Weed & Alcohol

[Doc Malone]

I'm really needing an outsiders input on a problem me and the wife are having. So here it goes. All of the medication I have been prescribed has not worked for me. I would love to use medical marijuana as a treatment but can not due to it not being legalized in our state. I do not go ahead and smoke for fear of being drug tested at work. My wife uses it for migraines and back pain it works great for her and I am glad that it helps. Now I do feel jealous because that medicine would do wanders for me and I feel it is f*cked up that she is able to and I am not. So since my meds don't work and I have really bad anxiety the only other legal thing I have found to calm me is to drink 3 or 4 beers just enough to take the edge off. Now my wife is telling me I am not allowed to do that anymore. Which really screws me over on my options. So at my current frame of thought it is like she is saying I'm smoking weed to help me and you can't use it but I can oh and your also not drinking beer. I'm really f*cked up over this and could use all of your advice.

 

[FieldArtilleryGuy]

why does she say you can't drink? If it makes you treat her or others badly then I understand, but that's the only reason I would understand because unlike MJ drinking isn't illegal. ( if MJ is illegal in your state then your wife has little or no right to say she can smoke but you can't drink.) if you haven't tried MJ don't automatically assume it'll help. I found that it does help me sleep, but as for pain it is the same issue I have with my meds. To make the pain tolerable I have to be high. I don't like needing to be high 24/7 so I can only take the edge off of pain most of the time.

 

[Woodman]

Have you googled medical marijuana for vets? There are so called studies underway to see if it helps.

Here's a FB page for NC if you haven't already checked it out.

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The thing is, employers can be pretty anal about stuff like that even if it's legal. But I see progress IMHO and I agree with FieldArtilleryGuy

 

[Ace]

I know this post is old but I want to put the word out for other vets, The edibles in cannabis aren't like the MRE's we ate , it's discrete, and I personally seen night and day in my life, I denied 11 years of taking it by thinking there's got to be help through therapy, pills, or moving out to mountains all helped a little bit but all led to worsening the condition in some way. I ended up scaring the shit out of myself more than once but the recent one was so bad I called 911 on myself. When I got out of jail I threw my pills in wood stove and went to nearest cannabis shop and I'm not looking back. I have gotten so much more done than pills in 11 years it was eye opening. About me I have PTSD from childhood life and war serving 03/04 Iraq in 187th out Ft Campbell KY as infantry,

 

[Deleted member 43454]

Nice, I've recently stopped smoking weed. But I will never deny the benefits over big pharma that it has.
It is only now that the weed only feeds into my paranoia an causes avoidance even in conversation so I
am just checking my anger now, but may try edibles in the future. It's too much of a task in a non legal state anyway.
I dislike dealers.

 

[combatgoldfish]

f*cking stoners!

:P

 

[Deleted member 43454]

LOL, smoke one for me man... I am jelly.

 

[Ace]

Three weeks off all meds, on cannabis instead only one I take is night time ones. Might find something in place of them.but so far I'm more tolerable as one person says.and I am getting things done able to focus better and not wanting to kill anyone as bad.

 

[Deleted member 43454]

Three weeks off all meds, on cannabis instead only one I take is night time ones. Might find something in place of them.but so far I'm more tolerable as one person says.and I am getting things done able to focus better and not wanting to kill anyone as bad.

Good shit Ace, I know it helped me an definitely made me more tolerable as a person.

 

[Grizzly]

I hate you f*ckers!

Several years ago I had the opportunity. It truly helped with some pain and gastro issues. I wished I was in a position where I could experiment.

 

[vikingr24]

I am OK with MJ. I just don't like that we have so many problems with alcohol, driving, addiction, etc. MJ is not addictive but I think there is a kind of psych dependence. Why would we add to them by making MJ totally legal...

If it helps any affliction, PTSD to cancer, then I say use it.

I don't like smoking in general. And with MJ and PTSD, I am one that it unfortunately, causes a lot of dreams I can't control. And I guess control is the issue. I want the flight to fly in formation.

 

[Sarg]

The VA itself is investigating the efficacy of MJ for PTSD. It started out down at ASU with a rather prestigious Dr. at the helm of the study, but then the VA ran her off and is now studying it, itself. Which doesn't make me real comfortable what the outcome will be. However, there is so much well established info out there that it helps, it's difficult for the VA to continue to ignore it.

There are a number of delivery mechanisms these days besides smoking it, or even eating it. I have used Vaping to nearly quit smoking cigarettes, well one can buy vape delivery devices these days. I've tried them and they really work. High pain relief (both physical and mental) while lowering the "stone" is evident at the first use.

I did alcohol and illegal pot for many years and shudder to think how it has shortened my life. You younger folks might look long and hard at cannabis use, it works and isn't that damaging.

Sarg