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Here's multiple links about the medicinal use of marijauna. If it didn't have medicinal properties then there wouldn't be drugs being developed to mimic it's properties. Marijuana can help treat depression, anxiety, nausea, anorexia, and other symptoms. Also, check out the comparison of deaths due to marijuana vs. legal prescription drugs.
med·i·cine (md-sn) n.1. a. The science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease and other damage to the body or mind. b. The branch of this science encompassing treatment by drugs, diet, exercise, and other nonsurgical means.
2. The practice of medicine. 3. An agent, such as a drug, used to treat disease or injury. 4. Something that serves as a remedy or corrective
If I smoke marijuana to do number 4, serve as a remedy to help regulate my sleep cycle, or the fact that it helps my restless leg syndrom, or that it seems to give me less headaces,
How is that not serving to remedy something?
At any rate, in a free country, its none of anyone elses business what they take as a remedy.
A "remedy" is not indicated unless it can be demonstrated to be superior or equal to existing drugs for that indication via a randomized, double blinded, prospective study with valid statistical analysis.
Everything else is just an anecdote, for which any prudent physician would not risk his patient's health or his career. This is why medicine is not for amateurs.
But if you are a stoner and want to get stoned, that is fine with me.
A "remedy" is not indicated unless it can be demonstrated to be superior or equal to existing drugs for that indication via a randomized, double blinded, prospective study with valid statistical analysis.
Everything else is just an anecdote, for which any prudent physician would not risk his patient's health or his career. This is why medicine is not for amateurs.
But if you are a stoner and want to get stoned, that is fine with me.
I've tried various medications for my RLS. When I was in the military for 4 years, can't smoke pot, random drug screenings. None of them worked. Even had a doctor prescribe me valium and was told to take it only when I had an issue. Opiates make me sick to my stomach, still do to this day.
And I've also tried various migraine medications. My grandmothers doctor prescribes her an injection to take when she gets them. She sits on her couch with pillows over her head for a few hours. When I smoke pot once a week, I don't have migraines, I'd rather keep it that way.
And its been shown through testing that marijuana has an effect on these issues. Its why the AMA is saying we need to reschedule it as a level 3 substance. Right now, cocaine is less of a rating then marijuana, which is just asinine.
I've tried various medications for my RLS. When I was in the military for 4 years, can't smoke pot, random drug screenings. None of them worked. Even had a doctor prescribe me valium and was told to take it only when I had an issue. Opiates make me sick to my stomach, still do to this day.
And I've also tried various migraine medications. My grandmothers doctor prescribes her an injection to take when she gets them. She sits on her couch with pillows over her head for a few hours. When I smoke pot once a week, I don't have migraines, I'd rather keep it that way.
And its been shown through testing that marijuana has an effect on these issues. Its why the AMA is saying we need to reschedule it as a level 3 substance. Right now, cocaine is less of a rating then marijuana, which is just asinine.
".................and its been shown through "testing" that marijuana has an effect on these issues"......
WHAT TESTING?
WAS THE STUDY BLINDED?
WAS THE STUDY PROSPECTIVE?
WAS THE STUDY RANDOMIZED?
WAS VALID STATISTICAL EVALUATION PERFORMED?
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is NOT ONE randomized, double blinded, prospective study with valid statistical analysis showing a "medical" benefit of pot. You are just a stoner who likes to get high. Face it- you are not using pot for "medical reasons", as there are none- you are just a stoner who wants escape from reality. Let me tell you- reality is just fine and there is no reason to get stoned. You can do that when you are dead.
If you have "restless leg syndrome", use Mirtazapine or Tizanadine. Perhaps it is a misdiagnosis. If you want to get stoned, please do so. However, do not embarrass any physician and suggest you are doing so for "medical" reasons.
That contention has all the veracity of "Granny" using white lightening as "Rhematis medicine".
I never smoked pot and am not in favor of it being legal for personal enjoyment. But I do feel it should be legalized by prescription for conditions like cancer patients undergoing chemo or people who have a severe chronic pain condition. Though my wife has never smoked cigarettes nor pot, she's almost to the point of asking her sister for some and bake some brownies. She has a right lung that's half the size of the left lung because of the type and degree of her S-curve scoliosis and is in constant pain even with #10 Lortab, Flexeril, and Mobic. For her, I'd be her Betty Crocker. Though not as fast acting, it's effects would last longer.
Oh, I forgot to add that because of her pain she rarely eats more than one meal a day. She's lost much of the muscle tone she once had before her pain progressed to it's current level. Using pot in the brownie would also help to increase her appetite so she could at least eat two meals a day. She's also depressed. Some days I go check on her and ask if she needs me to get her anything while I'm up and she answers, "a new body".
am not in favor of it being legal for personal enjoyment
Why not?
I get that many people think that if something is enjoyable, fun, pleasurable, physically feels good, etc. it must be BAD.
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