Given Choice, Patients Will Choose Cannabis Over Prescribed Opioids
My mom has benefited from cannabis to help treat chrohns. While nothing has cured, it&#x27;s been the most effective with no known side effects. Plus it&#x27;s cheaper than the meds she has been buying for years (spending out of pocket upwards $10k a year with $500 a pill just for flare ups even with medicare in Canada).<p>She has been in hell for 30 years. They wanted to remove her small intestine ~20 years ago and she didn&#x27;t want to make that sacrifice and lived with the pain.<p>Nothing honestly helped long term till I convinced her to try cannabis 3 years ago that so far has been more effective.<p>She is now on low daily dose with no flare-ups in atleast a year.<p>From personal experience as a 15 year recreational user and 10 years actual therapy&#x2F;medicinal use:For chronic pain and intestinal issues it works wonders, but it&#x27;s not any immediate relief with severe pain.<p>That may change with higher concentrations and improvements in delivery methods.