Just because it does not help lower the blood sugar, does not mean it's completely useless. It actually helps to open blood vessels and circulate blood. If you know anything about Diabetes, you know that this is a very big problem for diabetics. I could go on & on, but if you actually DO care to research, here is the website (which by the way, shows that it helps stabilize blood sugars ;)
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This paper posits that cannabis can have the following benefits for diabetes patients:
* stabilizing blood sugars (confirmed via “a large body of anecdotal evidence building among diabetes sufferers”)
* anti-inflammatory action that may help quell some of the arterial inflammation common in diabetes
* “neuroprotective” effects that help thwart inflammation of nerves and reduce the pain of neuropathy by activating receptors in the body and brain
* “anti-spasmodic agents” help relieve muscle cramps and the pain of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders
* acts as a “vasodilator” to help keep blood vessels open and improve circulation
* contributes to lower blood pressure over time, which is vital for diabetics
* substituting cannabis butter and oil in foods “benefits cardiac and arterial health in general”
* it can also be used to make topical creams to relieve neuropathic pain and tingling in hands and feet
* finally, cannabis helps still diabetic “restless leg syndrom” (RLS), so the patient can sleep better: “it is recommended that patients use a vaporizer or smoked cannabis to aid in falling asleep.”
Now I have no idea how this has been received in the medical community, but that is one heck of a long list of potential health benefits! Where do I sign up for the clinical studies? (wink
Simon concludes: “If the stuff wasn’t illegal it would be considered a medical super-miracle given all the problems it treats.”
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I have a prescription and use medical cannabis...i believe from diet, exercise, and cannabis i am now cured of hypoglycemia/diabetes. Nonan or w/e doesn't know anything about cannabis.
I use cannabis for other ailments but in most medical cannabis states you can get a prescription for just diabetes, which i recommend for those of you who are having blood sugar issues after smoking because if the dispensary worker is well informed you can just ask them whats the best strain they have for patients with diabetes.( Some dont effect hunger much ) i had simliar problems long ago but only if i smoked while feeling shaky from lack of food. You can also take the articles advise and cook cannabis butter or oil into your food.
honestly you dont have diabeties and it really doesnt effect your mind to where you forget that you have the condition. yeah you shouldnt use th drug just because your upset, butyes there are provin facts saying that marijuana helps control yourblood glucose. yes people have their opinions on the drug but its harmless. and she will grow out of the smoking because i started smoking at 13 because it made me feel undifferent from all my friends, because diabeties always makes the person think they are the odd ball, but when you get older you realize its just another part of life that some people have to deal with.
“CBD is non-psychoactive and has anti-inflammatory and anti-autoimmune properties. The results (of the present study)… Suggests that CBD – treatment inhibits diabetes by induction of regulatory TH2 (cell) responses” (Weiss, et al., 2006). Ingestion of marijuana strains that are higher in CBD concentrations may help to lower blood sugar levels. Studies in diabetic mice indicate that CB receptor interactions with marijuana compounds such as CBD and Cannabichromene (CBC) can also neutralize the body’s overreaction to blood sugar imbalances, the results of which cause nerve cell distraction and retinopathy (blindness).
I think it impairs judgement and started at an early age as the frontal lobes are still developing is a problem. Plus if there is history of depression in the family, it makes matters worse. We are dealing with the same thing. I see so many of these teens believing that pot is not a substance, but it is and can be abused. With Type 1 insulin diabetes you need to be "present" and be able to deal with sugars (high or low) ketones, counting carbs etc., It seems that pot sort of strips motivation and or caring about these issues. It sad that so many kids feel they have to get "high" just to be.
Some really glittering testimonials to marijuana here. I have never used it myself but as a musician for most of my life I have been around a great number of people who have literally become so dependant on marijuana that it has become the single most important thing in their lives. It controls them. I can see it in a number of the replies here. It takes a long time to become this addicted to this drug but it does happen. And when it does it is a life-long addiction. People with this addiction become very upset and defensive if they hear anyone say anything negative about it. It's almost like they have replaced religion with marijuana.
Despite what others may say, it is mind-altering. As an observer looking in at the inner sancti of dozens of pot users over the years I have seen the changes that take place in their behavior before, during, and after getting high. They are blatantly obvious. While they are under the influence a distinct shift in what is important to them and what makes sense to them takes place. There is also a distinct withdrawal pattern that occurs anywhere from several hours to several days after their last high wears off that involves irritability, impatience, arrogance and haughtiness that is in striking contradiction to the happy and placid demeanor that most of them project while they are actually high. Some, however, become extremely paranoid while they are high.
I would say the greatest risk of using this drug for medicinal relief is that you may become so dependent on it that you find yourself living to get high and little more than that. Apparently, for some, life without pot is very boring. That's why I've chosen to avoid it. I don't want to know what I'm missing. I don't want my world to be dominated by a drug.
K, I've had diabetes since I was 6 and am now 22. I've smoked pot since I was 14 and am still alive and kicking. First of all, don't second guess your friend and what SHE says helps her. You're not in her shoes, so you have really no idea what she deals with both physically and mentally. If she says it's doing something to help, THEN BE HAPPY she atleast found something that wasn't prescribed and chemically manufactured. Marijuana has alot more beneficial effects than non beneficial. Not only for her body, but mind. Diabetics have A LOT on their plate and we know that. We know whats in our future if we don't control this disease, it's an unsettling thought. I can assume smoking has not only calmed her anxieties about this but has been slowing alot of the harmful processes our bodies undergo on the daily too, So just be happy for her, as her best friend.
Of course it's not good for people with serious medical conditions! IT IS A DRUG, no matter how much the current generation wants to deny it. It is not known how this drug interacts with other important medicines people are on, whether they be for diabetes, heart disease, mental illness, addictions, etc. *Kids* should not be using it; it effects brain development, and brains develop in humans into our 20's. What falsities we live under in our society, allowing ourselves to believe that foreign mind-altering substances taken into the body are ok! You are all so sucked in by it. May you see the light someday.
No, YOU are completely incorrect. Pot is a DRUG, it is habitual, it causes lifelong addiction. People go to rehab for it. The diabetic, nor any of us, needs this additional PROBLEM in our lives. IT DOES NOT HAVE ONE DOCUMENTED HEALTH BENEFIT. Get real.
By the way, how's it workin' for you? ?