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Nov 4 here in my state we passed medical marijuana. I'm happier that a pig rolling in crap LOL...

 I should have my card by april at latest. I plant to grow my own weed and experiment with different strains to find the best for my epilepsy. Does anyone have a medical card and how do you obtain your weed??

Or like me force to be a criminal to have to find something that control your sezuires better than those nasty pills??   be happy....x

If 6-people can get marijuana/medicine from the federal government why can't we get the same medicine if we all are created equal??

IRV ROSENFELD (Florida Resident) gets 300 joints a month and has been for over 20 years. Go to youtube and watch the videos of Irv smoking where ever he wants and he will never get arrested.

It's not right that I have to go to the blackmarket to get my medicine and the federal government gives medicine to a small group of people. Big Pharma got the first Pres. Bush to stop the program because it was cutting into their profits. GROW YOUR OWN MEDICINE!!! SCREW BIG PHARMA!!!  

i was excessive marijuana smoker...though i never drove rash or did nething wrong being in intoxicated state...after 3 yrs i started taking opiates like proxyvon,corex(codiene phosphate) sorry if i m incorrect as i m an engineering student..... :))

i found it difficult to leave them...bt i tapered  dosage wid vallium and smhw got it done...but nw whn i smoke marijuana....seizures begin immmediately....

all symptoms are like seizures...my head,eyes,legs hands all get in twisted position..

after this much discussion i find it really hard to believe tht hw my case is different...i want to know are seziures opiate de add triggered(as it has only been 14 days detox till now) or it is marijuana triggered....

i dnt want to leave marijuana...plss help if sm1 cn explain this case!!! tho i hate partial seziures so much tht i wl leave smoking joint if i cm to knw...tht joint is triggering it...!!

pls help...

thxx....its abhi from India(malana)

everyone who suffers needs to watch thees two viedos ASAP it will change your life no joke!!!   http://www.phoenixtearsmovie.com/ and http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/show_reefer.html

I grew up having seizures and tried every drug from the doctor and was stuck with dialantin repeatedly being my body grew up on that one.  As I got older and my metabolism changed and my diet, I learned more about the electrical imbalance inside my brain.  Also, it was a tumor they finally discovered after 20 years.  Anyway no medicine helped, I quit taking all my seizure meds just to know what it was like without a drug in my system.  For the calming of my brain I began to smoke marijuana occationally and a low dosage for the relaxation and slowing the electrical energies.  It still is a disabling drug just as the other pills are and it does have the side effect to the lungs.  But it is much more calming and I can and know the effects it is doing to me rather than wondering if this is the drug doing this to my mind or is it the defect in my brain chemistry causing how I feel on a constant basis vs smoking mj is only temporary changes.  With drug therapy, my teeth are ruined, my bones are damaged from the injuries of the seizure and side effect of the meds weaking my bone strength, also the skin rashes and the chemical imbalance from the drugs disrupting the sensory of feeling things emotionaly and physically- I can feel things now after quitting the drugs.  Everything that effects the nervous system has been damaging for me.  Marijuana helps because its like a self help getaway from the world that spins in my head.  Also what has helped is quit eating sugar and no caffeine!  I eat honey and fruit which is much sweeter now after quitting the processed sugars!  and i do still eat things with low amount of sugar like some cereals and bread.  No caffeine because it intensifies the nerve pattern and causes irritation to the nervous system.

abought time. everyone who suffers needs to watch thees two viedos ASAP it will change your life no joke!!!   http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/show_reefer.html  its only on cbc tv. deels with epilepsy and pot on the nature of things reffer madness 2.    and this veary veary importint video RUN FROM THE CURE
The Rick Simpson Story heare is the best one http://www.phoenixtearsmovie.com/ or you can look it up on youtube same name. now to proov that this is right hear is my name daniel monaco 5189467373 upper jay ny usa 12987. i hope you share this with every one you knowe. live long and prosper lol

I've been reading all the different opinions on smoking weed for Epilepsy, and don't know what to think. I smoked when I was younger, and suggested it to my Neuro, and he looked at me as if I had 3 eyes. I've had no appetite since my E started, and when I was younger and smoked, I did a lot more cooking and eating, and now that I'm on AED's, I have NO appetite. Since my Dr said no, I don't need for it to show up in a blood test and screw up my Disability claim.

