Medical Marijuana Aids Dying Pets Back to Health, Individuals Report
A growing number of people are willing to admit marijuana can have positive effects on our health—from pain relief to the treatment of anxiety, depression, and even possibly cancer. But the attitude towards pot isn’t only changing for humans, it’s changing for pets. A growing number of pet owners are recognizing marijuana as a safe and effective natural health treatment for their beloved fur-babies.
CBS New York recently reported on a family who treated their dog Luna with medical marijuana. Luna, like many people who resort to medical marijuana treatment, was suffering from late-stage lymphoma and was on an intense chemotherapy regimen. It was because of the poisonous treatments that she was unable to eat, had trouble breathing, and was wasting away.
“The first time I dosed her I was so scared,” said Luna’s owner Rowyn Capers. “We were looking at her all night. The more I increased her cannabis dose the less side effects that she had. The vomiting stopped, the diarrhea stopped.”
There is little scientific research on the effects of cannabis in pets. For that reason, some experts suggest caution. However, there’s also no indications that medical marijuana could harm pets in any manner. It has proven completely harmless in humans and animals in the wild have always consumed cannabis without any known dangers.
“We don’t have enough data to know how it can be used effectively and we currently have a lot of really good modalities to treat pain using multiple different drugs and therapies,” Dr. Amy Greenbaum with the ASPCA said.
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But, like the “drugs and therapies” used in their human counterparts, these often leave pets with disastrous side effects.
“I think we can now see marijuana for exactly what it is and what it can do. Not a street drug but a legitimate medication to be used under proper supervision,” said certified animal behaviorist Darlene Arden.
Another pet-owner profiled by CBS indicated that his 13-year old golden retriever was diagnosed with cancer. He immediately began providing that dog and his other two with a daily dose of cannabis butter spread on a cracker. Not only did he see improvements in the sick retriever, he noticed improvements in his other two dogs as well.
“I’ve seen all three of our dogs, they range in age from 13 to 3, remarkably improve,” he said. “I would say the energy is up. Certainly their coat and their shine in their eyes is there.”
We know cannabis can have numerous positive health effects in humans. But these case studies could indicate the benefits translate to our furry companions as well.
Great article! Imagine that “animals in the wild have always consumed cannabis without any known dangers” — lucky for them they don’t have the criminal government agencies ‘watching out for them’ to en$ure they only get big pHARMa poi$on that doesn’t work.
I’m about to try this on my own kitties. Thanks for the article!
Thc can be toxic for pets and vet emergency rooms have cases of such. This is an irresponsible article which may result in a poisoned pet. Be Careful out there.
The pets are going to die either way. I’d much rather have mine die of cannabis toxicity than die pissing out of every orifice thanks to chemo and whatever other crap an oncologist would gladly prescribe.
Thanks! Now I can’t unsee it either! Worse- I just watched a vid of a parrot rolling his own j.
My pets are lazy. I have to make the oil for them. My 2 old dogs (12 & 11) love it infused in coconut oil. They sit when I get out the dropper! One has arthritis & one has eye issues. Dogs (animals) have an endocannabinoid system, just like we do & benefit from it. I learned all about it while getting my vet tech degree. Too bad only 13% of human medical schools even touch on the subject.
Dogs going to the ER are high, not poisoned. Make them some rice & plain chicken, make sure they have water, supervise them like a drunk buddy & let them sleep it off. It is NOT physically possible to die from a cannabis OD! Save yourself the $300 vet bill.
It is not toxic to pets. Vet’s see them all the time because someone gets their pets stoned or their dogs eats their stash and passes out but do the research, you will not find a single death due to eating Cannabis by animals. I know that personally deer and rats eat it in nature. Scientist have dosed the crap out of rats and monkees for research and none of them died until the scientist killed them for more research.. You just think they are gonna die because the animals are so out of it. But it won’t stop their breathing or heart or anything. Just let them sleep it off.
poo poo, you’re full of it. We have cured animals for over two years. O’shaughnessey found that it cures rabbies and even gonorrhea back in the early 1800s. We already know every vertebrate animal has CB1 and CB2 receptors. among others. Your BS statement is what’s irresponsible and a testament that you have done absolutely no valid research even into the available research out there. ON the other hand, I have spent over 2 years doing precisely that and there is not a single case of so called overdose or death, not even any debilitation other than sleep! First off, this isn’t even a drug. What this really is? An entire several major groups of nutrients, in whose absence we disease across a broad spectrum of disorders and no wonder. It affects every one of the 210 cell types in the human animal’s body with positive efficacy and does a host of things pharmaceutical companies have for decades tried to mimimic, fruitlessly and with serious side effects to include traumatic death.
