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In reply to the discussion: Oregon’s 7-year-old medical marijuana patient stirs controversy [View all]sigmasix
(794 posts)Marinol (synthetic THC "equivalent" works for very few people and it is 10x more expensive than MM. I've been told that the canabanoids included with the THC in Medical Marijuana are also involved in the creation of the desired effect (munchies, happiness, muscle relaxation, reduced anxiety, sleep), and I'm willing to believe it after doing some experiments on myself. Marinol just put me in a bad mood and increased my anxiety level.
Some Cancer fighters like myself do continue to take chemotherapy after the tumors go away. Newer chemotherapies are being developed every day that keep certain types of cancer "at bay" if you will. I suffer from a rare form of intestinal tissue cancer that was 100% fatal until 2000. Luekemia researchers introduced a chemotherapy for certain types of leukemia that also worked well at shrinking GIST tumors. The problem with this form of treatment is that eventually the cancerous cells mutate and become immune, which is what happened to me last year. Now I take another chemotherapy called Nexavar ($14,000.00 a month) and it is showing signs of working! The damage caused by cancer and the chemo doesnt just go away when the disease is in remission- Sometimes sufferers dont get thier appetites back after stopping chemo. I was 360 pounds when I was diagnosed in 2003, I weigh 145 pounds now and I'm lucky to hold a PB&J with a poached egg down. Sometimes the fight goes on for years and years and years. The notion that Medical Marijuana should be of concern is laughable; I take 2 30MG extended release morphine tablets a day as well as 4 administrations of .6 ML of tincture of Opium (with food). I also have a prescription for dilautid and xanax. My driving privledges are intact as well- because I'm not "high", I'm appropriately medicated.