With Weimaraners, how would you know?
I discovered Kratom visiting home from a head shop and really enjoy it. There is a definite high from it. It is sort of weird, it is a stimulant and a relaxant at the same time. I sort of think it’s like a weak hydrocodone, so I guess this is where people say it will ween you off the opiates. Unlike opiates, this won’t constipate you. I am off of the pot because of circumstances and want to cut down on the alcohol and this is really, really a nice substitute. I am home visiting my father and stepmother and need something to take off the edge a bit. It is also cheap.
Unfortunately it will be illegal soon, Mark my words.
My Mother has broken her hip and also has sciatica and spinal stenosis. In short, she’s in a hell of a lot of pain. She used CBD lotions/ointments for quite some time. I even made them for her by boiling high concentrate CBD MJ and making up a lotion with coconut oil and other stuff (little paraffin, some other tinctures to make it smell nice). Then high quality lotions became available in Colorado, so I bought those for her. How much it helped, I don’t really know. But she used them and still does a little bit.
My mom hates, won’t take, opioids or other strong pain relievers. “Makes me loopy”. CBD though is no problem.
Now, she has macular degeneration. It’s causing her to get migraines (or something is, they really aren’t understood very well). When she feels one coming on (flashes of light in her vision) she takes a few drops of CBD oil/tincture under her tongue. It stops the migraine in its tracks. It’s really something.
There are so many chemicals in MJ it’s really not to clear what does what at this point. Because it is still illegal under Federal law, it’s difficult if not impossible to truly study it. It’s been used medicinally for tens of thousands of years though.
Until big pharma can make a buck off of it, it will remain in the shadows.
Or if any of them do much of anything.
That would come as a surprise to the researchers who’ve published at least 20 papers on the subject in just the last month or so.
Lots of herbs and other substances have been used medicinally for ages, and have overwhelmingly been shown to be largely inert or markedly inferior to modern drugs both in efficacy and safety.
The classic iteration of this claim by woo-sters is “Drug companies aren’t interested in substance X because they can’t patent it!”
But of course one can patent derivatives and synthetic versions of plant-based molecules, or the processes used to separate/purify/modify those compounds so they can be isolated and produced in dependable form. Then the chant goes up that corporations want to control the market to deprive The People of a simple, safe, universal Cure (like our Evil Overlords allegedly seeking to genetically modify marijuana strains to dominate sales).
It never ends.
What’s your point Jack? I’ve seen real world boots on the ground results from using CBD. Still though, it is looked down upon.
Ever hear of Willow Bark? What did we get from that? Sure MJ has been studied. It needs to be studied more.
He’s very salty, I suspect his mom choked on a phatty nug and he’s still upset about it.
I get ocular migraine and I use CBD all the time to stop or ameliorate those things because they suck. I vape tho, it clears things up faster. Been using CBD for well over 20 years and still works better than anything any doctor has been able to come up with. Thing is, I don’t give a wet fart whether or not it works for anyone else, it does work for ME and that’s pretty much all that matters. Research will show positive results, I’m quite sure of it, but empirical evidence is sometimes all that’s needed, especially when it make a person’s life work better.
Yeah, it’s dangerous to forego standard medicine for something that might be a placebo if you need to treat your cancer. But if your primary problem is pain, it really doesn’t matter whether it’s a placebo or “real”. So long as it isn’t too dangerous or costly, if it works, it works.
I’ve been using kenisthesiology (sp?) tape for foot pain. I suspect it’s just a placebo. But dammit, my foot feels better when i wear it, I use less than dollar a week of product, and I can’t imagine it’s doing me any harm.
Bad arguments don’t make for good medicine.
We got a standardized, (generally) safe and effective drug, qualities which willow bark did not share.
That’s a bit different from your initially claiming that it was “difficult if not impossible to truly study it.”
You can find testimonials all over the place for everything from apple cider vinegar to drinking your own urine*, assuring us that “it worked for me!”
One would expect the Dope, home to some of the “smartest, hippest people on the Internet” to be less prone to such appeals, but maybe not.
“boots on the ground results”:
http://lessonslearnedinlife.com/woman-drinks-urine-pee-morning-medicine-cure-fibromyalgia-fatigue*
**and it doesn’t cost $50 a month.
Dopers are just as likely to fail to critically examine info that supports our biases as any other group, sadly.