Cannabis for pain relief

[Kiwififer]

I’ve used CBD oil for pain relief and while it doesn’t cure it, it lowers it to a 2/10 if that makes sense.

I then went onto the gummies which are expensive but if you shop around, you can find a BOGOF deal somewhere. I found the gummies weren’t as good but that’s a personal preference.

Admission time - I don’t like getting stoned, it just doesn’t agree with me so while I have tried cannabis (like most if we are honest), I can see the benefits of the CBD part. Legalise it, tax it and take the criminality out of it imo and I say that while sitting doing a shift in an alcohol rehab centre right now!

[GillyBee]

I know someone who is frustrated that cannabis is so hard to get legally for medical use
It is the only thing that works on his chronic pain beyond strong opiates with far worse side effects.

[Kiwififer]

I know someone who is frustrated that cannabis is so hard to get legally for medical use
It is the only thing that works on his chronic pain beyond strong opiates with far worse side effects.

Yeah, I agree with you. I take prescription strength cocodamol every morning for my arthritic knee as I can walk anything up to 24k steps a day at work - it’s the only thing that seems to work but I would prefer to take something more natural as taking higher doses of cocodamol will not be doing me any good in the long term!

I know someone who has stage three cancer and while she takes every medication going, she supplements it with a very high strength CBD which seems to help with her pain. Even if it’s a placebo for both of us, it works so it should be made cheaper and easier to get.

[Arzosah]

I’ve used CBD oil for pain relief and while it doesn’t cure it, it lowers it to a 2/10 if that makes sense.

I then went onto the gummies which are expensive but if you shop around, you can find a BOGOF deal somewhere. I found the gummies weren’t as good but that’s a personal preference.

Admission time - I don’t like getting stoned, it just doesn’t agree with me so while I have tried cannabis (like most if we are honest), I can see the benefits of the CBD part. Legalise it, tax it and take the criminality out of it imo and I say that while sitting doing a shift in an alcohol rehab centre right now!

Good to know of somebody on here that uses it ... Kiwififer, is there a brand that you'd recommend? As you say, I've tried cannabis - way back in my 20s, I didn't like it, so when I went to Amsterdam as a tourist in my 40s, I told my friends that I'd be the sober one, who wouldn't take anything at all. My best friend had had really intense religious teenager times, and had never tried it, but she was terrified of falling into a canal in Amsterdam

Be that as it may, I'm not interested in getting high, but I *am* interested in the relief of pain, and of deep aches. If oil and/or gummies will do that, and I can obtain them legally, then a brand recommendation would be great, if you or anyone else could.