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SonderKommando wrote:

I got my card then to help with the "pain" but really you can get a card for just about any reason.
That's the truth right there.

When I was in Cali back in August a French backpacker got a card because he went in to see the "Kush Doctor" and told him he had a bad back. Girls can walk in and say they have period pain.

On my last night there I was sitting at a bar in Venice Beach, eating some mussels for dinner. Guy next to me explains a way this chick told him how to eat mussels that sounded cool (you use an empty shell to get the mussel out of another shell, instead of cutlery). About 15 minutes later we start chatting, he tells me he works for a medical marijuana place. I said I wanted to get a card just to take home as a souvenir, he said if he had one spare on me he'd just give me one. I mentioned some guy earlier that day (who was trying to sell me spliffs) told me I need to be a resident, to which this guy laughed and said I didn't, that anyone can get a card. About 5 minutes later after no convo he passed me a small but very chunky bud and said "I don't want you getting ripped off, it's practically free around here. Take that, it's pretty nice."

Smoked it up that night, and he wasn't wrong
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I weigh about 400 lbs, do you think they'd let me just walk in there and ask for a card because pot helps with my anorexia? I'd love to get a card.

Seriously though, of the medical stuff I've tried, it's always been good.

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How bout the Ace Of Spades?
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Jaekus
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mtb0minime wrote:

I weigh about 400 lbs, do you think they'd let me just walk in there and ask for a card because pot helps with my anorexia? I'd love to get a card.

Seriously though, of the medical stuff I've tried, it's always been good.
Just think of any past medical condition you've ever had. Story is "broke my arm a while ago, still plays up."

For me I was going to say I get back pains (I used to till I stopped being a slackarse and started working out) and just embellish the story a bit
Jaekus
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Or say you get migraines from time to time. Bingo.
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I told the doctor I have insomnia, he asked how many hours a night I normally sleep.
I said 6-7.
He laughed and said "Damn man, how much do you expect to sleep?"


In all seriousness though while I get enough sleep it takes me hours to pass out normally, or 15 minutes with a couple hits... I don't have hours to give up everyday.

At least in california, it can be recommended by any licensed doctor for any reason that improves your quality of life. If possible, don't "make up" a reason... Most people I know, even if the smoke for enjoyment, also use it to help them with at least one thing... because it is actually fairly useful.

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there really is almost zero medicinal value to herb
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eleven bravo wrote:

there really is almost zero medicinal value to herb
meh...

Depends not only on what your are trying to do, but your definition of medical value.


I feel in most cases its more of a holistic healing type of thing, but it definitely helps with pain relief, insomnia and appetite loss.
I also use it for ADD, though only particular strains really help... but a lot of the "stoner spacing out" thing is actually just you focusing in depth on one detail... usually the wall
But ADD is related to your brains in-ability to properly filter extraneous stimuli, and marijuana definitely helps to do that. You just need a proper balance of cannabinoids from there so that you are not drowsy or dopey.

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therapeutic yes, medicinal as in healing and improving a chronic condition, no.
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see what i id there.  chronic.  didnt even try
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eleven bravo wrote:

medicinal as in healing and improving a chronic condition
Ehhh there is a lot of medication that is not a cure or an improvement, its merely a treatment.
Tons of legal "medical" pills out there that will do nothing for you if you stop taking them.

Lots of drugs out there to try and adjust the balance of your brain chemicals for the time being. MMJ isn't too much different...
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never said it was
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but it aint penicillin
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eleven bravo wrote:

but it aint penicillin
Neither is Methylphenidate, but that don't mean it ain't medicine.
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that shit right there sure as fuick aint medicine.  all that shit does is turn children into junkies
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eleven bravo wrote:

that shit right there sure as fuick aint medicine.  all that shit does is turn children into junkies
lol.

Ehhh, over diagnosed, over prescribed... but not non-existent. I knew that was probably gonna come up.

Advil count as medicine? Vicodin or any of those? Trust any anti-depressants?

Perhaps we just disagree on what medicine is, not the value of cannabis

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I'd list the above as medicine.
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VicktorVauhn wrote:

Perhaps we just disagree on what medicine is, not the value of cannabis
yes

id say cannabis has more value than vicodin or ritalin but its not there to heal.  i view medicine as something that helps your body prevent and fight infections and diseases.
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in a way that one day your condition will improve
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without the the conitinued use of such things
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Medicine is also used for maintenance purposes, like anti-depressants for mood, valium for anti-anxiety or painkillers for permanent afflictions.
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Hence medical marijuana.
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I dont believe things that help you cope have medicinal value.  they have therapeutic value.  thats the way i see it.  thats the difference i see it.

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youre talking to a weed expert here
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