Weed For Pain Relief

I have no idea how popular that is (or what butane hash dabs are exactly ) but the old fashioned hash doesn't seem to lose any popularity. That's the stuff I always see in all its varieties, including ice(olator) hash.

 

yes it does wonders for my Migraines and back no pain pills for this chick however I do take a low dosage of a muscle relaxer at bedtime

 

I keep coming into this thread, and leaving exasperated, without knowing what to say.

 

It was actually making the nerves they cut on my shoulder really weird like I can describe the buzz between two magnets that won't connect. That's what weed felt like on my shoulder nerves quite bizarre feeling. That's all gone now though for the most. I think they've connected again or made new connections. =]

 

In Cali, there are strains available with properties like good pain relief, low psychoactivity like Cannatonic; good pain relief, active psychoactivity (one of the dispensaries has Thai with high CBD levels); good pain relief, sedating psychoactivity; it's just incredible.

Someone close to me has been taking cannabis-infused olive oil with Cannatonic (~half oz + a few grams of sativa in 8 oz olive oil, 2 hours in a double boiler, stir a lot to keep them molecules mixing around, pour through brown paper coffee filter [may take an hour to drip through but be patient]; squeeze carefully to avoid breaking the now fragile filter so you get the last little bit); end up with ~6 oz olive oil. The person takes ~3 ml 4-5 x day for severe pain. Also ibuprofen. The cannabis helps enormously.

 

Once I had a stomach ache, and smoked some weed (the two were not related) and it got sooo much worse, I felt everything so deeply, and as if someone was stabbing me repetetively

 

Just joined here but have smoked for 15 years. It's the only thing I can trust to help me with pain relief from a progressive and painful neurological disorder. My docs approve and have told me that smoking is far more effective than other routes. I live in Minnesota (sadly) where we have approved medicinal but have said smoking it will stay illegal. It's bogus. Forces people like me into tough spots. Especially when your safe and trusty longtime connection gets sidelined.

 

I'm a returning marijuana addict,, : )

For some time now, maybe around the last 15 or 20 years, I've had something called RLS, or "Restless Leg Syndrome". It causes me to want to move, stand up, wiggle, dance, march in place, whatever, anything besides sitting still or laying still. It's some kind of dopamine lapse in the synapses. There's another name for it, but it's commonly called RLS.

Due to the above, for around the past 3 or 4 years, I've begun again using cannabis, trying, through trial and error, so many different strains, just to see what does what, and how well. I guess I'm trying to find my "holy grail" of weed relief.

I've tried so many strains in the recent past that I'm pretty sure what I like. I don't like being psychologically numbed. I don't like the feeling that "sure, I'm relaxed, but my mind is absent." I like an active mind, even if, at first, it seems to enable some forms of paranoia. I've imagined the "oncoming threat of a powerful earthquake" more than once. I've also imagined at times that wherever I am, something is about to fall on me (the bathtub upstairs, just above my head, while sitting on the couch), impale me (the steering column of the car as I drive home baked, after work), or otherwise provide me a passage to the next world, or an alternate universe.

But I would rather have paranoia, which I can deal with by training my heart to ignore anxious thoughts, than "brain numbing", where I just can't seem to "get it together". I need to be functioning, at least on some minimal level.

So I tend toward sativas, and NOT "Jack Herer" (which tends to be "mentally heavy" for a sativa). I like some of the strains that are called "hybrids", and some that are called "indicas", but only if there is an element of the "sativa buzz" that invades the brain, makes my ears ring, my heart race, etc. (Actually, I don't really need the heart racing, since I've had "atrial fibrillation", but it's under control). I just like to have that "high", with the accompanying euphoria, which some people frown on as a target, since it equates to "having too much fun" in their puritanical view.

(I actually think that's what the anti crowd are about. They think "euphoria in public" is comparible to walking around with your pants down, stroking it in plain view. For that matter, we are taught to avoid all public displays of euphoria, and end up trying to "maintain", so that we don't create a panic, also known as a public pot scare,,lol. Some people are just afraid of fun these days.)

Okay, so here's where people start telling stories of horrible traffic accidents and mayhem directly attributible to cannabis consumption.

