Cannabis, the cure all?

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Does marijuana really cure just about every ailment known to mankind, or do you also need coconut oil to augment its curative properties?

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resqbug

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:no: I don't know, why don't you ask all of the patients it has helped? It's amazing nurses can still be this ignorant.

klone, MSN, RN

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

I think that it can have a lot of amazing medicinal effects for a wide variety of conditions and ailments. Particularly the hybridization that they're doing to breed out and in specific properties.

I do not think it is the cure for everything, and I don't think anyone but some crazy stoners actually make that claim.

klone, MSN, RN

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It's been found to be extremely effective for seizure disorders. I remember watching a Dateline episode about a little girl who would have hundreds of seizures a day. Her family moved out here to try medicinals and they found a strain that reduced her seizures to just a few a day.

Specializes in LTC.

If one more person tells me cannabis oil will cure my diabetes, I might actually start screaming at them... To hear this people talk, if I just mix the cannibas oil with some okra, cinnamon, paleo dieting, clean eating, gluten free bread, coconut oil, and some prayer, I'd be able to rid myself of this pesky insulin habit I have going...

klone, MSN, RN

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

You have a lot of people telling you that? How curious.

MunoRN, RN

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There are definitely those who tout marijuana as the modern day panacea, which it isn't, but there are actually well proven uses for components of marijuana. Marijuana is mix of various cannabinoids, including cannabidiol (CBD) which has some well established medicinal uses. It's been shown to be comparable or even superior to atypical antipsychotics in treating schizophrenia. It's widely used as an effective anti-seizure medication in Europe and is in clinical trials in the US. It's also approved for treatment of various types of cancer in Europe, and it's effect isn't just theoretical, the exact mechanism by which it 'turns off' cancer cells has been isolated. And that's in addition to it's previously established uses in treating nausea, pain, anxiety, insomnia, and poor appetite in AIDS and cancer patients.

There is certainly a tendency to overstate the benefits of cannabis, but there seems to be an equal tendency to suggest it's all bogus, which is just as false.

resqbug

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If one more person tells me cannabis oil will cure my diabetes, I might actually start screaming at them... To hear this people talk, if I just mix the cannibas oil with some okra, cinnamon, paleo dieting, clean eating, gluten free bread, coconut oil, and some prayer, I'd be able to rid myself of this pesky insulin habit I have going...

Maybe there is some truth to what they are telling you: Marijuana Decreases Insulin Resistance | 420 InSight

Specializes in Anesthesia, ICU, PCU.

I don't think any rational being believes it ever will cure everything. I would even wager that some pro-cannabis legalization groups are abusing untrustworthy statistics and research to bolster their case. That said, one thing it surely helped me to resolve was the anxiety that followed me home from work. After giving 150% of myself for 3 13-hour shifts a week, a toke or two after a long day/week - with the knowledge that I wouldn't be working again for another day or so - truly helped me to just let go. I do believe I have excelled as a nurse also, although I do sort of still hate this job. Anyway N=1 is not reliable way to make a credible point, but that's my $0.02.

Farawyn

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Um, I'm pretty sure this post by Emergent is tongue in cheek, which leads me to ask, what have yawl been smoking?

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nursel56

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I had some real nasty right side neck/shoulder pain a while back and literally nothing helped! One of the FPs in the clinic I worked at had some chiropractic training. I'm a pretty skeptical person, but I agreed to let him give me an adjustment, and it worked 100%. But I still don't think a spinal adjustment is efficacious in killing cancer cells or other serious diseases.

My attitude toward de-criminalization of marijuana is the same.

My only experience is from what several cancer patients I know personally have said about marijuana being the only thing that knocks out nausea, lack of appetite and even pain. When I read about the stress and all the roadblocks they face in some areas just to get this relief I find very little merit to the arguments of those who would deny them that relief.

Farawyn

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That being said, my Dad has MS and was addicted to (wrongly prescribed) opiates for 20 years. I feel if he could have smoked a doob or 2 daily he would have been a lot better today.

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