Chronic pain is one of the major health problems seniors have and many have found relief in the use of cannabis medicine. Let’s look at the various methods & forms a person can experiment with. And basically you are going to experiment on yourself with different substances and different doses of them. Don’t worry, cannabis is one of the safest therapeutically active substances we have.
Smoking
Smoking is fast acting in a matter of seconds but it is also short acting, reaches maximum effects in 30 minutes or less and slowly tapers off over 2 or 3 hours. This almost instant effect is great when you have muscle cramps, seizures or nausea. Because it’s short acting sometimes a dosing schedule is worked out. to find the right dose, too much THC can cause anxiety & other side effects and not enough will not give relief.
Cannabis smoke like all smoke has hundreds of chemical compounds including nasty ones but there must also be anti cancer ones because surprising research by Dr. Donald Tashkin of UCLA found cannabis smokers had less lung cancer than those who smoked nothing