The pain I suffered was so intense I didn't think I could bare it; I couldn't sleep, I could barely move. My flesh felt as if it were on fire. I asked someone I knew who used marijuana to let me try some for the pain. I'd used marijuana many years before this, so was familiar with its effect and I'd been hearing about its possible help with pain. Without the marijuana then, I think I would have gone crazy with the pain. I knew there was nothing doctors could do for it. After three days the crisis was over, and the marijuana had relieved the pain so that I could bare it, using just one or two joints a day. What do you think about the medical use of marijuana? Do you think for this purpose it ought to be even prescribed? It's illegal, but I'd sure like to see legislators really hurting and not have the substance if that is what would help them. Tell me what you think.
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I definately think it should be legalised for medical use but it really can mess up your head if you use it all the time....it totally slows down you reactions, can make you paranoid and so on....i don't think once in a while hurts but if it is legalised in needs seriously regulating so people dont go too far.\n\nHope yr good now
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WOW! While I am a huge fan of endorphins and I love the sore feeling (I know it may sound nuts) I totally disagree with that kind of pain. I have been an athlete all my life and I am now a trainer. Day after a strenuous workout, you should feel sore when sitting (like on the pot) or when lifting and even a little tingle when you stretch in the morning. YOU SHOULD NOT FEEL PAIN! Most definitely not to the point of needing a pain pill. You need to let him know you are hurting. You are using too much weight or resistance or maybe going too hard too long. You could be doing damage to your muscles that is permanent. Your body is not able to replenish your muscles with the needed nutrients that is lost during a work-out and that is needed to expand the muscles and help burn calories because it is being damaged. You need to stop this NOW!
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If it is legalized, then jobs would not be able to test for it as it would be against the person's constitutional rights. If someone was using it medicinal reasons (If the Government ever legalizes it) they would have to have proof from their doctor.
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You need to bring this to attention of your physician and I can;t believe that your pharmacy has not caught on to this.  Most physicians also will realize when a patient begins to overuse their daily doses and if your physician has never brought this over usage to your attention than I suggest you speak to him and let him know what predicament you are in.  I took pain medications for many years and I became addicted and no one saw it around me.  It is the most painful of all things I ever had to do because I was diagnosed with a disease and I needed that relief.  It has been almost 6 years and I havent treated my pain with anything but advil, tylenol and the odd pain pill given to me by the hospital when I deem necessary.  I took over 100 prescibed pain pills a week.  It wasn't until I had pain that I was medicating myself for that almost killed me and sent me into emergency surgery that I realized what I had done.  You need to get help!  If you don't get help, you will only need more and one day, you won't get them.  You risk your own life each day by what you are doing.  If you take it for that pain that it wasn't precribed for it will hurt you.  And if your pain doesn't seem better, you will need more and eventually, your body won't tolerate it and you will have to move on to another pain medication.  It may take away your pain and give you that euphoric "everything feels good" sensation...but it won't in time.
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i would if it was more physical and not towards experimental medicine.  i was in a study once, but i didnt take the medicine.  I had my wisdom tooth taken out.  they gave me medicine to bring home since they cant keep me there.  i went home and threw it away. when asked in a follow up, i said i took it and it relieved the pain, but some instances it didnt work so i took an advil and that helped.  i said that because i didnt want to false information to get to the public.  we would end up having all these people take medicine that was supposedly proven to work but didnt.  I would probably want at least 100 dollars to be a ginea pig.  Even if it was 200 buxx, and some people only make like 60 buxx a day after taxes, i dont think people want to be a ginea pig.  so, at least 100 would be fine for me, given that its only an hour.  because look on the other side.  i make between 40 to 60 an hour.  so, why bother being a ginea pig unless its more then that?  whats the average income in that area?
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you have made me remember a friend from 20 years ago who drove us crazy comp;aining about this condition i regret not being more understanding of the terrible pain she was experiencing at the time believe me the only thing that helped this dear friend was valium. if worse comes to worse try it because i personally witnessed a complete reversal of her condition when she started to take it,perhaps it works as a dental muscle relaxor or something like that i know the dentist here uses the valium for a lot of procedures anyway be well.
