i will second that @calyxander and more medical trails to be done.
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I waited sixty years, but i m loving it now It sure kills aches and pains.
the stigma thing! The Government caused a lot of hurt! we should sue for pain and sufferring
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We may finally know why marijuana helps people with chronic gut problems
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Momentum, baby!
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The Man is right it helps pain , helps mobility of joint pain to keep muscle mass, otherwise you experience atrophy, shrinking of muscle, Old School Guy I am had motorcycle accident 1973 spent a year in casts, major surgery on both legs then a truck accident at 25 neck and facial injury, Back injury It Friggin Works better than pills. Used properly its a AAAAAAAAAAA 1 Medicine:,: Its a gift from nature!
Ps I can Still Dance.
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“The vast majority of doctors received no training in cannabis, so they are a little leary and they don’t understand the medical benefits. It’s federally illegal — I think that scares a lot of health care professionals. The third is that the pharmaceutical industry is still a powerful player in our industry,” said Bissex.
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This woman’s comment, in reaction to this article, is so excellent I had to forward it somewhere so here it is - AMEN!!! 1000 times Amen to that Mavis Johnson!
Dr. Elmore sounds like a brilliant woman and Physician. Unfortunately, people or Physicians like her are rare. Medical publications do a lot of these hopeful, feel good stories, to offset the facts. The fact remains there are few physicians, especially those working at the big corporate healthcare companies. In Post Fact America, this Doctor is being used a Salient Exemplar. She give the appearance of humanity, decency and empathy to a field utterly lacking these attributes. Corporate healthcare has no place for physicians like her. This story is a kind of Adversity Porn, designed to give the impression that there is decency, compassion, or even sensibility in healthcare. The Facts and Data tell us that Racism still exists, Misogyny is prevalent, and physicians every interaction with patients are monitored for efficiency, and most importantly profitability. Unfortunately when she practices, she will be unable to speak about the cruelty and inhumanity in our healthcare system.
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this is almost too unbelievable to be true - Pharma’s product actually causes flesh-eating bacteria to eat your genitals!
tell me again, why is herbal cannabis Schedule 1 again? oh yeah, the dry-mouth is really bad, I forgot
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Whadda ya know?
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Ritalin is far preferable in the eyes of our
Overlords.
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Ability to take medical marijuana to school life changing for fourth-grader
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Right, because they don’t give children Ritalin to help the child, they do it to help the teacher. What reason is there to weigh any health implications of the child in the equation?
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When I was in my last year of highschool I volunteered to supervise & lead 6th graders(that’s about age 12, int’l OGers) at a weeklong “outdoor education” camp.
When the kids teachers gave me my group & list of names, the first thing they did was “warn” me that all of them were bad apples & messed up & “oh these ones MUST get their medication(ritalin)”… 
Being a “bad apple genius” myself, and remembering quite clearly what it felt like to be essentially mislabled, I ensured that no one had to take any medicine. 
To me that was disgusting and immoral.
The only minor challenge I had was interrupting the little mob from teasing & bullying the “fat pussy kid with glasses”. Somehow I settled it abruptly & authoritatively because there really were no more squabbles.
At week’s end when I was reviewed by the staff my only comment from them was that I was “too much of a friend and not enough of a leader”.
I should have given them a performance bow. Psychotic fucks.
I’ll sum with a little bit of…
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@Calyxander Thank you for the link relating to IBD.
As a sufferer of IBD it was a very informative read.
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Grappling…lol.
What a farce!
Liberty and freedom?
So pathetically sad.
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If I am not mistaken, taking kickbacks from Pharma to sell drugs is not exactly legal either, is it?
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I have autism and I can definitely say cannabis helps my uncontrollable tics and mood swings.
With the right strain I don’t have to make myself antisocial to feel like I fit in. All of my friends are supportive of mental and physical disabilities and health issues. I’d rather have my few open minded friends who won’t judge instead of feeling like I can’t ever talk to them because they like to make fun of people’s issues. I cut those people out of my life.
For some stupid reason I’d still hang out with those types before I smoked. Once I did I realized how toxic they were in my life and just left. I broke up with a few girls because of the same shit too.
Now today I’m a much happier person.
Now rant aside the right strain will be able to not only help my autism, but also my OCD, ADHD, back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, the constant pain in all joint in my hands, my knees, my ankles, my hips when they act up, my wrists, my auditory dyslexia, my anxiety, my depression, my constant boredom, my cavity pain I can’t afford to fix without suffering worse to fix it, my headaches from bright lights, my restless leg shit I do all day long, my muscle twitches, and best of all my social behavior.
Damn I have a lot to talk to my doctor about. I’ve never written downy issues before. I’ve just been dealing with them one by one each day at a time.
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Shameful.
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Come on over to Sunny California, parents. 
(or our neighbors…AK down to Mexico)
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(not really news, might be destined for the chat thread)
renewed my MMJ recommendation letter/card today; it’s clear that things have changed since the recreational law. the place is running on empty, saw the Dr. via video-phone, and it took very little time. In years past I’ve had to wait in line & saw a real person. They’re even using cheaper paper.
really confirms my suspicion that cannabis demans was always about 80% “recreational” and 20% for medication/symptom relief.
it leads me to wonder what legal changes are in store 
and if these places will go extinct if so. i prefer the intentional vague wording of the pre-recreational, prop. 215 MMJ laws. lawmakers have virtually zero understanding of the subject and it’s genuinely sickening.
meanwhile, other states & countries are just getting on to the ‘fad’.
[smh]
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