Marijuana: The Best, Safest Painkiller

(PORTLAND, OR) - I hope the title gets most readers' attention. Marijuana works best for migraines, glaucoma, obstetrics and reasonably well for trigemprogeminal neuralgia. If it works well for those, it probably is the best. It is certainly the safest, as it has never caused deaths in about 5000 years of medical use, unlike the opiates and opioids, which have killed many thousands. It is also minimally addicting with minimal withdrawal symptoms when a patient runs out.

I have compared marijuana to an extensive list of medications and it is more effective as a painkiller than all but the strongest painkillers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine, which are highly addictive and can cause death in withdrawal.

To clarify what I am writing about, here is a list of commonly used painkillers and why marijuana is better and safer; aspirin and NSAIDS, they are effective for mild pain but cause ulcers and gastric bleeding. About 500 patients die from these each year. Tylenol is another mild painkiller. Slight overdoses can kill the liver. The opiates, morphine, codeine, oxycodone and hydrocodone, work well but the constipating side effects, goofiness and severe addiction liability, are severe problems. The opioids, Demorol, Methadone and Fentanyl, not from opium, have specialized uses but are about as dangerous as the opiates.

There are a whole bunch of other types of medications used as adjuncts, which are not really painkillers. This includes steroids, Valium-like drugs, which cause sleep. Nitrites, for anginal pain, Gabapentin, (Neurontin) which is a powerful brain depressant. Cocaine, which usually must be injected, alcohol, which is a mild brain depressant, caffeine, which is a mild brain stimulant, and amphetamine, another mild brain stimulant, antihisamines, which usually are mild brain depressants, antidepressants, which also cause zombification, Clonidine, and Ketamine, which are also brain depressants.

When I compare the above to cannabis/marijuana, there is very little comparability.

Marijuana as medicine has been used for at least 5000 years, not only for pain, which is its main use, but also for about 50 or more medical problems in preference to any of the standard drugs used for those diseases.

The worst side effect from marijuana is sedation, but this property makes it extremely useful for insomnia caused by pain itself but also concurrent muscle spasms of skeletal muscle, but also intestinal and urinary muscles.

I have posted much more on this subject. You can search 'Marijuana Leveque'. Other recently posted articles not by me or about the use of marijuana for neuropathic pain, in which the authors wrote that even low grade marijuana was very effective for that. This will be very helpful and hopeful for millions of patients with diabetic or other types of peripheral neuropathy.

I'LL SAY IT AGAIN, MARIJUANA IS THE BEST, SAFEST PAINKILLER!

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peter manning September 4, 2020 9:00 am (Pacific time)

my wife suffers pain all the while it is from a traped sciatica nerve in her back will cannabis help her she is 80years of age if so how could I get it

Captain Cannabis March 18, 2013 5:37 am (Pacific time)

And it's fun!

Malcolm Kyle March 17, 2013 4:00 am (Pacific time)

The U.S. comprises 5 percent of the world's population yet uses 60 percent of the world's drugs. The prohibition of these drugs has been waged for approx. 70 years and has cost at least $3 trillion dollars. Prohibition has cruelly ruined the lives of millions of peaceful and productive citizens while bankrolling the most evil people on the planet. Prohibition has stagnated the normal economy while allowing criminal enterprises to control an untaxed and thriving underground economy worth over 300,000 million dollars. By it's emphasis on the eradication of marijuana/hemp we have also been denied the most workable and logical solutions to a number of growing problems, be they medicinal, industrial, chemical, or commercial. According to the CATO Institute, ending prohibition would save an annual $41 billion of expenditure while generating an estimated $46 billion in tax revenues. http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/DrugProhibitionWP.pdf Thanks to Prohibition, we now have a far higher percentage of our own citizens locked in cages than any other nation on the whole planet. Apart from the fact that these extra prisoners are not contributing economically to society, it also costs 50,000 dollars per annum to incarcerate them. Additionally, their families often go on government assistance, leaving the average tax payer to pick up the bill. Their kids may also be taken into care or raised by foster parents—again with our money. Now add to all this: the court costs, jail costs, and the salaries of all those people that have to deal with the enforcement of prohibition, like police officers, judges and public defenders—and you'll start to get a fair idea of why "Black Thursday" (October 24, 1929) happened during the period of another of our great experiments: Alcohol Prohibition (1919-1933) During alcohol prohibition, all profits went to enrich criminals and corrupt politicians. Young men died every day on inner-city streets while battling over turf. A fortune was wasted on enforcement that could have gone on education, etc. On top of the budget-busting prosecution and incarceration costs, billions in taxes were lost. Finally, the economy collapsed. Sound familiar?

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