Pot and diabetes.

Hey guys. As you may or may not know, I have diabetes.
I also smoke marijuana sometimes. Through these experiences, I've noticed that pot actually lowers my blood sugars! Thing is, it's more expensive than insulin.
To be honest, it makes perfect sense;

Think of the munchies. Having a low blood sugar makes you hungry, so your first response is to eat something to give your body more energy. In a diabetic, it simply means I don't need to inject as much insulin over the course of the day. And, since I only smoke good stuff, this metabolic increase can last as long as 5 hours. Looking into this phenomenon further, I saw that medicinal marijuana was prescribed to diabetes patients in Canada for just this purpose. I don't know if it's still the case now, but it's still pretty interesting.
Here's the catch: for it to all work, I must already have insulin in my body, otherwise my body won't metabolize anything but fat cells. While that may be good in the short term, burning fat stores over long periods of time can lead to kidney failure and heart problems, two things I'm already predisposed to as a diabetic.
It's too bad that I can't just swear off insulin and smoke pot once a day. I prefer that to finding spots on my body with enough fat to inject insulin...

Anyway, I thought you guys should know that, just in case you're ever diagnosed with diabetes and you enjoy a little cannabis every once in a while. Just remember that a much fun as it is, enjoy it responsibly.

 

Three words for you; Don't do drugs.

 

Says someone who is probably a drunkard, nicotine dependent and a zombie without coffee

 

Didn't wuite get the hang of that, But I'm not drinking, smoking being a zombie or drinking coffee

 

:lol:

Thanks for your concern, but I might smoke once every 3 weeks.
Even that's a bit much, though, considering I'd fail a urine test if I needed to take one.

Alcohol is much more detrimental to the human body than is pot anyway.

 

Well, lets put it this way.
When I say drugs, it allso includes Alcohol and tobacco

 

Yea sure. I don't really care if other people smoke or drink or whatever, aslong as it dosn't effect me.

I mean, it's not neccesarily good, but that dosn't mean it's bad.

Except for the youth of today that drinks just to get drunk. And are being retards when they are sober, they aint improving when getting some alcohol in them.

 

Weed is no substitute for insulin therapy. THC messes with the cannabinoid receptors in your brain, causing a pathway that leads to hunger that might be similar to the way your body makes you feel hungry when your glucose is low. They're not 100% sure yet, but there are a few drugs in different Phase trials in America through the FDA that work on these receptors. I think they're trying to market them as a weigh loss aid for diabetics......at any rate, you can't simply switch one for the other, but this is especially so if you have type I diabetes.

I assume you're on some sort of medication for your diabetes as well. You might not be though, I don't really know what type of DM you have.

 

Of course I'm taking insulin for my diabetes. I actually noticed a trend when I "partook" (yes, I was coherent enough to remember to check my bloodsugar) that showed, without a doubt, that smoking had lowered my bloodsugar. But, as things go, I recently quit smoking cannabis (i.e. I smoked it last weekend, but that's the last time ever). It was kinda fun while I did it, but I want to get a good job, go to a good school ,all of that. A piss test could weigh heavily on my future, so I'm not even going to bother with those plants anymore. Despite this, it was pretty interesting to find out there was a minor health benefit to smoking.

 

That's so fucking disgusting that they're screening people.

I mean, fuck. They can't ask for your religion, even if you're a muslim fundamentalist suicide bomber, but they can sort you out if you smoke a different kind of cigarette ?!

Or if they search your house without a warrant. Oh wait, there IS a similar thing there on the other side of the Atlantic, it's called the PATRIOT ACT. Guess the next step will be mass surveillance.

 

We've ALWAYS had that. The patriot act just gives it a name.

 

Ironically, if I do end up with diabetes, it'll probably be because of all the herb I smoke.

 

You know what makes this especially ridiculous? Not one week after I quit, I keep getting free pot...quality stuff, too! I'm just gonna give it to my friends who smoke (it's a bad idea to give pot to people who don't smoke it... )