Medical Marijuana

[azscp]

Has anyone had any luck trying to curb the nausea and increase their appetite with Medical Marijuana?

[e-lizabeth]

well, i smoke non-medical marijuana pretty frequently and it's great!

[swiftette]

I wish!!!

[ontariogirl]

I tried smoking pot when I was 15, it made me feel sick. I felt like there was a glob of something in my throat which made me panic because I felt sick. Tried it again when I was 20 something and the same thing happened. Believe me if I could smoke it I would but I can't so I don't. Funny it does the opposite for me which sucks!! I say if helps with the nausea go for it!

[skinnyme]

What is medical marijuana??

[steph77]

skinnyme....medical marijauna is pot you can get with a prescription because its medicinal for many ailments. i think its only done in california, but i'm not sure.

[steph77]

btw, azscp, med. marijauna dousn't exist in my state of PA...hell, you still have to go to state stores to purchase alcohol...but 'it' has never helped me....i react to it badly. from what i hear, though, medical pot is very mild and if taken as prescribed, i'm sure it would help greatly. 90% of the people who i know use it 'medicinally' [img]smileys/smilies_02.gif[/img] love it , i'm one of the bizarre 10%. it couldn't hurt trying...and hey...think of how jealous other people would be when you told them your pot was legal!!!

[ontariogirl]

they have this in Canada. The government were growing it but the people who were smoking it were too impressed because it wasn't strong. In Ontario here the government is thinking of changing the laws, that if you are caught with a certain amount of pot you will not be going to jail, you may get a fine but that is it. I think the government will be trying to pass the bill this year but who knows. The police are wanting some kind of device to see how much of the pot is in the person system, just like how they check to see how much alcohol it in the person's system.

[shiva]

I do know that when my friend has tummy aches, she smokesa jointand it goes away. As a teenager I always got paranoid when I would try smoking the stuff, so medicinal or not, I think I've had enough for me.

[kate1966]

I personally had a bad experience with pot back in high school...it made me incredibly nauseas...and i was hallucinating...something bad must have been mixed in with it....but however...if it would help nausea....heck yeah i would do it in a heartbeat! Kate

[holly103]

There is no Medical Marijuana in my state-NH. Which sucks because pot is the ONLY thing that has ever worked for me as far as increasing my appetite and taking my mind off the "possibilities" of what could happen if I eat. I don't smoke it anymore, however.

[sunshine16]

Hm alright I will give you a lil tidbit:


When my dad was in Palletive Care dying of cancer, he had extreme discomfort. They administered medical marijuanna, and, lol, he was the first to ever try it in our district The kind my dad took was pill form, and boy was he proud Lol and he NEVER did drugs lol. But according to him, it helped, although it did make him hallucenate.

[azscp]

There's a prescription drug called Marinol. Here is a little excerpt from their site.


"MARINOL<SUP>®</SUP> (dronabinol) is a synthetic version of a naturally occurring compound known as delta-9-THC. Delta-9-THC stimulates appetite and reduces nausea and vomiting by binding to special receptors found in your nervous system." -marinol.com


This stuff can make you paranoid like marijuana. So I can see why Laura's dad had some hallucinogen effects.


Steve

[japa]

Yup, I bet something was mixed in. When my sister was only in the 8th grade, she smoked a joint, and then within 1/2 hour, she was in the bathroom V*. We think that it was laced with something.

I personally had a bad experience with pot back in high school...it made me incredibly nauseas...and i was hallucinating...something bad must have been mixed in with it....but however...if it would help nausea....heck yeah i would do it in a heartbeat! Kate

[norrok]

Weed for the loose :P


when i was in college i was talked into smoking it, and after about 2 months of it, something went wrong... i was hanging out with a group of friends (was like 40 people, people in the area of england i live in kinda have groups of friends made by what type of person they are [goths, moshers, pikeys ect].. and i had about half a spliff, then all of a sudden i started seeing crap, i staggered my way to the train station, and on the way some people i knew ran up to me, and asked what was wrong.. and i explained what was happening.. so i get to the train station, i lay on the ground, some chick is talking me through the whitey (the reaction from a bad reaction of weed and results in going pale, and then shortly after throwing up].. funny enough, even though the time was hell, and i had my skateboard + cell phone stolen me, let alone the point some ass burned my hand with a lighter (wtf is that about lol) .. due to being a emet, i managed to go through the whitey a total of three times within 5 months of smoking it, with out being sick .... so in other words.. if weeds not your thing, you feel like s*** while it lasts, but we sure can give up a fight [img]smileys/smilies_04.gif[/img]


oh yea.... i quit smoking it after the 3rd one :P i missed out on a party i was really looking forward to due to it - and thus - it was not worth it :P

[kate1966]

Wow that's interesting....then something must have been in there for sure....maybe herion or something like that...i just know it knocked me for a loop i never want to go on again.....Kate

[samara's on tv]

I used to smoke pot all the time in highschool. Until one night I went to a party and had some and it made me hallucinate. I think the pot was laced with something, I could SWEAR that the dog was talking to me. I haven't smoked pot since then (It's been about 6 years) But I'm totally not against pot. I think that if you smoke it and it makes you feel better then go for it!


~Monica

[ducky-go-lucky]

Ok, here's an embarrasing story :



(We don't have medical marijuana in Finland.)



About a year ago I was smoking pot (not my first time), and I guess it was too strong and I smoked too much.

I fainted, had awful cramps, almost v*, felt like my head was on fire and thought I was going to die.

So I called myself an ambulance [img]smileys/smilies_09.gif[/img], which was stupid, but I was really scared that I would die (or v*).



I was hyperventilating and my heart was beating like crazy. They made
me breath into a paperback and waited till my pulse was normal again.



I haven't even considered about smoking since.

Before that incident pot always relaxed me and helped if I was having a panic attack.

[suzy.o]

Get fresh instead, I do and although I know it can be bad for you it calmes you. as long as you dont go overboard with it a stiff drink can help.P.S. Wheres my can of lager gone?