To JohnAdams:
Amazingly, recreational cannabis will be available in the State of Illinois starting 01/01/2020.
Previously, my physician said he would prescribe medical cannabis for my migraines.
If this is indeed a pain reliever, I am very curious about the effect it will have on tinnitus.
I definitely intend to experiment with this, and will report my results.
a thing to keep in mind with pot is that you're actually experimenting with at least five drugs we know of (THC, THV, CBD, CBG, CBN) -- and all of these things modulate each other's activity. Additionally, the same plant material might release different ratios of these chemicals depending on exactly how it's burned (THC turns into CBN during pyrolysis, so smoking a blunt with a huge thousand degree cherry likely exposes you to less THC and more CBN than the same material would if you vaporized it).
I am only pointing this out because even if you're someone for whom cannabis is beneficial it can take a
lot of experimentation to become convinced of that and optimize it.
I would not call it an analgesiac in the traditional sense; cannabis is not an opiate. However, there
is downstream impact on the function of μ-opioid receptors; agonism by opioids made by the body (endorphins) increases following exposure to THC, at least in some circumstances. Anecdotally, some strains have a much stronger "narcotic" effect than others.
@DaveFromChicago try it out, I was a smoker before this happen so my tolerance is very high, I would start with a vape pen(healthier for your e-tubes)
I have to disagree with this pretty strongly; vape carts generally have a carrier, often PG or MCT. Vaporizing PG is quite likely to be directly ototoxic; the long term effects of vaporizing MCT are still pretty unknown.
If inhaling, the safest thing to do is likely to minimize the amount of anything that has to be inhaled: vaporize a high-purity concentrate that was either made with no solvents, or only using food-grade solvents (co2 or ethanol).
Many commercial products that aren't extremely expensive are extracted with butane, and with the exception of a few places like Berkeley, most places allow the end product to be up to 5000ppm butane. That's an amount which can be tasted. It's gross. If you want to smoke pot there's no reason you should need to smoke butane in the process.
It's sad, but after an initial period where pot got much safer as a result of legalization, we're seeing the swingback where big industry corner cutting makes the product less safe again.
I only smoke home made oil extracted with food-grade ethanol from home-grown pot; I wish everyone was in a situation to do this, because it's really not that hard, and corporations that sell mind-altering, potentially addictive drugs are pretty untrustworthy across the board.
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I want to be clear that the percentages are meant as more of a question than a statement of fact. It's my general interpretation of the posts I read, but I'm really not sure, so I'm curious if others who smoke or know people with tinnitus who do (or have also read these posts!) agree or disagree. In particular I don't know if it is really is impossible or close to impossible to get a permanent spike/increase in tinnitus from smoking marijuana. As I mentioned there were a few, very few (I think) people who reported a spike of a few weeks, but then stopped posting, and I don't know why. Hopefully the spike lifted but? I'd be interested in any input.
