Over the past several years, doctors have been finding more uses for medical marijuana than anyone had ever imagined.
I found out they were using marijuana to treat PTSD, pain, seizures, and anxieties.
When I was told they used medical marijuana to treat eating disorders, I chuckled. I had known this years ago, before the use of medical marijuana was totally legalized. When I turned twelve, I began to hate who I was. All the kids in school were making fun of me because I weighed more than anyone else my age. I wanted to be just like all the other kids, and I quit eating. I didn’t know this was unhealthy, but I also didn’t know how to lose the weight without having mom and dad tell me I had to eat. I would pretend to eat dinner, and throw up as soon as I left the table. When my sister realized what was happening, she told mom, who came upstairs to lecture me. Instead of a lecture, she took me to a therapist. She said she knew all about eating disorders and she was hoping a therapist could help me. I talked honestly to my therapist and told her how much I actually ate, and that when I ate, I would also throw up immediately after. Eating was making me sick. She wrote me a prescription for marijuana pills, which was the only way you could get medical marijuana at that time. She told my mom that marijuana would increase my appetite and help with nausea. I never gained my weight back, but I have been able to learn new habits, and I no longer need the marijuana for my eating disorder.