Legalizing pot makes sense from a public health standpoint It's still only effective for a tiny handful of conditions, and even then not always or very much
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Pain associated with certain cancers, nausea associated with chemo. Everything else is purely anecdotal. BUT it can interfere with some post-cancer treatments, like estrogen suppression after certain breast cancers.
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Hey, I'm a big fan of the placebo effect, so if that helps some people, why not tell them it can cure everything. At least let them feel good for a while. At least it will be reducing the nausea caused by the cancer drugs.
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Read the blog, I talk specifically about chemotherapy-induced nausea. Also, would recommend
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I think that's one of my big gripes - there are certain products that are synthesized or derived from cannabis that are effective for specific things, but people lump it all in together as "medical marijuana" and pretend it's the same
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I've given up fighting this battle, but a therapeutic substance should have predictable concentration, physician directions for us, and a clear indication and contraindication. Cannabis is a party drug being touted as a miracle cure.
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And no description of cannabis is complete without talking about the risk of stroke & MI in very young people, cannabis arteritis, dependency, possible link to psychosis, and a question mark on the link to certain cancers.https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/76/3/435 …
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I take it for chronic headaches. It is only minimally effective for pain, but it makes me so I don't care.
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