And probably without liver damage (Tylenol), kidney damage (NSAIDs), or addiction (opiates).
If it eases the pain, go for it.
Unexplained weight gain?
It’s somewhat beneficial for several medical conditions, most notably to help prevent nausea and wasting in patients undergoing chemo and radiation. Relieves eye pressure in glaucoma patients.
That said, so-called “medical marijuana” is just a front for broader legalization.
Anything that helps people who suffer from severe pain, nausea related to chemotherapy, and glaucoma is fine w/me! Let those who are so vigorously opposed to these meds refuse them when offered to them.
Sure it does. Who cares, right?
Yes if you keep everybody stoned, they won’t complain about the taxes so much. ‘Course, they won’t be able to pay them, either. ‘Course, what do the libs care, they don’t pay them anyway, and the people who run the show are too damned stoned to notice or care that they can’t pay the bills they’re running up...
Lord Obie’s next Incontrovertible Executive Edict from the Office of the Czar of Doobies: EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED!
Let the pot users flame me, but this is another classic scientific finding to be used politically to pander for a voter class, ie, pot users.
nostrums? like stuff you put in your nostrils?
just kidding of course.
Dave’s not here.
There is no known way to objectively test for minor pain relief.
Who actually believes that these patients will stop at one puff three times a day? Before you know it, it will be three joints a day.
How would you do a double blind experiment on this? The subject is not supposed to know whether they have the drug or the placebo. Kind of hard when they are or are not stoned.
Until it’s double blind, I wouldn’t put much faith in this one.