One of the worst ailments a woman experiences is her monthly menstrual cycle as for many it comes with menstrual cramps. These cramps can often times be debilitating and very hard to deal with.
Marijuana has been used to help alleviate cramps and according to Dr. Marla Gendelman of Liberate Pain Management in Grand rapids, “Cannabis has been used for PMS literally since pre-biblical times. They burned incense and it was used as topically and orally.”
Movie and television star Whoopi Goldberg has advocated marijuana for pain management for women and even opened an online shop specializing in it. A company called Foria has also created marijuana tampons.
“It provides probably more importantly in this case relief from cramping. It’s an antispasmodic.” Dr. Gendelman said.
“It won’t do much for bloating we’ll admit that. But the feeling of yuck. The lack of appetite, the achiness, and the menstrual cramping it helps all of those. They shouldn’t feel high. They feel relaxed. The CBD is not psycho active. The straight CBD products are impossible to overdose on. There is not a way to do it.”
Dr. Gendelman’s explains that ,”It seems like it’s a quality product. It is just using CBD, but I understand that that is what is available to us commercially.”
