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Originally Posted by SnakeCharmer
I live in one of the states that legalized medical marijuana early on. It will soon be legal for all adults, medical card or not, probably all over the country. Just like alcohol.
I know many people with MM cards. Most of them were old stoners who wanted to get high without risk of arrest and they proceeded to use it excessively.
You state you have a nutritional problem that requires you to eat a very high calorie diet, something that is hard for you to do. Wasting disorder -- where people lose weight even when they take in adequate calories -- is one of the illnesses that medical marijuana works for. It works better than any other drug for this problem.
I'm neutral to cool on medical marijuana, in general. But you have nothing to be ashamed of. MM helps wasting disorder.
It also helps the painful spasms caused by M.S., glaucoma, and disorders that cause the body to excessively burn calories.
As long as you learned your limits and don't overdo it, I could not under any circumstances look at you with disapproval for using MM.
BTW, I've read that for people who use it for wasting disorders, ingesting it in a caloric food, like cookies or brownies, is the best way to take it.
I wish you the best and hope your health gets stable and improves.
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Its never going to get better. Its a progressive disease which means it only gets worse and worse. My life expectancy is 37.5 years old. CF is incurable, the only thing my doctors and I can hope to do is slow its progression down. I'm in great health for now. This is a strong root for my depression (but not the only thing that has caused me to have depression).
I much prefer eating edibles, it lasts longer and is more strong towards hunger, pain and even sleep. My doctors have told me that I require a minimum of 4,000 calories a day. But that was a year ago when I was in HS. I can only imagine what the amount is now that I have a strenuous, physically demanding job and I workout 3x a week. Its probably gotta be at around 5,000 calories a day or something. A year ago, I was in school for 6 hours a day, slept a ton, and worked out 1-2x a week. Now, I work around 30 hours a week pushing carts, cleaning bathrooms and cash registers, and bagging and lifting groceries WHILE working out 3-4x a week (thanks to the help of Provigil, the only way I've been able to stay energized), so thats why I think my doctors will say I need a minimum of 5000 calories a day (it makes sense, to me at least lol).
Just because I have a high calorie demand DOESNT mean i can eat 3-4 McDouble Cheeseburgers and call it a day. I should still eat healthy. That makes it very tricky for me. So on my own, on a good day I can eat 3,000 calories a day. On a typical day around 2,000-2500 calories a day.
What I do is if I decide to vaporize/smoke marijuana, I'll do it right after I'm done eating a big meal. Because then, I somehow get even more room to eat. Whereas if I do it before, I only eat a little bit.
Heres an analogy.
Without marijuana. I can eat a big bowl of cereal and be full. If I smoke marijuana before I eat, I can eat a big bowl and a half of cereal. IF i smoke marijuana after i had my big bowl of cereal, I can eat another big bowl of cereal. So i eat the most when I've already eaten without being under marijuana's influence.
It's weird but yeah..
I wanted to clarify, that if I say smoke, I either mean vaporizing or actually smoking. BUT I ALWAYS TRY TO STAY AWAY FROM SMOKING. I only smoke if I cannot eat edibles, or if I don't have a working vaporizer. Right now, my vaporizer broke so I am saving up to buy a new, better one. So I'm mainly sticking with edibles, but i have been smoking more than i usually ever do. its not good. but as long as its short term and its kept to a maximum of 1-2x a week, it won't have a serious impact on my health (aka my lungs).
but smoking and vaporizing are all the same, except vaporizing has no negative health effects. It's still absorbed through the lungs either way and processed the same, vaporizing just does all that without the harmful tar and carcinogens that are released when combustion of the plant occurs (aka. taking a lighter and burning the plant. which also wastes most of the cannabinoids, so if you want to make the BEST most money saving use of the cannabinoids in the marijuana plant, use edibles).