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what do you guys mean stop smoking it? thats not even a good answer. i heard water, cranberry joice and vinegar works. go to marijuana.com and read the forums b/c people usually post stuff on that. the morality tales bull shit sucks people, no ones gonna quit smoking weed, so don't even bother posting that s*it.
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I have personally seen the positive results of marijuana therapy for a person undergoing radiation/chemotherapy treatments.  There are undoubtedly many who would benefit from using pot as a medicine, and I think it ridiculous that we enforce a law which prevents these persons from getting the help they so often are in need of.  Is it that dangerous as compared with alcohol, which is legal?  And if it were legal, do you really believe "every" kid and teenager would use it?  (As one person replied earlier) I SAY NO WAY. Let's make it legal for medicinal and many other uses, such as a building material and/or renewable energy resource!
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Happy 420!  I use marijuana for treating depression. It also helps with anger management. I have had success in using it as a pain reliever.
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AGREE! of course...lol jk...idk...maybe\nIt's cool, but wat would happen if legalized?\nLegalizing marijuana would allow ppl to smoke it openly rather than hiding it. But would it bring down the number of ppl that smoke it, or would it bring it up? It does help with Gleucoma and other diseases, so I guess for "medicinal" purposes it should be legalized.\nEither way ppl will b doin it anyway, \nwhether legal or not
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Well, I'll give you my whole story, if you care to listen. As a child, I never had any friends really, my home life was perfect but I was never really happy. At age 14, I realized that I was different from most kids, at the same time feeling the need to be accepted. There were several times when I was babysitting where my curiosity got the best of me and I brought home with me some controlled substances from the house I was keeping. Usually, it was simply a water bottle with some liquor I had taken, and once I actually found a massive pile of cannabis buds in a basement (I had been investigation and leaking sound). After several sessions of experimentation with Alcohol and Marijuana, I knew that I loved to get f*cked up. I still had no friends at this point, and therefore had no method of obtaining street drugs. I was a crafty kid though, and quickly taught myself how to extract codeine from over-the-counter pills, and learned that dextromethorophan cough syrup was a hallucinogenic-dissociative-anesthetic. At age 15, I began to meet people at my high school who were able to obtain tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana from illicit sources. \n\nAt this point, I was drinking occasionally on weekend, smoking cigarettes whenever I could get them (several daily to almost a pack each day, depending on availabilty) and smoking pot several times a day. I would usually smoke a joint before school began, in the woods right beside my high school, smoke at joint at lunch, and skip a class or two (or three, or four) and smoke a joint then, too. \n\nThen came methyphenidate hydrochloride, better known as Ritalin. A good friend of mine (also my pot dealer) had a large quantity in his house, so I often helped myself. Getting spun was a whole new level of getting wrecked. I did this on and off for about two years, while at the same time also induging in marijuana and alcohol at an increasing frequency. \n\nBy 17, I was smoking pot every day, several times a day, drinking between 4 and 7 days a week (to excess I might add). I had tried ecstacy several times, tried methamphetamine, and tried several pain killers and sleeping pills. There was only one thing left... the white devil, cocaine. \n\nCocaine is what has affected me the most... I have a collapsed nostril for god sakes. A year and a half of sniffing coke several times a week, in addition to all the Ritalin, Percocet, Valium, etc. that was going up my nostils, was eventually enough for the right side of my nose to basically.... let go. It's been almost two months since these nostils have inhaled the devils danfruff, but that is only one goal achieved.\n\nI currently am and alcoholic, drinking 6-7 days a week; I smoke pot every night (can't sleep wth out it... or barbituates). I can deal with my junk fiends (for opiates: Percocet, Morphine, OxyContin, etc.) somewhat, but I still at this point use junk for a week or two out of every month. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (also known as Ecstacy) is another love affair of mine, using 4 or 5 times a month. \n\nThe main reason that I begain this lifestyle was probably my depression and lack of self confidence - self esteem. My need for acceptance. It has, however, over time, developed into part of who I am. Who I feel I deserve to be. \n\nIn regards to your last question, what could prevented the addiction, I have one answer for you... nothing. To tell you the truth, if anyone had tried to stop my downward spiral, I probably would have done worse, just to spite them.\n\nIf you have any further questions, I would love to be of assistance in answering them, and I invite you (and anyone reading this) to contact me at  <<bradley1287-suffocate@yahoo.ca>> or ICQ#57096972.
