The Virginia Senate voted unanimously Monday to pass the Joint Commission on Health Care bill SB 726, which will let Virginia doctors recommend the use of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil for the treatment of any diagnosed condition or disease.
I see what you did there, News Leader
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Last summer, I visited by buddy in Raleigh and we binge-watched every Brule video. We were ROFL and his fiancé couldn't understand what was so funny about it. Not for everyone, but I absolutely love it.
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I know there are a lot of jokes so far but this is seriously a very good thing. My wife suffers from migraines that force her to miss work for multiple days. My mother just finished cancer treatments and while that window has passed, there are lingering effects from the chemo this would help her with. My grandfather has very bad arthritis that the anti-inflammatory and pain management properties of this will help him stay active and in turn, live longer. This is long over-due and will impact many people with conditions that greatly impact their lives. These 3 examples are just in my immediate circle that I know of people who could benefit from this. In the states with medical marijuana available for everyone, opioid deaths are down 25%. It is only the oil forms so you won't be seeing dispensaries opening up and you don't get high from them in the form they will be prescribed.
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Part of the problem with medical marijuana/ CBD oil is that it hasn't been studied as much because it was illegal for so long. You'd likely be hard pressed to find a real scientific basis to say yes or no to it's effectiveness in treating depression. But there is plenty of anecdotal reporting on the web that suggests people have benefitted from treating depression with CBD oil.
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Easy answer is no. More nuanced is that there may be some minor benefit, but the active compounds don't really work to stabilize/ increase the pathways that help with depression (Serotonin/dopamine). There may be anxiolytic benefits which could help with comorbid anxiety with depression. Best treatment data for Major depressive disorder has benn shown to be cognitive behavioral therapy and SSRI's such as fluoxetine or citalopram.
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You probably need to increase your dose or be switched to a different antidepressant that has a different mechanism of action and complete a trial of that. Unfortunately MDD doesn't have as clear a definition for cure vs helping, but if you end up having treatment resistant depression, then there are some combinations of antidepressants that have been shown to work as well.
edit: Obviously talk to your MD about this, don't just start taking double of your medication or something like that. Also medications for depression normally take about 2 weeks to start showing effects, so make sure taking it like you're supposed to.
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The only time I have partaken was accidental if enough to register at all. I was a Def Leppard concert in the early 90's and an aroma/haze was floating around the Providence Civic Center...
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I am out of touch too. It's been 40 years since the days of Maui Wowie, Panama Red and Tiajuana Gold. How do you use it. Lace a cig with it? Put it on your tongue? Load a bong or hookah?
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Having been born and raised Virginia and now moved to Washington state, I can say that this is a nice step in a good direction. There is fully legal marijuana here and you know what? Its not a big deal. The people who want to use it are welcome to and the rest of us (who get tested at work) choose not to and it all works out. Multiple studies here show the positive effects of the oils and extracts for medicinal use, especially considering the alternative is alcohol or opiates. This is a step in the right direction for the Old Dominion State
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I couldn't agree more. I lived in Seattle from 2014-2015 and everyone at home in VA was always asking me how it was living in WA with the legalization of pot. I shrugged them off because aside from the shops all over the place in big cities, it just wasn't a thing. Similar to tobacco or alcohol...great if you want to partake and if you don't that's cool too.
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Funny story...my former co-worker from France was visiting the US for fun. After the trip he and I were talking and he was like, "wow! you guys sure do have a lot of hospitals". I was really confused until I realized that the Green Plus icon that is commonly used for pot shops is the same as the hospital icon in Europe.
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They'll kick you out of the Gorge if they catch you smoking it. Plus, they check your bags going in and all food items must be in original manufacturer's packaging, if you were thinking to get stuff in that way. I'm not saying you can't partake, but just like alcohol, you'd have to sneak it in.
Source: was at a festival at the Gorge this past September.
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My only concern is vehicle accidents. I have heard that Colorado has seen a significant increase in accidents attributable to legalized weed. I hope it's just a short-term thing while people make the transition from "I can't get weed because it's illegal" to "I can smoke all the weed I want!" to "OK, I can smoke now, but I still have to make decisions like an adult."
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One of the reasons many states won't adopt legalization is there is not good way to test on the spot whether or not you are baked, like there is when you are drunk. Until they come up with a way, it won't get universally adopted. And anyone who says that being high doesn't affect driving is dreaming.
