This will probably NOT be the most popular post but the only time I have ever considered purchasing the stuff was when I was taking care of two immediate family members during their terminal cancer days. The chemo and radiation was taking such a toll that both persons literally ate nothing or a half a piece of dry toast a day. The weight loss was extreme and their body didn’t have enough energy to enjoy even their last few months. The pills prescribed would constipate them so badly that it became another health issue. Also, they would be sleepy and lethargic and the stronger medicine was kept for the final days so a tolerance during the first few months wasn’t built up. I have never tried pot and had no idea even where to go for it. All I am saying is every drug has a useful purpose in limited cases. So many people use prescription meds and I wonder if a legal joint here or there for a small amount of time wouldn’t help people. I guess I see another side of the story. Keep the addictive, liver damaging pills for extreme cases and let the medical community allow marijuana for limited use in other ones. Just a person who dealt with this on a sadder level.
Agree with you wholeheartedly, mom! My college roommate’s grandfather had terminal colon cancer in his early 70s. Every time we saw him he was high as a kite, but that man was hale and hearty down to his last days. He never took a single pill they prescribed him and instead smoked pot all day, every day. He was so happy to be hungry and to be “relatively” pain free that he would smoke right in front of cops if he wanted to. He figured they weren’t going to do anything to him that the cancer wouldn’t take away soon enough.
He actually lived three years longer than the doctors gave him.