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Originally Posted by Fallen_Icarus
It is not very responsible of you to ask medical advice on a cannabis forum, especially for someone else most of the people on here are not doctors and have little or no knowledge enough to supply you with good advice (including me!)
I would rather talk to a doctor about health issues than a stoner.
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You're right and wrong. First of all we have several members on here who have degrees in the health care field from counseling to pharmacy to nursing to respiratory therapy to medical degrees. 3 of the moderators have degrees in the health care field and we do a good job of eliminating posts that cross the line or are just flat out bad medical advice. For instance, we try to limit posts about diagnosing problems over the internet. On the other hand, there are many people who have been prescribed codeine and also use marijuana so if they accurately share their experiences with use of the two drugs, where is the harm? It would be naive to think that there has never been a pot smoker prescribed codeine and smoked while taking it. Now if someone goes beyond this and is giving more advice than sharing experiences, it will be removed. Actually, SlipKnotPsycho did give advice but it is really good and he does not have a degree in health care. Basically he said start low and go slow, which is a rule of thumb used a lot in pain management. It would be nice for the original poster to be able to talk to his doctor about pot and codeine but some doctors are less than receptive to talk of marijuana use. Part of this forum is out of necessity. In fact, Birdgirl is one of our moderators and a second year medical student as well as being married to a physician and Texas stud (who posts here too) and being a paramedic or EMT herself (sorry I can't remember which it is BG
). She found this website because she was looking for advice on marijuana use for her sister who had cancer. She has been a Godsend to this forum ever since (Dave's not half bad either!).
So it is up to people to ask reasonable questions and members to give reasonable answers. When that isn't happening, we do delete posts or threads. In fact, at this moment, 4 posts have been deleted from this thread. It would be more harm to suppress those who do have good information just because this is a forum. Consider this forum as one of several tools available to pot smokers to get good advice. In some cases it shouldn't be the only tool used.
Again, Slip really gave the guy's uncle good advice, for him just to take it easy and go slow to see how it affects him because it does affect others differently. He probably could have left out the "he'll be fine" part because it leaves no room for error but the main point is good advice. Like what others have said, the uncle needs to be aware of the sedation from both as well as how it affects his mental awareness.
In addition to those who do have degrees in the healthcare field, there are many members here who don't have degrees in the healthcare field but have done extensive research before posting here. Stormcrow and Beachguyinthongs have been using marijuana for medicinal purposes for many years (as well as many other members, those just come to mind at the moment) and can post many articles on its benefits.