Posted by med_empowered on April 4, 2006, at 10:37:32
In reply to Pot vs. Morphine, posted by bogeydune on April 4, 2006, at 2:00:26
yeah...pot's pretty benign and helpful, too. I think we should legalize it across the board. What some people have found is that the although pot won't always replace heavier pain killers, it can reduce the need for them. So, basically, the patient gets the best of both world: the morphine (or whatever) keeps working well--and at lower doses--and the pot helps with nausea, pain reflief, appetite, and fatigue, and may have an antidepressant effect. In addition, this sort of set up would minimize escalating the dosage of the morphine, which would improve the patient's quality of life (I have no problems with giving people as much as they need, but less medication=less sedation and better quality of life, so that's a plus).
I don't know why the government insists on classifying pot as dangerous and not useful medically (although Marinol, a synthetic THC pill, is available and very expensive). Its simply ridiculous--this is what happens when science is forced to take a backseat to prohibitionist dogma.
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