I was diagnosed with epilepsy almost 1yr ago. I have been a "pot-head" since age 14 (Im 25 now). My smoking pot has helped the pain and control my seizures without meds. I tried the medication thing out and the doc Rx was dilanton 100mg 5xs a day. It made me sick, depressed, easily angered, and best of all liver failure. I was loosing my mind. So I started smoking again and have had no symptoms to date.  I am for leagalizing bud for all. It is just like alcohol but with more positive than negative effects. Im sorry if this is kinda hard to follow. I was smoking when I came across this discussion. So ROCK THE HELL ON!!! FELLOW POT SMOKERS!!!<ZZZZZZ0 TELL YOUR CONGRESSMEN 420 LEGAL!!!!

Hello i`m 20 years old and i`m from Romania. The first seizure was about 4 years ago and for the next 2 years there have been about 3-4 a year one always in September dunno why. The medicine that the doctors prescribed was Topamax 25mg 2 caps a day, a derivate of topiramatum, the drugs reduced the number to 1-2 a year and caused me gastritis and a significant lose in weight (about 10-15 kg), but occasionally when i`m tired i get really edgy and almost feel like collapsing or loosing consciousness or even a small twich in my right arm..., for about 1 year i started smoking MJ in very low doses(0.1 0.2 if smoked alone and never exaggerating, just to keep the every day stress and problems a little away from my head), at first the MJ seemed to be doing worst but then i got a scale and seen that i was smoking about 1-2 grams per joint...(paranoia took over:)) at first in the about first two weeks), after adjusting the dosage and documenting on the subject i began smoking about once or twice a week, the sensations i got when i was tired are no more, since last September i had no more seizures and feeling allot better psychically my food appetite came back and i`m now eating about 6 consistent (spoken to a gym instructor about gaining weight and now i should have been at around 60kilos currently only gained 1kilo in a couple of months)meals a day to compensate for the topamax(doctors orders to take them and i still believe in medics but don't believe the bull$#@$ about MJ).
If subjects are needed for any research on this subject i would gladly volunteer :)).
I am currently on a pause from MJ so i can go get my blood tests and this would be a perfect time to notice any difference and i will come back and let you know about them.
Hope this helps and hope more advanced researches will be made on MJ for its epilepsy purposes.
By the way my Yahoo id is strtz16 if there is anyone interested in discussing about this or any other epilepsy subject...epilepsy is a very bad thing and really brings you down psychically..:( take care

I have an interesting testimonial to this one. I live in NY and my freshman year of college I went out to San Francisco Academy of Art. I had never before smoked Marijuana, and had struggled to control seizures since I was 7. For the first time in my life, i hadn't had a seizure in a year...so I took it upon my self to rebel and stop taking my medicine. Taking it was a hassel and restricted my life. At the same time I was becoming a major pot-head  (Everyone out there looked at me like i had three heads when i told them I didnt smoke.) I smoked every day and was doing a lot of college drinking. For me alcohol was one of my biggest triggers. Usually the day after drinking a lot I would have a seizure without question.  Even with all the drinking, while I was a daily weed smoker, I didnt have a seizure for 8 months. Never in my life had i been able to stop taking my pills and not have a seizure within a day or two! After the 8 months i was not smoking so much because my brother was trying to say i was a drug addict...which to this day i still think is rediculous. In my opinion alcohol is much worse of a substance in its effects (have you ever seen a huge brawl breakout in a room of potsmokers?), and as most of us know, there is a lot of political money involved in drug trade...but I am digressing. I stopped smoking but was socially drinking still and started having seizures again. To this day (7 years later) I only smoke occasionally because doing it every day does make me act like a burnout, and did effect my school work after I changed my major from art to marketing. I cannot stop taking my medication with out having a seizure. Its funny because at the time I had never heard of this remedy, my grandmother told me about it a few years later. I could never explain how i didnt have seizures, but now I know.

