Bearsy

About 2 years ago my mom was in a car accident and has been in pain and on unemployment ever since. She spends about $500 on painkillers a month and is really addicted to them. Oxycontin, Lortab and 2 others that I can't remember.

We've finally reached a point in our relationship where she recognizes that I smoke pot and that I'm not gonna stop.

Anyway, we were driving to get her prescriptions yesterday and I just blurted out asking if she'd try pot just once for her pain. She laughed it off saying she's out of it enough without getting stoned. But she came back to me today asking if I had information about it and how hard it would be to get.

So I told her I'd get her some info about people who use it as pain relief for back, neck and muscle pain.
Personally I use it for back pain, but she's not really gonna take my word for it.

She's not unfamiliar with pot(in fact she used to even be a coke-head), so she knows the basic info. But we'd like some info re: pain relief.

Anyone got some links to help a brotha out?

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Grieves

Marijuana Law Reform - NORML

is a good start...

ill be back with more...

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Grieves

WeBeHigh.com Buffalo Marijuana prices and where to buy weed in NY

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Grieves

Medical Marijuana for back pain? - Yahoo! Answers

Medical Marijuana | Serendip's Exchange

Medical Marijuana for Chronic Pain

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Bearsy

Thanks mang...

nice sig too.

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green_eyed_lady

All I know is when I smoke herb for my Multiple Sclerosis ans epilepsy- my pain is reduced by 3/4....I too am a sometimes begrudgingly user of hillbilly heroin...Kadian...ox ycodone hcl...etc. but I need sooooo much less when I smoke...give your Mom the "urge to purge" the opiates...you build tolerances to them- but rotate your weed types and you won't build the same types of tolerances if any at all...I send out good vibes to your Mom...and if she won't smoke it... EAT IT! Cannabutter recipes rock!

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Canuck Wisdom

Have her watch this video. If she can access this stuff she doesnt even need ot get high.


Check out Kameelyun's thread in Politics forum

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FineazPR

I too use MJ for my MS. It helps my spasticity, alot. Some days I can barely move 'cause I am so stiff (espeially on rainy or humid days) and in constant pain. I feel like I am covered with "charliehorses." (PS I for one am SO sick of this shit!!)

FineazPR

OOps! almost forgot. I cannot take other "legal" meds on account of I also have Glaucoma, and have to be carefuil of stuff that affects the IOP. So...I think I'm gonna go spark something up right now!!

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Well, I find the idea of boiling it in naptha disgusting. I also find the idea of extracting oil using butane disgusting.

But aside from that it was quite a video. What was the sentence? I seem to remember some news articles about this.

Good production qualities.

I had no idea the incidence of cancer was so high. That is alarming.

Was anyone in the video under 50?

Those people look to me like old farmers who's great-great-grand-parents were born in the same town and who have ties going back over generations. I don't think I've ever seen a pro-medical-marijuana video quite like it. There wsa an article posted somewhere about a woman -a quadrapelgic- who was evicted because she wouldn't go outside to smoke marijuana at night. Evidently someone had reported her for smoking in her apartment, in British Columbia I think, and so she had agreed to smoke only outside.

A quadraplegic!!! She's supposed to go outside in the cold and rain to take her medicine!!!

But the point of this is that some troll commented that she should have gotten a recommendation. I'm glad this film points out that your chances "of winning the lottery" are better than your chances of getting an exemption in Canada. There are probably more 'exemptees' in Santa Cruz County than in the entire country of Canada.

Yeah, Emery & Co. have really done a lot for the movement.

I'll take these old country farmers any day. Even if they do boil it in naptha. (Yuck).

green_eyed_lady

Try to keep your "chin up"... I know you get fucking sick of hearing that shit- I certainly did in the first few years of my diagnosis, but as you know- it helps for us with MS to try and stay as "stress free" as possible-as I for one, am so sympathetic to your plight- since I too have MS and I know what you're going through. I was diagnosed with progressive MS in April of 2006.

Multiple Sclerosis is a debilitating disease whereby the afflicted person's brain and central nervous system are attacked by their own immune system and it attacks the myelin sheaths [a white fatty substance that coats all brain and spinal cord connections] and the myelin is "eaten" away by the immune system and the brain and spinal nerve connections are exposed and the connections eventually die, leaving behind "plaques" or " multiple sclerosis" [ Latin for: "many scars"] which occur in all parts of the brain, brain stem and central nervous system. Because the sclerosis occur in all parts of the brain etc. as afore mentioned, many different problems occur systemically because many different areas of the brain which are affected control a variety of systems within the body.

