Has anyone tried using cannabis with a loved one who has dementia, and if so, how did it work out?

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Louise315 Asked April 2021

Has anyone tried using cannabis with a loved one who has dementia, and if so, how did it work out?

My dad is in assisted-living. He struggles with dementia, we’ve never had it diagnosed but believe that it could be vascular, or Lewy body. When he gets difficult with staff, they want him to take drugs. I don’t personally like the side effects of Ativan or the antipsychotic drugs on dad. I’ve watched one Teepa snow interview with a CEO who is in the business of helping to market the drug and was intrigued. Still a bit nervous about using it because it hasn’t been tested much yet.

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If you try CBD or pot go to a reliable store. America Shaman is great for CBD products. Go to a knowledgeable dispencery. Alot of drugs use for dementia have red flag warnings. Why not try

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From every post that I have read and the experience my Dad and Aunt had with CBD it is very much like anything else, works for some, not so well for others and my Aunt said it just made her sleep. My dad used a CBD oil for his feet, neuropathy, and he ended up being taken off of gabapentin.

I think a natural course is always the best first choice before resorting to medically created drugs. I don't personally believe that the medical industry has our best interests at heart, it is HUGE money and the sicker they keep the population the more money the machine earns.

I would give it a chance, the worse thing that could happen is he has behavioral issues, which I have never heard or read happening, and it might just help.

Best of luck and do let us know what you do and how it turns out.

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You won't hear about "issues" because there is no overseeing body that collects this data. The supplement industry is a for-profit industry, just like med-tech and pharma, only there's no regulation. Pharma does have to prove to the FDA that their products work and meet a criteria for safety for specific ailments/conditions. The FDA collects complaints and problems related to FDA-regulated products. Supplements don't have to prove anything, that's why all their literature says it "helps" or "may help" -- a legal loophole.

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Please understand that CBD is still a chemical, just like any other prescription medicine. It can have side-effects and interact with other medications, or have no medicinal benefit at all. Because the CBD industry is currently like the Wild West there is no unbiased product testing, no consistency from bottle to bottle or pill to pill, no standards for purity or dosage or clean manufacturing environments like with prescription pharmaceuticals. They don't even have to prove their product/brand "works". Literally sellers can be making this crap in their filthy garages with ungloved, dirty hands and you'd never know it -- and there's no accountability since there's no overseeing body to which to report problems and collect data. This is true of the entire supplement industry. Therefore, caveat emptor ("Buyer, beware").

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/what-you-need-know-and-what-were-working-find-out-about-products-containing-cannabis-or-cannabis

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