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As much as I enjoy cannabis (in moderation of course) I just don't trust any of the medical research surrounding it. The motivation to find medical benefits,

As much as I enjoy cannabis (in moderation of course) I just don't trust any of the medical research surrounding it. The motivation to find medical benefits, to redress the social injustice of people being imprisoned for cannabis, is too strong to ignore. It makes all such research suspect by default as far as I'm concerned. Anecdotally, I have never found cannabis to be effective at pain relief. I tried it, but it only enhanced my perception of the pain (just as it enhances my perception of taste, music, etc...) When I broke my foot I refused any prescriptions and tried a high-CBD strain of cannabis instead, but it made the pain worse. OTC paracetamol/acetaminophen proved far more effective.

yellow_lead 4y ago
I experienced something similar, the pain still persists but it's a bit different, maybe more "tingly" in some way. Wasn't better or worse for me though
the_only_law 4y ago
> I just don't trust any of the medical research surrounding it. Same, I tried to do some research about the effects of weed on a certain chemical in the body, and every paper I found had some completely different conclusions. I will say the one thing cannabis does for me that’s absolutely amazing is as an anti-emetic/anti nausea remedy. Nothing else I’ve ever tried has come close to relieving those sort of symptoms. It does also seem to work for me as a sleep aid, but in the same way as say, antihistamines do (i.e. I’ll sleep, but I’ll have an intense brain fog the next morning)
- LarryMullins 4y ago
  > absolutely amazing is as an anti-emetic/anti nausea remedy Agreed, cannabis seems to work great as an anti-nausea remedy. I've also found ginger to be effective for this (wikipedia claims evidence for that is inconclusive, but it definitely works for me.)
- QuercusMax 4y ago
  This is 100% true. If my guts are feeling weird and preventing me from sleeping / focusing, THC is an almost instant cure.
feoren 4y ago
> The motivation to find medical benefits, to redress the social injustice of people being imprisoned for cannabis (A) There's huge motivation to find medical benefits to anything. Indeed you should be skeptical of any "substance X improves Y!" claims, as they're usually in rats and not reproducible anyway. (If there's an actual backing study at all!) The idea that cannabis is particularly singled-out by researchers with some woke agenda seems rather silly to me. (B) Nobody needs to prove cannabis is helpful to show that it's an extreme social injustice to imprison people for its use. It would be an injustice to imprison people for drinking soda, and soda is awful for you.
- LarryMullins 4y ago
  > (B) Nobody needs to prove cannabis is helpful to show that it's an extreme social injustice to imprison people for its use. The specific nature of American federal drug laws concerning cannabis makes dodgy medical research an effective method for breaking those laws down. And the severity of the American penal system makes it easy for activist researchers to decide that the ends justify the means.
someonewhocar3s 4y ago

yellow_lead 4y ago

I experienced something similar, the pain still persists but it's a bit different, maybe more "tingly" in some way. Wasn't better or worse for me though

the_only_law 4y ago

> I just don't trust any of the medical research surrounding it. Same, I tried to do some research about the effects of weed on a certain chemical in the body, and every paper I found had some completely different conclusions. I will say the one thing cannabis does for me that’s absolutely amazing is as an anti-emetic/anti nausea remedy. Nothing else I’ve ever tried has come close to relieving those sort of symptoms. It does also seem to work for me as a sleep aid, but in the same way as say, antihistamines do (i.e. I’ll sleep, but I’ll have an intense brain fog the next morning)

LarryMullins 4y ago
> absolutely amazing is as an anti-emetic/anti nausea remedy Agreed, cannabis seems to work great as an anti-nausea remedy. I've also found ginger to be effective for this (wikipedia claims evidence for that is inconclusive, but it definitely works for me.)
QuercusMax 4y ago
This is 100% true. If my guts are feeling weird and preventing me from sleeping / focusing, THC is an almost instant cure.

feoren 4y ago

> The motivation to find medical benefits, to redress the social injustice of people being imprisoned for cannabis (A) There's huge motivation to find medical benefits to anything. Indeed you should be skeptical of any "substance X improves Y!" claims, as they're usually in rats and not reproducible anyway. (If there's an actual backing study at all!) The idea that cannabis is particularly singled-out by researchers with some woke agenda seems rather silly to me. (B) Nobody needs to prove cannabis is helpful to show that it's an extreme social injustice to imprison people for its use. It would be an injustice to imprison people for drinking soda, and soda is awful for you.

LarryMullins 4y ago
> (B) Nobody needs to prove cannabis is helpful to show that it's an extreme social injustice to imprison people for its use. The specific nature of American federal drug laws concerning cannabis makes dodgy medical research an effective method for breaking those laws down. And the severity of the American penal system makes it easy for activist researchers to decide that the ends justify the means.

someonewhocar3s 4y ago