- Jun 11, 2014
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Hardly what I would call settled science.
It's settled science when you have personally felt the medicinal benefits. What anyone else claims is hardly relevant at that point. Now, I do agree smoking is probably not the most healthy means of delivery, but there's also no proof smoking cannabis causes cancer the way tobacco does, so until more studies are done, we simply don't know how harmful it may or may not be yet. I get sick as a dog if I try to take opiate pain medications. I mean violently nauseous. I avoid them at all costs unless the pain is so severe I'm nauseous already. I spent 2018 with a kidney stone over 1/4" in size and all the doctors assumed my pain was coming from my back because I have 3 herniated disks and a well documented sciatic nerve history. Because of that and the fact that I'd never had a kidney stone before in my life, nobody even thought to check for one. So I suffered almost an entire year before finally passing that kidney stone naturally. Pain was my middle name in 2018. I alternated over-the-counter Motrin and Aleve during the day, and then at night before bed I would smoke some cannabis because by nighttime, the pain was always at it's peak. Just being up out of bed and walking to the bathroom and kitchen for something to eat was enough to have the pain raging by nightfall. It's all I had to work with. No way would Motrin and Aleve have gotten me through that year alone. I probably would have blown my brains out without the cannabis. The pain was beyond anything I've ever experienced in my life at times. Science be dammed. Especially since the federal government makes it extremely difficult for anyone to study the "benefits" of cannabis. They'll give grants left and right to anyone willing to study the negatives though. You can be sure of that...