Cannabis as a pain medicine and helping chronic pain patients
We live in a world filled with pain.Especially those who are ill or have hurt them selves are constantly living with pain, some having chronic illnesses or injuries which cause constant pain.
Typical pain medication is omewhat harmless when taken in correct dosages, even though ibuprofen can be harmful for your stomach and paracetamol can kill you easily on an overdose.
Any pain medication stronger than these is getting more and more dangerous
Some pain medicines are combination of more than one medicine, like panacod which contains bot paracetamol and codeine. The strongest pain medicines are strong drugs with high risk of unwanted side effects and addiction.
Instead of using opiate based drugs which cause strong addictions we could use something else!
Along with all other positive health effects, cannabis is a strong pain killer.
The majority of people who could get benefits from using cannabis are everybody with chronic pain
Pain medication is not only about helping to cope with everyday tasks, but to help chronic pain victims to get proper sleep. Constant pain is harming your sleep and some might need seperate sleeping medication, but when using cannabis, people with chronic pain can improve the quality of their sleep and thus improving quality of life!
Sleep is vital
There are vast amounts of cannabis related studies, in use of cancer based and non-cancer based pain. Studies indicate that cannabis is a highly effective pain medicine (both cannabis and cannabis based medication) with low risk of side effects.
The common side effects are:
- Dizziness
- Slower reactions
- Anxiety
- Nausea
One of the problems is the law
Cannabis has very few negative effects and there are no good reasons to keep it banned.
Second problem is the attitude of doctors
In several countries, medical cannabis is legal but only very few doctors have the intrest to use it as a medicine. Medical cannabis should be used far more as a pain medicine as all it's positive effects win the possible side effects.
Do your own part in freeing the cannabis! Vote, educate people, share information. Let's change the future!
Sources:
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Randomized, controlled trial of cannabis-based medicine in central pain in multiple sclerosis
Smoked Medicinal Cannabis for Neuropathic Pain in HIV: A Randomized, Crossover Clinical Trial
Cannabis use for chronic non-cancer pain: results of a prospective survey
One of my good friends are diagnosed with ADHD, and he is getting amphetamine-based meds decribed, but he never felt too good about it and is now smoking cannabis and feels way better, so where are the real dangerous drugs coming from?
We are foolish people to think we are currently making the best possible choices, even though better solutions are there right in front of us
the real shame is that if someone finds out someone is using cannabis as medication when it's illegal, you'll have to go back to the worse "medicine".
I'm happy your friend is feeling better.
Yep that is the sad reality, at least here in Finland. I believe there are places in the world who probably came up with the same conclusion as we did, and therefore legalized cannabis atleast for medical useage.
As fas as I've understood, medical cannabis is legal in Finland but they don't deal them out?
It's a common problem and it's easier to get illegal cannabis than the one used only for medication, but even the completely regular cannabis shouldbe made legal which could help to make it easier to get medical cannabis for those who don't want to get high.
To some degree it is legal for medical use, but I belive it is not too common here in Finland
I'm not having any special pain and I have no interest in using cannabis, but these studies are actually interesting material :) I would want to give a bigger upvote but as I can't, I'll give you a "upvote" in another way.
Thanks I appreciate every upvote, the value is not what matters the most