I just had to share this movie- I was digging through Hulu to find some good free movies, and I ended up staying up all night to finish this movie.
This documentary truly shows the reality of medical marijuana and how California is dealing with the regulation.
I don't wanna spoil this movie, but I have few things I would like to say that I got out of this movie:
1. Even though nine states have passed a bill legalizing medical marijuana, federal government can always overpower state level laws and suppress medical marijuana market and prescription.
2. There are patients who actually appreciate the efficacy of medical marijuana- nothing has worked as well for them for either side effect reasons or even mood altering effect. Pay attention when they interview a cancer patient who have been depressed from her health and pain-she got rid of both away with marijuana! She has never smoked marijuana before suggested for medical purposes, so stop arguing that she's just a pothead.
3. Yet, we still have to admit that people prescribe medical marijuana for anything- getting medical marijuana is same as getting a beer.
Well, below is the link. And I hope you enjoy! let me know what you all think about this!
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Marijuana for meeee??
I thought it was a joke when I saw a comedy movie where the guy tells that his marijuana is glaucoma treatment. I heard about medical marijuana, but I thought the guy was just rambling random disease to come up with, which happened to be, glaucoma.
But, you know what? That guy knew what he was talking about.
California didn't pass medical marijuana just because they wanted to be high all the time legally; marijuana IS an effective glaucoma treatment, as well as painkiller for body aches or cancer patients.
Yet, this could seem like an hardly-practical evidence that potheads digged up just so they can make an excuse of smoking pot. There are already pain killers and glaucoma treatments that are legal and that don't get you high, why try so hard to make marijuana as a medical treatment while we already have other options that are working?
My curiosity led me to dig deeper into this issue, and I was surprised to find out that numerous ophthalmologists are trying hard to make marijuana as an alternative glaucoma treatments for people who are in need.
Now, you would think, who NEEDS marijuana if not for entertainment?
Here is an excerpt from the article by Dr. Porcella which will enlightened you:
Most drugs for glaucoma are applied topically and are well tolerated…severe systemic side effects can occur, up to the point where the side effects should always be considered when a patient, undergoing local ocular therapy, presents with new systemic problems.
Smoking marijuana cigarettes could lower IOP by up to 45%. The active ingredient of Marijuana, Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (D9-THC), is found to lower IOP pressure, and this can be taken through many different ways such as smoking marijuana cigarettes, baking marijuana cookies, dissolving marijuana and making eye drops, or even chewing on marijuana leaves.
According to Dr. Porcella, Glaucoma patients are usually in 60's or later, who are very likely to have multiple health problems other than just glaucoma. As the excerpt of the article above suggests, the side effects could be a big deal when you are dealing with old aged group of people; side effects could actually kill them! Say an old lady had a bad heart and liver and had glaucoma. They wouldn't be able to get any treatments that had side effects on heart or liver.
In fact, I found an another article where professor Dr. Gui-Lin Zhan at University of Nebraska Medical Center ran a clinical trial on a lady who did have multiple illness so there wasn't any other option except marijuana for glaucoma treatment. Here are his words:
This program was very successful in lowering her IOP (intra ocular pressure=eye pressure). Without marijuana, she could have lost both eyes.
So, what are you guys' thought on this? I have to say, I changed my opinion on marijuana completely. It is a kind of "drug". It could be used so efficiently for those who are in need if regulated, but with the current illegality of marijuana is somehow giving people the sense that marijuana is such a bad thing. People go "Oh my god marijuana is illegal, but I wanna get high, and I need to be so secret about this.", instead of even considering it as a medical treatment such as morphine- when you hear about morphine, do you think about college people shooting morphine up, or morphine dosed for people under extreme pain in hospital? What do you, then, think about marijuana? College people smoking and getting high, or glaucoma patients getting treatments and lowering their IOP level?
But, you know what? That guy knew what he was talking about.
California didn't pass medical marijuana just because they wanted to be high all the time legally; marijuana IS an effective glaucoma treatment, as well as painkiller for body aches or cancer patients.
Yet, this could seem like an hardly-practical evidence that potheads digged up just so they can make an excuse of smoking pot. There are already pain killers and glaucoma treatments that are legal and that don't get you high, why try so hard to make marijuana as a medical treatment while we already have other options that are working?
My curiosity led me to dig deeper into this issue, and I was surprised to find out that numerous ophthalmologists are trying hard to make marijuana as an alternative glaucoma treatments for people who are in need.
Now, you would think, who NEEDS marijuana if not for entertainment?
Here is an excerpt from the article by Dr. Porcella which will enlightened you:
Most drugs for glaucoma are applied topically and are well tolerated…severe systemic side effects can occur, up to the point where the side effects should always be considered when a patient, undergoing local ocular therapy, presents with new systemic problems.
Smoking marijuana cigarettes could lower IOP by up to 45%. The active ingredient of Marijuana, Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (D9-THC), is found to lower IOP pressure, and this can be taken through many different ways such as smoking marijuana cigarettes, baking marijuana cookies, dissolving marijuana and making eye drops, or even chewing on marijuana leaves.
