Can Cannabis Help My back Pain
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For most back pain doctors use prescription medications like other NSAIDS (like Celebrex) or opiates (like Vicodin or Norco) can be effective at treating pain but can also cause many adverse and unacceptable side effects. The addictive potential of opiates is very concerning to patients who struggle with chronic pain and need relief; it is this concern that leads patients to consider using medical marijuana, a very effective treatment for chronic back pain.
If Michigan citizens have their way, Marijuana will be legal for those with chronic or debilitating diseases. Medically certified citizens would be able to possess and use marijuana legally under a new proposal on its way to the constituency in November.
State elections panel certified petitions with 377,975 signatures backing the plan, well more than the 304,000 minimum needed to put the initiative before voters if the Legislature fails to act on it within the next 40 days.
Current Michigan law prohibits marijuana use for any reason. But nearly a dozen other states authorize medicinal use by patients.
The Michigan proposal would permit patients to use and grow small amounts of marijuana for relief from pain associated with cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other diseases. Patients would be required to register and carry cards so law enforcement personnel could tell who was a registered patient with permission to legally use the drug.
According to Detroit News, voters in at least five Michigan cities - Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ferndale, Flint and Traverse City - have passed ballot initiatives allowing for medicinal marijuana use. The practice has been controversial in California, where voters authorized the sale of small amounts of marijuana at licensed co-ops. Those operations have been targeted by U.S. law enforcement agencies under federal law.
If Law is Passed, Where will Michigan buy their Marijuana from?
Many wonder if this has been thoroughly researched. The Michigan statute does not address the question of where the marijuana would originate from and it does not sanction sales. Without a complete plan is this a disaster in the making?
The Michigan Coalition is backed by the national organization Marijuana Policy Project. It provided almost all of the $1.1 million used to arrange the campaign and gather petition signatures.
Several reports, including studies conducted with government grown pot from Mississippi suggest patients get more relief from smoking pot than from prescriptions, with fewer side effects. The FDA continues to block many human scientific studies on the medical use of marijuana.
Opposition to medical marijuana has always come from law enforcement, especially national drug enforcement agencies. Surprisingly, thus far, no resistance to the Michigan crusade for Medical Marijuana use has surfaced.
