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MistressDarkArt -> RE: Different stances on drinking alcohol (9/20/2013 11:54:59 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SailingBum
Please don't tell me you actually believe your statement? You may want to do some basic research on topics before you make statements that are uninformed and inaccurate.
THC the "active" ingredient in weed is a mind altering drug. And Yes it makes everyone "high". THC like a lot of drugs over time your body requires more to get the "same effect". The net effect medical user pretty much smoke non stop.
BadOne
BadOne, you must've been out of the medical cannabis loop for the past couple decades. I've done my research, and continue to do it. These days, not all marijuana is bred for high THC content, and not everyone who uses it is interested in getting high. High CBD content cancels out THC effects, and it is the CBDs and CBNs which produce the pain-relieving, anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory responses. There is a strain called 'Charlotte's Web' which is so high in CBDs and low in THC content (1%) it has been prescribed and grown specifically for a little girl who suffered 300 seizures a week. Nothing big pharma made could stop them, and she was dying from the stress on her body. Daily use of this strain in a tincture has controlled them to one seizure a week. Reference: Dr. Sanjay Gupta's CNN documentary 'Weed'.
Last year, I had to be hospitalized and transfused because years of NSAID use (for injuries I won't go into here) caused bleeding ulcers that made me profoundly anemic. I had to stop them immediately and was told to never take them again. I tried OTC tylenol; it was ineffective for pain and the amount needed to even put a dent in it exceeded the protocol guidelines and would have damaged my liver. My doctor offered opioids. I'd had them before and they were effective for pain control. They worked; they did not make me 'high' or euphoric; they just relieved pain. I loved that I was able to return to my activities, but didn't like the physical dependency they produced. It was no day at the beach when I decided to pull the plug and tapered completely off in 10 days. I didn't feel 'right' for 2 months after discontinuation. In the meantime despite acupuncture, physical therapy, yoga, swimming, walking, hiking, cycling, meditation, healthy diet, living on heating pads, pain returned with a vengeance. Really, there was nothing left in Western Medicine (aka big pharma) to help me.
What would you say to a person in my shoes? That using a high-CBD, low-THC tincture shouldn't be available to me for severe pain relief? That if I use it it's because I want to get high? I haven't been 'high' since high school; I hated that feeling then, don't like it now, and don't ingest anything that makes me so.
What would you tell my boy S, who's coped year after year with anxiety, OCD, and insomnia? His MDs put him through round after round of big-pharma anti-depressants, sleeping pills, benzodiazepines (let's talk about about tolerance, and physical dependency here, blessed by a doc!). Nothing brought him relief, and many had such horrible side effects he couldn't continue. A couple drops of an indica glycerin tincture (not an effing drop of alcohol, btw) puts him right in 20 minutes. A few more drops allow him to get to sleep.
What would you tell Cabin Boy, whose late-50s body is wracked with rheumatoid arthritis? He's a marine mechanic, ffs, in business for himself. Every day he has to climb down into boat holds such as yours and repair clogged seawater strainers, blown head gaskets, and heat exchangers with his ravaged hands and twisted back so folks like you can keep on motoring in and out of your slip. No workie, no payee. He has a son to support, and is the caregiver for his geriatric mom. NSAIDS make him sick and give him bleeding ulcers; tylenol doesn't work; he refuses opioids because he considers them 'hard drugs'. The day he stops working is the day he has to go on public assistance and that means his family members would too. Do YOU feel like paying his public assistance when he can grow a plant in his back yard that allows him to continue working, paying taxes, and keeping himself and his family members off the dole?
Two of my band-mates are cancer survivors. One uses high CBD tincture or chews the fresh leaves every day to ward off a recurrence. Cannabis helped him cope with nausea from chemo and radiation. Are you going to tell him he should just 'take it like a man' when he's fighting a life-threatening disease and vomiting up what's left of his guts several times a day?
What would you have said to my sister-in-law who battled cancer for 6 months? She was an RN. She refused morphine for pain relief because it made her nauseous and fuzzy-headed but she did very well for the majority of the time using a cannabis concentrate my brother prepared for her from raw plants. She functioned, thought clearly, and knew she was causing no further harm to body. Ultimately, she succumbed, but her quality of life was greatly improved during the time she had left.
So what if folks have to use medical cannabis daily? Are you going to tell someone on daily insulin, HRT, seizure medication or an antidepressant that they are doing something wrong when their own physician says they need regular daily doses to stay vital, working, and functional?
I suggest you update your research before spouting off that others don't know what they're talking about. Until you've walked a mile in their shoes, you haven't a clue.
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