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What about the old fashioned way? If you're driving like crap, you get observed and pulled and ticketed for crappy driving. Never been a big fan of roadblocks and indiscriminate checkpoints for many reasons, but I have no problem targeting and ticketing crappy driving, regardless of why. Phones, alcohol, pills or pot, if you drive like you are impaired, you are impaired enough to get a ticket.
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Phones have an enormous impact. It used to be whenever I saw someone swerving or driving slow (10-15 under the speed limit) I thought they were drunk. Now? Almost without fail, when I pass someone like that, when I glance over they either are looking down at a phone or have one to their ear. My wife and I have both been in accidents the last 5 years. My wife got t-boned at a stop light by someone going 45 who blew through a red (totaled the car, pushed the rear driver's side door to the passenger side of the car, other car ended up on its roof). I got hit last year by someone who crept into the intersection at a 2-way stop as I was going through after they had stopped for the sign. Both times, the other driver was completely oblivious to their surroundings because their face was buried in their phone.
Distracted driving due to phone usage is an epidemic. I am in full support of a full ban on having phones function in a moving vehicle. Too many idiots are putting others at risk.
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I don't think anyone would say that it doesn't impact driving, but there is a fair amount of research that it is no where close to the same thing as drinking and driving...notably from NIH:
Many investigators have suggested that the reason why marijuana does not result in an increased crash rate in laboratory tests despite demonstrable neurophysiologic impairments is that, unlike drivers under the influence of alcohol, who tend to underestimate their degree of impairment, marijuana users tend to overestimate their impairment, and consequently employ compensatory strategies.
Use of CBD oil does not have any euphoric, or appetite enhancing side effects. Just thought I would let y'all know to kind of pull this back into perspective.
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Medical marijuana oil bill passes Virginia senate 40-0
I see what you did there, News Leader
Man its Tuesday afternoon.
You shouldn't be drinking that hard this early.
Something tells me he isn't drinking.
Something tells me you are right
The fact that your avatar is Dr. Steve Brule gives this post full credibility.
Bringo. Also.......Shrimps are bugs.
What do we have here? The building blocks of shushi: shushi meat, peaches and guacamole.
Brule isn't for everyone but Damn if it's not for me!
Last summer, I visited by buddy in Raleigh and we binge-watched every Brule video. We were ROFL and his fiancé couldn't understand what was so funny about it. Not for everyone, but I absolutely love it.
Sweet Berry Wine!
Eric Wareheim co-owns a winery now and they make Sweet Berry Wine
That's incredible
It's 4:20 somewhere
Hey now, as a graduate student I resent your judgmental attitude.
Jazz cabbage. I am so stealing that.
First thing that popped in my head...
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I was really hoping jazz cabbage would take off after being used in some "Dad" memes.
I suddenly developed ongoing migraines. Totally a coincidence...
Maybe Jazzercise will make a comeback...
Hey, ...my mom does Jazzercise.
Anyone feeling hungry? Also, Family Guy just became hilarious again, all of a sudden.
Remember that Pringles thread?
It just became more relevant in Virginia.
Still wouldn't eat Pringles.
What Pringles thread?
Dang you, short term memory!!!
I know there are a lot of jokes so far but this is seriously a very good thing. My wife suffers from migraines that force her to miss work for multiple days. My mother just finished cancer treatments and while that window has passed, there are lingering effects from the chemo this would help her with. My grandfather has very bad arthritis that the anti-inflammatory and pain management properties of this will help him stay active and in turn, live longer. This is long over-due and will impact many people with conditions that greatly impact their lives. These 3 examples are just in my immediate circle that I know of people who could benefit from this. In the states with medical marijuana available for everyone, opioid deaths are down 25%. It is only the oil forms so you won't be seeing dispensaries opening up and you don't get high from them in the form they will be prescribed.
There is absolutely no reasonable argument to be made against medical marijuana.
Hope your family can get some relief, and soon!
My question is would it help someone with major depression?
A friend told me that it could hypothetically help with anxiety and depression.
I don't use the jazz cabbage recreationally because it is illegal.
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I think I understand what you mean
My god Olivia Wilde is an attractive woman....
....I'm sorry what were we talking about?
