OK- my dad said hed smoke weed IF i could prove that it would help ease his prostate

my dad has prostate pain. Hesed hed smokeweed if i could prove it would help his prostate condition. can anyone help me w/ sum facts? THANZX

 

well if he has pain weed will dull it. erowid.org will probably have the facts you want

 

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=61866

 

Shit DeliPro, you definitely just made his day with that link !

I wish my Dad would smoke with me, I wish I could make him forget about 'trying it and having a bad experience back in the day'

 

how can you have a bad experience with weed?

 

^ same as some ppl have bad experiences with sex, rare and dodgy- but happens :|

 

hell, i'm a stoner. smoke at least a little most days, used to smoke as much as an eighth a day.....but at times (especially when you have a low tolerance) there is definitely such a thing as too much.

hell, i've had some bad experiences with pot. sometimes worse than lousy times with psychedelics.

an ex girlfriend used to sort of trip from smoking more than a hit or two of lower grade weed or middies.....and it was never a good thing....she enjoyed just a hit or two in my company, when we could get busy or just cuddle or whatever....other than that she was adamently anti-pot....but loved morphine, cocaine, pills, mushrooms, ecstacy....you know....

everyone is affected differently.


now as for helping with his prostate, i don't know. as everyone is affected differently, you can't garauntee it will help him, even if it might. one of the most widely claimed positive aspects of marijuana is that it calms almost any type of stomach problem...particularly nausea...but for me it has NEVER ONCE proven effective to that end. people go on and on about how it helps ease various stomach ailments, and among the most common reasons its prescribed (where legal) is to help in easing the severe stomach upset caused by chemotherapy. so i believe it can help, if it has worked for so many others, but in five years of smoking i've not once been able to fix a stomach problem of mine by smoking pot. not a single trial (and there have been many) has proven effective for me.

so, just like any medicine legal, illegal, or questionable, it may or may not work for a specific individual. it may help with prostate problems in some patients, but you have absolutely no ground to stand on if you're going to try to convince your dad that it WILL help HIM, regardless of the existance of the POSSIBILITY that it will help him.

so think about it....do you want to help him, or do you just want him to smoke pot? if you want to help him, read up and explore various possibilities that might help him, in addition to cannabis. you can suggest it, it may be a good idea, and it may in fact help him.....but you'll be hard pressed to PROVE that anything WILL help him.....