Smoked during college, the magical early twenties when I had no seizures at all. After college I stopped, not because I thought it was bad. I took a state job coming out of school. Pot is like alcohol (and I have strong words for anyone who says otherwise) in the sence it depends on you. You can abuse it or you can use it. Pot may not agree with you, if it doesn't don't use it. Alcohol doesn't agree with me, I don't bash all people and alcohol because of how it effects me. I simply realize thats my experience. If you've never used either and have moral objections, simply stop reading as this is not for you. I started smoking a little again. Why you may ask? Topamax. I completely lost my appetite and 26 pounds. I'm naturally a tiny woman to begin with. How do I feel? I'm eating and putting a little weight back on. I'm becoming myself again. I'm not dizzy anymore. I don't get carsick anymore. I sleep better. I could go on and on about the improvements in my health. AND I FEEL CALM WHEN EPILEPSY DRUGS TAKE CALM AWAY FROM ME!!!! AND I"M PAINTING AGAIN!!! HAVEN"T DONE THAT SINCE COLLEGE!!!!

Oh, my neuro knows. I want him to know. What if it helps? What if it doesn't? At least they'll be a record of it. I think thats a step toward helping uncover the truth of marajuana. Melissa D

I posted this at the end of last November as a response to another response to this topic, but as there have been more responses since then I'd like to re-post in hopes that more people will see it and get more feedback.

Originally Posted: November 30th 2007

First of all, I just want to say that I'm surprised to finally see another person with strictly nocturnal seizures.

My story:
I was diagnosed at eighteen (I'll be twenty in January) with nocturnal epilepsy after my second witnessed seizure in September 2006. My first was in April 2005. Both of these events also happened during REM, usually towards the end of the sleep cycle. I would remain unconcious for a period of time following the convulsion stage, and once I came to I'd be disoriented and unable to do much of anything. Along with this I would also suffer from severe migraines and nausea for six or seven hours after waking. After the seizures my medical history was examined, and the migraines that I've had since I was five years old made it all clear. I had been dealing with sleep seizures for over fifteen years without even knowing it. I started taking Lamictal in October 2006 and I've been smoking marijuana regularly for about two years now. I cannot say that I've seen any specific effects of the marijuana, especially since I'm also taking the AED, but I haven't suffered from a migraine since my last seizure, over a year ago. My neuro, while he couldn't tell me to smoke, implied that it does in fact, more often than not, have a positive effect on people who have seizures. Marijuana slows the electrical activity in the brain, seizures are caused by increased electrical activity. Make sense? I've been thrilled to be rid of the migraines and to finally have an answer to what was thought of as an impossible question.

And now, for those of you with your "marijuana kills" stories, take this into consideration: not everyone who uses is a moron, and just because we use doesn't mean we ABUSE. We don't all smoke and drive, have unprotected sex, or get wasted. Just because there's evidence of people doing these things doesn't mean that everyone who smokes weed does them. Ignorance won't get you anywhere, and for a little more information, read this--

Marijuana Does Not Raise Lung Cancer Risk
Tuesday , May 23, 2006
By Salynn Boyles

