Please don't call the Mary Jane cops on me

Whatever floats your boat...you are a hoot!
I didn't suffer from nausea, the meds they gave me in my IV drip at time of infusion did the trick. I was very sick in other ways. In fact I have a whole bottle of Compazine sitting in my medicine cabinet. But I did get a special drug for a peculiar kind of nausea that I didn't even realize it was nausea at first (only when I tried to eat).

If you do get nauseated and traditional drugs don't work, go for it...if you're nauseated you may not feel like eating brownies...if it were me, I'd go straight for the doobie.

I don't know how long it would take to get the stuff with an Rx or where you'd go, but if you're really sick, I wouldn't jump thru hoops, I'd go for the quick sure thing.

Keep us posted, hopefully some of the girls who have tried it will give us their opinion.

Hugs, Judy :-)

TraciInLA said:

I [heart] pharmaceuticals
My own opinion is that there are now so many good drugs they can give you for nausea during chemo, I just didn't find it necessary to seek out anything else (and I was only 11 months old when the 60s ended, so I didn't have anything to relive! :-)

I also have asthma, so smoking anything just sounds like a bad idea to me and my lungs. Yes, my girlfriend spent all of my treatment trying to convince my oncologist to give *her* a prescription for some gonja, and offered to bake me really yummy brownies with it, but he never gave in.

:-) Traci

never used it was offered it
never used it was offered it but declined. In retrospect maybe i should have LOL

chenheart said:

I also did NOT use
I also did NOT use marijuana, legal or not. Of all the things I am allergic to , that "herb" happens to be it! And yeah, I have been around it, and can smell it within miles. Not literally, of course; but I am very sensitive to the aroma and steer clear!
So, mine is in no way an ethical/legal stance!

That having been said, I know from these boards that many have used it~ I will try and find earlier posts and bump them up for you, ok?

Good luck in whatever your decision is!

Love, Peace, and Harmony ( whoops! Having a flashback here~ I was a teenager in the 60's)

Claudia

Far Out....
Me too Chen, just a couple of years older than you...

Peace, Judy :-)

Not everybody gets nausea
Remember that not evrybody gets nausea. i took all the anti nausea meds with with A/C and never had any sickness. With Taxol I took the meds for the first few and then grdually quit taking then other than on treatment day and never had any nausea with it either.

Personally, I wouldn't buy any of it from any dealer. (Well actually I've never bought any - not even back in the 60's - I'm 63.) Just too dangerous in today's world. Maybe if you personally knew the grower and they had a bit growing on own land in discrete place - but ? If you NEED it for chemo induced nausea - get a script from your Dr as you say it's legal where you are.

edit added: After reading Chen's post I realized that this may sound judgemental - It isn't meant to be that way at all. If I offended anyone I apologize - it wasn't meant to - just to 'say' (for lack of a better word) my feelings and history. I wish you the best with making the decision that is right for you. Only you can do that.

Snowkitty -
I never used it and probably wouldn't have wanted anything to make my head fuzzier but my mother did use it 30+ years ago when she had chemo. Things were much tougher then as far as the ability of the docs to control and prevent nausea but she said it did help. I only had to take the nausea medication one time and that was when my husband and I both got a stomch bug after chemo - otherwsie, I wouldn't have needed anything. But if you get nauseated and you're in a state where you can get it - at least it gives you another option!

Chemo made me extremely sick
Chemo made me extremely sick and nothing helped but I didn't think about MJ. I've never used it. The state I was in it was illegal anyway. So I guess I'm no help.

Snowkitty said:

Leagal shemgal. That's the
Leagal shemgal. That's the last thing I would consider. Although it's now leagal in Michigan, I believe, but I'm not gonna jump thru those hoops.

Then again, cancer should be illegal.

signed,

anonymous

Well, even if I had thought
Well, even if I had thought of it, I wouldn't have known how to get it. That was my point. If it's legal at least there are hoops.

"signed, anonymous" I know you are Snowkitty! Hee hee. :>)