re: medicinal marijuana

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Namah Shivaya,

I know/have known a couple of people who use medical marijuana for pain

management. The alternative is heavy pain meds that have a lot of side

effects and make the user unable to function. For purposes of pain

management in these people they either had to use it once in several

days, or just take one hit before bed. It has become a major hassle for

them to get, because of the zeal of the feds to bust the legalized

"stores" here in California. The people I know who are/have used medical

marijuana are on disablilty, so they have very little money, and the pot

is very expensive. They have to take their doctor's prescription to the

marijuana "store" which may be several miles away. The whole thing is a

major hassle, but the drug is far superior in so many ways to Vicodin.

Codine,etc. I even knew a woman who was on a morphine like drug because

her pain was so severe. She couldn't handle the pain so she overdosed

and killed herself.

Sorry to get on a soap box here, but it seems that a hit off a joint is

far less risky than the alternatives. As for glamorizing - these folks

are quite secretive about what they are doing because they don't want to

get busted.

Jai Ma!

Prasadini.

 

jmcs_06 wrote:

> I'm not quite sure of what I think about legalizing the use of

> marijuana for medicinal purposes (because of the possibility of some

> people using that as a way to promote or glamorize addictive or

> unhealthy mind-altering drug use). However, for those who are

> suffering with medical problems, using marijuana for medicinal reasons

> seems just as justified to me as taking an aspirin for a headache to

> relieve the pain or taking anti-depressants for relief from severe

> depression.

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> love,

> Kalika

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