Open letter to all you people that like to wield medical facts without having a fucking clue.

Though I see your point, I don't think this is the place to argue it. Honestly, i would take any medical advice over the internet with a grain of salt. So much that I would question all medical advice. The only source for medical advice should be someone board certified and qualified to give the information, everything else is just a suggestion.

i'm studying medicine. i have no idea why you didn't give prof to your opinion. after a quick research in ncbi, here's a few articles to indulge your ego
smoking marijuana can cause cancer;
smoking marijuana can effect white matter
smoking marijuana health problems may extend to adulthood

Was there a post that said it cured cancer or just that cancer patients should take it? Regardless of what the future pharmacist insists there are thousands of doctors who agree it reduces the symptoms and side effects caused by various diseases and drugs. Further in many places its been fully legalized. So it's no different than telling someone to take advil for a headache. So pharmacist tell me the side effects of the most commonly prescribed anti nausea medicine? Or the pain medication? Or antianxiety meds? Then tell me the side effects of marijuana. Tell me why so many doctors think it has medical benefits even if it hasn't been thoroughly tested up to your standards? It could be because they deal with dying people everyday who say it works and makes their life better while you sit on your computer looking at drug studies funded by the same companies that are pushing the page long list of side effects "proven" drugs.

Telling people not to offer medical advice online is fine. Singling out a drug and claiming it has no medical use because it hasn't been proven to you when thousands of more highly trained people disagree along with scores of people dying in pain who say its made their life better.

So focus on your topic because your ignorance of medical marijuana is muddying your point which is a good one. In the same vein your rage against antibiotics distracts from the point as overuse of nonregulated antibiotic chemicals also shares a large parr of the blame there. Are you going to insist people not take advice to use antibacterial soap as their only handwashing soap? After all THAT can be construed as medical advice. So are people only to seek advice for regulated things? A more clear and appropriate message would have been:

Tldr: Its the internet, believe nothing you read. Make your own decisions and be responsible fir yourself.

Not to be a pain in the ass, but there HAS BEEN studies on the topic and they do suggest that weed could cure various disorders, including cancer. A simple google research will show it is a topic that still needs to be researched further in, but no "expert" will dismiss the idea.

As far as I could tell, weed does not actually cure cancer but simply slows down the growth. This would mean that if you already have cancer, weed wont make it disappear. If you really care about the issue, you could just google it and pick your sources. I consider Harvard Study a decent enough source. Idiots might state it as fact that weed is some magical cure or other idiots might be closed minded about the concept, but there is more to the topic that deserves further investigation. Regardless, weed has had a hard time with unbiased research. Either people want to make it look like it is a good thing, or make it look like it is a bad thing. For that reason alone, I will not rely on any research topics as fact. Still, I am not closed minded either.

As many here already said, I would NEVER take a chemical substance of any nature just because I read it on a forum or a website.
I won't consider a medicine or a droug free of dangers just because i read some dude in the internet saying that.
It's bad that ignorant ppl tries to give advices, but is even more bad if some foolish really BELIEVES them, because I think everyone here is provided of a brain, so use it.

Besides that.. In my country selling medicines without a medical order is forbidden. Some of them are sold without, but still everyone gotta read the paper inside (there's a reason if it exists) and use it as it HAS TO BE used. Then yet, if ppl wanna suicide you can do it eating whatever, I don't wanna... Nor I wanna be killed by a bad doctor (you find those too, and you can't imagine how many times I felt bad because they gave me the wrong medicine, in this case, sadly, automedicating saved my life)!!!

About drougs... I heard marijuana (not coca, nor any other) might not be as dangerous as we knew it, but it's still voices, in time we all will be aware of the truth I guess...

huh...vidya games?>

I agree throwing random medical facts that aren't really facts is being an asshole, just like those who spread idiotic rumours about things read on Facebook without even a slight bit of fact-checking (you would be amazed, and I'd be ashamed, if you'd known how much of that kind of stuff alone influenced the italian elections and politics in general this year). But in the end they will still keep doing that; it's only right to make shit rain on their heads in large buckets, but the fault for any damage and consequence is mainly fault of the naïveness of those who listen. If I could choose to educate either, I'd stop trying to tell the assholes what not to say and start teaching naïve people to question everything.

source?

I read only half the way (sorry about that), but I personally just dont listen to ppl who gives me medical advices. The only ppl I listen to is a doctor and my mother. I hope you all do the same. Peace.

If you're blindly accepting medical advice from random anonymous strangers on the internet, you've got problems already.

If someone is dumb enough to believe the idiots that write here.

+1(to op not whatever post happens to be above)

You should take some Vicodin

wat

Clap, Clap, Clap. BRAVO! (I agree)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

You'll like this guy.

Already read about superbugs. Although the article I read was like... apocalyptic.

actually ibuprofen being among the same family (NSAIDs) as aspirin, in high enough doses or in people susceptible, will cause stomach ulceration much like aspirin, not saying that it doesn't also have liver toxicity but the stomach ulcers are still typically the side-effect mainly worried about there. It's acetaminophen that you really have to worry about liver toxicity for.

Edit: oh, but otherwise I agree with your post.

Thanks for Skyrim!

I thought Ibuprofen doesn't hurt your liver. If taken over the max dosage and over a long period of time it can definitely give you renal problems. Acetaminophen is liver toxic if you go over 3g/day (new max dosing from the manufacture, this is not FDA dosing).

it seems that most SGers can't fathom the fact that medical treatment is serious issue. Time to bring up the demographic.

"(...) throw medical advice around and are no health professional (...)"
At least we try to help people unlike you
What you Pharmafaggots do
How about you fucking try to do the job you act you do.

I can't judge you and how you will do your work, but I am juding Pharmacists as a whole
and those people should take the fucking poison they craft themselves.

You come off as sounding like a complete asshole. Just to let you know asshole.

Duty Calls

i know for a fact that if you squish a tomato in your eye you might have hawk like eyes, being able to see for miles and shit, or go blind. fifty fifty.
PS. don't try this at home.
PSS. if you will anyway, have a friend with you, preferably with a camera.
PSSS. the friend with camera, please link the video here so we can laug cough.. cough.. i mean learn from your medical experiment.