I can guarantee to you that the relief I felt was not a placebo effect, nor was it just the stoned feeling that gave the relief. The relief to my stomach and intestines came as a wave of relief, nearly instantly after taking a puff, and even before the stoned feeling came over me.
This gastrointestinal relief was a direct result from something in the smoke that is not in the synthetic drug. I continued using it during and after my treatment, and it allowed me to keep fluids down and eat a little. I am the last person in the world who would ever use drugs, and I don’t even like taking the things that are prescribed for me. But this is one drug that I would not be without since my GI tract will never be the same (my cancer was a colorectal type, and the radiation did permanent damage.)
I still keep some of the weed on hand for the times when the diarrhea is so severe that it causes me to vomit (this often happens in the middle of the night.) I smoke a puff or two so that I can swallow the Imodium and keep it down. That doesn’t happen very often, but when it does happen I am thankful to have a remedy — one that works instantly and reliably.
Please open your mind and maybe do some research of your own of people who use this drug as a necessity. Just stroll through any cancer center, ask around, and you will change your mind about it being a placebo effect.
And if you or anyone you know ever finds themselves facing cancer treatment, get your hands on some weed and a pipe. Don’t hesitate. It will make all the difference in surviving. The cancer can take you slowly, but the effects of the treatment can kill you in a matter of days if you can’t keep fluids down.
FRegards,
“Please open your mind and maybe do some research of your own of people who use this drug as a necessity. Just stroll through any cancer center, ask around, and you will change your mind about it being a placebo effect.”
Please understand that I don’t have ANY problems with the regulated medicinal use of Marijuana. Persons like yourself should be able to get this as a prescription drug.
What troubles me is that others with non medical interests are attempting to use the “medical” route as a means to legalize the drug for recreatinal use. They hurt persons like yourself that have a legitimate medical need from getting needed help. A sad state of affairs.
I am surprised that this cannot be corrected with minor changes to federal law so states can have real “medical” use of marijuana available....without clashing with federal law. I suspect, again, that it is those with nefarious purposes that stop this from occuring.