High Country Caregiver

Marijuana is most often recommended for patients with chronic pain and those who use it for pain report that marijuana really does work.  Scientific evidence for marijuana’s pain reducing properties has been hard to come by because of legal reasons that prevent the study of the medicine.  Today the University of California, San Francisco released a study that proves that marijuana does in fact help with pain.  See: Marijuana Eases Neuropathic Pain

Marijuana benefits those with pain in 2 ways, directly, and secondarilyy as a pain reliever.  Direct relief from pain after marijuana is smoked is mild, with a slight reduction in overall perceived pain.  Secondary results of pain management from smoked marijuana include ease to fall asleep, less wakefulness, and longer rest periods, all beneficial to those with chronic pain.  Smoked marijuana is not the safest form of introducing marijuana to the system, and doctors recommend marijuana to be vaporized or eaten to avoid many of the potentially dangerous carcinogens released upon combustion of marijuana.

Studies involving pain management are few and far between, but in States like California and Colorado that allow medical marijuana, there can be found a representative sample size of patients to complete a legal experiment of the effects of medical marijuana.  Obtaining medical marijuana can be difficult in states with out legalized cannabis, and puts potential patients at risk when they are forced to buy from criminals.  Even in states with legalized medical marijuana, obtaining a standard dose is difficult because the active drug THC in cannabis varies greatly, even in the most controlled growing conditions.  Regardless of the source, and dosage levels, marijuana is a benign substance that can be used in pain management of those willing to accept its medicinal properties.  Marijuana can be used daily and many times per day to reduce pain and is a great drug for self medication because there are no adverse effects other than sleepiness, or drowsiness, which are the properties desired by patients in pain anyway.

High Country Caregiver recommends experimenting with as many varieties of cannabis in many different forms until you find the dose that works for your pain.  If you don’t already, think about moving to a state like Colorado where cannabis is legal for medical reasons, and the products you can find for pain management are very high quality in Colorado.  Remember to always buy organic soil grown cannabis.

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