Overactive Bladder: Can Marijuana Potentially Treat It?

I have been smoking marijuana for 30 years and I have a bad case of overactive bladder, the only way I found to help is Enablex.

Of course pharmas are going to try and create something out of it, as they can't patent, or regulate something that grows naturally and plentiful. It's all in the big bucks for them, money runs politics and big corporations..unfortunately, the comman person is too ignorant to realize this..

I use the substance mentioned here in my pain control regimen. I am in pain each day. There are easier days and more challenging ones. I also use a C II pain reliever and one NSAID. I have been getting bimonthly massages but have canceled my last scheduled appointment because they only help with the pain for a day.

Back to the subject. (You have to watch me. lol) I live in Omaha, Nebraska. The penalty for posession of less than one ounce of marijuana is a ticket for a $200. I don't take it out of the house so that won't be a problem for me.

Decriminalize possession but do not legalize marijuana. The government will charge big bucks for it. I also think they would require a "drug stamp" here. Like tags for your car they would require us to pay a fee every year just for using the marijuana.

I'm yammering. I'm so glad to be here. They have so much information.

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I am a chronic marijuana user, and am also prescirbed marinol for nausea and apetite problems. I also have a overactive bladder and have found no correlation in my marijuana use to my bladder getting better. I generally smoke multiple times throughout the day to help my body, and wish it would also help with bladder problems unfortunately have not found anything of this sort to work.

I agree with the posters saying that this helps the marijuana legalization cause. However, why not just use the real thing, rather than use some synthetic? I know, working conditions and all of that, but just think of this. Big Pharma has damaged the world in a rather sever fashion. Example: Opium = natrual substance (yes, it's addictive, but bear with me). Opium + adulteration = Morphine (Also VERY addictive). Morphine + Big Pharma (Bayer, to be exact) = Heroin!! That's right, the world scourge of addiction and destruction was created by BAYER. Worse, it was created as a way to wean people off of MORPHINE ADDICTION! Now, guess what. Big Pharma creates Methadone. Also highly addictive, and used as a way to wean people off of HEROINE! Good grief! Here's the point. If Marijuana works, then use it! If Big Pharma get's a hold of it, then they'll most likely create a monster that will add to way more problems that it solves. They only want to make a pill out of it so they can make even more money, and keep the rest of us ignant Amurikens in the dark about a natural weed that can do the same thing.

This information, when tacked onto all the other marijuana benefits, help to push towards this country not being so misinformed about marijuana. A a woman's empowerment page there are some other things about marijuana you should know. Smoking marijuana, much like smoking any substance, has been shown to increase the chances of developing cancer. However marijuana has been shown to fight brain cancer by causing autophagy in the cancerous tumor cells. It has also been shown to help combat Alzheimer's disease as well as helping to prevent the spread of Breast Cancer. These findings, on top of many others, help to show that marijuana being illegal is pointless and insipid. Smoking it may be detrimental to your health but as I said all smoking is; smoke doesn't belong in our lungs period. Thankfully though there are many other ways of experiencing the wonderful benefits of marijuana. It's not water soluable but if mixed with a fat (like butter) you can make THC butter. Which you can then use to bake or cook healthy, mildly-psychoactive, foods.

A lot of the information out there about marijuana is incredibly misleading and at times just wrong. You can't overdose on marijuana, it's physically impossible to do so. In order to die from using marijuana you'd have to smoke a half-ton of it in ten minutes; as I said physically impossible. In fact no single death, ever, has been directly linked to marijuana usage. That's not to say no one has ever died from it's use, it's just never been solely marijuana's fault. Aspirin is more deadly than marijuana. As is caffeine, sugar, fats, meat, alcohol, cigarettes, Prozac,Paxil, Wellbutrin, Tylenol, lithium, Dramamine, DXM (cough medicine), and scores of others that are legal and can kill you. In fact it's illegality is only a result of years of misinformation and lobbying from cotton farmers, paper manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. The marijuana, and hemp, plants are verstile and have thousands of uses. Hemp can be used to make so many products and it's far better for the environment and it's easier to grow.

All of the positive benefits of marijuana are greatly ignored and false-truths are the only reason it's not legal. It is not a gateway drug, it's addictive properties are scant and it does not turn you a raving lunatic (1933's Reefer Madness was just false propaganda. The only reason that marijuana is illegal is because people don't know the actual facts about this "drug"; which has been used for thousands of years. Recently they found marijuana and a pipe that were 1500 years old. And that marijuana was more potent than what we have today.

Another interesting fact is that of all the drugs people take, marijuana is the only one that has it's own receptor in the brain. All the other drugs, like opiates and barbiturates, mimic our receptors to achieve there effects. Marijuana doesn't, our bodies have designed a system to make it's usage even easier and safer. It has also been proven, by a many-years study Britain, that marijuana's effects on memory are greatly exaggerated. After 20 years they found that the only people that suffered memory issues, and they were minor at best, were the ones that were daily smokers for the duration of the study. The people that smoked socially or intermittently showed almost no signs of memory degradation.

As a near-daily smoker myself I can attest to it's lack of negative effects. I have smoked since I was 16 (which I DO NOT abdicate it's usage at that age, our brains and bodies are still developing and at that point marijuana can have a negative effect) and suffer no ills from it. My memory has showed no signs of slowing and in truth I still have a photographic memory.

I hope that I have helped clear up the truth about marijuana, and that maybe now you can see why it should be legal. Remember even it is legalized, it's not like you have to smoke it. And for those that are worried about people driving under the influence, that is and should always be illegal. Considering that tens' of thousands of people die from drunk drivers every year (and 0 from marijuana) the DWI and DUI laws need to be stronger and more enforced. Instead our police force has to waste their time punishing non-criminals for marijuana usage.

For those that are worried about it's legalization causing anarchy in the streets; look at Portugal. They have every drug legalized and there country is strong as ever. Same applies to Amsterdam, which has a lower crime right than most average US Cities. A recent poll found that nearly half of the US is pro-legalization. So for those that are against it, please get the facts and make an informed decision. Marijuana has no legit reason to be illegal and it's illegal status is a joke. Legalizing drugs is the best way to combat the "Drug War", if we take the power of drugs away from criminals and kingpins then we will win this "War." And save BILLIONS of dollars in the process (we could even make a profit of the tax revenue drugs could provide).

Stay informed!