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Medicinal use of mary jane 30-Nov-2010 At 2:43:18 PM cogsy

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In my job as a GP I've treated a lot of people with back pain problems, and a lot of people with marijuana addiction problems. I've probably seen half a dozen people who truly used marijuana for medicinal purposes.
All of these people had either MS or nausea assosciated with chemotherapy.
I have seen some people who said they used it for pain, but on closer questioning it was pretty obvious that they had smoked heavily before the pain began, and they were actually just addicted! "Pain relief" was just a good excuse not to quit!
From my understanding there is not any good scientific evidence that marijuana/THC is an effective pain reliever in non-addicts (of course it relieves withdrawl symptoms in addicts).

Side effects... addiction, lung damage, probably increased risk of developing mental illness.

If you really want to smoke weed, be honest with yourself and say that it's because you like the effects or you are addicted. Don't fool yourself into believing that you are doing it for "medicinal reasons".
I don't know how many elderly wretched alcholics have used this excuse to me in the past!!