I believe there are dispensaries here out west that sell loaded cookies, brownies, and other “edibles”. It’s the perfect marriage of yuppie love of weed and hatred of smoking! Medical marijuana is at least as effective eaten as smoked, but there is a trade-off. On the one hand, you don’t have to deal with the smoking, the smell, and the smoking paraphernalia, but you also don’t get the fast results. When smoking, the high (and thereby the pain suppression) is almost instant-- you’ve got your results in just a couple of minutes. When eaten, marijuana can take anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour to have an effect*. This means that it can be harder to control the amount of THC you’re taking in, so it’s very easy to try to take a small dose to control pain and accidentally spending the whole day staring at a wall.
*Varying wildly based on what you’ve eaten lately, your tolerance, and a bunch of other factors.
We will not honor certs from another state or country, and I don’t think the dispensaries will, either, but I have not researched their rules that much yet. I do plan on visiting one and learning all about them once they start opening here, but as of yet there aren’t any. I do know that you don’t have to smoke it- you can vaporize it, in which case you suck out the vapor from a plastic bag, or you can eat it in food products. It’s just as effective if eaten, and lasts a lot longer, up to 8 hours.
Seriously. An eighth of an ounce of good weed smoked in a day would be one hell of a high. 2.5 ounces every two weeks would represent one sixth of an ounce per day.
Four joints from a gram might be a bit of an exaggeration, unless you mean a New York joint.
2.5 ounces a week does sound like a lot, but I’m sure there are people who use that much medicinally. Traditionally, a feature of cannabis culture was that you toked as deeply as possible, all in one go–because with an illegal recreational drug that was how you maximized the effect. By allowing medical users to purchase that much, they don’t need to do that. As long as they’re not selling it to others illegally, I don’t think there’s a problem with it.
Say each joint is a gram, a pretty fat joint better off rolling a blunt. There are 28.35 grams to the ounce. Two ounces is call it 57. 57 joints over 1 week is 8 a day, 6 hours sleeping makes 1 and joints every 2 hours.
If my math is wrong it is because I am researching these numbers with anecdotal evidence
But of course, recreational joints are for sharing. But unless your friends share your medical condition, I presume you are not supposed to be sharing your prescription with them.
We don’t live in a medical marijuana state, which is too bad because my mother-in-law is undergoing chemo for a tumor that has penetrated the lining of her brain and some of her side effects are pretty brutal. My husband has thought of trying to convince her to acquire some anyhow, but the thought of my lovely, 77-year-old MIL scoring some weed brings up no mental image at all, it’s so unlikely.
How can I convince Bill White to let medical marijuana be heard in Missouri?
I’m thinking about figuring out a way to fill his bedroom with weed smoke so he wakes up high as hell…
I rather have someone else do it though… His house
Get her done
Recreational whatever, I am mentally dependent on it
I thought the number-one rule of recreational use was “do not alter someone else’s consciousness without their permission”? Or have I been reading too many Spider Robinson stories?
I work in ophthalmology, and at least one of the physicians I work with has had to counsel a patient to please not rely on (illegal) marijuana usage to attempt to control glaucoma, as glaucoma’s effects are irreversible and usually subtle in progress. (Apparently marijuana is a lot more enjoyable than taking eyedrops; go figure.) He’s said the amount of marijuana you’d have to use to produce a decent medical effect (alone) against glaucoma would pretty much rule out any other activity. Do you know if it’s intended as a complementary therapy in this diagnosis, or is intended to be used alone?
Its not a prescription! sorry that kinda gets me like the people who get upset when you use clip for the word magazine. Well I do not share my medication with anyone but if i happen to just take a break from smoking and someone takes it out of my hand an I dont notice oh well. nothing i can do about that.
How good is marijuana for chronic pain relief? My personal recollection (now a good quarter century old) is that if something was hurting me before I consumed it, I would start to focus on it, as if it intensified physical sensations of all kinds good and bad. Is it not like this? Or are there particular kinds of pain for which it is good?
