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Readers Respond: What Are Your Thoughts on Medicinal Marijuana?

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Updated November 02, 2009

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Medical marijuana is a hotly debated topic. You likely have an opinion of your own, be it from personal experience or just belief. What are your feelings about taking what is considered a recreational drug for medical purposes? Share Your Tips

marijuana and cancer

we are in a state where marijuana i not legal. my mother suffers from lung cancer and brain tumors. we have all discussed it (our family) We decided we want her to smoke marijuana is there anyone or anything that we can do? Please help us!!
—Guest wyoming

THC and Liver Damage

A dear friend of mine has recently been diagnosed with Cirrosis of the Liver and he is using pot to help with his intense pain. Am I correct in my research? THC is metabolized NOT through the liver but other avenues. So, he is NOT doing further damage to his liver by smoking the pot is he?
—Guest Claire

rosa bluntz

Rx side effects: vomiting, liver damage, nausea, heart failure, difficulty breathing, diaherra, suicide, heart palpitations, dizziness, muscle pain, confusion, anxiety, bloody stool, sleeplessness, aggression, etc. THC side effects: hunger, sleepiness, relaxation, no nausea, no heart palpitations(unless is Uber dank!), tranquility, no suicide(wow!) no aggression, etc. God made you and I, God made marijuana and God gave us cannibinoid receptor to receive his special treats, ya dig! Smoke'em if you got'em - Amen!
—Guest rosa bluntz

better than synthetic drugs

My dear husband was just diagnosed with colon cancer.He is a healthy,fit and active 51 year old man. Routine s reeni.g revieled cancer. He does not take pills,not a medicine taker yet he is about to embark on a journey to kill this cancer which will include radiation treatments and chemo therapy followed by surgery and more chemo. My thinking is that marajuana would be a better alternative over yet more man made drugs with awful side effects. We are christians and still I believe that it would be ok with our Lord if he did the marajuana over rd medications if the need arises.
—Guest newly diagnosed

better than synthetic drugs

My dear husband was just diagnosed with colon cancer.He is a healthy,fit and active 51 year old man. Routine s reeni.g revieled cancer. He does not take pills,not a medicine taker yet he is about to embark on a journey to kill this cancer which will include radiation treatments and chemo therapy followed by surgery and more chemo. My thinking is that marajuana would be a better alternative over yet more man made drugs with awful side effects. We are christians and still I believe that it would be ok with our Lord if he did the marajuana over rd medications if the need arises.
—Guest newly diagnosed

It helps so y not

To all the anti-drug weirdos out there, Pretty sure u missed the point of this topic. Chronic pain is usually a result of cancer which is Usually fatal so the use of an addictive drug to manage pain is not a real issue when the person only has a few months to live! Get out of your all drugs are bad bubble and move on.
—Guest Ynot

no use of marijuana

I do not believe in using marijuana, especially with all the new meds they have
—Guest Norma Hersey

Do not take psychedelic drugs!

I think that's not good at all. My advice is just stay away from all drugs that create dependence. Smoking, drinking alcohol creates damages upon nervous system, breaking down immune system, having the action of a poison for entire body. Psychedelic drugs, such es marijuana, LSD, are dangerous enough to create addiction. Why to take drugs, are they a solution for our problems? Are they giving us all the answers that we are looking for? Are they our salvation? No, the truth is in us, and only we can find all the answers, because in us is the power to do good changes in our lives, to decide what's good and what's wrong for us. We need to stay focus, to use our mind, to use our capacity of thinking, working, and create, otherwise we are vegetables, less than animals. Every ill it's a sign for us, something that's wrong and expect to be change in our soul, mind and body. We have the key of our destiny, of our health, of our happiness, do not throw it away.
—Guest corina schell

Medicinal marijuana

From looking at the recipients of such a idea..I would say marijuana gave them their illnesses/plus,marijuana is only affecting the lungs..any ideas about a medicinal intervention is ludicrous.Marijuana..is no more benficial than a band-aid/and it does seem to illegal already.
—Mech47ct

MEDICAL MARIJAUNA

JUST GO AHEAD AND PASS THE D..N BILL TO MAKE IT LEGAL.ALL STATES. HAVEN'T WE GOT MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES, IN OUR GOV'T AND COUNTRY? I DON'T EVEN USE IT.WOULD,IF I COULD.BUT, IT HAS ALWAYS MADE ME SICK.I'VE NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE GOING OFF THEIR ROCKER AND BECOMING SO PSYCHOTIC, AS TO GO OUT & COMMIT HEINOUS CRIMES.NOT JUST FROM USE OF MARIJUANA.OTHER STUFF, YES.IF IT GIVES SICK PEOPLE ANY RELIEF,THEY'RE ENTITLED TO IT.I MIGHT NEED IT, ONE DAY.COURSE, I DON'T CARE IF IT'S LEGAL, OR NOT.JUST ABOUT ANYONE, THESE DAYS, CAN SCORE SOME WEED.THAT'S BECAUSE SO MANY MORE PEOPLE USE IT,THAN MOST AMERICANS WANT TO BELIEVE.GET OVER IT.
—ftwtxhotrodgal

Medicinal marijuaa - why not?

You can buy cigarettesand Sudafed over -the-counter, but mdicinal marijuana is illegal....what's up writh THAT?
—Guest Lisa

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