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Originally Posted by Bruce Achterberg  In your particular case you where not within that “vast majority” that I mention, and while it is possible that there may have been something else other then marijuana that may have assisted you with eating when you had ulcerative colitis, at that particular time there did not seem to be any other options available to you, and there is no harm done in doing what you had to do in order to live. |
Actually, weed
was a last ditch effort. I'd been on every available drug that was supposed to help, had acupuncture, was already doing deep relaxation and meditation, tried a lot of "not generally accepted by the medical community" remedies, and I can't even remember what else.
My doctor ended up putting central line in so that I could get fluids at night, but it was so hard on my pancreas that I couldn't get enough calories, and I was doing basically nothing except trying to sit in class at school.
Marijuana was really a life-saving intervention for me.
I do agree with you, however, on some of the finer points - people tend to take far more chemicals into themselves than is probably necessary. And after years and years of taking pills, I feel polluted, and the feeling is getting worse as times on. I've really gotten to a point where I don't want to take much of anything.
I've just been on this side of the fence for so long that it's difficult for me to sit still when I hear someone putting a value judgement on "most people". The truth is that
most people will have a serious illness at least once in their lifetime. The people that don't are the ones that die young. Most people will have a choice to make about taking a serious body-altering chemical or veritable pharmocopia. Could these people have adopted a better life-style and avoided the illness? Maybe. Maybe not.
Since I've gone into allied health/medicine, I get to see things from the (student-) clinician's side now. And all I see are regular people, many of whom do not have the intellectual capacity that is rampant on this forum. Do we have a responsibility to these people? I think we do. And if they chose to take a "medicine" after the illness, rather than taking preventative measures to avoid the illness... then that is their life, and they have to deal with it. Many of these people will never come to terms with the fact that they could have done something to change what's happened to their bodies.
I'd trade every joint I've ever had to have grown up like a healthy teenager.
Maybe I should start a thread on personal responsibility to maintain one's health to save the rest of us from having to debate about drugs, eh?
