Halleluyah!!! Medical Marijuana approved!!!!

[Octoberbride03]

Actually, THC enlarges passageways in your eyes (like it does in your lungs) which helps to lower intra-ocular pressure - which helps to keep glaucoma under control.

Personally, I think this is a step in the right direction. They may as well just completely legalize it and tax it.

No thank you. When the time comes I'll just use the drops that dad does. They work exceedingly well for him. The contact highs i had on the bus in the high school were about all the experience I want with pot. That's just me.

 

[aristocatz]

I say legalize the whole thing. I don't smoke marijuana but always wondered why Alcohol and Tobacco are legal and marijuana isn't. States could make alot of money if marijuana was legalized.

Glad to hear that it's officially legalized for medicinal purposes.

Exactly!! Do tobacco or alcohol have any health benefits?? Seems so ridiculous to place a ban on a plant.

 

[ZPT1022]

Prayers and good wishes for you that you are able to have a very uneventful and long pregnancy.

awww..... thank you, that is so sweet of you

 

[pearlieq]

But it is precribed for seriuosly ill people undergoing chemo and such.. They aren't exactly concerned about developing lung cancer or socializing.

Of course they are. Just because someone has cancer doesn't mean their life and health isn't worth protecting. People with cancer still wear seat belts, you know what I mean? A breast cancer patient who needs chemo still has an 80+% chance of surviving at least 5 more years.

Also, as much as I might have tolerated it make her feel better, I wouldn't have been super thrilled with the idea of my mom blazing up in her bedroom. It does smell, etc.

I'm glad it's an option for people that need it, but it turned out in our case that prescription meds were able to help my mom and she had insurance and could afford them. For someone who can't afford Zofran at $50 per pill, pot could be a viable option.

 

[Mysteria]

All moral or legal issues aside if I am seriously ill and pot helps me I'll smoke it. Nobody knows what people feel like in that case unless they have been there. Especially in cancer patients. It's been proven over and over again it helps cancer patients.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Thank Goodness!!!!

This never made sense to me-that they would legalize it in a state, yet the federal government could still arrest you Seems like it should have been one or the other.

My BFF had stage 4 lymphoma and medical marijuana really helped keep her comfortable and at a healthy weight during her chemotherapy.

What a glorious day for those who benefit from the effects of medicinal marijuana!!!

I was so excited I forgot to post the link!

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=8858837

Thank goodness the Supreme Court has already recently ruled on this nonsense......

"The Supreme Court dealt a blow to the medical marijuana movement yesterday, ruling that the federal government can still ban possession of the drug in states that have eliminated sanctions for its use in treating symptoms of illness.

By a vote of 6 to 3, the court ruled that Congress's constitutional authority to regulate the interstate market in drugs, licit or illicit, extends to small, homegrown quantities of doctor-recommended marijuana consumed under California's Compassionate Use Act, which was adopted by an overwhelming majority of voters in 1996.

The ruling does not overturn laws in California and 10 other states, mostly in the West, that permit medical use of marijuana. In 2003, Maryland reduced the maximum fine for medical users of less than an ounce of the drug to $100.

But the ruling does mean that those who try to use marijuana as a medical treatment risk legal action by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration or other federal agencies and that the state laws provide no defense.
"

Good news, but have the rules changed again?? Are we allowed to discuss political topics now??

 

[dementia412]

You can also use a vaporizer or eat it, both of which eliminate the dangers of smoking and yes smoking it most assuredly can cause lung cancer. The pill's effectiveness is questionable. Some people have great success with it, but others get no effect at all. There is also a nose spray I believe, and it's possible to inject the active chemicals although I can't see many people wanting to do that.

 

[wdwfan16]

You can also use a vaporizer or eat it, both of which eliminate the dangers of smoking and yes smoking it most assuredly can cause lung cancer. The pill's effectiveness is questionable. Some people have great success with it, but others get no effect at all. There is also a nose spray I believe, and it's possible to inject the active chemicals although I can't see many people wanting to do that.

I don't see the need to smoke it. Most drugs have different effects in different people. Take cholesterol drugs. Some take on pill and get the desired results and others need to take more than one pill. Why would this be any different. If one pill works then great. Take two if you need more for the same effect.

 

[DawnCt1]

You can also use a vaporizer or eat it, both of which eliminate the dangers of smoking and yes smoking it most assuredly can cause lung cancer. The pill's effectiveness is questionable. Some people have great success with it, but others get no effect at all. There is also a nose spray I believe, and it's possible to inject the active chemicals although I can't see many people wanting to do that.

Marinol can be prescribed with the exact amount of measurable, FDA approved active ingredient. Why would someone who was serious about treating a medical issue take a substance in which the "therapeutic" agent cannot be accurately measured? Makes no sense to me.

 

[shortbun]

It is in a pill form. Its called Marinol. It works quite well.

I think that's a matter of opinion. I have a friend who, years ago, got Marinol prescriibed for side effects from his HIV/AIDS meds including severe leg pain and horrible nausea. He said the dose was so radical that he couldn't take it(it made him violently ill) but smoking a little pot totally helped his nausea and reduced the pain in his feet and legs. The Marinol made him too high-very high and even a reduced dose was intolerable.

 

[KAMKIM]

Why can't a pill form work? Many asthma medicines are taken orally. The rescue medsare inhaled to get instant relief. This is not an instant relief drug so why the need to smoke it.

If you were in extreme pain and it relaxed your muscles so much you could finally breath or maybe not sit in a squatting position to make yourself more comfortable I wouldn't care if you snorted it to feel better!

 

[wvjules]

Originally Posted by wdwfan16
Why can't a pill form work? Many asthma medicines are taken orally. The rescue medsare inhaled to get instant relief. This is not an instant relief drug so why the need to smoke it.

