Yes it does matter. It matters as much as if the pain was your own. That is, if it were you, would you ask, or would you take whatever worked at whatever safe dosage was available?
Here I’ll digress a tiny bit.
Over three decades of ER visits for pain whether it was inadequate treatment or no treatment, highlighted for me the chasm between pain and good treatment for it.
I was treated like a pill seeker more times than I can count, yet have photos, medical records, an implanted medicine pink (inadequate after eight years) and a clearly damaged hand:
To walk into a hospital for pain problems and be told ‘we can’t help you,’ after the damage was done protecting their ability to sleep without worrying about our enemies, was insulting and maddening. Last time that happened I’d had enough experience to get out properly addressed by staff. Had I not had that experience I’d have left in as much pain as when I arrived.
I tend to disagree that marijuana isn’t good for most everybody. By default it has anti-inflammatory properties, those are usually good… The CBD industry has skyrocketed for good reason - it comes from cannabis but because no THC is present it’s thought of as a different thing. They’re merely different facets of the same gem stone.
I’ll here add something to this thread:
The VA, or any health plan covering disabled vets should damn well cover cannabis + related expenses for the treatment of pain caused by injuries in line of-duty.
I m mean come on America, my injury remains after serving every citizen alive 1997-2002, we don’t think I’m worth helping out, along with a bazillion other vets in pain from serving us, all of us, even me and I too served. We’re all off equal worth til someone gets hurt, then suddenly the price of treating me is too much. I must not have helped save enough American lives to warrant treatment?
Let’s add to that a bit. When I enlisted I was a volunteer. I was paid at near the federal poverty line during service. So there this young man fresh out of high school was fighting a war while his young wife & three month old back home with that to desk with. Thank God she was able to stay with family.
But all that. The pain, the loss, the disrespect, there’s absolutely NOT how any honorable soldier should be treated.
31 Effin years it took me to go through every pain, anti-seizure med etc. Then my little lady started using MJ for back pain, I watched her go from oral meds to none for the problem, and yes she thought things were funnier a while, now it’s my turn.
But see the OP was in regards to its impact v on training, not the legal or moral stuff.
However, if I’m in pain I’m not going to work out much am I?
There’s the body then there’s the whole person. My whole person requires MJ to not experience mind numbing pain. It also requires that pain to be modulated for any physical activities. My modulator is Marijuana.
Here I realize that the question doesn’t apply to everyone equally because not everyone must treat severe pain before heading to gym.
Yet the principles involved do apply to everyone who has experience pain once in their lifetime.
IMO the bottom line with MJ etc is that it can do less harm than an effin aspirin but gets locked down like its lethal when in fact it is the safest thing I’ve ever had for severe pain.
It helps people. It’s not dangerous.
The country needs to make a LOT of noise before the politicians are going to move v investments from big pharma to weed. When they get the money of it all rearranged to suit, THEN us little people get what we need maybe.
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