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Legalizing it for medical purposes would be ok.  Look at the side effects from some of the other drugs you see commercials for.  I mean what is the harm in prescription marijuana compared to percocet, methadone etc...
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the same thing happens to me my doctor said it could be because i"ve pu on some weight or it could be a pinched nerve,I don't have insurance right now so I can't afford the tests.Mine feels like it asleep at first then it kinda starts to burn and feels like neeedles are being stuck in my leg,like you it's just my left leg and it just goes fron my knee to the groin area,it seeems to flair up after standing for a while or walking.If I find out anything I'll let you know do the same.Good luck.Any body know of a reasonable Insurance that someone with Asthm can purchase?I'm trying to buy some and it's not cheap and I've been turned down because I have asthma and I haven't been tobacco free for at least 2 yrs./Depressing to see all the illegals covered by state plans,but thats a whole nother can of worms.
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Your friend was likely being treated by Hospice or was in a hospital or skilled nursing unit or nursing home.  The medical establishment has become increasingly prodeath, advocating euthanasia.  They kill by overdosing on morphine, sedatives and by withholding food and even water, as well as other medical care.  You don't have to do this.  You can take no more pain medication than is needed for any pain.  You can drink and eat or be fed through a stomach tube or intravenously.  You can get epidural medication to relieve pain, without the sedation of taking pain shots, if needed, oftentimes.  You can say to hell with you amateurs, I'm going to a special cancer center, such as MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas. (I would advise this early on.)  Or you can go to Mexico and seek alternative treatments.  Don't ever let a doctor get you down, giving you a death sentence.  Who the hell does he think he is?  God?  No man has the right to say your time is up.  That is God's prerogative only.
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Marijuana DOES have medicinal purposes. My Mom hasn't had any complications from her liver disease from it, my Dad uses it for help with his glaucoma and my boyfriend and I both use it to help us with our chronic migraines. We don't smoke it just to feel good, but to help us because we have health problems that only marijuana can treat. That is just a stupid rumor: it is not a gateway drug. My Mom has been smoking it for 30 years and never had the temptation to use ANY other kind of drug. My Dad, boyfriend and I haven't done any other kinds of drugs either. It's a scientific fact that tetrahydracannibonol, (THC) the resin crystals on the leaf base and buds at the peak of blooming that gets you high when smoked, really does have medicinal purposes. I don't think it should be legalized to the general public, but only made available to those who need it for their ailments, like the laws already in California and Oregon. And I have never in all my life have ever heard  a story about any REAL person that died because of marijuana, and neither has my Dad, and he was a teenager in the 60's. My Mom grew up in the 70's. My boyfriend may be 20, and I'm only 17, but I am positive that I will never try another drug, and so is my boyfriend.
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I will tell you this. I do not believe that marijuana is as bad as "they" say it is but, when I smoked it took away my ambitions in life.  I wanted to have a degree in Paramedic medicine but I chose to smoke.  Do I love the feeling,yes.  Do I regret starting, not really but there wil always be someone to complain no matter what the topic is.  It is in their nature.  The common feeling is the feeling you want to sleep and you eat everything in sight.  If you decide to try it then I suggest you make a very serious decision as to what you will do with the rest of your life, because I know there are celebs that smoke but with money comes power and leniency.  As for us common folk we dont get the same breaks and we are the ones that face the consequences for what they can buy their way out of.  I still smoke by the way and I would do that before I would ever take a drink of booze.
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Well Mathyu I wish you could grow your own legally. I would be growing my own legally too if I could. I just went to Jack Herer's website and will be spending some time later reading more of it. Previously I was unaware of cannabis' ability to turn back the hands of time for Alzheimer's patients. My mom died of complications from Alzheimer's Disease I wish I had known then that there was a way to help her to keep from losing parts of herself.\nI could certainly use the $ but I don't think from what I've read so far that I would want to prove Jack wrong.\nWe'll talk again I'm sure.\nLL