If Smoking Marijuana Is a Posible Treatment for Nausea in Cancer Patients, Why Can’t Smoking Orange Peals Be A?
Question by ProLife Liberal: If smoking marijuana is a posible treatment for nausea in cancer patients, why can’t smoking orange peals be a?
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Answer by midnightmoon
Well, technical point on the smoking first… while some medical patients do smoke, most are vaporizing or cooking it in food, not smoking it. Vaporizing reduces the amount of “bad” smoke chemicals quite a bit, but still is not perfectly healthy. Cooking doesnt burn the marijuana at all, no smoke, no bad chemicals. It becomes just like cooking with any other herb or plant that is freshly grown, like an apple or rosemary or carrots.
Next point…. I dont really recall orange peals ever reducing nausea for me. In fact, orange smell of anything made me puke, and orange juice made my stomach burn on chemo.
ALSO…. chemo weakens the patients immune system. If it gets too low (like during my treatment, my white blood cell count would completely bottom out) you have to take extra precautions to prevent infection. Among those precautions are not eating fresh fruits or veggies, so smoking orange peels fall under that.
That is also part of the reason why some patients use the marijuana in food. Marijuana falls under the same fresh fruit issues… it will naturally have bacteria and fungi and likely chemicals from the growing process. Because the skin is pourus, all of that soaks into the fruit, you simply cannot wash it all out. While those things dont hurt healthy people, when you have no immune system it could be detrimental… And marijuana is the same as the fruit… a grown herb that has not been processed to kill bacteria, fungi, and remove chemicals from the growing process, unlike your can of green beans.
Cooking the marijuana in food (and cooking the fruits and veggies) removes those risks of infection.
But, if the actual marijuana becomes a problem, marinol is available by rx… Marinol is a synthetic thc pill sold at roughly 100x the cost of real marijuana. It is in pill for and dose regulated, so it can be better for some patients to use the pill. On the other hand, it only synthesizes the thc and not the other active properties of marijuana, and does not always treat nausea as well as real marijuana… Marinol is advertised as an appetite stimulant only – and that is.
At the end of all that, if orange peels did somehow reduce nausea, I would have been open to trying it just as much as trying marijuana. I just personally never thought of it and had never heard that one, so I assumed this post was an attack on medical marijuana. Although, I would not smoke it all… use it in food or vaporize.
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