http://golfstakes.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=330661 GolfStakes.com : Community Forum - Announcements - Marijuana helps with pain - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:16:09 GMT Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:16:09 GMT http://golfstakes.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=330661 Cigarettes Online. I had an accident when I was much, much younger, and the result has been years of back pain every day - some days good, some days bad.

I don't like prescription painkillers because of side effects Tobacco Shop. That's why I'm using cannabis. It doesn't fog me up; it doesn't constipate me. But it's illegal in my state. What to do?

If you get marijuana, then you do so illegally. If you're caught, you might get prosecuted. And besides that, when you buy illegal drugs, you are interacting with a dealer and probably supporting a Mexican drug cartel.

Now, if a doctor wrote you a letter saying marijuana use is OK for medical purposes, that wouldn't matter. We can write for a prescription narcotic that can kill you, but not a substance that just gets you stoned.

How many people die from marijuana? Outside of car crashes, I venture very, very few - unless you happen to be texting while driving.

Many of my physician colleagues say that if a patient is taking any illegal substance while on a prescription narcotic, they'll toss them from their practice. I completely understand that when it comes to heroin or cocaine, but marijuana? It's closer to a couple of drinks than it is to shooting up Cheap Cigarettes.

A lot of back pain is neuropathic, caused by misfiring nerves. Recent research out of Alberta, Canada, showed that many patients given opioids for back pain may have a reduction in their pain but they don't function any better Wholesale Cigarettes.

We have other drugs that work for this type of pain - the seizure medication Gabapentin, for example - but we should be testing marijuana to see if that works. The reason we're not doing so is because of old-fashioned, outdated federal and state laws that are not patient-oriented Tobacco Store.

My spin: Pain is complex. One drug may not work for all. Sometimes society's laws can get in the way of the best treatment.

Many radio listeners have chimed in that e-cigarettes are useful to quit smoking. They have helped them kick butt Newport Cigarettes. In my regular practice, I haven't seen that. I have seen patients cut down, but I have seen few stop. It's become more of a crutch than a cure.

Recent research out of California published in the prestigious journal the Lancet bears this out. Preventive Services Task Force, which found insufficient evidence to recommend e-cigarettes as a device to quit smoking.

Smoking is clearly one of the worst things you can do to your body. I was a smoker in college so I know how hard it is to quit. I have never completely lost the desire. But give me a cheese-and-sausage thin-crust pizza and a Coke and I can taste a Marlboro - and I quit in 1969.

So anything that will help people quit smoking should be available. I think e-cigarettes do help some, but for others they just draw out the misery.

Combine that with recent research that shows some e-cigs have heavy metal toxic chemicals and I would think before I'd use them.
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