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Cannabis

mr_lebowski

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3. Pot may work to help you forget mild-moderate pain, but I'm sorry ...

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2018, 11:35 PM

Dec 2018

It ain't doing SHIT when you have actual, real, acute pain.

Talking about the kind like when you need a root canal, or an appendectomy, or you've just come out of surgery where you just got cut wide open ... THC ain't touching any of that.

It may help you 'forget that you're in mild pain', but anyone who thinks it's an actual analgesic ... is pretty much just high.

And I say this as someone who quite likes pot ... going back to the 1970's ... it has it's values (especially as an anti-emetic/appetite enhancer), but imagining that THC is a potent painkiller ... is a joke.

Hell, alcohol is a better painkiller than pot ... and it sucks as one.

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Conclusion from extensive research.... [View all] pbmus Dec 2018 OP

Good cannabis web sites usually have a list of medicinal strains. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2018 #1

Before it was legal here, Matanuska Thunderstruck was the best. akraven Dec 2018 #2

Pot may work to help you forget mild-moderate pain, but I'm sorry ... mr_lebowski Dec 2018 #3

Yeppers, you are 'pretty much high, Tonto...' pbmus Dec 2018 #4

I am a little curious on this as I have chronic back pain. airplaneman Dec 2018 #5

.... pbmus Dec 2018 #6