Medicinal Cannabis

[yansee]

Anyone have any knowledge of cannabis as a legal pain killer ? My step mother is 93 and suffering a lot of pain conventional ant inflammatory and pain killers are not working any advice please

[Cloverjo]

You can buy cannabis oil in pharmacies and health shops. They don’t have the active drug that makes you stoned, but I’ve read they can help with pain. I’ve used it for anxiety and it helped a little but I had weird upsetting dreams.

[woofgang]

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/medical-cannabis/

[yansee]

Thank you,both helpful worth looking into

[Khandro]

Mrs K. Has been using the oil - a few drops daily on a sugar lump- for several months for a chronic neck pain and it really works, it takes a few weeks before you get any noticeable results, but now she can turn her head without pain.
My son brought it from the USA, but I suppose it's similar to that which you can buy on the UK high street.
There are no problems, & no side effects with using it.

[hereIam]

It's not 'real' cannabis though is it ?

[Mamyalynne]

What is medical marijuana?
Medical marijuana uses the marijuana plant or chemicals in it to treat diseases or conditions. It's basically the same product as recreational marijuana, but it's taken for medical purposes.

The marijuana plant contains more than 100 different chemicals called cannabinoids. Each one has a different effect on the body. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) are the main chemicals used in medicine. THC also produces the "high" people feel when they smoke marijuana or eat foods containing it.


In the main products sold as 'Medicinal Cannabis' have no THC, although that does not mean that you could not get benefits from simply smoking or ingesting some other way complete cannabis.

[Mamyalynne]

Forgot punctuation there.

First para is a C&P

Second are my words.

[Khandro]

On the bottle it says, 'Medicinal Cannabis Supplement, 20 mg/ml' . The company is, 'WAAYB organics'
That is the full extent of my knowledge.