Marijuana May Ease AIDS Patients' Foot Pain »
Posted by: populist 1 year, 6 months agoAdding fuel to the debate over medical marijuana, a new study suggests that AIDS patients can relieve stubborn nerve pain in their feet by smoking the drug.
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earthlingerer1 year, 6 months ago
Okay, scientific study, done under scientific guidelines and by acclaimed scientists, scientifically proves that marijuana, albeit weak marijuana, has positive benefits for millions of suffering patients.
Of course, "think about the children", who have diabetes. What does this mean for them?
Don't worry, when they're old enough , and have proof of age, they can legally buy it, without supporting organized crime, or other malefactors, more than half of America prays.
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edromar21 year, 6 months ago
From all I have heard, marijuana is much safer than all the alternatives for lonf term pain management. I have given up all narcotics from morphine to vicodyn, etc. prescribed for my meg pain, preferring the pain to the side effects of the narcotics, although the pain is terrible. But my thigh still can not do without a level of Ibuprophen that is probably pickling my liver, and my lower leg requires "Neurontin" for "super-sensitivity."
If marijuana would take care of that without giving me lung cancer, it would probably be great. But how can we find out if research is very difficult in our paranoid state?
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cushi1 year, 6 months ago
I'm soooo glad you posted this! I was also on Neurontin for a period of time following a hip replacement. I had the complication commonly referred to as "drop foot." The nerves in my lower leg and foot on my right side were greatly traumatized. As a matter of fact, I still have some numbness and sensitivity in them! To make matters worse, I didn't feel a lot of relief from the neurontin, and when I read that it could cause seizures, I decided to just suffer through it as best I could! This is what I mean about pot having FAR less side effects than many of the "prescribed" medications.
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IcCaRus1 year, 6 months ago
yet another of the many reasons to legalize this beneficial plant....
before any1 starts with the "gateway drug BS" ... if you wanna use that argument, fine. when does the prohibition on beer (the biggest gateway drug ever) take effect?
marijuana has been shown to be beneficial in treating a myriad of medical conditions.
then theres hemp. hemp could provide biomass, replace trees in the paper industry, replace synthetic fibers in clothing, replace petroleum in manufacture of plastics, etc, etc, etc.
best of all, the producer (and profiter) is the american farmer.
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amazed1 year, 6 months ago
johnny 420 -- what is your beef with this comment? The getting rid of the illegal drug dealers or the increased (pretty painless) tax revenue?
Seems like a win-win to me AND I might add it would be easier to keep out of the hands of kids, because the sellers would have to worry about their licenses -- like the alcohol dealers do now.
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djn3nunez31 year, 6 months ago
Nuh-uh. You chop it up real fine so the seeds don't get stuck in your nose, then you snort up a few ounces. Then you see parents and your so stoned, they look like a nice pound of Columbian, so you chop them up too. Then your brother and sister come in and they too look like some fine herb so you chop them up too.....
And the best part is you can tell a BS lie like that to
Congress and they will accept it as fact.
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dBergeron1 year, 6 months ago
Marijuana should be legalized for any number of reasons. However, just say that you want to get high. Ultimately, that was how the prohibition of alcohol was overturned. We should just admit that we want marijuana legalized because we would like to be able to legally posess it, cultivate it, carry it on our person, smoke it, and get high from it. Not one of these things should be a criminal activity. This country wastes too many resources by keeping it illegal.
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jordan111 year, 6 months ago
Getting roaring drunk will kill your pain too. Any argument to legalize marajuana will do.>>>>
Ridiculous analogy. The good news is, plenty of people grow it for those who need it. And no one knows who needs it more than those suffering. Not even little ol 'you.'
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maynuh1 year, 6 months ago
Obviously, many of you have never seen just how great marijuana helps in releiving pain, etc. I watched my mother die from pancreatic cancer and try to use drugs costing over 1000.00 per month to help with pain and nausea. A friend suggested that she try "pot". She tried it and after smoking a very small amount the nausea and pain began to subside. No more chemicals that did NOTHING. After that I became totally in favor of legalized medical marijuana. It passed here in Maine but of course the Feds won't allow it to be distributed and the damned doctors are too chicken to prescribe it for fear of being punished and losing their kickback from the pharmaceutical companies. It is time for this country to open their eyes and see what those pharmaceitical companies are doing to us.
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shredder1 year, 6 months ago
This is so ridiculous...if anyone is allowed to have pot then everybody should. Laws against it and punishments for it make me sick. More lives are ruined because of laws and sentences than from actually smoking the stuff. I've done it in the past and I remember thinking, that's it?? That's why people are going to jail for life in some places? I've been more messed up from 7 beer than I've ever been from pot. There's more to it being illegal than we know, there is really no reason for this PLANT - a plant! - to be illegal, argue with me, I dare you! Nothing has to be done to it or added to it, you just pick the buds, smoke them and get a little silly. I mean look at the process of making booze! Look at the effect, the dependancy! There is also no such thing as marijuana poisoning, unless you're allergic to something in it, but for most people any effects can be slept off. There is some self-serving reason that it is illegal. We're being lied to!
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amazed1 year, 6 months ago
well, most of the cancer patients I have known have a bit too much on their plate at the time to be lobbying Congress and whomever for legalization.
I have not smoked dope in over 25 years. If it were to be legalized tomorrow, I doubt that I would run out and buy a lid. (Am I showing my age or WHAT?) But I can see no good that comes from marijuana (or any other recreational drug, for that matter) being illegal.
