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Can I get my MMJ card?

Discussion in 'Medical Marijuana Usage and Applications' started by Previsual, Jan 17, 2015.

  1. #1 Previsual, Jan 17, 2015
    I am currently 18 in college. I live in Oregon and have been smoking weed for about a year. I have serious insomnia problems and marijuana helps me fall asleep. I know this sounds like a cheap excuse to get legalized, but I really do have a problem with getting sleep and without the use of cannabis my body won't shut down until sometimes 4-6AM. This isn't my sleep schedule being screwed up because I have gone to counseling for it before and I have tried to adjust my sleep schedule according to the counsellors advice and nothing has worked. This was over 2 years ago. Without the use of cannabis I am deprived of sleep and it interferes with my schooling. I am wondering if this is sufficient reason to get my medical card. Like I said before, this is not a cheap excuse to become legalized and I am not trying to take advantage of the system because I am well aware how it negatively affects the rest of the people who actually do have their card. Thank you.
     
  2. #2 Previsual, Jan 23, 2015
    Bump.
     
  3. #3 123burnthattree, Jan 23, 2015
    Isn't Oregon legal now or not yet?
     
  4. #4 Kallaste, Jan 23, 2015
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    Yes, severe chronic insomnia is most definitely a valid reason for medical usage. I say this as both an insomnia sufferer and a neuroscience PhD student.
     
    Sleep is absolutely vital to life, and insomnia is in no way a "cheap excuse." It can be a very serious condition. There was a time when I had so little sleep that it caused breathing problems for months on end, because my autonomic nervous system could no longer function properly. Then I started having heart arrhythmias and bradycardia (dangerously slow heartbeat). At one point I had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance while they injected me with atropine because the paramedics were afraid my heart would stop beating. All because I couldn't sleep.
     
    After this nonsense, I started smoking again after years. Now I sleep.
     
    You cannot live without sleep. Doctors recognize this. Go get your card.
     
  5. #5 Previsual, Jan 23, 2015
    Awesome thanks man! I went to my main doctor today and was prescribed with melatonin pills for chronic insomnia but I did not mention marijuana. I would rather go to a different doctor for this because my main doctor is a family friend, and I would hate for him to have to be put on the spot.
     
  6. #6 Kallaste, Jan 23, 2015
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    If you go to a new doctor, keep in mind that you may have to see him for a while for this before asking him to prescribe cannabis. It should be a chronic, documented condition that has resisted other kinds of treatment (especially given your age, and the fact that prescribers are more reluctant to give cannabis to people under thirty, since there is evidence it affects brain development before then). What I would do is keep going back to the doctor every month complaining of the same thing for about three months and then mention that you started smoking MJ and it works.
     
    In my case, sleeping pills didn't work. The most prescribed sleeping pill is Ambien, but when I take that, I sleep for almost exactly 6 hours and then can't sleep again for at least 24. Other pills have weird effects or do nothing. Benzos  like Valium, temazepam, etc. will put anyone to sleep, but they have extremely serious side effects and addiction potential (to the point where withdrawal can actually kill you), and they are not prescribed long term except as a last resort. I refused to take them more than a few times a month. Long term, they basically destroy the brain. Giving them to an 18 year old would be a very undesirable outcome; almost any doctor would rather try cannabis.
     
    Good luck.
     
    By the way, melatonin can cause mood irregularities. Not often, but something to be aware of.
     
  7. #7 Previsual, Jan 24, 2015
    I am taking 100% of this advice thanks!
     
  8. #8 Bluebudz, Jan 24, 2015
    nope not in Oregon I don't think, according to something I just read mostly just cancer stuff. its not legal for asthma even tho it should be
     

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