People who smoke marijuana do not appear to be at increased risk for developing lung cancer, new research suggests. While a clear increase in cancer risk was seen among cigarette smokers in the study, no such association was seen for regular cannabis users. Even very heavy, long-term marijuana users who had smoked more than 22,000 joints over a lifetime seemed to have no greater risk than infrequent marijuana users or nonusers. The findings surprised the study’s researchers, who expected to see an increase in cancer among people who smoked marijuana regularly in their youth. “We know that there are as many or more carcinogens and co-carcinogens in marijuana smoke as in cigarettes,” researcher Donald Tashkin, MD, of UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine tells WebMD. “But we did not find any evidence for an increase in cancer risk for even heavy marijuana smoking.” Carcinogens are substances that cause cancer. Tashkin presented the findings today at The American Thoracic Society’s 102nd International Conference, held in San Diego. Boomers Reaching Cancer Age: The study population was limited to people who were younger than 60 because people older than that would probably not have used marijuana in their teens and early adult years. “People who may have smoked marijuana in their youth are just now getting to the age when cancers are being seen,” Tashkin says. A total of 611 lung cancer patients living in Los Angeles County, and 601 patients with other cancers of the head and neck were compared with 1,040 people without cancer matched for age, sex, and the neighborhood they lived in. All the participants were asked about lifetime use of marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol, as well as other drugs, their diets, occupation, family history of lung cancer, and socioeconomic status. The heaviest marijuana users in the study had smoked more than 22,000 joints, while moderately heavy smokers had smoked between 11,000 and 22,000 joints. While two-pack-a-day or more cigarette smokers were found to have a 20-fold increase in lung cancer risk, no elevation in risk was seen for even the very heaviest marijuana smokers. The more tobacco a person smoked, the greater their risk of developing lung cancer and other cancers of the head and neck. But people who smoked more marijuana were not at increased risk compared with people who smoked less and people who didn’t smoke at all. The THC Connection: Studies suggest that marijuana smoke contains 50 percent higher concentrations of chemicals linked to lung cancer than cigarette smoke. Marijuana smokers also tend to inhale deeper than cigarette smokers and hold the inhaled smoke in their lungs longer. So why isn’t smoking marijuana as dangerous as smoking cigarettes in terms of cancer risk? The answer isn’t clear, but the experts say it might have something to do with tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is a chemical found in marijuana smoke. Cellular studies and even some studies in animal models suggest that THC has antitumor properties, either by encouraging the death of genetically damaged cells that can become cancerous or by restricting the development of the blood supply that feeds tumors, Tashkin tells WebMD. In a review of the research published last fall, University of Colorado molecular biologist Robert Melamede, PhD, concluded that the THC in cannabis seems to lessen the tumor-promoting properties of marijuana smoke. The nicotine in tobacco has been shown to inhibit the destruction of cancer-causing cells, Melamede tells WebMD. THC does not appear to do this and may even do the opposite. While there was a suggestion in the newly reported study that smoking marijuana is weakly protective against lung cancer, Tashkin says the very weak association was probably due to chance. Cancer risk among cigarette smokers was not influenced by whether or not they also smoked marijuana. “We saw no interaction between marijuana and tobacco, and we certainly would not recommend that people smoke marijuana to protect themselves against cancer,” he says.

By Salynn Boyles, reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

SOURCES: American Thoracic Society 102nd International Conference, San Diego, May 23, 2006. Donald Tashkin, MD, professor of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles. Robert Melamede, PhD, molecular biologist, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. WebMD Medical News: “Pot Smoke: Less Carcinogenic Than Tobacco?”

Note that it was written, commented on, and reviewed by MD's. Along with these facts, I agree with Ritchie...don't preach unless you have specific experience with the situation.

And please, don't make any comments about my being naive because I'm still young. I may still be a college student but I'm not stupid. Condescension will only prove your immaturity, not mine.

Hi not really sure If I am in the right bit here as I am new but about 2 years ago I was diagnosed with Grand Mal seizures or tonic Clonic as they are also known by and I have been smoking weed for 14 years and a lot of people have blamed my long term use on it but to me thats crud as in all my tests it shows I was not born with it I have no damage to my brain or scarring to bring this on, is there any one out there who is the same or knows of any one the same, as I have been told because my epilepsy is unknown and uncontrolled (even though the epilipm and weed help)I will be on meds for the rest of my life, please help im a sick of this tag stuck to me.

I also smoke to help control my seizures and pain; I have a bad neck caused from seizures!
I was born with epilepsy, I started smoking pot when I was about 11 to help cope with the
monster "epilepsy"! I quit smoking for 11 yrs. to raise my son and started back up about
8 yrs. ago and I've had no problems with pot and my seizures. I also fully agree that
marijuana should become legalized for those of us whom do require it, not just for grins.