Can Cannabis help?

wmonique2 · Post by **wmonique2** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:03 pm

A question on my mind as I listen to all the pot news in Colorado.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... y-and-more

Monique

Leah · Post by **Leah** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:28 pm

I DON'T THINK ANYONE HAS DONE ENOUGH RESEARCH, BUT I'M WILLING TO TRY :)

Fern · Post by **Fern** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:44 pm

We were actually discussing this at a dinner party a few nights ago.

A friend who is a PhD Pharmacology professor verified that the gut has many cannaboid receptors and it absolutely does seem to be beneficial for IBDs, but nobody understands why.

I do know someone who treats Crohn's with medical marijuana. This person uses an elixir that is doled out in small doses like a liquid medicine. It is particularly helpful with nausea and insomnia.

My understanding is that the medical marijuana is not much of an intoxicant.

lorimoose · Post by **lorimoose** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 5:58 am

Having grown up through the late 60's and 70's, I should never be sick a day in my life.

Lori

JeanIrene · Post by **JeanIrene** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:58 am

Makes sense that it might. I remember my late husband benefitting from it when he was on chemotherapy. Was about the only thing that helped the nausea.

Jean

Leah · Post by **Leah** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:15 pm

My Dad actually just recently tried an elixir ( for pain) that was very low in the part of the plant that gets you high. …… didn't work for him though :(

maestraz · Post by **maestraz** » Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:10 pm

My birthday is 4/20, which I understand is, for some reason, a significant day in pot-speak. Leah, since you are in CA, you may appreciate that I never knew this until my son did a semester at Humboldt State, way up there in the redwoods, and we happened to be out to visit on my birthday. In Arcata CA, the Sixties haven't ended.

Lori, I second that...