Weed shops.

[neckisred]

  Oh the things we'll do for mom.   My 82 year old mother suffers from chronic pain as well. After some scientific testing on my part  I decided on 1/4 gram doses for her. Ground it up and put the doses in tiny plastic tubes. She put a tube in her yogurt every morning and every night.

After a week she wasn't feeling any relief so I told her to double the dose. She started feeling relief and all was well. She took it for a couple months until she could no longer live with the shame of being a pothead.

So even after experiencing relief, a lifetime of hearing pot is bad made her give it up............. She won't even take the prescribed dosage of pain medicine she gets for fear of becoming addicted..........at 82 years old!!!!!!

[ironglow]

  From NIR;
    "Dang it, where did I put that soap box?"
 

  ..Look under your feet..you have been standing upon it all this time ! 

[Dee]

Oh the things we'll do for mom.   My 82 year old mother suffers from chronic pain as well. After some scientific testing on my part  I decided on 1/4 gram doses for her. Ground it up and put the doses in tiny plastic tubes. She put a tube in her yogurt every morning and every night.

After a week she wasn't feeling any relief so I told her to double the dose. She started feeling relief and all was well. She took it for a couple months until she could no longer live with the shame of being a pothead.

So even after experiencing relief, a lifetime of hearing pot is bad made her give it up............. She won't even take the prescribed dosage of pain medicine she gets for fear of becoming addicted..........at 82 years old!!!!!!

I believe its glaucoma that marijuana is supposed to relieve some pain and discomfort. Also, the cancer victims in my family didn't die from the cancer, they starved to death, because they couldn't stand the smell of foods. I'm told that marijuana relieves them of those symptoms, so if a family member of mine in the future were to c down with cancer and believed marijuana would relieve their suffering, I would get it for'em if I could.

[neckisred]

  From NIR;
    "Dang it, where did I put that soap box?"
 

  ..Look under your feet..you have been standing upon it all this time ! 

Ummm..... not my post IG. If your gonna stir the "pot" at least get your fancy blue highlighted quotes right. 

[ironglow]

As Matt pointed out in reply #49, there re pros and cons..

   Here's the way I see it (not that it matters ta anyone else), but i think it has some validity.
 
  There are benefits in the substance, if one suffers from certain chronic diseases. Yet there are some threats presented too!
  So if a person is using it for a disease treatment, they must weigh the pros and cons and decide which is best for them.

  If one decides to use it as a stimulant or depressant, they have to decide if it is worth accepting the cons.

  Probably what concerns me most, is that we do have damage and lives destroyed chiefly in auto accidents. Sometimes it is the life of the user, sometimes the lives of non-users.

  Whether the accident is because of a driver using bad judgement, having slow reaction time, or falling asleep, makes little difference..they are still dead or maimed.  My  main concern being for the innocent victims.

   ..And don't bring up the old shibboleth about alcohol being worse, since I don't disagree.  That is one reason why I swore off alcohol, before I was old enough to legally buy the stuff .

  Yet we live in a culture where we all are still free to make choices.  I would simply prefer that such choices not have any deleterious effects upon the innocent.

[ironglow]

  From NIR;
    "Dang it, where did I put that soap box?"
 

  ..Look under your feet..you have been standing upon it all this time ! 

Ummm..... not my post IG. If your gonna stir the "pot" at least get your fancy blue highlighted quotes right. 

  Sorry; I thought you had used that term...  Pleased to find you don't use the term..   Me wrong..

  BTW:  Blue is not a "fancy" way of highlighting, so much as it is a more convenient way of differentiating between poster's statements..

[oldandslow]

Of the medical users I know two use it got migraine headaches and say it is much more effective than anything a doctor ever prescribed for them. They can tell when a headache is coming on and take two or three puffs and it is stopped. Another uses it in vape form for neuropathy. A couple of puffs at bedtime does the trick and it has no smell. I don't see a bit of shame in using a natural product for a painkiller if it works.

I have heard people complain about a doctor that wouldn't prescribe an effective level of pain medication for a dying cancer patient because they would become addicted. They are going to die for crying out loud. What difference does it make if they are an addict if it give them relief in their final days? If a doctor isn't smart enough to understand that they have no business being a doctor and you need to find one with a working brain.

[Dee]

Of the medical users I now two use it got migraine headaches and say it is much more effective than anything a doctor ever prescribed for them. They can tell when a headache is coming on and take two or three puffs and it is stopped. Another uses it in vape form for neuropathy. A couple of puffs at bedtime does the trick and it has no smell. I don't see a bit of shame in using a natural product for a painkiller if it works.

I have heard people complain about a doctor that wouldn't prescribe an effective level of pain medication for a dying cancer patient because they would become addicted. They are going to die for crying out loud. What difference does it make if they are an addict if it give them relief in their final days? If a doctor isn't smart enough to understand that they have no business being a doctor and you need to find one with a working brain.

Agreed,

[BUGEYE]

You guys are hilarious, you speak on and bout something that you clearly have little to no information on.

I am a Pot Head, not scared to admit it either, and I am quiet successful in spite of it   Though I have to use the hemp products as the real stuff is still illegal here, I would much rather have the real stuff, but hemp works fine for the purpose I use it for. I bet all  of you guys would much rather seek help from chemical concoctions cooked up in a lab then peddled by your local Doc and Pharmacist who are in cahoots with the maker of these chemicals... Hmm yeah there is no way that something God gave us could possibly  be better than the Pharma Industries concoctions.  So Weed is a Plant that God himself put here on this planet, but you guys call it a drug or dope, So God is a Drug dealer / Manufacturer... Hmm nah just can't buy into that kinda of propaganda.... and that is what all of you have bought into..... propaganda..... for the Big Pharma Industry. I find it awful funny that many of those pills folks swallow on the daily are synthetic or altered versions of things we can find in nature, provided by the creator.... demonized by men who benefit from the sale of the chemical concoctions....

