Dr. Oz, Montel Williams, and the Legalization of Medical Marijuana and the Management of Pain
Dr. Oz and Montel Williams got into a heated debate with other advocates and experts while discussing the various issues about the legalization of Medical Marijuana. I found the episode to be invigorating and revealing…
Montel Williams is passionate about finding a way for people who are respected citizens in this country to have legal access to Medical Marijuana for the treatment of pain. He’s right when he fervently asked who could refuse him this relief! No one in their right mind can make that call to keep another human being from suffering in agony.
No law should exist that precludes the reasonable use of any natural substance that has been proven to provide relief and is inexpensive and relatively safe. Marijuana fits into this category and is much safer than many common pharmaceuticals that are often prescribed by doctors for pain and other conditions that are far more addictive and harmful than pot.
Marijuana is not necessarily addictive, but when people are in pain they will be inclined to seek constant relief. However, both Montel and the other woman who has used Medical Marijuana stated that they are not dependent upon it and don’t feel addicted to the substance. They function as normal citizens with full faculties and without pain. That’s worth all the discussion in the world…
You won’t understand or respect that statement until you have unending pain. You might think that you can take the pain, but until you find yourself writhing in agony non-stop twenty-four hours a day without sleep and without relief; you DO NOT KNOW PAIN. So all of those so-called experts like the woman talking politics who haven’t experienced this degree of pain, just don’t get to determine the necessity for the rest of us. She needs an overhaul with her political mumbo-jumbo anyway. At first I was willing to listen to her side of the fence, but then she made me want to silence her and put her out to pasture. I cannot give her any credibility.
I did appreciate the expert who is a physician who uses Medical Marijuana for his cancer patients. My own father suffered from nausea, pain, and lack of appetite in the last stages of colon cancer and he begged me for help in getting him something to smoke after being opposed to the substance all of his life. Pain will do that to people and will change the mind of a person on one side of the fence. He did get relief from the pain and was able to eat without upsetting his stomach to the end when he passed away with his faculties intact. My mother had been so medicated with morphine when she was dying of stomach cancer that she was unable to communicate with us at the end of her illness. My father was a real trooper and overcame his objections to marijuana and left this life in peace. I say that we need to legalize this substance and make it available to people in pain who cannot take other medications or afford other care.
I was upset with Dr. Oz when he expressed his distaste for building thriving businesses. Hemp and marijuana can provide thousands of jobs and be a viable revenue source in this economy, so he needs to get a grip on his attitude. If there is a legitimate demand for the products that accompany the cultivation of the plant material; then a business should be able to sell them and make a profit. This is capitalism at its best. It’s better than doing drug deals in the alley or in more dangerous places. Let’s bring it into the light of day and keep it safe and sane.
Marijuana works on the receptor sites on the synapses of our nerves. It blocks pain signals from being transmitted along the system. That’s an incredible thing that many drugs try to mimic. Most don’t do that well and people get intermittent pain relief at best… As long as marijuana is grown without pesticides, herbicides, and other agricultural toxins; then it will remain safer and more effective than many of the drugs that the FDA monitors now.
I would caution people from the conclusion that this substance is addictive when comparing it to the more well-known drugs like heroine or morphine or other opiates. I know dozens of people who might smoke a little occasionally, drink beer or other liquor occasionally, and smoke cigarettes now and then. They don’t get hooked on pot, so the concept and fear that it is a gateway drug or an addictive drug is unproven to my own satisfaction.
There are people who will abuse any substance when given a chance. It’s their attitude more than the physical properties of the substances at work more often than not. If a person has to be licensed to go into a store to purchase Medical Marijuana; then that restricts most of the abuse at the commercial level. Then you have to address the social sector of our society that will abuse anything. Certainly we are intelligent enough to do that…
Pain Management is a critical part of health care and we have to allow for effective substances like marijuana to take their rightful place in our culture.
We’ve talked until we are blue in the face about the natural ways to address Pain. We like our Pure Relief CieAura Holographic Chips and our MSM powder and our Essential Oils that work. But if people really need to smoke, inhale, or eat their marijuana; then they should be given the freedom to do so to alleviate their pain. Everyone deserves to live in a pain-free body!
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I always work diligently to help people get to the root cause of the pain, but that doesn’t always allow for simple Pain Management or complete relief. I wanted to spank that young counselor for his insulting mode of operation. Who does he think he is? He is as bad as the female politico who thinks that policy outweighs people…they need to experience the pain to understand the issues! They may have good intentions, but they lack compassion and experience; so they need to be met with the reality of the seriousness of the issue of Pain Management in the real world. It’s more than literature reviews and policies and research studies…
While marijuana would not be my ‘go-to’ substance of choice for pain, I do hope that we can keep it in the line-up as a legal choice for people who choose to use it instead of more harmful drugs. Surely, we live in a society that can blend compassion with health care with law to accommodate all of our needs and points-of-view without trampling on the freedom and the rights of citizens to live a meaningful and productive pain-free life.
Maybe Dr. Oz can invite Rocco DiSpirito back to his stage to give people a good recipe for brownies with bud. Rachel Ray could offer the audience a good spaghetti sauce recipe with the herb. A pot of tea brewed and served on a bus in Amsterdam opened my eyes to the difference in our cultural views many years ago, so I think that we can all find a way to make room for a pain-free view of the world here in this country with a little place for the weed in our arsenal of products that are effective for dealing with the misery of chronic pain.
