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(10,472 posts)I used it for years for those issues. I had to quit due to affordability and access issues. Then a few years later I went into early menopause due to chemotherapy for breast cancer. Horrible hot flashes and brain fog, as well as all the other menopausal symptoms. A friend visited and shared some with me, and while we were hanging out after I realized my hot flashes had stopped and I was a normal temperature again. And my brain was firing on all cylinders, although I was a bit silly. I was surprised but really thrilled, because I had tried medications and they either didn't help or I had reactions. Since the oncologists had told me I could conceivably have these symptoms for the rest of my life, I began using it. I still have terrible hot flashes. It still works, and now I have a routine that keeps enough of it in my system so that I can not have all these debilitating symptoms.
I saw a comment from someone very recently who called cannabis use a need to "deny reality." Obviously that person has never smoked or used cannabis, because that's not what it does. And someone above intimated that Biden wanted "sober people " but that's another bullshit trope...I could smoke/ingest cannabis all night tonite without a hangover in the morning, and go to work without any issue or chance of still being high. That is a key advantage cannabis has over alcohol. I don't like alcohol or the effects on me.
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