Olivia Wilde likes jazz.
Wait, what?!?
Part of the problem with medical marijuana/ CBD oil is that it hasn't been studied as much because it was illegal for so long. You'd likely be hard pressed to find a real scientific basis to say yes or no to it's effectiveness in treating depression. But there is plenty of anecdotal reporting on the web that suggests people have benefitted from treating depression with CBD oil.
I might have to look into it
Easy answer is no. More nuanced is that there may be some minor benefit, but the active compounds don't really work to stabilize/ increase the pathways that help with depression (Serotonin/dopamine). There may be anxiolytic benefits which could help with comorbid anxiety with depression. Best treatment data for Major depressive disorder has benn shown to be cognitive behavioral therapy and SSRI's such as fluoxetine or citalopram.
I go to therapy and take bupropion and it still doesn't help
You probably need to increase your dose or be switched to a different antidepressant that has a different mechanism of action and complete a trial of that. Unfortunately MDD doesn't have as clear a definition for cure vs helping, but if you end up having treatment resistant depression, then there are some combinations of antidepressants that have been shown to work as well.
edit: Obviously talk to your MD about this, don't just start taking double of your medication or something like that. Also medications for depression normally take about 2 weeks to start showing effects, so make sure taking it like you're supposed to.
I've been taking the wellbutrin for a year and I we've have upped the dose 1 time
Or smoke up.
Yee yee
Are you looking past meds and at the whole picture? A lot of new thinking out there beyond meds.
Get better brother!
I feel old and out of touch.
I feel you, bro.
I liked weed when it had mystique and was taboo, and parents just didn't understand. Nowadays, the grandparents getting high freaks me out a little.
Dad was a cop, high school drug tested and then I went into public safety where you were drug tested so I've never partaken.
The only time I have partaken was accidental if enough to register at all. I was a Def Leppard concert in the early 90's and an aroma/haze was floating around the Providence Civic Center...
And you didn't inhale?
And you certainly didn't enjoy it.....
I had the check the thread cause I had no idea what the heck Jazz Cabbage was.
I like mine name for it The Good Good
I'm more of a bubonic chronic guy myself
"Who got the freshy, freshy?"
I like it
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I am out of touch too. It's been 40 years since the days of Maui Wowie, Panama Red and Tiajuana Gold. How do you use it. Lace a cig with it? Put it on your tongue? Load a bong or hookah?
Condense it into a vapor cloud of pure good good
Sorry, couldn't get the Bruce Almighty one.
There was this one time, at band camp, where we baked some brownies...
Nothing for like two hours, and then Whoa, mama.
Looked in the Richmond T-D for news and this is what I found;
Don't buy Dorritos Blaze. On the bag it says like licking a volcano. I'm not sure if that's why lava was coming out of me the entire next day.
Yea they burn bad
PROOF OF TARGARYEN GENES
Honestly that would be insane if that was an intentional piece from GOT i doubt it just would be ridiculous
They'll be a single dorito on a table in the background and you have a good pair of eyes to notice it
Everyone realizes VA didn't legalize recreational marijuana right? They just legalized cannabidiol, and oil extracted from said jazz cabbage
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Get out of here with your logic and reason.
It's a start. Now people in need can get what is needed and people with a sympathetic Dr. can get what they want.
Gotta have the necessary equipment (not that I'd know, I mean it was illegal before, how could I possibly know?)
ITEM 9 EXISTS!
Having been born and raised Virginia and now moved to Washington state, I can say that this is a nice step in a good direction. There is fully legal marijuana here and you know what? Its not a big deal. The people who want to use it are welcome to and the rest of us (who get tested at work) choose not to and it all works out. Multiple studies here show the positive effects of the oils and extracts for medicinal use, especially considering the alternative is alcohol or opiates. This is a step in the right direction for the Old Dominion State
I couldn't agree more. I lived in Seattle from 2014-2015 and everyone at home in VA was always asking me how it was living in WA with the legalization of pot. I shrugged them off because aside from the shops all over the place in big cities, it just wasn't a thing. Similar to tobacco or alcohol...great if you want to partake and if you don't that's cool too.
I'm headed to Seattle to hit the DMB show at the Gorge in September. How wide spread are the "Procurement Facilities" in and around the area?
Just a quick google search just like searching for a Chipotle and you'll find what you need.
