Jritch4848

I'm also a Celiac patient and I use marijuana. Like said in earlier posts, the way to a proper celiac diet is a diet with absolutely no gluten......but lets get real here, the world hasn't exactly gone gluten free yet haha. And I definitely have regular experiences where some sort of cross-contamination with food occurs; and when that happens I swear having pot saves my life. No stomach cramps, long nights where I can't fall asleep, so many trips to the bathroom I can't even count, or even just feeling like poop in general. If I smoke a little bit, everything in my body just completely chills out and I feel I can finally relax, take my mind of it for the brief time and actually feel normal. I lost my appetite years ago, so long I honestly can't tell what year it was, but I swear the first time I ever smoked was the first time I was hungry in the longest time.......needless to say I was extremely excited and since I have finally put on a healthy amount of weight and I'm the healthiest, mentally and physically, I've ever been in my entire life. I've done my fair share of research and had Political college courses, and it just doesn't look like America is going to legally accept weed in the near future. In my humble opinion, it should just be legal. I could sit here and be that guy types out all the researches I've found online (no offense to those who actually do that, cause I do learn from them haha), but in my personal experience it has been a great aid in dealing with this disease in every aspect, and I smoke with plenty of non-Celiacs and I just don't believe it to be overly-harmful to keep it from being legal. I have a 3.69 GPA......smoke weed everyday =p. But in all seriousness, I hope anything I had to say answers the original question or any questions anyone who just happens to read this has.

I would like to set the record STRAIGHT....... for people who are morally against marijuana you are entitled to your opinons, and do not have the right to force your MORALES against another person who is using it for MEDICAL reasons,

an example is I DO NOT GET SEIZURES if i smoke pot,

I DO NOT GET DIORREAH if I smoke pot

I DO NOT VOMIT OR HAVE NAUSEA if I smoke pot

I DO NOT GET DERMATITIS OR THE SKIN RASH PROBLEM if I smoke pot,

I DO NOT LOOSE WEIGHT if I smoke pot,

and having not smoked pot in the last 3 months and also being on a STRICT gluten free diet, I AM STILL SICK WITH a gluten free diet... but not as bad.

BUT with pot I can chop up firewood, put on muscle, work better, sleep better... and I actually can dream.

I do not get muscle aches, I do not crap out blood in the toilet, I do not get cramps I do not get spasams, or feel like my insides are on fire.

WHAT gives a human being the right to turn around and say "oh well so what its illegal, you cant have it so your just going to have be sick because people who abuse it ruined it for you, and blah blah blah blah....ect.

I have been told by doctors to 'just deal with it, theres nothing more we can do'

and let me give people out there a peice of my mind when it comes to medical marijuana,

my grandfather had celiac disease and got small bowel cancer at 20, I am 20 years old, I have had 6 tumours cut out of my colon.

and IF one person has a go at me for my choice in medicine, which will stop me getting worse all I can say is that they are an ignorant human being.

glad I got that off my chest.

I have a very similar situation to your own. All my life I have gotten constant diarrhea, stomach pains, and all of the above for celiac. I have dealt with depression, complete loss of appetite, moodiness, and insomnia. And all of this while on a strict gluten free diet.

For the time I spent smoking cannabis, I felt like a normal person again. I was coping with celiac in a much more positive way, and had a much better outlook on the situation I've been genetically thrown into. I ate a lot more often and put on healthy amount of weight, returned to regular sleeping habits, and did not encounter any sort of stomach pain anymore. Note while in this time i continued to be a straight A highschool student and my grades actually got better because I felt that my life was better.

I understand some of the reasons why cannabis is not fully legal yet, but I do believe the positives out-weight the negatives by far and believe that cannabis can help people like you and me who have celiac.

Unfortunately it is not medically legal in PA (where I live) yet so I can not obtain it legally, and have recently stopped smoking it for personal reasons. In conclusion, people need to realize that this plant is not as harmful as once thought and can truly help people.