Colorado Choom Gang

Anyone in Colorado or the Midwest thinking of trying some marijuana for their condition?

If you are nowhere near CO-hypothetically-would you be buying some this week?

I looked over the few studies I've seen in the past again yesterday and read a few anecdotal accounts. I have to say if was a resident I feel 99.999% sure I would be Rocky Mountain high this weekend. This coming from a person whose never smoked pot or drank except maybe a quarter of a glass of wine once a year, if that-not because I've abstained based on a 'rule,' though, just have.

There are some plumbed articles I have saved that were done on CD patients. There aren't any I've found with large samples. One with 11 patients had five in remission and 10/11 improving. The most impressive part was that they had 'failed to respond' to either steroids, anti-tnf alpha, or immune supressers. He's a study with 30 people-still not nearly enough I realize

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21910367/

i know some crohns patients who swear by it.

if you do take it, try vaping it to reduce load on lungs. moderation is key - just do the amount that you get relief with and titrate upwards/downwards.

heck yeah!!!!!! but unfortunately i am in pennsylvania : (

i've seen a few clinical trials on clinicaltrials.gov for MJ and UC/Crohn's with good results.

I live way east in Nebraska... so Colorado is about a 6 hour drive I think. Do I feel like going there for some MJ? Nah. I've never tried it before, but in general even being around regular cigarette smoke makes me sick. I can't imagine what smoking something would do to me.

If nothing else works for me for pain at some point I would go there and legally try it. I wouldn't dare bring it back though. I don't want any hassles. The news here is already showing how law enforcement out west on the border of our state is preparing for people bringing it back here. It's so funny how in one state it's okay, and in another it is such a sin. The politics of it all makes me shake my head...

NSSG, haha i totally understand what you mean. i made weed tea and drank it for 3 days straight. i was in a lot of pain so i was willing to try anything. i was so out of it and laughed at the dumbest things and wanted to sleep for 100 years. i wouldn't use weed just for fun. i only used it to see if there was a benefit for my UC.

we have medical MJ here in AZ, or, the next time I am hiking and see the dudes with the giant burlap backpacks, I could ask for a wee bit LOL. I don't have a script or MJ card for it...they are actually kind of expensive to get. I have smoked pot many years ago but have never tried it for my UC. I thought one of the benefits was as an appetite stimulant..when my UC gets bad and I am in pain I usually have total loss of appetite as well.

Well here's my experience with it...when I was a teen I smoked it a handful of times, never liked the taste or smell (even though I'm fine with smoking cigarettes) it always made me giggly and wild laughing, not mellow like for most people, so it was purely for fun but like I said, very rarely cuz I just didn't like the taste or smell.

Fast forward to September 2013...

I was at my wits end, just developing a rectovaginal fistula and was getting worse and worse with constipation so that just made my whole crotch (vagina to anus) swollen and excruciating pain to the point where I could barely walk or sleep or function. Totally ready to do myself in (and I honestly mean it) so my hubby finally convinced me to try some just to see.

Well, I can say based on my experience with it, if it hadn't helped me like it has I would not be sitting here right now typing this...Tylenol was not an option for me as it makes constipation even worse...I started eating pear/apple sauce and drinking prune juice to aid with that but it was the mj that stopped all my pain and while I'm "stoned" I don't hardly ever have a BM, so I wait until later in the afternoon (when I feel I've had enough bm's out of the way) before I smoke the smallest amount (about 5 tokes, which is very minimal, and nowhere near a whole joint, or even 2 joints a day as suggested in the study that was done for CDers and mj).

My fistula even feels like it's getting better and my GI doesn't even have me on Remi yet, which is what he's in the process of doing for me for my fistula).

So I smoke a small amount in the day and another small amount just before bed, since I stared smoking it at night, I can finally sleep through the whole night without getting up a million times for nocturnal bm's, thanks to the mj as well.

I'm not advocating but I sure don't like it when people make snap judgments especially if they haven't even tried it for themselves. Being hung up on the being stoned part is a silly reason to look down on others that actually get relief for their health issues. What really pisses me off, the medical community is well aware of the amazing health benefits mj has for many illnesses and there are even people that are using cannabis oil for their illnesses and they don't get high from it using it in that form (which is what I'm trying to figure out how to get here in Canada)....I hate the being stoned part but at this time it's my only option and it's worth it for all the pain it's taken away from me. I fought my hubby for years when he'd suggest I try it and obviously if I finally gave in (not like me at all to do that) then that speaks volumes on how helpful mj really can be for people that would rather die than be in the kind of pain I was in for over a month before I caved in and tried it.

Hey Levi,

Yes, in Canada, and we do have medical mj so it's legal for that but stupidly our government requires that you fail ALL other options before approving medical mj at the request of 2 doctors filling out the government forms for it....all they have to do is offer the female cannabis oil that doesn't even apparently cause one to get high rather than giving them actual mj that does give a high.

It's great for the time being with me smoking it, but I won't drive while stoned, so I'm still living a very sheltered life so to speak since overall I still can't function in a high state as far as driving and stuff goes. The only time I go out is with my hubby or someone else driving me, but I don't like being stoned in public either so I really want to find the cannabis oil to eat so I still have the medical effects of mj, just not the being stoned part.