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I've asked this question already but I want some more educated answers...

If my girlfriend smokes pot when she has a headache, the pot will cure the headache, but she wont get stoned. Can someone explain why this happens?

Its not about tolerance or different quality weed... she can smoke one night and get stoned, then smoke the same amount of the same dope the next night, with a headache, and it cures the headache but has no other effects.

Only serious answers from people who actually know, please.

2006-09-26 21:06:48 · 4 answers · asked by dave_eee 3 in Science & Mathematics Medicine

jloertscher:
the kind of answer you've given me is the problem I had last time... people not answering the question and people assuming that my girlfriend smokes to excess... she and I, smoke, on average, once every couple of weeks, though we often smoke on consecutive nights if we have the pot. There's nothing in the question to suggest she's "getting blitzed every night". And even if the headache is psychosomatic or stress related, that still doesnt explain why the pot cures the headache without getting her stoned.

Perhaps you should have read the question before you answered it.

2006-10-02 17:54:01 · update #1

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I´ll give you an homepath answer, which probably won´t fit the "scientifical" profile that a pharmacologist can give you, but then again, no pharmacologist will be able to explain this phenomenon beyond any reasonable doubt. It goes something like this:
When you take a medication, drink a beer, smoke pot, etc, you are causing a disbalance in your energy due to something that comes from the outside. In other words, you are causing yourself an "artificial disease", (as opposed to a natural disease caused from the inside, but that´s another discussion).
When this "disease" is settled, you feel the effects of the alcohol, the aspirin or, in this case, the pot.
When your girlfriend is suffering from a headache, her energy is already disbalanced. She smokes, and the disruption of the energy that the pot causes, gets it back to it´s balance, eliminating the manifestation of the previous disbalance (the headache). When she is balanced, the particular movement of the pot will express, giving this "artificial diseases" (getting stoned).
The tricky thing is that every person has his/her particular way of disbalancing and expressing it and not everybody´s energy will re balance when smoking pot.
Has she tried to smoke some more after the headache is gone?
I hope it was usefull

2006-09-27 03:15:16 · answer #1 · answered by manseba 2 · 1 1

The principal effects of the opioids are a damping of pain perception along with modest levels of sedation and euphoria. It works on the headache just like an analgesic or antitussive agents. These drugs are capable of producing EUPHORIA (or getting stoned). The opioids produce their effects by binding to different types of opioid receptors throughout our body including the central nervous system. The receptors with which opioid peptides interact are differentially engaged in production of the various opiate effects such as analgesia (thus the relief of your girlfriend's headache), respiratory depression, constipation and euphoria. There are different effects on the body systems, but perhaps to answer your question, due to your girlfriend's headache, the substance gave her relief, masking the euphoric effect, etc. On the contrary, because the previous night, she was "normal" or asymptomatic, the euphoric effects of the substance were manifested. It does not cure the headache. Rather, it only alleviates the pain, just like what analgesics such as paracetamol would do. Better use an analgesic for the headache to prevent substance dependence and abuse due to prolonged use.

2006-09-27 03:04:43 · answer #2 · answered by poni 2 · 1 0

the first answer discussing opioids is an interesting one.....since cannabis isn't one!

I suspect that these headaches are either stress-related, hence the marijuana works, or more likely pscyhosomatic.

Yup, psychosomatic. When someone has a 'headache' it is easier to explain away getting blitzed damn near every night!

2006-10-02 05:47:20 · answer #3 · answered by jloertscher 5 · 0 1

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2016-12-12 15:57:43 · answer #4 · answered by rocca 4 · 0 0

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