Marijuana for old people

With today’s tabooing of everything related to hemp – this may seem comical, but it may soon be included in the daily set of … retiree. We’ll get better – of course, it’s not about hemp itself, but about medicines based on cannabioid CBD (cannabidiol) contained in it. The spectrum of the standard set of old-age diseases in the treatment of which this miraculous cannabinoid shows amazing results is impressive: glaucoma, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, a whole range of intestinal diseases (for example, Crohn’s disease), sleep and appetite disorders, and even anorexia (each disease should be referred to other articles). Yes, you heard right: contrary to public opinion, anorexia is much more common in older people than in girls seeking a glamorous life. This is due to the appetite disorder and intestinal diseases peculiar to old people.

The average life expectancy in Europe is steadily increasing, and our old people want not only to preserve all their rights – from driving a car to voting rights in elections – but also their usual active lifestyle. Alas, but Parkinson, Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other disorders associated with cerebral circulation disturbance have completely different views on this matter. And chronic pain in all possible joints will always help to defend these views. They will do everything possible to narrow the whole world of the old person to a single point of singularity in the form of a rocking chair in the middle of the room in front of the TV-set. But it seems “Eternal spring in a single confinement cell” comes to the end.

There are a lot of medications, both for treatment and for the prevention of all these ailments, so a typical old-age consumer basket sparkles by blister packs of pills, like a star sky map.  This variety just confirms the inability of classical scientists to cope with the problem fundamentally. And the problem lies not so much in the abundance of pills that the retiree has to use every day, but in the side effects hidden in them.

However, all this can soon be replaced with only one single drug. And you probably have already guessed which one.

In 2016, American scientists Lauren Nicholas and Catherine Maclean from the Temple University conducted a study showing that taking medical cannabis allows older people to work longer on the background of general health promotion. An article based on a study was published in the same year in the Bulletin on Aging and Health by the US National Bureau of Economic Research. Their colleagues from Israel presented to the world an equally important study, according to which the use of cannabis markedly reduced chronic pain in 93% of the tested retirees, while 20% of the subjects after the course completely refused anaesthetics.

A little earlier study by the South Florida University showed that small doses of THC for old people become useful for memory.  What to the invaluable help of marijuana in the treatment of other diseases peculiar to people of retirement age, you can read it under the links below.

Just calculate how much medicine has to buy a retired today at the pharmacy. Sore joints? Bones pain? Blood pressure? Chronic pain? Digestive disorders? Headache? Insomnia and bad appetite? And now add to this the list of drugs that relieve side effects from drugs that relieve the above symptoms. Has not your medical calculator failed yet? So the patient no longer knows whether the medicine brings him more harm or benefit. And try to count how much it goes in the money. You do not need to be an old person to grab the heart from the numbers. Now has it become clearer to you why many old people complain about the loss of interest in life?

Of course, hemp will not be able to completely replace all the necessary drugs, but it will definitely send many of them to the dump of pharmacological corporations, and those that will not be send will increase their digestibility by the body (and, as a result, will reduce the dose of their daily consumption). Nowadays the average life expectancy in Europe is about 75 to 80 years (and some plus or minus, depending on the region). Will it be longer if to decrease drug consumption in old age and, most importantly, increase the quality of this very old age? No doubt! The brighter in Europe the flowering of medical marijuana, the dimmer the sunset of farm corporations, which not only treat us, but, paradoxically, they kill us. And the closer is a decent old age…