According to Dr. Porcella, Glaucoma patients are usually in 60's or later, who are very likely to have multiple health problems other than just glaucoma. As the excerpt of the article above suggests, the side effects could be a big deal when you are dealing with old aged group of people; side effects could actually kill them! Say an old lady had a bad heart and liver and had glaucoma. They wouldn't be able to get any treatments that had side effects on heart or liver.
In fact, I found an another article where professor Dr. Gui-Lin Zhan at University of Nebraska Medical Center ran a clinical trial on a lady who did have multiple illness so there wasn't any other option except marijuana for glaucoma treatment. Here are his words:
..the IOP of the patient who is in her sixties was intolerant of medications that lower IOP, such as pilocarpine, epinephrine, and acetazolamide. The patient could not be controlled by the available conventional medical therapies. Only marijuana and THC given orally in the form of Marinol had a dramatic effect on her IOP. She was given a surgery when her right eye showed a sudden increase in IOP level, but the operation in turn caused her to loose her vision in the right eye due to suprachoroidal hemorrhage. For her remaining eye, she was enrolled in the compassionate use federal government program for use of marijuana cigarettes.
So, what are you guys' thought on this? I have to say, I changed my opinion on marijuana completely. It is a kind of "drug". It could be used so efficiently for those who are in need if regulated, but with the current illegality of marijuana is somehow giving people the sense that marijuana is such a bad thing. People go "Oh my god marijuana is illegal, but I wanna get high, and I need to be so secret about this.", instead of even considering it as a medical treatment such as morphine- when you hear about morphine, do you think about college people shooting morphine up, or morphine dosed for people under extreme pain in hospital? What do you, then, think about marijuana? College people smoking and getting high, or glaucoma patients getting treatments and lowering their IOP level?
Diagnosed with glaucoma....
Yes. I have glaucoma.
Take a deep breath. This is not a cancer.
I went to see my eye doctor, and I had abnormally high eye pressure. He rerun the exam, but the pressure didn't decrease at all. He ran more tests and confirmed that I have glaucoma. The doctor freaked me out for a moment, though- he said glaucoma was #1 leading cause of blindness in America, that if untreated, I could go blind in as soon as 6 months. :S Once you lose vision from glaucoma, he said, you can't get it back, because it's the optic nerve that is destroyed, which once dies, it dies forever.
So, all the headache was from high eye pressure! And also my worsening eyesight. My eyesight now definitely isn't good, but I'm not blind. My eye doctor said I could keep my current eyesight as long as I keep up with the treatment which will keep my IOP level (Intra ocular pressure=eye pressure) normal.
I'm rather glad that I found out about glaucoma now than later when I am close to blind-when I can't get my lost vision back. Now I need to keep up with my eye drops and I shall be fine!
Take a deep breath. This is not a cancer.
I went to see my eye doctor, and I had abnormally high eye pressure. He rerun the exam, but the pressure didn't decrease at all. He ran more tests and confirmed that I have glaucoma. The doctor freaked me out for a moment, though- he said glaucoma was #1 leading cause of blindness in America, that if untreated, I could go blind in as soon as 6 months. :S Once you lose vision from glaucoma, he said, you can't get it back, because it's the optic nerve that is destroyed, which once dies, it dies forever.
So, all the headache was from high eye pressure! And also my worsening eyesight. My eyesight now definitely isn't good, but I'm not blind. My eye doctor said I could keep my current eyesight as long as I keep up with the treatment which will keep my IOP level (Intra ocular pressure=eye pressure) normal.
I'm rather glad that I found out about glaucoma now than later when I am close to blind-when I can't get my lost vision back. Now I need to keep up with my eye drops and I shall be fine!
Headache, eyeache?
My headache has been getting worse and worse, not any better at all.
Yes, I am complaining. Blurry vision is annoying enough..
Somehow I feel like the width of vision has decreased as well..
Now, don't comment that it's because I am an Asian with squinty eyes -_-.
I have been perfectly fine with my asianness!
I'll ask my eye doctor- I need to go get a new prescription anyway.
Yes, I am complaining. Blurry vision is annoying enough..
Somehow I feel like the width of vision has decreased as well..
Now, don't comment that it's because I am an Asian with squinty eyes -_-.
I have been perfectly fine with my asianness!
I'll ask my eye doctor- I need to go get a new prescription anyway.
So tired..
My eyesight has been constantly dropping really quickly these days, and I really need a new pair of glasses. Am I blogging too much? I have a lot of readings every night, so maybe that did it.
Seeing everything with blurry vision is not fun, and I am getting headaches too.
This is not helping with my long day with heavy workload!! ugh.
I want to just sleep all day.
Seeing everything with blurry vision is not fun, and I am getting headaches too.
This is not helping with my long day with heavy workload!! ugh.
I want to just sleep all day.
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