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How to ask about Medical Marijuana

Discussion in 'Medical Marijuana Usage and Applications' started by m3t4lm4n222, Jan 28, 2011.

  1. #1 m3t4lm4n222, Jan 28, 2011
    http://forum.grasscity.com/medical-...st-you-get-mmj-card-wa-state.html#post9398755

    Please read that thread first..

    But anyways in short, my cousin always has to mess around and try to pop his back. He loses sleep over back pain and sometimes it distracts him. He claims when he is high that he doesn't feel the pain.

    Now he's wondering how to ask his doctor about Medical Marijuana to treat his back pain. The doctors obvious first choice would to subscribe pain killers, but my cousin doesn't like the idea of painkillers because he has has several people in his family get hooked and he claims "People get hooked to pain killers without knowing it" Should he say "What about Medical Marijuana"? and mention how he has experimented with Marijuana before? Also, since hes only 16 (Almost 17) he would need a "Designated Caregiver" who could this person be? I don't think his mother could be the caregiver because she works a Government job.
     
  2. #2 Dreadlocker, Jan 28, 2011
    You need to have a medical documentation of the issue, has he gone in for back pain NOT about marijuana? has he had prescriptions or surgey in relation to?

    Then, once you have a medical history, you go to doctot who supports medical marijuana for a recommendation.
     
  3. #3 m3t4lm4n222, Jan 28, 2011

    He has yet to get his back checked. Say they say he has something wrong with his discs or arthritis in his back and they prescribe him pain killers but he doesn't want to take pain killers? Does he just figure out whats wrong, so there is documentation and then come back later and ask if marijuana could help with his pain?
     
  4. #4 Russy, Jan 28, 2011


    If he has not been going to the Doctor for chronic back pain, there is not alot you can do....
    He can go to the doctor and try to establish some long term pain, but that will take awhile, hence the "long term pain" You need a history of Doctor visits and pain prescriptions, etc..

    As far as "asking your doctor" you go to a clinic that specializes in MMJ , But you would need your medical records and history, etc before they would see you.
     
  5. #5 WildWill, Jan 28, 2011
    Minors have to have their parents or legal guardians get them the MMJ recommendation. He needs to have ALL of his paperwork check out too, he can't just say "I have back pain" there has to be a medical history and he has to have tried the normal approach first (i.e. prescription meds).

    Doctors are VERY WARY of recommending MMJ for minors, some states don't even allow it at all.

    Honestly, if your cousin is in that much pain that he needs MMJ at age 17, then something else is more seriously wrong and he should have had it checked out by now.
     
  6. #6 Dreadlocker, Jan 28, 2011
    Yea, by the time his medical history is established then he will be over 18 anyways.
     
  7. #7 tuchaka, Jan 28, 2011
    not to mention where i live in cali a huge amount of dispensaries won't even let you in the door if your not 21
     

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