M.felix wrote:8-)
I would be remiss if I did not say that I am a very enthusiastic supporter of the decriminalization of medical cannabis. I have seen and met people who were helped by it, and I strongly believe that there are many more who could be helped, lives that could be saved, from children and adults with neurological/seizure disorders, sufferers with chronic pain, persons with cancer, many others. There are many components of the plant that scientists are only now becoming aware of, and I am of the opinion that medical cannabis probably could have helped Rory when his health began to fail. Many of the toxic substances that he was taking for his pain and illnesses could IMHO have been eliminated, and perhaps his body would have had a chance to recover. But it is all speculation at this point. Just my two cents.
Bob Marley was also adept at this type of treatment and he died of cancers at the age of thirty-six.
Debilitating pain, nausea, anxiety, depression are all serious aspects of several of these illnesses. I did not say it was a cure for anything. I said that it helps many conditions. The fact that anecdotal information clearly points to numerous benefits, combined with its unadulterated forms being so readily accessible to the patient/consumer and its lack of profitability to the major pharmaceuticals, and so their dismissal of its value to patients is telling. The truth of the matter lies somewhere between Cannabis being "the most dangerous/lethal drug in the world,"
a la Reefer Madness, and it being a panacea for all that ails ye. If you get my drift. And this is way off topic. We can take further discussion of this topic to a non-Rory thread, or to PM.