Except you don't want the Jazz Cabbage that Chipotle serves cause it will get you sick. Get that Moe's Ganja. Amirite Fireman?
Oh no! I hope I didn't start the Chipotle vs. Moe's debate. I used Chipotle as an example because that's what I had for lunch.
Dear god.... I hope you had the antidote for dessert.
I thought Bill Roth settled that debate once and for all...
Funny story...my former co-worker from France was visiting the US for fun. After the trip he and I were talking and he was like, "wow! you guys sure do have a lot of hospitals". I was really confused until I realized that the Green Plus icon that is commonly used for pot shops is the same as the hospital icon in Europe.
Nice! I expected a little more push back.
They'll kick you out of the Gorge if they catch you smoking it. Plus, they check your bags going in and all food items must be in original manufacturer's packaging, if you were thinking to get stuff in that way. I'm not saying you can't partake, but just like alcohol, you'd have to sneak it in.
Source: was at a festival at the Gorge this past September.
Thanks for the heads up. I always make it into shows with my Giggle Bush. Pre roll and tuck em in the Ole' Marlboro Light box and Bringo!
I don't think you're allowed to bring unsealed/opened boxes of cigarettes, either, though that may be show-specific.
My only concern is vehicle accidents. I have heard that Colorado has seen a significant increase in accidents attributable to legalized weed. I hope it's just a short-term thing while people make the transition from "I can't get weed because it's illegal" to "I can smoke all the weed I want!" to "OK, I can smoke now, but I still have to make decisions like an adult."
Illegality has never been much of an impediment to obtaining weed. That horse left the docks and jazz clubs decades ago.
Really more accidents.....from what more people driving way too slow and being paranoid....?? maybe more wrecks at the Taco Bell drive through?????
He means people getting baked like a pie and then driving that way.
combine that with an inability for drivers to stay off the fucking phone and.... yeah,i can see it
One of the reasons many states won't adopt legalization is there is not good way to test on the spot whether or not you are baked, like there is when you are drunk. Until they come up with a way, it won't get universally adopted. And anyone who says that being high doesn't affect driving is dreaming.
What about the old fashioned way? If you're driving like crap, you get observed and pulled and ticketed for crappy driving. Never been a big fan of roadblocks and indiscriminate checkpoints for many reasons, but I have no problem targeting and ticketing crappy driving, regardless of why. Phones, alcohol, pills or pot, if you drive like you are impaired, you are impaired enough to get a ticket.
True.
I suspect phones might have a bigger effect on crappy driving these days, but the problem is the crappy driving, regardless of the cause.
Phones have an enormous impact. It used to be whenever I saw someone swerving or driving slow (10-15 under the speed limit) I thought they were drunk. Now? Almost without fail, when I pass someone like that, when I glance over they either are looking down at a phone or have one to their ear. My wife and I have both been in accidents the last 5 years. My wife got t-boned at a stop light by someone going 45 who blew through a red (totaled the car, pushed the rear driver's side door to the passenger side of the car, other car ended up on its roof). I got hit last year by someone who crept into the intersection at a 2-way stop as I was going through after they had stopped for the sign. Both times, the other driver was completely oblivious to their surroundings because their face was buried in their phone.
Distracted driving due to phone usage is an epidemic. I am in full support of a full ban on having phones function in a moving vehicle. Too many idiots are putting others at risk.
One pretty good test could be "Sir, can you take your sunglasses off? It's 11 PM"
I don't think anyone would say that it doesn't impact driving, but there is a fair amount of research that it is no where close to the same thing as drinking and driving...notably from NIH:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/09/stoned-drivers-ar...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722956/
Alot of people would argue that .08 still leaves you with plenty ability to drive a car. It doesn't mean that you should do it or that it is safe.
Hell yeah!
Use of CBD oil does not have any euphoric, or appetite enhancing side effects. Just thought I would let y'all know to kind of pull this back into perspective.
correct. THC-A oil does not have the euphoric effects either. It has not been heated which is required for the euphoric effects
30 Minutes in the oven at low temp. Bringo.
Carbonizing the THC-A oil eradicates the "A" compound which in turn gives you all the euphoria you paid for.
Daves not here man
I can't believe it took me like three whole days to think about making a joke about bud getting a pass
Cody Journell is stoked.