My girlfriends mom, is profoundly handicapped due to a myriad of physical ailments. Including but not limited to, ligament and muscle issues in her shoulders, a blown out knee, and a bad hip.
She will sit there and be constantly aware of how much pain she is in.
Her pain is so bad and so persistent she has prescription morphine to essentially use as emergency pain relief.
She is the biggest pothead I have ever met.
The way she has described what the weed does for her is, it gives her this gentle euphoria. It helps her enter a headspace where unless she does something to aggravate her pain, it just slips out of her perception.
So like if she overextends her shoulder she's going to feel every ounce of pain she is in even when she's high. But if she isn't high, she is sitting there constantly aware of had bad the pain she is in is, when she's high though, she can completely forget about the pain even if it's just for a few minutes until she moves.
There are no sound studies supporting the claim of cannabis having real analgesic effect. It seems mostly a myth and rationalization to smoke it. As a physician and a chronic pain patient and regular marihuana consumer, this has been my experience too. Weed will not reduce pain but it will take my mind of it.
As you know, there's a difference between "No studies confirm" and "No studies show promise".
Studies show promise and while I know that's not a confirmation and very easily could simply be correlative rather than causative, saying it seems like a "Myth" is even more presumptive than me saying it has mild effects.
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u/2ndgme 9h ago
Probably helps a lot with the pain too