Doctors are not botanists

[vej33]

Show your doctor my medical studies post! She sounds rather uneducated! Here's a few for you to start her off on!

Lowering of Blood Pressure Through Use of Hashish
Lowering of Blood Pressure Through Use of Hashish: The Hempire - [cannabis, london]

Blood Pressure Lowered With Cannabis Component
Blood Pressure Lowered With Cannabis Component: The Hempire - [cannabis, hemp]

Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids
Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids

Delta(9)-Tetrahydrocannabinol inhibits epithelial growth factor-induced lung cancer cell migration
Unbound MEDLINE | Delta(9)-Tetrahydrocannabinol inhibits epithelial growth factor-induced lung cancer cell migration in vitro as well as its growth and metastasis in vivo. Journal article

Smoking Cannabis Does Not Cause Cancer Of Lung or Upper Airways
CCRMG

No association between lung cancer and cannabis smoking in large study
IACM-Bulletin

Premiere British Medical Journal Pronounces Marijuana Safer Than Alcohol, Tobacco
The Cannabis Link

Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic
Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic



Print them up (most are one pagers) and give her these URLs-

My birthday gift to you.... - TreatingYourself.COM Online Community

My "Happy New Year" Medical post - TreatingYourself.COM Online Community

It's my "medical" posts on a nice, sensible, little site for medical cannabis. We have to educate our doctors- med school certainly doesn't! - Granny:hippy:

I just read through the first link you provided (thank you very much by the way, i've seen your medical links but simply have not come
across any about blood pressure), about the man who separated the psychotropic effects from the medicinal cannabinoids.

My question is, even with the psychotropic effects of regular cannabis (aka, the stuff i get from my dealer), does it still pack the benefits
like relaxing my blood vessels and lowering blood pressure? Or do those medicinal properties have to be separated and used separately to work?

vej33 Reviewed by vej33 on 02-27-2008. Doctors are not botanists my doctor told me today that my blood pressure was a bit higher than the last time i was there... she asked if i smoked cigarettes, and i told her I didn't, but that i occasionally (lol yea right) smoked pot. she said that what is in pot is worse than what is in cigarettes, but the quantity that is smoked of pot is less than cigarettes, almost making it less of a threat.... so there's a big debate whether or not marijuana can cause lung cancer, there are no proven deaths, etc... Rating: 5