I’ll re-blog this, as when I worked in the Pain Medicine Department of our local hospital, the nurses running clinical trials offered a trial of Sativex, a cannabis-based mouth spray to aid pain relief. There was no shortage of patients wanting to take part! When I first heard of the trial I imagined the nurses standing at the clinic door handing out giant spliffs, but it wasn’t quite like that.
Cannabis-based products do help with pain relief, and I’m sure this cream will too. I don’t think it’s on sale here in the UK, although I just looked up ‘Sativex’ on Google and that one seems to be available.
Yesterday, I visited a local cannabis dispensary in order to buy some CBD cream because cold weather has made the joints in my fingers very stiff and a little painful. I have osteoarthritis in my hands and it has become progressively more of a nuisance over the years. So, when I heard that someone I know was using CBD cream for pain, I thought I would give it a try. This purchase added to my previous experience in taking advantage of the newly-legal availability of cannabis-related products.
In June last year, I wrote a blog post describing how I had begun using CBD Oil to help me sleep. I continue to use it occasionally, and it has always provided a reliable seven hours of sound sleep.
When I decided to buy the CBD oil, I wasn’t quite sure how to go about it. Cannabis had been legal in Canada…
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Stevie Turner 
Weed is legal here in Canada. The CBD products don’t have the part that gets you high. Unless it is cannabis you would probably have to spray a lot to get a buzz lol 🙂 x
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Cosmic, man…
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LOL x
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Weed is legal in the states around me. Some medical, some full recreational. Yet here, more often than should, some 13 year old or a college student gets killed being around a weed deal gone sour. It’s ridiculous. There are vast, intricate tunnels under the border for bringing weed into the country, one man submarines, expensive boats, airplanes. Once it’s legal that abates for the most part, no one is getting shot in a parking garage over a bag of weed, no one’s little sister is getting killed being held hostage by a weed dealer. And talk about tax income… north of here in Oklahoma where it is “medicinal” only, the money raised on weed taxes way exceeded expectations. To the joy of traditionally conservative state leaders. I don’t get the attitude thing.
When they first made it “medicinal” in California you’d be surprised how many corporate leaders, people running your bank, your energy company, your government had prescriptions for “stress.” The only thing different was they could be open it…
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Yes, I can imagine how many wanted prescriptions. They were beating a path to the clinic door when the Sativex trial was going on.
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In my old hometown there are dispensaries on every corner, in every strip mall, in mobile homes by the side of the interstate. Billboards galore. People I’ve know for (ahem) years have plants 8 feet tall on their patios… Strange feeling.
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Wow. Nothing like that here.
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Attitudes do seem to be changing, I read this article a day or so ago
https://unherd.com/2020/11/does-america-still-want-a-war-on-drugs/
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Interesting, Jim. I used to type letters for patients addicted to opioids. The men would wonder why they had menopausal-type hot flushes, and were told that long-term use of opioids decrease testosterone levels and gives them a male menopause. Sativex did seem to help some types of pain, but patients were still reluctant to come off opioids even when they needed more and more of them to have any effect. Perhaps there needs to be a cannabis clinic where there are no potheads, just patients in pain needing to be treated.
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I think your idea of the cannibis clinic for people in pain was good. Really it would just be part of a normal hospital and patients could be referred there if that was the best treatment for them
I was reminded of Audie Murphy, he hit rock bottom in the 60s. He suffered from an addiction to the prescription drug Placidyl – a habit that he kicked by locking himself in a motel room until he was clean –
But then he was Audie Murphy 🙂
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I’ve heard of him, but don’t think I’ve seen any of his films. So many people are addicted to opioids – it’s grim. They think opioids will take their pain away, but it only does for a short time. Then the addiction kicks in and they end up like zombies but still in pain.
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For me he’s summed up by the phrase in the wiki, ” In his last few years, he was plagued by money problems but refused offers to appear in alcohol and cigarette commercials because he did not want to set a bad example.”
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Probably because he was pissed, lol.
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