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Every Possible Way to Take Medical Marijuana (without Smoking It)

While the March 2019 lift in the Florida medical marijuana smoking ban came as a relief for many, for lots of others, the idea of smoking — anything — was a non-starter.  Many people have never smoked anything in their lives and while they may be sick, or suffering, enough to qualify for Florida’s medical marijuana card, they don’t have any desire to start smoking.  Widely known as a “universal medicine,” in Florida medical marijuana use is intended to treat many illnesses and to provide relief from the suffering caused by many other ailments.  Because of its status as a universal medicine, many patients are left — even by their doctors — to determine dosage levels, select the types and strains they want, and leave the administration of this medicine entirely to themselves.   Many then also assume that medical marijuana needs to be smoked. While for lots of patients this presents no problem, but for many others, it’s not the preferred method. It’s almost instant, but smoke can irri
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Marijuana vs. Opioids

Opioids are regularly prescribed for patients to help them manage pain after surgeries and for those who suffer from chronic pain. However, the side effects and the addictive qualities of these pain killers have led patients, and some doctors as well, to seek alternative forms of treatment for pain. Marijuana has been known to have painkilling properties and could possibly be the alternative pain reliever to help move society away from the usage of opioids. So why are so many hesitant to give marijuana a try?   Opioids and pain Opioids, also referred to as narcotics, are a class of drugs that can be obtained by prescription from a doctor or illegally “off the street.” Opioids are found naturally in the poppy plant, opium. Opium has numerous effects on the body and brain, one such effect is the blockage of pain signals between the brain and the body. Hence, opioids are typically prescribed for the effectiveness in treating moderate to severe pain. However, the less appealing qualiti
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Ten Facts Before You Apply For The Residents of Florida Medical Marijuana Card

Some 300,000 residents of Florida already have a Marijuana Card, and thus, legal access to medical marijuana. If you’d like to qualify, it pays to do some research beforehand, or at least to work with someone willing to explain the procedure in detail.    These are the ten essential things to consider as you begin the process. It’s a relatively complicated process. So, it pays to have expert advice right from the beginning. Marijuana Doctor works to educate people from all health backgrounds about the legal process of obtaining specialized treatment, and can advise you along the way with specifics derived from your own case and medical history. Medical marijuana might also be able to help with relieving pain, reducing anxiety, helping with depression, and more.  Not everyone qualifies. That’s a pretty blunt realization for some patients who are in fact suffering from other serious disorders or illnesses. Still, while the law spells out specific qualifying conditions, it also all
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Ten Facts before You Apply for the Florida Medical Marijuana Card

Some 300,000 Floridian already have a Marijuana Card, and thus, legal access to medical marijuana. If you’d like to qualify, it pays to do some research beforehand, or at least to work with someone willing to explain the procedure in detail.  These are the ten essential things to consider as you begin the process. It’s a relatively complicated process. So, it pays to have expert advice right from the beginning. Marijuana Doctor works to educate people from all health backgrounds about the legal process of obtaining specialized treatment, and can advise you along the way with specifics derived from your own case and medical history. Medical marijuana might also be able to help with relieving pain, reducing anxiety, helping with depression, and more.  Not everyone qualifies. That’s a pretty blunt realization for some patients who are in fact suffering from other serious disorders or illnesses. Still, while the law spells out specific qualifying conditions, it also allows for patien
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Five Essentials Things Learned from Cathy Jordan, Florida’s ‘Patron Saint’ of Medical Marijuana

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In a tribute in the Herald-Tribune earlier this year , Floridians learned about one of the many heroes in the long struggle for medical marijuana in Florida, a brave woman named Cathy Jordan. Jordan spent 22 years leading the fight to bring medical marijuana to the people suffering from long-term and chronic conditions in the Sunshine State. It was a personal fight for her as well, as, during that entire time, she was also suffering herself. Diagnosed some 24 years ago with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, she found that medical cannabis was one of the only things that helped to treat her symptoms. According to the Herald-Tribune, Jordan always knew that victory would be tight, but that it would always come. “I always knew we were going to win,” she said in an interview. Medical Marijuana in Florida ALS can be devastating, but it’s only one of the illnesses for which Florida residents can now receive approval to begin medical marijuana treatment. In Florida, and here at Marijuana Doc
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Why is the VA Keeping Medical Marijuana from Veterans with PTSD?

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Medical marijuana has been a life-saving treatment for hundreds-of-thousands of residents all across Florida and millions of people all across the United States. And with 1.5 million veterans in the state, Florida’s Department of Veteran Affairs has a track record of meeting, and even exceeding the needs of some of its worthiest citizens. This has been especially true in cutting Florida’s levels of veteran homeless by nearly 50 percent in just the past ten years. Unfortunately, because so many veterans suffer from significant physical and mental conditions associated with PTSD, there’s still a long way to go toward making sure that all veterans receive the care and treatment to which they’re entitled — especially with medical marijuana. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the result of any number of traumatic events that can occur during a normal tour with a branch of the military. Combat, life-threatening experiences and accidents all take their tolls on veterans’ mental health and we
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Baby Boomers Using More Medical Cannabis, Want Doctors to Be More Open, Study Finds

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A new study out suggests that Baby Boomers use of medical cannabis has steadily grown over the past few years, although patients do report having trouble accessing treatment. According to a recent article in MarketWatch , the Boomer generation, perhaps more than most want more education when it comes to medical marijuana, and they also hope to see a little more openness from their doctors about the topic. The qualitative study which researched older adults in Colorado found that even though the Baby Boomers were more open to using medical marijuana to treat a whole host of conditions, the group had considerable trouble finding doctors who were open to using the drug as a part of their treatment regimen. “We identified 16 codes from which five main themes emerged,” read the results of the study titled “Qualitative Analysis of Cannabis Use Among Older Adults in Colorado,” which was published in the journal Drugs and Aging. “These themes included: a lack of education and research about
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