Unable To Speak Without Cannabis-Need Some Answers

[Storm Crow]

If all else fails, immigrate to California. With medical records in hand, it is very easy to get "California legal". Costs me $150 a year and is well worth it! I grow in my closet and keep my profile low. - Granny:hippy:

[Markass]

The real problem seems to be that though thousands of people are using it for all sorts of ailments there is little or no support/advice/understanding from the medical community. In all fairness most doctors have very limited knowledge about its use and effects as most patients keep quiet.

If I have anything to do with it friend, we won't have that problem in a few years. It's bullshit that our governments are cockblocking marijuana because it's "dangerous." Marijuana hasn't ever fucking killed anybody and it never will. Tell me how that's fucking dangerous. Killing half a million people in America every year isn't dangerous? That's tobacco for you. Now that that's over with. It sickens me to see the numerous people that are affected because of this lack of research on a drug that obviously possesses many different kinds of therapeutic potential...In days to come I don't think this will no longer be a problem and hopefully one day very soon marijuana will be more accepted as a method of medicine...and studies will be done as much as they should be so we can find out everything we can about this wonderful plant.

I use it for my back pain, and nothing is near as effective as it...at least not without detrimental effects. And I don't want to have to be a dope fiend just to feel better.

I hope things work out for you on this. Go to a doctor and explain to him how it helps you and try to get a medical license or recommendation for it...If you could grow it yourself, you could grow a nice potent strain and have plenty of it for you at not much cost. Good luck :thumbsup:

[Markass]

Thanks for the articles and for the first reasonable explanation why smoking may be helping. Some of the damage is in that area though I do have lesions elsewhere. I read one that suggested brain cell growth with use (as opposed to other drugs that kill them) and also another that purported that it protects the brain cells of stroke victims from further damage.

On the one hand stroke and on the other MS (?) or something akin to it. All I know is that when I run out my speech goes (I can still make sounds but mostly unintelligible), I lose my appetite, I have facial tics and body tremors, the spasticity and pain are worse and my thinking goes totally off because I'm so depressed at what is my real self is like without smoking. I recently tried an anti-depressant thinking it might help cope with some of this however it only aggravated current symptoms and added a few side effects of its own.

Marijuana helps you way too much...pain management...speech, appetite. You should be able to obtain a medical card man...

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Thanks for the articles and for the first reasonable explanation why smoking may be helping. Some of the damage is in that area though I do have lesions elsewhere. I read one that suggested brain cell growth with use (as opposed to other drugs that kill them) and also another that purported that it protects the brain cells of stroke victims from further damage.

On the one hand stroke and on the other MS (?) or something akin to it. All I know is that when I run out my speech goes (I can still make sounds but mostly unintelligible), I lose my appetite, I have facial tics and body tremors, the spasticity and pain are worse and my thinking goes totally off because I'm so depressed at what is my real self is like without smoking. I recently tried an anti-depressant thinking it might help cope with some of this however it only aggravated current symptoms and added a few side effects of its own.

Cannabis also is a potent antioxidant; it may cross the blood-brain barrier much more effectively than other antioxidants and may target your areas of damage more effectively? Maybe you know more about that than I do. I'm sure your doctor could research it, or you could, on Google Scholar.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

You're right about cash being tight - that's a big concern and really depresses me and why I'm trying to get a Canadian license - seems much easier to get in CA and I could really get used to your weather. I'm in the midst of a snow/ice storm that doesn't look like it's letting up and I'm almost out

PS - Just an oddity - I was given some hash to try and for some reason it has no effect whatsoever on any of my symptoms and I feel like I have lead in my stomach.

There is a fabulous book, "Cannabis" by Jonathan Green (UK author), and I believe that's where I read that medical patients have more side effects with hash than with bud, and additionally it doesn't have all the respiratory benefits of bud.