Biggles Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020855/Medical-marijuana-mans-best-friend-Seattle-company-develops-pot-patch-dogs.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Melsom Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 Pots on the list of things that is bad for your dog geeee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<3Jess<3 Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 wow thats nutz =s cant believe someone would think this is okay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franklin Phil Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 Only in Seattle. How strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 Sounds absolutely brilliant to me! Don't get me wrong - I really don't like the recreational use of cannabis. I spent 40 years as a youth worker watching kids screw up their lives by being too "relaxed" to bother with schoolwork and exams because of their cannabis use. I have also seen too many kids end up in mental hospital with Paranoid Schizophrenia as a result of obsessive cannabis use at an early age. BUT - the medical use of cannabis is well known and it is an extremely effective painkiller - especially in cases of arthritis. The only problem is - in humans, the particular cannabinoid which provides the most relief for arthritis is only released when the cannabis is burned, so to get the best effects it has to be smoked. Hopefully they have sorted this problem with the canine patches - it would be great if they did the same with human cannabis-based medication. Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 how many idiotic pet owners are going to get these "for their pets" but really put them on themselves?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayote Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 I guess it would SOUND like a good idea, if dog's weren't freaking used to getting VERY sick on it. We get TOO many dogs that need to have their stomach pumped around here for eating an owner's pot stash. The dogs start to salivate, and a few seized while on it. I don't agree with it. I mean. Really? You think someone is just going to put this on their dogs? LOL DERP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 I guess it would SOUND like a good idea, if dog's weren't freaking used to getting VERY sick on it. We get TOO many dogs that need to have their stomach pumped around here for eating an owner's pot stash. The dogs start to salivate, and a few seized while on it. I don't agree with it. I mean. Really? You think someone is just going to put this on their dogs? LOL DERP. There's a world of difference between a medical dose of any drug, and "eating a stash!." My wife has extremely bad arthritis and is on morphine-based painkillers, but if she injected/ate/smoked a junkie's stash it would probably make her very ill indeed. A drug is just a drug. The important thing is how and why it is used! Just because heroin is an illegal drug, it doesn't mean that there isn't a perfectly acceptable legal, medical use for opiates. Same with cannabis. Medical experimentation has proven it to be a very effective in the relief of chronic pain. Paracetamol is great for headaches, but a small overdose will kill you. Alcohol can lead to addiction and death, but a glass of red wine each day is medically beneficial. Hell! Even water will kill you if you have too much (Check out the research on so-called "Ecstasy"" deaths - it isn't the MDMA that kills, it is the fact that the victims "drowned" by flooding their systems with water as they became so thirsty.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 how many idiotic pet owners are going to get these "for their pets" but really put them on themselves?? That is likely to be the real problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid_Wolf Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 sounds like a good idea in theory, must be better than all the chemicals in manmade drugs surely? My mums friend used to use cannabis for her MS, she said it was better than the pills are they gunna make different strengths from the varying strains?? lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Melsom Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 I cant compare human use to dog use as we have a different reaction to it because we are made up of different chemicals and all that jazz I still think it would result in a sick dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid_Wolf Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 considering that many many veterinary medicines are human ones with a different name/label, i reckon it will be fine in the correct doses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Melsom Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 i dunno but its something different either way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nedim_SA Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 hahaha, so crazy few months ago, well one of my friends left some of his marijuana on table in my room and guess what, when come back home we found my dog layin down and protecting what was left of it not sure but he was crazy all day i think, runnin all round, acting strange and also he was very very protective about those few bushes that he didn't eat so, never leave any green near them, they'll find it it just doesnt matter where u hide that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Melsom Posted August 2, 2011 Report Share Posted August 2, 2011 hahaha, so crazy few months ago, well one of my friends left some of his marijuana on table in my room and guess what, when come back home we found my dog layin down and protecting what was left of it not sure but he was crazy all day i think, runnin all round, acting strange and also he was very very protective about those few bushes that he didn't eat so, never leave any green near them, they'll find it it just doesnt matter where u hide that. Lucky he didnt have a seizure and harm himself :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nedim_SA Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Lucky he didnt have a seizure and harm himself :/ that wasn't really such a big problem, just need to make sure it never happen, as u know dogs need some types of grass to aid in their stomach, guess this had similar effect, but it was one of the days u whish to forget asap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valhalla Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Odin loves the smell of beer, and theres no way that I would give Pot to any of my dogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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