3. Severe Chronic Pain
Do you Severe chronic pain is often the result of other conditions or
treatments of conditions, such as chemotherapy treatment for cancer,
and can be both debilitating and exhausting and many times can lead
to chronic depression. While pharmaceutical drugs are available to
combat pain and depression, they can be highly addictive and can
often cause side effects that are just as unpleasant. The use of medical
marijuana in Colorado patients suffering from severe chronic pain has
shown in multiple studies to lift moods of depression and reduce or
even sometimes completely alleviate pain symptoms without drugs
4. Muscle Spasms
Colorado medical marijuana patients have discovered many of the
drug’s benefits in relation to treatment for muscle spasms. Muscle
spasms can occur as the result of injury or illness, such as epilepsy,
stroke, MS, cerebral palsy, or other conditions. Pharmaceutical drug
treatment for muscle spasms is often laced with side effects and can
become highly addictive. The use of medical marijuana to treat muscle
spasms has been shown to relax the nervous system and provide a
calming effect to the body while also reducing pain. Marijuana is an
effective, natural alternative to pharmaceutical drugs and provides
both immediate and long lasting results.
5. Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is a disease that attacks the central nervous
system, causing severe pain, tremors, and loss of many functions. MS
attacks nearly 350,000 people in the U.S. alone, and for patients
suffering from MS in Colorado, marijuana can provide a great deal of
symptom relief. While medical marijuana cannot relieve symptoms
completely, it can be highly effective in improving eyesight, appetite,
speech and balance. Medical marijuana also helps reduce chronic
pain, tremors and muscle spasms, calming the nervous system and
offering some patients the ability to walk unassisted by walkers or
wheelchairs.
6. Severe Nausea
Severe nausea can often be a side effect of another illness, and is one
that can lead a patient toward malnourishment and exhaustion.
Patients undergoing treatment for other illnesses such as cancer or
Leukemia who are required to be treated with chemotherapy will
often experience continued nausea to the point of being unable to
ingest anything. Colorado medical marijuana patients have found that
using the drug as part of a prescribed regimen greatly reduces
symptoms of nausea and often stimulates the appetite. Nausea can be
caused by a number of conditions, and the inhaled use of medical
marijuana has been shown to be a more effective treatment than
traditional medicines which in some cases patients may not be able to
keep down.
7. Cancer
One of the most common side effects in cancer patients tends to be
nausea as a result of chemotherapy treatment, and for many patients
in Colorado, medical marijuana use is an effective tool in reducing
bouts of severe nausea. For those patients who are unable to keep
medication down, the inhalation of the cannabinoid drug reverses the
nausea effects caused by chemotherapy treatment, as well as easing
anxiety and pain related to treatment. Medical marijuana has also
been found to stimulate appetite, which is effective for cancer patients
who, due to nausea, have been unable to eat and are experiencing
treatment-related weight loss.
8. Epilepsy
Known as a neurological condition that appears in the form of
seizures, epilepsy is a condition which affects the nervous system.
Although seizures can also be caused by an injury to the brain or
through genetic inheritance, epilepsy related seizures generally have
no known cause. Colorado medical marijuana patients may be able to
control seizures through the use of the drug with fewer or no side
effects generally experienced by the use of traditional medicine.
Because marijuana produces a calming effect on the body, the nervous
system is less likely to cause seizures. Patients who use medical
marijuana for epileptic seizures report fewer instances of seizures with
regular use..
9. Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a condition that is caused by increased eye pressure,
resulting in damage to the optic nerve and can cause eventual
blindness. For glaucoma patients in Colorado, marijuana use may be
an effective alternative to surgery. Medical marijuana use reduces
pressure immediately in the eyes and the effects can last up to four or
five hours. While medical marijuana will have varying degrees of
effect in patients with glaucoma, adding marijuana to a treatment
regimen may allow patients a secondary source of relief and perhaps
eliminate the need for surgery.
10. Fee Structure
$79 New Patient Certification
$69 Renewals
$120 Dispensary Ready Package (Includes Doctor Certification,
Notary, Copies, Money order for state fee, Self addressed
envelope
and your Certified mail forms filled out).