I was diagnosed with glaucoma almost two years ago.
I was using eyedrops to lesson the pressure in the eye, but I was having a honorableamount of complications from the eye drops.
I had heard that smoking medical marijuana could help the glaucoma, but I didn’t know all the stats. I wanted to talk to my healthcare expert & see what she thought about marijuana helping with glaucoma. I was afraid it was going to interfere with the optic nerve, & after that I would be blind! My healthcare expert told me she had read a lot about using medical marijuana, & the primary complication was that I would need to smoke marijuana every three hours! She had heard where that could be almost as damaging to the lungs & body as smoking nicotine cigarettes. There was some talk about making eyedrops that were high in THC; but marijuana wasn’t water soluble. There was no way they had to do more research into how to make the medical marijuana eyedrops, but thus far, that had not worked. She then said there was some more recent research showing that medical marijuana may not just treat glaucoma by reducing eye pressure. It could also act on receptors & give protection against harm to the optic nerve; A lot of research still needed to be done, & at this time, she would not recommend medical marijuana in the treatment of glaucoma. I was ready to spend money the cost in getting the medical marijuana ID card. I wanted to get all the paraphernalia needed to smoke marijuana, & then the healthcare expert told me no.