Gone to pot

[FredClogs]

I've just seen Pat Butcher smoking a doobie...

I'm done... Lord take me now.

[Laurel Green]

Thought it hilarious when the Nuns started smoking joints.

[Laurel Green]

This Madonna Inn is really something.

[FredClogs]

Ha ha, Fash is getting into the ice cream, hope he doesn't go reefer mad and karate chop her off birds of a feather.

[SlimJim16v]

It's good PR for pot. For someting with proven use for pain relief and possibly cancer among others, research and trials should be happening.

[BlueHave]

SlimJim16v said:

It's good PR for pot. For someting with proven use for pain relief and possibly cancer among others, research and trials should be happening.

Can imagine in some parts of the UK the health authorities are ignoring evidence that pot helps sufferers and some poor sod is going to some backstreet dealer getting some rubbish

[pidsy]

They spent some time in the dispensary discussing and buying CBD - something that's totally legal to buy in the UK.

Bloody expensive but very good at what it's meant to do.

[SlimJim16v]

Although CBD is legal, it's so expensive you're better off going to a dealer and buying the real st.

Most people driven to try an expensive, alternative medicine, probably aren't well enough to work.

[Westy Pre-Lit]

Have been watching the series over the last few days having recorded it on Sky.

I think it was the last program which showed the Church of Cannabis.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/aug/13/chu...

As they were talking to the co-founder of the place, Lee Molloy from Kent, I realised he was the same Lee Molloy I'd done my engineering apprenticeship with 30 years ago, he hadn't changed much.

[snuffy]

It was a good programme and was addressing a serious issue.

But, why did the producers need them to be driven around in a bus painted to look like "hey, groovy man, psychedelic 60s flower power, hippies, peace and love" ?

Taking cannabis for medical reasons (which was what the programme was about) has bugger all do with the 60s counter-culture, so why make out that it was ? It's as if the producers simply could not help themselves.

[Sway]

BlueHave said:

SlimJim16v said:

It's good PR for pot. For someting with proven use for pain relief and possibly cancer among others, research and trials should be happening.

Can imagine in some parts of the UK the health authorities are ignoring evidence that pot helps sufferers and some poor sod is going to some backstreet dealer getting some rubbish

For my other half, the GP was quite clear "the meds are messing you up more, the only thing that will help is weed, but I'm not allowed to prescribe you that".

Fortunately, things have changed with her health. However, a small joint was infinitely preferable from a routine maximum dose of tramadol, with all the negative effects of that (both the side effects and the complete inability to concentrate or think clearly - significantly worse than a little high).

[Halb]

Laurel Green said:

This Madonna Inn is really something.

It's amazing

[SlimJim16v]

Sway said:

For my other half, the GP was quite clear "the meds are messing you up more, the only thing that will help is weed, but I'm not allowed to prescribe you that".

Fortunately, things have changed with her health. However, a small joint was infinitely preferable from a routine maximum dose of tramadol, with all the negative effects of that (both the side effects and the complete inability to concentrate or think clearly - significantly worse than a little high).

It's good to hear about a sensible Doc. Glad to hear she's better also.

[pidsy]

Sway said:

BlueHave said:

SlimJim16v said:

It's good PR for pot. For someting with proven use for pain relief and possibly cancer among others, research and trials should be happening.

Can imagine in some parts of the UK the health authorities are ignoring evidence that pot helps sufferers and some poor sod is going to some backstreet dealer getting some rubbish

For my other half, the GP was quite clear "the meds are messing you up more, the only thing that will help is weed, but I'm not allowed to prescribe you that".

Fortunately, things have changed with her health. However, a small joint was infinitely preferable from a routine maximum dose of tramadol, with all the negative effects of that (both the side effects and the complete inability to concentrate or think clearly - significantly worse than a little high).

ive heard very similar lately for Mrs P.
the daily dose if Tramadol, co-dydramol, Pregabalin and ibuprofen doesn't do her any good (its been pretty long term) - theres a great deal of support within the NHS but no ones can say anything on the record.

[Sway]

pidsy said:

Sway said:

BlueHave said:

SlimJim16v said:

It's good PR for pot. For someting with proven use for pain relief and possibly cancer among others, research and trials should be happening.

Can imagine in some parts of the UK the health authorities are ignoring evidence that pot helps sufferers and some poor sod is going to some backstreet dealer getting some rubbish

For my other half, the GP was quite clear "the meds are messing you up more, the only thing that will help is weed, but I'm not allowed to prescribe you that".

Fortunately, things have changed with her health. However, a small joint was infinitely preferable from a routine maximum dose of tramadol, with all the negative effects of that (both the side effects and the complete inability to concentrate or think clearly - significantly worse than a little high).

ive heard very similar lately for Mrs P.
the daily dose if Tramadol, co-dydramol, Pregabalin and ibuprofen doesn't do her any good (its been pretty long term) - theres a great deal of support within the NHS but no ones can say anything on the record.

Mrs S had a similar prescription. From what I understand, it's very common for things like tramadol to become a routine as frankly, it's easy. Ameliorate the pain, sod the side effects.

I'll quite openly admit that I smoked weed for a number of years recreationally - it's hardly uncommon - but hadn't touched it for years. The real ballache has been finding a source for a regular low level supply, and ensuring its the right types (there are thousands of strains, and they have wildly different effects). In the end, quite unexpectedly, I saw put in touch with a woman in her mid 50s who suffers from MS, and had decided that she was going to grow the best medicinal strains for personal use and for those locally who could benefit too.

Can't imagine that's a common scenario however.

[Halb]

Sway said:

I'll quite openly admit that I smoked weed for a number of years recreationally - it's hardly uncommon - but hadn't touched it for years. The real ballache has been finding a source for a regular low level supply, and ensuring its the right types (there are thousands of strains, and they have wildly different effects). In the end, quite unexpectedly, I saw put in touch with a woman in her mid 50s who suffers from MS, and had decided that she was going to grow the best medicinal strains for personal use and for those locally who could benefit too.

Can't imagine that's a common scenario however.

...I think it is becoming more common...so long as the government and authoritarian tts think they can dictate what free born people ingest.