Cannabis for medicinal purposes?

What are your thoughts on whether cannabis should be used for medicinal purposes? Why? Possibility of addiction etc...

If you have taken cannabis for medicinal purposes, was it helpful or not, stop pain etc?

Thankyou, all information is welcome.

I think its a travesty its not given to ms or arthiritis sufferers, its proven to work in a nasal spray form , so why not just prescribe it ?
its not addictive although its highly enjoyable.
when given in medicinal quantitys its proven to be beneficial and non harmful. i do not understand why it is not legalised full stop, the government would benefit greatly from a financial perspective. and others from a health perspective.

Research is showing more and more that smoking has great medicinal effects. Like with many medications there is the potential for addiction. It should be regulated like any other medication. The short term side effects are low but I am curious about long term effects like memory.

At this time I am pro cannabis for medicinal purposes. Glaucoma, poor appetite/constant nausea, etc...

I agree. If cannabis is proven to have beneficial medicinal properties why not use it as a medicine? All medicines (aka drugs) all have some form of addiction property, cannabis no different. If cannabis has real properties to help people why not help people?

well i feel ifr it helps people then why not??
i know a lady who has ms and it really helps her, so that cant be a bad thing???
When someones in immense pain, then id say it doesnt matter , as long as it makes them feel better, i feel cannabis is more psychologically addictive than physically, but i guess its swings and roundabouts, either suffer with pain or become addicted to cannabis, i know what id prefer!!

It does help relieve pain and it has other benefits. Making it illegal is a travesty perpetrated by tight @sses.

For those with conditions that truly need it, yes, it should be used. That's why the acceptance process is so difficult. So many people try to get on a state's official list with bogus conditions and forged doctors letters. That's the kind of crap that will get the whole program terminated--in all states-- people abusing and trying to circumvent the system.

I think if someone is really suffering with something really nasty then anything that can ease their pain must be good, regardless of possible side effects. If I was suffering with MS I wouldn't be worrying about the long term effects or the possibility of getting addicted, I'd just want to feel better, so I reckon using cannabis for those purposes is all well and good.

actual it is addictive.. i know someone that is a user and highly addictive to it... i also know some one who had leukemia since he was a baby and started smoking it when he was around 14 or 15 and 2 years later his leukemia went into remission and today he is in his mid 20s and has no sign of the disease.. cant say if that what help him or not.. but who knows.. i do think they should legalize it though..

I prefer to follow professional medical advice from someone who studied for years. They tell me that cannabis even in small quantities can be harmful, which is why it is not prescribed. If it had genuine medicinal properties without harmful effects I'm sure a derivative would have been manufactured by now. After all, there are safe derivatives of opium prescribed, morphine for one.

Marijuana is not addictive, it is habit-forming. There is a difference. Prescribed narcotics ARE highly addictive, expensive, and dangerous in the wrong hands. To deny an ill person relief that is safe, natural, and effective is ridiculous.

When I was going thru cancer treatments I smoked it (and still do occassionally) and it helped me sleep, helped me stay calm, and I actually put on a little weight while I was on chemo because my thirst and appetite was stimulated. I never threw up or got sick. I was prescribed pain pills after surgery and sleeping pills but they made me so groggy the next day, and some made me very nauseous. So instead I'd take Motrin, puff a little and be in less pain (post-surgery) and still be able to live life and not just sleep my days away, and I didn't feel the effects the next day.

There are as yet few controlled studies, only anecdotal reports. Even if it does prove to be therapeutic, its risk benefit ratio would need to be taken in to account, as with all other medications.

Since it causes increased risk of depression and scitzo-affective disorders including schizophrenia and in chronic users inevitably causes brain atrophy which leads to dementia, it would need to have some pretty impressive advantages over other agents to justify its use medically. This is to be frank extraordinarily unlikely!

There are hundreds of conditions that can be alleviated by cannabis. It's only psychologically addictive not physically addictive. It's not prescribed for medicinal purposes because it can't be patented so the drug companies can't make as much money from it, everyone could grow it themselves.
Cannabis has been used for medicinal purposes for thousands, if not millions of years, making it's medicinal use illegal is ridiculous. I have personally found it useful for medicinal, spiritual, creative and psycho-therapatheutic purposes.

cannabis has been illegal for 1% of the time it has been used by man for medicine. why is it illegal and why is everybody afarid of it here in home of the brave?

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are you tired of lies yet?

Cannabis for medicinal purposes why not ,s far as it is prescribe be a doctor, after all, all vegetable have a little medicinal value in it, so does cannabis, as far as it is not abused.

i have taken it for severe migraines it works,pain numbing and it chills you out