My best wishes to everyone who is either suffering or has someone they love constantly in pain.
I would like to offer my experiences with Crohnes desease.
One of the pills I take is called azathioprin, which is also give to patients with severe arthritis.
One of the things I discovered during that visit was the way the Dutch use mj in hospitals, they give it to patients, such as those recovering from operations, in the form of a vapour bag (from a vapouriser) and have documented evidence that mj triples the effect of "normal" medication. So a patient is less likely to become addicted to opiates. After my last operation last summer, I was on a self administered morphene "doser". If you feel pain, you press the button and get a shot of morphene. The same things are used worldwide however what they discovered in Holland was that patients who also used mj used 1/3 the amount of morphene, thereby reducing their risk of addiction.
I did some "experiementing" of my own with my medication, I am on several other drugs besides the az but found that when I smoke NL, I dont need the same level of pain killers or az. Yes, 1/3 my normal dose.
Some strains are not as good, such as lemon skunk, big bud, wonder woman and a few others. I put this down to their high THC but low CBD & CBN levels. It has been proven that high levels of CBD or CBN are better for some elements of pain relief and this seems to be the key.
I just get annoyed that for the last 60+ years medical research has grown exponentially, yet not with mj purely based on spite, bigotry, fear, greed and lies. Lets hope the research proves what we all know and this wonderful plant is freed from its shackles.
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