{"id":7326,"date":"2022-06-03T14:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/?p=7326"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T20:58:45","slug":"nursing-stories-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/nursing-stories-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Stories – The Ripple Effect of Cannabis Clich\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018\u2019Will my colleagues be able to tell?\u2019\u2019 as she anxiously asked. \u2018\u2019I\u2019m sorry?\u2019\u2019 I replied with doubt if she\u2019s alluding to the cannabis oil or her gastro-intestinal passing. We were discussing having beans for lunch that day. \u2018\u2019They cannot know about this! They\u2019ll think I am a stoner.\u2019\u2019<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I often get patients wondering in the same manner. There is still much reprehension about cannabis. Our society is unceasingly finding fault with it, no matter how its status has evolved. The public has yet to fully and intuitively confirm its moral direction. Cannabis perception is changing at a very slow pace.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the method of administration is very much compatible to its malignant opinion. \u2018\u2019 I don\u2019t want to smoke cannabis. I\u2019m not a druggy.\u2019\u2019 one of our patients did say. The current terminology, slangs precisely, is still and probably throwing people off. Many of our patients do not want to be taking weed or <\/span>puffing <\/span><\/i>on a <\/span>spliff<\/span><\/i>. Our treatment plans are based on scientific data, and accordingly we make sure to use the appropriate terms to the purpose.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our esteemed doctors do not prescribe marijuana. They recommend inhaling dried cannabis for breakthrough pain. I would gently remind a patient when he or she uses such words as \u201cpot\u201d or \u201cganja\u201d. The old proverbial \u2018\u2019to-may-to\/to-mah-to\u2019\u2019 would ring out. So, what is the difference? Really?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe words and how we understand them are very consequential moving forward. I remember back in the 1990\u2019s, the semantics affecting the scope of the term \u2018\u2019death tax\u2019\u2019 eventually became the \u2018\u2019estate or inheritance tax\u2019\u2019 in the US? Basically, politicians and advocates tried to kill the bill by putting stress on how it harmed family farms and small businesses. They knowingly coined the term \u2018\u2019death tax\u2019\u2019 to get the public to consider their cause. Dying has more impact and meaning in the collective conscience.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think the transition toward a proper nomenclature in medical cannabis practice must be imposed, applied and supported by all parties involved. Indica dried cannabis, THC-rich, 3-4 inhalations at bedtime or as needed does serves as better example of a positive and trustworthy interpretation than 3-4 puffs of weed before going to bed.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– Pheng Lim, LPN<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018\u2019Will my colleagues be able to tell?\u2019\u2019 as she anxiously asked. \u2018\u2019I\u2019m sorry?\u2019\u2019 I replied with doubt if she\u2019s alluding to the cannabis oil or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,202,261],"tags":[184,93,310,90,110],"class_list":["post-7326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-our-team","category-sante-en","tag-cannabis","tag-medical-cannabis","tag-medical-cannabis-patient","tag-medical-cannabis-treatment","tag-thc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7540,"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326\/revisions\/7540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.santecannabis.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}