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shredder1 year, 6 months ago
There are many reasons...it has many medicinal/pain relief benefits, it works better than Nytol for getting to sleep, it makes comedies (movies) more fun, and it makes Vin Diesel ALMOST tolerable and anything with that kind of power should be dropped onto the public in a rain from large aircrafts.
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mrsajones1 year, 6 months ago
I think pot helps to relieve all kinds of physical and emotional problems, and it should not be criminalized....
...I'm a Christian, conservative, pro-gun, pro-life, anti-big govt., anti-tax, 41 year old mother of a 9 mo. old baby, and I'd not let a bong pass me by at the next party... :-)
The wrong drug (alcohol) is legal, the wrong drug is illegal....
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Razor1 year, 6 months ago
Star Poet wrote; "Marijuana is not a drug" and other keep likening the drug to legally distributed alcohol....
Marijuana is a drug, so is alcohol.
Difference is that you can have one drink and remain relatively unimpaired. With Marijuana most people, except maybe for the habitual user, go from 0 to stoned within seconds.
I for one never enjoyed being incapacitated, by medications, and have a hard time understanding why anyone would find that sensation recreational. But that's just my opinion.
However, Unless your medicating a physical or mental malady, drugs, of any type, should not be relied upon to cope with ordinary life and its challenges, except as directed by a licensed medical practitioner.
Marijuana is already legal to administer cannabis under prescription and guidance. And should stay that way. Any further wholesale distribution of incapacitating substances should be, and is, viewed as irresponsible by the majority of responsible adults and nations, with good reason.
So when I see people advocating that Marijuana be sold over the counter, I really start to question the motives and maturity of the advocate.
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jordan111 year, 6 months ago
Marijuana is already legal to administer cannabis under prescription and guidance.>>>>>
It is in a FEW states, but is still illegal federally. Matter of fact, the DEA just arrested several State legal pot growers in CA. Guess the 'real' war on drugs wasn't keeping em busy enough. Better to focus on LEGAL pot growers than to wipe out things like 'crack.'
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djn3nunez31 year, 6 months ago
Very few people become incapacitated by Marijuana, except for first time users. No, for 150 or so years Americans were free to use hemp and all it's products. A dispicable campaign to demonize it was sucessfully carried out and your additude toward it is one of the results of this dispicable campaign to limit our freedom. The law need to be overturned and all those who have suffered needlessly at least need to have their record cleared.
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PucciPat1 year, 6 months ago
so other countries (ie amsterdam) are immature? and the people rely on it OH so heavily because it is not doctor prescribed?
[psst, dude, do some research]
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mntnman4441 year, 6 months ago
razor
chocolate is a drug too,a dangerous,addictive drug that can kill a person...should it be illegal too?
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Meatmallet1 year, 6 months ago
Oh my God do i love my weed to bad its too damn xspensive
yum yum smoke em up!!! OH and by the way Iam in my mid 40s have great job and family life,Gee i should be down at the docks looking for tricks to support my awfull habit!
HA HA
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advanced11 year, 6 months ago
Lets be honest, we should legalize it for people who need it not the stoners who fake injuries and say that it was the only thing keeping them alive. I have 2 stepbrothers in Colorado that know how to beat the system and they get the best weed around. And they dont do anything but play Xbox and snowboard. Good argument to legalize it. All but they arent the ones who need it. Oh yeah but they dont hurt anybody, they just get high and leave people. Not like them crackheads robbing and killing people. This is true but they are not doing anything productive either. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! The country is full of lazy people and that is why jobs are being outsourced. Not because Mexicans do it cheaper, Because Americans are LAZY!
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djn3nunez31 year, 6 months ago
----The country is full of lazy people and that is why jobs are being outsourced. Not because Mexicans do it cheaper, Because Americans are LAZY!
Sorry but lazyness is not the reason jobs are outsouced. The labor market in these other countries make it cheaper. They do the work for less money.
Whether someone seeks the natural effect of one of natures plants has nothing to do with it.
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pheal1 year, 6 months ago
I also think that marijuana should be legal. It's not more dangerous than alcohol.
That being said, I'd rather try to find another treatment than having to lose neurons to relieve foot pain.
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words1 year, 6 months ago
Studies have also proven Marijuana is NOT addicitve like nicotine, nor is it a gateway to truly dangerous drugs like heroin. If you look at history, it's obvious the liquor lobby smeared Marijuana as dangerous so they wouldn't have to compete with it after prohibition was repealed. The unfair charges against Marijuana were inspired by capitalism, not health. I have a friend whose Parkinson's is helped enormously by small amounts of Marijuana and I think it is nature's healing agent. The only people who benefit from the laws against Marijuana are drug dealers who inflate the price.
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amazed1 year, 6 months ago
don't forget the lawyers who defend those who get caught and the increased police and police budgets necessary to "fight the war on drugs" and the prison guards and all who are necessary to guard the evil druggies that are doing time.
There are WAY too many people with a vested interest in keeping drugs illegal for legalization to ever see the light of day.
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Eagle_Eye1 year, 6 months ago
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Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago
Please enlighten me: what IS the objection to making marijuana available by prescription?
There are many medications deemed "controlled" that are available with just an Rx; and surely an enterprising drug manufacturer could design and patent a drug that's molecularly similar to marijuana--or to the active ingredient in it--and make a bundle....
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