You’re sick. Someone offers you marijuana, saying that it will alleviate your suffering. Do you take it? Many patients and doctors have insisted that marijuana is uniquely beneficial, while others say the dangers of cannabis far outweigh the benefits. We know that marijuana is a drug, but is it a medicine?
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Marijuana Treats Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- From Amer Alliance for Med Cannabis
By American Alliance for Medical Cannabis - Compassion, Healing, Education
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Works
Works for me that is all I need to know! Stop the feds save 100 billion let my brother sisters out of jail not please!
- Cherokee Fred hussein October 9, 2008 9:55AM
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OCD and Marijuana
This is a ridiculous contention- there are two people cited as evidence for this. OCD is an anxiety disorder which can be affected by a myriad of things. If it is that case that two people with OCD responding positively to a substance qualifies as evidence that the substance is medicine, then I submit that caffeine is a medicine too. We'll probably soon find that the same is true of chocolate.
- ockraz
October 21, 2008 3:52AM
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I'll bet it does...
I have to be honest, when I saw the title to this argument, I laughed out loud. I'm pretty sure your average marijuana user doesn't care enough about anything to be OCD. I'm not sure if it qualifies as treatment, however, if the patient stops displaying signs of compulsive behavior simply because he/she is too stoned to give a shit.
- richardsonkr
January 18, 2009 8:33PM
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