Smoking pot most certainly is an instant relief.

 

[TinklednPants]

It is also far, far more difficult to catch a contact high than some previous posters would lead you to believe. (Trust me I've tried! )


And why go through all this expense of converting it into pills and inhalers when it is right there for the toking, er taking......growing wild like a, well yes a weed, as nature intended it.

Just legalize it. The pizza industry will be forever grateful.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

It is also far, far more difficult to catch a contact high than some previous posters would lead you to believe. (Trust me I've tried! )


And why go through all this expense of converting it into pills and inhalers when it is right there for the toking, er taking......growing wild like a, well yes a weed, as nature intended it.

Just legalize it. The pizza industry will be forever grateful.

Living where you do, I'd think walking down the street would take care of that!

The reason they want it converted is because it takes money out of the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies, plain and simple. If they can't make money, and in turn the government can't tax it or make a few bucks, no one is happy. I honestly believe it's all about the money that could be made, not the well-being of the citizens of this country.

 

[TinklednPants]

The reason they want it converted is because it takes money out of the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies, plain and simple. If they can't make money, and in turn the government can't tax it or make a few bucks, no one is happy. I honestly believe it's all about the money that could be made, not the well-being of the citizens of this country.

And I would agree 100%

 

[wdwfan16]

Smoking pot most certainly is an instant relief.

The reason for the need to end nausea is such that one can know they will get sick or when they get sick they will take a pill.

You so missed the mark. An asthma attack can lead to death if they do not use the inhaler. An upset stomach will not lead to death and does not need instant relief. One does not need instant relief to not eating. Take the pill and then 20 minutes later you will feel better.

 

[bumbershoot]

The effect on mental capabilities is not any worse than the effect of other painkillers such as oxycontin or morphine.

Or the wooziness and mental slowness of not being able to eat for days on end.

I'll give a personal example- I'm currently taking prometrium, a progesterone supplement, twice daily. I'm taking it to prevent another miscarriage. It makes me completely and totally looped. I feel like I've had 3 glasses of wine. I'm seriously like a drunk- slurring words, feeling very "loose" in my muscles, etc.... until the overwhelming tiredness hits and I go and sleep it off.

You're probably also reacting to the natural progesterone in your body. What you describe is pretty much how I felt for most of my pregnancy. Just wait until the feeling while you're nursing the wee bairn...that is a serious lull feeling, so calm, so peaceful...

It is also far, far more difficult to catch a contact high than some previous posters would lead you to believe. (Trust me I've tried! )

Must be your particular system. I've always found it very easy to get a contact high.

Until my mom quit smoking everything when she was 35 (I was 10) she and her friends would smoke around us. And...I've just now figured out why Thanksgiving dinners took so long, OMG...I've wondered for years how we all used to eat so much.

I know it sounds terrible, but she was a wonderful, marvelous mother who was a hippie in SF in the 60s, and she worked 6 days a week to support us, and if every so often she needed to giggle with her friends, that was OK. Just...that and the cigarettes she started at 15 didn't do much for her asthma, which is why she finally quit smoking ANYthing.

And it sure did cause ME to be a straight arrow! But it made me kind of strange at my private university filled with trust fund rastafarians...they were acting like my parents...borrrrring!



It's funny, I'm very much against being around my peers smoking things like this, and finally put a moratorium on dating people who used it b/c they were SO useless in relationships, BUT I'm all in favor of full drug legality. Most prescription drugs scare me far more than others, and it makes no sense that there's the magic line between OK and not OK.


Glad that those who have been prescribed it can get it without being arrested.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

The reason for the need to end nausea is such that one can know they will get sick or when they get sick they will take a pill.

You so missed the mark. An asthma attack can lead to death if they do not use the inhaler. An upset stomach will not lead to death and does not need instant relief. One does not need instant relief to not eating. Take the pill and then 20 minutes later you will feel better.

This isn't just an upset stomach we're talking about here. You make it sound trivial. Thankfully, I have never had cancer nor gone through chemo, but my grandmother did and I watched out it took it's toll on her. The ONLY reason we never got an pot for her was because she already had emphysema and breathing issues, but I would have done it in a heartbeat if it would have brought her some relief. The next best thing we could find, and it worked occasionally, was Coke syrup. Also wasn't hard to find, but a friend of a friend owned an old fashioned soda shop. It settled her stomach just enough, again occasionally, to let her eat a slice of bread, or soup.

 

[wdwfan16]

This isn't just an upset stomach we're talking about here. You make it sound trivial. Thankfully, I have never had cancer nor gone through chemo, but my grandmother did and I watched out it took it's toll on her. The ONLY reason we never got an pot for her was because she already had emphysema and breathing issues, but I would have done it in a heartbeat if it would have brought her some relief. The next best thing we could find, and it worked occasionally, was Coke syrup. Also wasn't hard to find, but a friend of a friend owned an old fashioned soda shop. It settled her stomach just enough, again occasionally, to let her eat a slice of bread, or soup.

You proved my point. She can injest it to get relief. Smoking it is not the only way.

BTW I am a cancer survivor. Thankfully only surgery was needed. I get blood tests, ultrasounds and CT scans to check that all is fine.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

You proved my point. She can injest it to get relief. Smoking it is not the only way.

BTW I am a cancer survivor. Thankfully only surgery was needed. I get blood tests, ultrasounds and CT scans to check that all is fine.

Smoking it is the fastest and cheapest way. Why should we/insurance companies have to pay top dollar for a pill, when you can buy it much cheaper? I also don't think many medical doctors are in the business of prescribing a marijuana pill for their patients.