In cannabis you have around 525 compounds: 85 cannabinnoids, 120 terpenes, almost every vitamin and nutrient the USDA claims we require. Problem is, they leave out the terpenes and cannabinoids, as well as about 4-5 other entire classes of nutrients. For the most part, cannabinoids are fatty acid compounds, which is well known attach themselves to cells and affect activities of at least 9 g-coupled protein receptors (we think there are many more, some yet to be discovered) and the body produces at least 7 to date discovered, including Vitamin A who is looking more and more a candidate for being a cannabinoid. Vitamin C is produced from a terpene and we’re seeing terpenes of cannabis doing much the same thing once ingested in the diet or through the food chain.
Theses facts alone make the entire debate a crying joke. Harms not a single cell, alleviates symptoms of disorders very much symptoms themselves of a massive 80 year worldwide deficiency syndrome that has brought with it untold disease factors. Oddly, in the 10-12 micro-cultures found to date that have retained it in at least their food chain and often in their diet directly, there are consistently two things in common within those cultures: Longevity, well into and beyond the 90’s and virtually zero disease factors in their lifetimes.
So, please do tell me more about theses supposed overdoses so I can punch holes through your stupid irresponsibility. Next. you’ll be telling is 28 people died of cannabis overdoses the day the legalization law in Colorado went into effect. buahahahahahahahahah
One more quick note. Omega fats 3 and 6 are not nutrients, per se. They are the precursory compounds the body’s endocannabinoid system turns in anandamide, the compound delta-9 THC mimimics at all the so far 9 receptors found to be cannabinoid friendly. Go do yourself a favor and do real research. NIH has over 40,000 abstracts and reports showing how wrong you are and how right I am in statements made. The overly precautious debate surrounding this debate is being pulled off by people very much equally as under or mis-informed as yourself and this includes most of the so called experts. Truth be told ALL humanity and animals in the kingdom are under a wrecklessly imposed prohibition against the TREE OF LIFE, Kaneh Bosm, the Plant of Renown. As witnessed after its elimination from our pharmacopiea in 1942, by 1950 cancers had already grown by 25% across the population, accompanied by disorders of every other system: digestive, neurological, cardio-circulatory, respiratory, immune, muscular-skeletal, dermal and more. Alone cancer rose from 1 in 20 to 1 in 15 and with each subsequent generation (we’re in generation 4 now or 5) that ratio has gone to 1 in 2 or 1 in 2.5 depending on gender. In spite of the over $1 trillion thrown at cancer, they have lost that war, too. It isn’t a disease, it is a symptom of nutrient deficiency and once you get to a few thousand of these reports you’ll understand that point clearly. remember, if this were a drug we would have long ago been alarmed at the damage. That has yet to happen, even after 4-5 generations of prohibition. Point blank, you are dead wrong and full of it!
Finally, I have consumed over 18,000 reports in the past 2 years. Peer reviewed. What the hell have you read?
Actually it’s the endo-cannabinoid receptor system in the dog that works with the cannabis. All mammals have an endo-cannabinoid receptor system. All mammals. It’s not at all toxic to any mammal. EVER.
Cannabis is NOT toxic in any way to any mammals. We all have an Endocannabinoid system, as part of our immune system and THC and CBD cause apoptosis of cancer cells and prevent metastases respectively.
Just because humans have panicked and took their animal baby to hospital to be checked out because they don’t know what to do, does not mean that it has ever caused a death due to overdose. They are 2 different things. Please do some research before you comment.
I have wondered if this would help my daughter’s dog . He has epilepsy and is horribly drugged up, which will eventually cause renal failure.
Kif this oil helped with the eyes will it help with dogs heart please tell me what you k ow thanks
Id like to talk to you on exactly how you saved your cat. Mine has a brain tumor and I am treating her with radiation and most likely chemo will come next but I think ive heard enough evidence to realize cannibis oil might help