking about that kind of vaporizer.

I remember when my son was a young, buying a vaporizer and putting some vicks vaposteam in the water and this mist would come out and it would be warm and smell like vicks and opened up the nasal passages.

Is this the same type of vaporizer you mean? And how on earth is this made to use with tobacco. That's a new one for me.

And thanks for the information. I do hope I never need it!

Melody

No, not the same. That is why they are purchased at a tobacco shop instead of your local cold remedy spot. :wink:

I've never used one, but I know from some of the best medical authorities in the world that they are the way to go. I believe they heat it to the necessary temperature without burning it.

rose

"Hookah's" (sp?), water pipes that have been used in the middle-east for centuries, are the next best way to go. The 'bong's' sold, are the same principle, but not the same effect for cooling and filtering.

Well
 

In Mo it grows all over,they use to fly helicopters all over and burn
it,if you were down wind. Oh Well :cool: Sue

Is this what you are talking about???

http://www.marijuanaalternatives.com/vaporizers.htm

Last I read, the hookah/water pipe/bong suprising was found not to be nearly as good as once thought.

I don't know about the site, but, yes, I suspect that is more like it.

Again, I refer all to druglibrary for information on this and just about anything else you can imagine.
http://www.druglibrary.net/schaffer/Library/mjfaq1.htm for FAQ, in cluding mention of the vaporizer.

http://www.druglibrary.net for the main page, from which you can explore many subjects.

rose

Mel
 

I love you are persistent!!!!I would just stuff it in the Muffins,before
did that say 1 hundred 35 dollars,holy moses :eek: :eek: . Muffins
did i say stuff it ,oh shoot . Bad Sue

Sue:

I never understand what you write, but you make me laugh!!!

lol, Melody

Sativex trials.
 

The following website is meant primarily for MS patients but if one scrolls down to where it says “Sativex phase III neuropathic pain trials show benefits” from there on down there are very interesting facts relating to peripheral neuropathic pain and the success claimed by GW Pharmaceuticals in the use of Sativex (medical marijuana).

http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm?fuse...ow&pageid=1814

Tony

Thanks Tony. I found this Wikipedia article that gives more backround on Sativex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sativex It appears to now be available by prescription in Canada and is in phase III clinical trials here in the US.