A man walks into his doctors office

Salutations
I had a visit with my family doctor today- shoulder injury.   He told me

If it hurts: Just don't do it. 

Seems like sound advice. I just won't do it.   He suggested I try my hand at writing and then launched into a short story how hand guns can be mental health tools, which was the perfect segue to bring up this blog. 

I imagine many people might stress out before mentioning medical cannabis to their long time family doctor.    I wasn't there to discuss cannabis but he certainly was willing to talk about it.

Legalization of marijuana (in theory ) should give patients better access to medicine.  In 2012 the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations act was replaced with the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations act(ACMPR) .

In this 6 year window many patients were still able to purchase from local or online dispensaries. Gifted a bit of leniency by the local authorities, these grey market farm-acy's operated by only offering product to registered clients who had signed paperwork from a medical specialist who had prescribed the use of a THC or CBD product. 

Doc then launched into another one of his weird weapon analogies.

"Cannabis medicine is like a knife.   You can use it to cut a steak, but not every steak.  You can use it to screw in a loose screw, but not those cross ones. Or you can use it to stab someone in the neck and kill them."    (If you were reading that with a bit of a Dr. Nick Riviera voice- it would some pretty close to his actual voice.)

Not that he was advocating neck stabbing- I think what he was saying was; for specific cases- marijuana works great, but not for all of them.  Someone with cancer battling nausea from chemotherapy might respond well, but similar patients might feel worse.

He conceded that there hasn't been enough time to have peer reviewed studies at the academic level yet. Although optimistic, it was too early to offer any practical advice. But he assured me that he will be watching as it all unfolds, just like us.

I plan to set up appointments for online medical outreach this week, to talk to the 3rd party specialists who are primarily responsible for writing cannabis prescriptions. 

next up: Extracts. why? how? when?

I'm not even sure how he fit this into a 15 minute appointment, but I quote
"It won't be long until they say that cannabis fixes old age, or cures unwanted pregnancy!"