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briana
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| Hi, my best friend has type 1 diabetes. She was diagnosed when we were twelve years old. Now we are nineteen. She has started to use marijuana one year ago. She says that it helps her with her condition. I am worried because her parents are not aware of her habit. Does smoking marijuana help diabetes type 1 patients? |
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nonah
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| Posted: 07/31/07 - 17:24 Post subject: |
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| Hi, diabetes type one is very serious condition. I can understand your friend is under a lot of stress because of her situation. However, marijuana is definitely not the answer. She may think that this substance is helping her, but I believe she is wrong. Marijuana is an illegal substance so therefore there are not any valid studies that show it can help with lowering blood glucose level. You have every right to worry about her condition. I think you should try talking to her about her habit and the effects of marijuana smoking. This is a drug that alters person's state of mind. Under the influence of marijuana your friend can even endanger her health, because she might forget to take her insulin injection on time. If she refuses to listen to you, you shouldn't hesitate to talk to her parents. Believe me, it is for her own good. |
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| Posted: 03/14/08 - 20:20 Post subject: Studies on Marijuana |
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Actually it is not true that marijuana does not help. It does not alter one's state of mind, nor is it habitual.
You need to look at research being done. I don't have the facts on hand, but I would definitely look into otehr points of view before I went and told my 19 year old friends parents that she is smoking weed. The knee-jerk reactions to say that marijuana is bad and lump it in with hard dcrugs like heroin, etc. is really disengenuous at best.
Go to your university and do some research, especially from countries where it has been researched quite a bit, like the Netherlands.
BTW I have type II diabetes and I find it helps relieve the pressure off my eyes to smoke marijuana |
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