For everyone arguing right now: there are three indications for which medicinal cannabis has decent evidence: 1. childhood epilepsy 2. treatment-resistant chronic pain 3. chemo-related nausea/low appetite
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Of these three, 1 has a number of RCTs, but appears to rely on idiosyncratic reactions (doesn't work for everyone). 2 is touch-and-go because cannabis can also increase the experience of pain, and we aren't sure why. 3 is likely effective as far as I know
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Other than that, you're shooting in the wind. Might hit something, but no evidence of it as of yet In general, best to think of cannabis as any other drug. It might work for some things, not others, and it has a range of possible nasty side-effects
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If anyone is interested in more of my thoughts on this I wrote a piece a little while back that covered a lot of ithttp://observer.com/2017/06/medical-marijuana-chemotherapy-epilepsy/ …
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I’ve heard anecdotally the rise of recreational use has disrupted long term medical efficacy research
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Wouldn't surprise me in the least
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So my evening runs through downtown Seattle are, in fact, Alzheimer prevention given the vast amount of weed smoke I get to inhale.
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More studies def need to be done. But let’s not forget how amazingly affective MMJ is for lots of chronic pain patients, chemo patients, anxiety, depression, etc etc. I just don’t want ppl to swing in the other direction and be like “it has no benefit other than getting high.”
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Does it cure cancer? I mean, that sounds really far-fetched to me. Does it help chemo patients deal with their pain & nausea? Most definitely.
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I mean there's plenty of reasons to legalize already. Like it's only illegal in order to target minorities.
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