PTSD: Cannabis Therapy vs Marijuana Therapy

Marijuana, especially by inhaling its vapor, is far superior and quicker, that is in seconds, than any oral preparation which requires almost an hour to take effect.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I get cajoled frequently by intelligentsia and pseudo-intelligentsia, “why don’t you use the scientific term Cannabis instead of the slang term Marijuana?”.

This is easy. The term MARIJUANA came to the U.S. via the Spanish speaking Caribbean islanders and Mexicans. Almost everyone in South and North America knows it by that name. By the same token if one said I’m going to smoke some CANNABIS, someone might ask “why are you smoking a can of urine?”.

Dr. O’Shaunessy brought Cannabis to England about 1840 and apparently another word for it in England is ganga (many Brits are going to set me right on this. PLEASE DO!!).

The use of cannabis in medicine spread like wild fire in Europe and the information about it spread to the English speaking U.S. and Canada very rapidly.

Very soon it was used also as a confection, as brownie cookies and Turkish Delight, and medicine long before as marijuana it was introduced into New Orleans and American/Mexican border cities as something to smoke like a tobacco cigarette. Tobacco was considered high class for whites only and black musicians and Mexican laborers smoked marijuana.

The college kids in New Orleans discovered the pleasantries of smoking marijuana and from then on it was lookout “Jenny bar the door”. It spread like wild fire through the U.S.

Here is something you can grow in your backyard or windowsill which is even better than booze, beer or wine. WOWEE!!

Cannabis preparations were an excellent medicine for many diseases but it couldn’t be patented, nor purified and precise medical dosage was impossible.

With new patentable synthetic drugs around 1900, Cannabis medicine fell out of favor and in 1937 they were made illegal in the U.S. because anything used by black folks and Mexicans must be bad for white folks.

OK, you cannabis intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals from now on it’s going to be cannabis/marijuana so that even us peons will understand.

Strangely enough, computers list Cannabis Therapy and Marijuana Therapy separately with some overlap. By the way, almost every country has a name for cannabis. Sometimes it is equated with hemp but not always, after all who would want to smoke hemp rope. In Montreal, Canada, the sophisticates call it Jane and why not. For us Americanos it is marijuana.

Cannabis as oral medicine was not very good or acceptable and the new cannabis drug Marinol or pure THC has too many bad side effects.

Marijuana, especially by inhaling its vapor, is far superior and quicker, that is in seconds, than any oral preparation which requires almost an hour to take effect.

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PTSD Girl October 6, 2009 6:46 pm (Pacific time)

How in the world do you use Marijuana with a vaporizer??

Editor: The vaporizer heats the cannabis and releases the heated vapor, which looks like smoke, into a plastic bag. The person then tokes on the plastic bag. It looks a little funny but the good outweighs that. It is probably the single best way a person can use medical marijuana, according to our writer Dr. Phil Leveque. I wish one of those vaporizer companies would advertise with us, they would sell a lot of product!

Norman Lepoff, M.D. retired July 29, 2009 9:35 am (Pacific time)

I have PTSD. Cannabis is the best treatment I ever had for PTSD and has given me my life back. Itis wonderful and is the safest medication known to man.

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