Oh and as to the driving... Oh My God, how many freaking people are on the roads on Rx Meds, Drunk, distracted by phone, radio, eating, talking to passengers?  It's all BS folks do NOT get high on weed and run the roads... No one wants to drive if they are stoned, they want to chill, munch, watch comedy, create art or software or many other things but driving... nah only if you have to then you only drive 15mph and are extra aware of everything around you...  again you guys really have no clue other than what you have been trained to believe.  " The Programming is Strong with These Gentlemen"

Matt

Matt, I’ll use your post to jump back in to GBO.  (Been away)
Some months ago I started weaning myself off of pain killers and have been clean for over two months.
My back is collapsing slowly and causes severe pain.  I don’t take Ibuprofen and limited Tylenol, mostly lay on my back.
I have tried “the real stuff “ and it does indeed kill pain.
So, I’ll ask folks, which is worse, a joint/gummy or a morphine tablet??  Or a codeine tablet??
My daughter smokes the illegal stuff and I’d rather she did that than do hard drugs.
Also, as one who used to be a heavy drinker, pot is the lesser of two evils.

[ironglow]

  From O&S;
      "I have heard people complain about a doctor that wouldn't prescribe an effective level of pain medication for a dying cancer patient because they would become addicted. They are going to die for crying out loud. What difference does it make if they are an addict if it give them relief in their final days?'

   I know what you mean, and basically agree with you, but perhaps you may want to cut the Doc some slack.  Some states may have passed laws forbiding it...and the Doc may be jeopardizing his license by doing so..

  I was watching  "Cold Cases" on a Pluto app on my TV tonight, and had had a great laugh..

  I think I have related how when driving through Louisiana..I noticed billboards advertising for the  gambling opportunities available at many of their truck stops.  Then often, the next billboard would be furnishing a phone number to call if one is fighting a gambling addiction..

  Now , NY State..need I say a "blue" state, has legalized marijuana.

  So, first a commercial pops up, telling the viewer about the "opportunity" to buy dope..and if they call a certain phone number, or visit a certain website, they will get instructions for how  to smoke it!

  Considerate bunch however, suggested that they not smoke around others or children..
 
   Then the very next commercial..is warning citizens about the evils of smoking tobacco, and offering ways to stop using the stuff !   

  Rest assured, there is a heavy tax on either one...

[Lloyd Smale]

i had to chuckle the other day. My va doctor told me i needed to be piss tested. So I went in and did it. I use to about live on oxy. Couldnt stand the stuff but took it because i thought i had to be out of pain. I got so tired of being wiped out all the time i told my (non va doc at the time) no more. So he said we could try tylenol 3. So i take that and only take it when the pain is brutal. Maybe 2 or 3 times a week. Shes a good doctor and a family friend. I asked her why she precribes narcotics to me then piss tests me. She said its because i might not be taking it and are selling it to others. I got a chuckle out of that and so did she. Who the hell is going to buy tylenol 3. It would take a half a jar to get high and youd probably od on the tylenol in it. Its about like trying to get high on M&Ms. She said my levels were so low that according to her guidelines she could have cut me off. She asked why i even refill them every month. I told her that i do it because if i stop getting them its so hard to day to get them reprecibled. So i get them every month and at the end of the month flush the ones i dont use. She said it was probably pretty smart to do it like that.

Of the medical users I know two use it got migraine headaches and say it is much more effective than anything a doctor ever prescribed for them. They can tell when a headache is coming on and take two or three puffs and it is stopped. Another uses it in vape form for neuropathy. A couple of puffs at bedtime does the trick and it has no smell. I don't see a bit of shame in using a natural product for a painkiller if it works.

I have heard people complain about a doctor that wouldn't prescribe an effective level of pain medication for a dying cancer patient because they would become addicted. They are going to die for crying out loud. What difference does it make if they are an addict if it give them relief in their final days? If a doctor isn't smart enough to understand that they have no business being a doctor and you need to find one with a working brain.

[VA Rifleman]

BUGEYE. Good hearing from yah. Was hoping you were okay.

[oldandslow]

New Mexico TV is rife with casino advertising and at the end they tell you to gamble "responsibily" and where to get help if to need it.  Maybe just staying away from the damn casinos would work.

[BUGEYE]

BUGEYE. Good hearing from yah. Was hoping you were okay.

Thanks
Getting back here is kinda like finding a comfortable pair of shoes in the closet that you thought the spouse had thrown away.

[ironglow]

New Mexico TV is rife with casino advertising and at the end they tell you to gamble "responsibily" and where to get help if to need it.  Maybe just staying away from the damn casinos would work.

  I  fully understand there is such a thing as an addictive personality.  Evidently, some people can ignore the addictive part, while others fall headlong into slavery to a substance.

  Perhaps it would help, if early on people could be informed if they were 'gifted' with such a personality
 flaw, so they could avoid things like tobacco, pot, alcohol or anything which may lead to their downfall.

  You are right, that people should just stay away from the casinos, alky, tobacco etc.  ..but once hooked.. It appears it's all over.