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[DaveLeRave]

Ive been smoking pot since before I was injured and when I started again and my friends found out they said they knew I wasn't a quitter.

Anyways Ive noticed it does help with the back pain I occasionally get and it does help with spasms. The biggest benefit I get from it though is definitely the fact that it chills me out. I tend to get depressed over things I cant really control and I worry and agonize over those things but when I smoke some pot I calm down and say,"You know what its not a big deal, nothing I can do about it, just let it go."

[Hikkakaru]

longhaul, on Jul 28 2008, 10:18 PM, said:

nomis, on Jul 28 2008, 03:06 AM, said:

longhaul, on Jul 28 2008, 09:56 AM, said:

...You can also eat it but it has to be cooked first....

I think you mean "better cooked" cos the raw ingredients ingested will still be active and you will behave accordingly.

The info I read said that the active ingredients are not active until they are heated to 210-225 degrees F for ten min. I have tried eating raw pot and it will work but it works much better when heated like in cookies or pot butter. Vaporizers heat the pot to the right temp so you don't get smoke just the active ingredients much different from smoking and healthier, or so "They" say.................. .

it's actually the cannabanoids being activated by a fat that they are soluable in.


Err.. I mean.. I don't know anything about that devil plant

[longhaul]

Pot butter made in a pressure cooker will definitely do the job and that's fat sure.

[MISteve]

AHolland, on 07 February 2007 - 10:17 PM, said:

Why do I always find Chillipepper when I get on forums discussing pot...LOL

I have been suffering from increasing pain the last 3 years. I don't know why, although it may be linked with the growth of cysts on my spinal cord. A large number of SCI people have cysts on their spinal cord. The doctors do not really know why a body grows cysts, but it seems to be fairly normal for people that have experienced high levels of trauma in whatever caused their SCI. At this time, the doctors will not operate on me because of the number of cysts and their proximity. Basically, if they operate, then I will lose more control of my body. I am a T3/4/5 complete as it is.

In any event, I have recently started trying Sativex. Sativex is basically dope in a bottle (DIAB). It is a spray that you take either in the cheek, or under the tongue. I need to do a lot more experimentation, but I believe that if you spray it in the cheek, you tend to swallow a fair amount of it and you get a traditional response to it, as if you had smoked pot. If you spray it under the tongue, it absorbs into the body faster and you have less of the doped out effect.

I am currently a guinea pig, on a botox trial, so I don't want to try this new medicine too much until next week. It will make the trial results easier to interpret. Comparing myself before and after the botox injections. If I start taking new medications, then any results may be attributable to the new spray. I will be in phase two of the trial in a few days so I can start (and really want to start) testing the spray out more then.

While I can get a prescription to grow pot for my condition, I really don't want to run through life in that doped out manner. I have nothing against getting drunk or whatever, but there is a right place and time for that. What I really need in a pain medicine is one that leaves me thinking straight for most of my time.

[dangerousdave]

The evil weed works
That says it all

[wiggy]

indeed.

one puff of teh shwag and i'm good for a few hours at least. also helps with the apetite as I don't really "feel" hungry any more.

still wish I was in California (but I LOVE Texas). Does anyone know if there are any jobs open in the computer field down there?

or, i could try and get a job in the san fernando valley. i'm sure there is work in the fetish industry. LOL

[sh1wn]

I can't smoke it so I use it in a tincture that goes down my feeding tube 3-4 times a day. We are also able to grow our own here,no way I could pay for the 1/4# of it I use a month.
Shawn

sh1wn, on 15 October 2010 - 04:20 AM, said:

I can't smoke it so I use it in a tincture that goes down my feeding tube 3-4 times a day. We are also able to grow our own here,no way I could pay for the 1/4# of it I use a month. Work great on my nerve pain and spasms.
Shawn

[edlee]

Decided to try it for my pain. A friend hooked me up,, I hadn't smoked any since my first child,, 33 yrs. You can imagine my surprise when, after about four good tokes ( enough for a light buzz with the stuff I was smoking in the early 70s) I was ,,,, if you'll pardon an archaic term,,,, zonked. It might have been partially an interaction with my regular medications,, but I hadn't been that stoned without acid, in my life.

I am almost afraid to try it again. Obviously it caused the pain to be an insignificant irritant,, but I was also unable to function rationally for about three hours. I'm not sure the trade off is worth it.

I was never a total stoner,, even when I was using every day,,,, today's weed is a whole different animal. I'll let you know if I decide to try it again.
ed

[qbounce]

Ed, I turn into a living, breathing vegetable too. I sat on the couch and watched the world go by, but couldn't even open my mouth. That was in the late 80's.

I just sent my vote in for legalizing pot here in California. I don't do it, but if it can benefit others I'm all for it.

[pistol_pete]

edlee, on 15 October 2010 - 04:36 AM, said:

Decided to try it for my pain. A friend hooked me up,, I hadn't smoked any since my first child,, 33 yrs. You can imagine my surprise when, after about four good tokes ( enough for a light buzz with the stuff I was smoking in the early 70s) I was ,,,, if you'll pardon an archaic term,,,, zonked. It might have been partially an interaction with my regular medications,, but I hadn't been that stoned without acid, in my life.

I am almost afraid to try it again. Obviously it caused the pain to be an insignificant irritant,, but I was also unable to function rationally for about three hours. I'm not sure the trade off is worth it.

I was never a total stoner,, even when I was using every day,,,, today's weed is a whole different animal. I'll let you know if I decide to try it again.
ed

It's possible that your friend hooked you up with hydroponically grown weed. I won't even touch that shit.
Guys who grow hydroponically seem to be in competition with each other about who can use the freakiest chemicals to grow a product that completely fries you.
A lot of people I know hate it. They just grow a couple of plants in the backyard, totally organic. Gives you a very mellow feeling and still be able to function.
It actually gets me more motivated as well as allowing me to reduce my baclofen dosage.
I sound like a real druggie, but I'll only have a pipe maybe every third day or so. Every day will turn you paranoid.

[Brent]

Hello everyone. After reading through this post and seeing how many weed has helped I think that I'm going to give it a try. I've only smoked it a few times, none since my accident. I guess the main reason that I didn't smoke it much was that I generally had the whitey affect every time, felt like someone was sitting on my chest.LOL.

I'd like to try it using the soaking in alcohol method and see if that would alleviate the problems I had before when using it. Can anyone explain the method of doing it this way. How much weed to amount of alcohol? Do you need to heat the alcohol, preferably Jack Daniels or Beam, to get results? Do you have to consume much just to relieve spasms?

I'd really like to see them legalize the spray that the Canadians have available. But guess that would cut out a lot of the pills that are pushed on us.

I'd really appreciate any of your all's suggestions.

Thanks,
Brent.

[Mishelly]

I am 36yrs old, been a quad for 5yrs and recently had a heart attack because my doc had me on so many pills to try and help my spasms. It ended up the pills were conflicting with eachother so the docs took me off all but baclofen and my thyroid med.
I smoke herb and it helps with my spasms plus my mood since they also took me off my anti-depressents. I swear by it because my spasms get so bad it winds me. Also when i'm out an about shopping every bump I go over and the temperature difference from inside to outside gets me goin and of course I get all sorts of looky lous, and I get sooo embaressed which makes me just want to be a hermit. So herb is the answer for me.