It's not the euphoria that causes problems. It's the perception.

I do recall, however, back in the 70's, having smoked some Mexican weed from way down south in Oaxaca or Michoacan, somewhere down there, that got me so high I tried to drive, and had difficulty telling whether I was driving similarly to others, or standing out, as maybe in "driving too slow", or some such wacky thoughts. I should have just trusted the speedometer, but I realized that not everyone drives by the speedometer, so I felt quite concerned that I didn't "stand out", and get pulled over, which would have been even worse than smoking the wrong strain,,lol. Much worse.

Anyway, trying to say (in my befuddled manner), that strains aren't all the same, and one kind will work for you, and not for another.

There are some strains that aren't specifically grown to induce some specific medical relief that are more "party specific", don't last as long as others, and aren't too "heavy", good for conversation. Then there are those strains that would be absolutely useless in a social situation, but terrific for pain relief. Just don't expect to get a whole lot done. Some strains are better for focusing, while others are not.

It's BEGINNING to become more of a true "science", since things are loosening up a bit on the legal end of it.

But on that subject, I recently read that the U.S. Congress recently passed a spending bill allowing the govt. to stay open for business that included a stipulation that the Feds aren't going to go after mj users in states that allow its usage, saving the money that would be spent on that pursuit. Contrary to that bill's passage, I just noticed another mmj dispensary closed down, here in Huntington Beach, Cali, by THE DEA, which seems to fly in the face of that bill.

So you see that legally, things are still sorting themselves out.

Whatever, I'm still surrounded by dispensaries here in SoCal. I just have to drive a bit further than before. No prob.

Wacky Feds.

 

MMJ (medical marijuana) can address all sorts of pain. Muscular, neuromuscular, emotional, social,,,etc.

Pain comes in various forms. There is a MMJ strain for YOU! : )

 

I sure could use some tonight....

 

Ty,,,

where you live?

 

Middle of bumfug Ohio....

 

I thought I'd seen a post where you were in California?

 

I lived in CA from 1993 through 2004.

 

And whatever happened to cause you to leave paradise?

You don't have to answer, unless you wish.

 

Lots of stuff, but after I divorced my wife I moved here to be closer to my parents as they were getting older... I've got a great place in a shitty state.

 

My wife's from Pennsylvania. Fucked up state. Both have "troopers". Swelled heads in funny hats.


No "pain relief" there,,haha

 

I do wish the Feds would give up for a change (remember "change"? what happened to that??), and actually let the states handle their own business.

Oh, but they'd have to lay off part of their workforce, for lack of people to bust.

I think they'd be right in restructuring, to go after potential threats of violence, rather than potential threats of people being high.

If the Feds would ease up a bit, then they could allow studies that would provide the answers to "which strain do I need"?

Right now, it's just such a crap shoot. When you go to a dispensary, you can't just "trust the budtender" to do the right thing. They're motivated to sell the weed that isn't selling. And no matter what it's called, the quality of the weed, based on the skill, or lack of, of the grower, makes a big difference in just how effective your weed episode will be in addressing your needs.

After a few years getting weed from dispensaries, I've finally settled (kind of) on a particular one that I feel is straight with me, and in particular, just a couple of budtenders that I trust. There are plenty of them that I don't trust past the end of my dick. They try to "steer" you, if you aren't immediately happy with what they've suggested. That "steering" could be helpful, or not.

Buyer beware..

It was simpler when you just got a "bag of weed". It was either "good weed, man", or "just weed". I never had "bad weed" until they started growing it hydroponically. That's when the chemicals started to overrule the genetics, and growers who weren't conscientious would sell shit that wasn't fully purged. I won't even buy hydro, though it can be some of the strongest stuff available. I'd rather mine be clean, purged of nutrients before buying.

Then, sometimes the dispensary will "shake" the weed to extract the kief, before selling it as "top shelf".

For that matter, you can often find "shake" that's pretty good, and cheaper than the buds. It's just what's left at the bottom of the jar.

So, price isn't always a good indicator of what's good, and especially if someone sells you something that doesn't suit your condition.

 

I just want to grow my own... Legally.