Cannabis and Palliative Care
"Cannabis has long been used as an enhancer, heightening sensory perceptions and awareness, including increased appreciation of music, tastes, scents, or other aesthetic pleasures. It could also help to heighten awareness of moment-to-moment presence, a state that is all the more critical when one's days are numbered.
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“This could very well play an important therapeutic role for certain patients faced with the despair of a terminal illness, and the loss of function that typically accompanies it. The potential contribution to spiritual growth and development may help to create 'a good death' or 'tending to dignity by way of the senses' as stated by Dr. B.J. Miller." — Claude Cyr, et al.; Annals of Palliative Medicine, Vol. 7 No. 4—Cannabis in Palliative Care: Current Challenges and Practical Recommendations
Jackson Gibbs
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