 [ Symptoms ] does a person get a high from capsule medical marijuana does it dull pain or just make the pain tolerable  could this help a 95 year old who is in severe pain from spinal stenosis and arthritis does it really have any long term effects on memory [ Disease ] i would be reluctant to use medical marijuana on an elderly person who may have problems with memory and mental processing as it is however a pain managment specialist may have different ideas this 95 year old should really see a pain specialist so that hisher pain can be pharmaceutically managed taking into account all of there medical history personally i have never prescribed it for these reasons