Medical marijuana is one of my "keys" to having a life much more comfortable, with markedly less stress, and physiologically- a kind of relief that no pill or injection can bring. MS- It's a hard thing to have to put up with, but when I get encouragement from others with MS it helps much more than "advice" from folks who are not going through what "we" are going through. People without MS have NO IDEA what we suffer with day to day, after day. It's hard to swallow what MS does to us. MS is a cruel thing and it definitely robs us of our dignity because we are most often dependent on others for help with even the most mundane things, and a life that is "normal". A MS diagnosis is so hard to digest- we look like average folks, but most with MS shows symptoms that folks can't plainly see in the early stages of the disease- and it's just so very insidious. I know you must be sick of dealing with it because I am too, but unfortunately we have to "eat shit" and try to deal with it as best we can.

My mother also had MS- she was diagnosed in 1986 but lost her battle with MS and passed away in 2000 at the age of 49. My mother's sister also currently is battling as well and isn't expected to pull through it. It's very hard for me and very frightening- I am 39 and I'm wondering if I too will not live a full life and pass away within the next 10 years like my Mom did... I want to see all of my children grow into adulthood, marry, and have children and for them lead a wonderful, productive life- I just don't want to miss a thing.

I am wondering if you have a MS support group nearby you? It does really help because you get a new perspective on life with MS by you hearing [and supporting] others with MS by them sharing their "life with MS" stories.
As we know with having MS it's a different disease for everyone. By going to a support group you can learn new coping skills and what works for others with MS, and certain things they do to cope; and that might just help you. I have major SPASTICITY in my legs and also RLS [restless leg syndrome] and both greatly reduced for me by smoking marijuana. But I take 14 other medications and a once daily injection of Copaxone *[ glatiramer acetate ] thought to reduce MS flare-ups.
There is no cure for MS currently and many of us with MS are encouraged to participate in medicine trial studies because the disease is relitively "new" to the medical community. There are only 2.5 million cases reported world wide and 400,000 are from the U.S. out of the total 6911450250 people on Earth. [ check out this website for a running world population clock: World Population ]

I am in constant chronic pain due to having severe arthritis throughout my body, moderately severe spondylosis in my spine; all but 3 of my discs in my whole spinal column are herniated and the cartilage between them is being rapidly worn down. My right leg is now longer than my left leg due to my hips shifting their position.... I also have had to deal with epilepsy which was diagnosed in 1994- and the list goes on and on...sigh***

Friedrich Nietzsche once said "that which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger..."
I'd gather that according to Nietzsche- we with MS are Hurculean...

Trust me I am not trying to blow sunshine up your ass- because I am definitely NOT happy with MS either! BUT I will tell you that I totally know where you're coming from and I encourage you to reach out to your local chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and see what they might be able to help you with- they do so much for us folks- they can assist with a wide variety of things.

So I say to you: Keep on smoking it up!
Whether it's legal or not in your area for medical marijuana usage I say to you...enjoy the benefits that medicinal use affords you and may God bless you and soften the way throughout life for you...

***I strongly wish for everyone else who reads this post to seek out and donate funds or volunteer with your local chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society...every little bit counts...

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my_scatterheart

^Thanks for sharing that

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green_eyed_lady

You are more than welcome-
I feel it's almost a "duty" to let folks know about MS and what it does to me and those whom I call my "other-brothers-and-sisters-in-pain". Knowledge certainly IS power when faced with a debilitating disease like Multiple Sclerosis. I feel the more I learn about MS, and my personal experience with MS just may help educate others or help someone else begin to cope with the MS diagnosis, etc.- as I've said it seems to be easier to take advice from someone who also is struggling with the same disease. I am so very happy to do it- Being "pro-active" in my own health care is one way I deal with my own situation. Question everything...and don't ever be afraid to speak up on your own behalf...Pain and anxeity is a terrible thing to deal with on a daily basis, and NO ONE should have to suffer. Period.
Kerin

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my_scatterheart

Yeah, I hear you. Had a lovely art teacher in my life for many years that had MS. She was one of the women I missed most when I graduated HS. She was quite the inspiration. Very relaxed class, but the days when I didn't much feel like working I'd sit with her and she'd tell me stories. A lot of the time it was about her ailments, and how she got through. So brilliantly positive.
Seriously, it's awesome that people talk about it. There's so so many that don't.

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BibleGuy

I haven't yet found a pain that cannabis does not help with. Headache, migraine, gout, aches and pains from the flu... you name it. This is one of the main reasons its illegal in most places (why would you buy pharmaceuticals with side-effects up to and including death if you could grow superior non-toxic medicine in your garden?)

Also, I agree with Green Eyed Lady: "proper medicine comes direct from Jah...". Always did.

green_eyed_lady

Thanks Bible Guy-

Again I feel it a "duty" to share my experiences and all the relief that marijuana gives to me and so many other folks- "Knowledge is power"- hmmmm I think that little "nugget" of a quote came from PBS or Sesame Street- off topic a bit- I totally think Cookie Monster is a stoner...it's why he is my fave character since i started watching in early 70' or 71'LOL... we all know that Jim Henson surely was.
Anyways keep fighting- and remeber this important 2 quotes...John 3:16 and Matthew 7 vs.7-8...always a friend for those in need or not...Kerin a.k.a. Green Eyed Lady...

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