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with my weed gummies I use for pain if we leave it up to states. 
It came in my JAMA email feed: Effect of Medical Marijuana Card Ownership on Pain, Insomnia, and Affective Disorder Symptoms in Adults; A Randomized Clinical Trial JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(3):e222106
The author list and their affiliations:
Author Affiliations Article Information
1Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston
2Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
3Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown
4Department of Biostatistics, MGH, Boston
Here's the outcome of the trial:
Results A total of 186 participants (mean [SD] age 37.2 [14.4] years; 122 women [65.6%]) were randomized and included in the analyses. Compared with the delayed card acquisition group, the immediate card acquisition group had more CUD symptoms (MD, 0.28; 95% CI, 0.15-0.40; P less than .001); fewer self-rated insomnia symptoms (MD, –2.90; 95% CI, –4.31 to –1.51; P less than .001); and reported no significant changes in pain severity or anxiety or depressive symptoms. Participants in the immediate card acquisition group also had a higher incidence of CUD during the intervention (17.1% [n = 18] in the immediate card acquisition group vs 8.6% [n = 7] in the delayed card acquisition group; adjusted odds ratio, 2.88; 95% CI, 1.17-7.07; P = .02), particularly those with a chief concern of anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Conclusions and Relevance This randomized clinical trial found that immediate acquisition of a medical marijuana card led to a higher incidence and severity of CUD; resulted in no significant improvement in pain, anxiety, or depressive symptoms; and improved self-rating of insomnia symptoms. Further investigation of the benefits of medical marijuana card ownership for insomnia and the risk of CUD are needed, particularly for individuals with anxiety or depressive symptoms.
CUD = Cannabis Use Disorder.
What do they know, though? They're just doctors.
Or perhaps you've overseen clinical trials? (I'm involved peripherally in lots of them; it's what I do for my job.) Your medical degree is from where again?
But you have misrepresented my statement.
My sober statement was that I don't want pot stores for recreational purposes in my area. I did not say anything about "medical marijuana."
There are, however, cases where the "freedumb" to smoke pot does have implications for people who don't smoke pot but are in the presence of those who are smoking it, at least according to today's JAMA feed:
Fine Particulate Matter Exposure From Secondhand Cannabis Bong Smoking
Patton Khuu Nguyen, MPH1; S. Katharine Hammond, PhD1
Author Affiliations Article Information
1Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(3):e224744. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.4744
An excerpt:
For the record, heroin was invented for the purpose of killing pain without addiction to morphine. (That worked out well, didn't it?) I personally believe that terminally ill people should have the option of using heroin, but that's not my call. (My mother-in-law, a post polio patient was addicted to narcotics, prescription narcotics, and given the pain in which she lived constantly, I was OK with it; the pain with which I live is less severe.)
I have pain and I don't smoke pot to deal with it. I take aspirin usually, and many times it works, not always, but most of the time.
I'm not telling anyone that they can't get a medical marijuana card, although the few people I've known who had one started smoking marijuana back in the days when everybody went to Grateful Dead concerts without ever giving a shit that the band was rarely in tune.
Personally I suspect that marijuana is something like the Ivermectin of pain. People assume it works because they know better than medical professionals, because they have a political agenda, and they have social reasons for doing so.
I'm aware that things are different then they were in the 1970's; I am of the generation that entered adult life then.
I am deeply ashamed of my generation, particularly with respect to the way we trashed the planet for a consumer party. If we'd been more interested in the future than in getting high, we might have stood better than we will stand in history. Were we not stoners we might have made a better world for future generations. As it is, all we're doing is leaving a huge pile of garbage, and every generation that follows will need to live with the consequences.
Don't worry. Be happy. We're the Woodstock Generation after all:
Caption:
Here's Just How Miserable Woodstock Really Was
There was a time in my life that I didn't know many people who weren't stoners. I have no idea what became of them. I cut them out of my life.
We did have one big accomplishment that was very important to us; we legalized pot. The party never stops.
As for the generation of the 70's, my generation, yeah it's different, not necessarily in an entirely good way.
You seem to wish to dictate how I feel about the knowledge I have worked to acquire. You want to grow pot and smoke it? I couldn't care less. It's your brain, not mine. I just want to prevent commercial enterprises from setting up shops because I assume that most people do not know as much about the subject as I do.
Cannabis Cultivation Facilities: A Review of Their Air Quality Impacts from the Occupational to Community Scale
(Davi de Ferreyro Monticelli, Sahil Bhandari, Angela Eykelbosh, Sarah B. Henderson, Amanda Giang, and Naomi Zimmerman Environmental Science & Technology 2022 56 (5), 2880-2896)
As for my 70's generation:
History will not forgive us; nor should it, but it's way deeper than the fact we had stoners among us. We should have been more.
... you can expect this issue to come off the back-burner.
Fetterman has been campaigning for legalized marijuana for as long as he's been a politician.
On so many issues Fetterman is in step with Bernie Sanders, and this is one of them.
It's a lot easier and direct for Congress to do so, but make no mistake that there is an administrative process to reschedule or remove a drug from the schedule list.
Ok so far this has taken me nearly 45 minutes to write. I'm unsure that I have ever that much work in writing & editing anything that's a reply before lol But there's so much I want to share with you all based on my personal experience....so let's go!
Right now I'm sitting here reading all the responses and in another tab in my browser I have this open.....
This is the website of my local dispensary, "The Green Solution", & I encourage those of you who have never really looked at a dispensary website to do so.
Green Solution has locations all over here in Colorado, several stores, and they are also a medical dispensary along with being a recreational one. I use edibles, I microdose gummies to handle the constant pain I'm in due to a superbug infection that is not curable. I'm unable to do opioids due to being pre-disposed to addiction. I was previously addicted to Hydrocodone (one of the big bad opioids) after having a very large surgery a few years ago for my infection.
I never considered using weed until my infectious disease doctor team brought it up & suggested I try using low powered edibles for pain. I had to do something because the sort of pain I have completely renders me useless to where I am literally unable to function. I've never used the stuff in my life until very recently. As a Gen X'er, that used to be my claim to fame lol "I've never used weed!" was a thing I once used to joke about yet here I am lol
So ya, I'm sitting here ordering weed online for delivery.
Yes I bolded that because many likely aren't aware how advanced states like Colorado with weed legalization compared to states like say Wisconsin or Nebraska. Do you know they make weed infused beer, soda, and even energy drinks? They do!
Weed is one of those things which is deeply stereotyped. Surely we all know the stigma which surrounds it & the stereotype of being a "stoner" but this isn't the 60s, 70s, or 80s anymore, it's 2022 and things have drastically changed. There are sooooooo many strains todays, so many sub-strains, that you almost need to have a degree in pharmacy to understand all of it because there's so many. They even make it now to where it doesn't make you sleepy but quite the contrast & the direct opposite; wake you up and get you on your feet like 2 shots of Espresso or a couple 8 hour energy drinks. There's even a "Hybrid" strain which is a combination of both Indica & Sativa, (think mellow & energetic) and that's what I personally use because it works best for me & handles the pain I have best. They even make weed these days that has NO "high" effect about it and is strictly used to manage pain.
I know that there are people on here who are very against the use of weed. And for those of you which are I have a question for you --WHY!?!? I mean seriously, why are you? How does legalizing weed impact your personal life in any possible way? Why would you support something which literally causes harm & pain to those who need help? Because I don't understand & I'd like to. Yet I can't find any logic or rational behind it so help me here.
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