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5 Reasons to Track Your Medical Marijuana Use

Medical marijuana is now legal in thirty-six states and the District of Columbia. In many of those states, Utah included, health professionals strongly urge patients to track their use. Utah has gone as far as to provide a free downloadable tracking form on their website.

States do not encourage tracking just to be bothersome. Nor do doctors and pharmacists. According to the medical providers at Utah Marijuana, there are a number of valid reasons to track your medical cannabis use. Below are five of them.

1. Patient Responses Vary

Medical marijuana is just like any other drug in the sense that patient responses vary. You may try a particular product on the advice of a friend only to discover that it doesn’t do what your friend said it would. That doesn’t mean your friend was wrong. It just means that the two of you react to the same product differently.

Tracking maintains a record of how your body responds to the products you try. You and your pharmacist can use that information to figure out what products and delivery methods are most appropriate to your treatment goals.

2. Product Availability Changes

Perhaps you discover the product your friend recommended works like a charm. On your next visit to the pharmacy, you discover they are out of stock. It could be weeks before they get more in. Now what?

Tracking your medical marijuana use is helpful in the sense that it gives you a record to look at when the product you want isn’t stock. You can go through your journal and find something else that worked almost as well. In essence, your journal can identify a second-choice product when your first choice isn’t available.

3. Data Is Valuable Pharmacists

Reason #3 for tracking medical marijuana use is the simple fact that the data is valuable to your pharmacist. Remember, it is your pharmacist’s responsibility to make sure you are using your medicines safely and appropriately. That job is more difficult if they don’t know what you’re doing. A tracking journal keeps the pharmacist up to date. It provides information necessary to give you sound advice.

4. Your Health Will Change

The fourth reason for tracking your medical marijuana use has to do with your current health. Simply put, it will not remain static. Human health changes over time. You are no exception. How you feel today will not be the way you feel a year from now, or a year after that.

This is why your doctor keeps a running history of your health. Keeping records allows them to compare your current state of health to that of your past. Comparisons give your doctor a clear picture of where you are, where you have been, and where you are going. The same thing applies to medical marijuana use.

5. Chasing THC Is Useless

Finally, it is a wise idea to track your medical marijuana use in order to avoid the trap of chasing THC. According to the good folks at Utah Marijuana, chasing THC is a common problem among new patients. They just assume that they need as much THC as they can get their hands on in order to feel better.

Some patients only aggravate their conditions by consuming too much THC. Other patients do not benefit from THC at all. They need CBD. Tracking quickly reveals what is working and what is not. It can help you steer clear of unnecessarily chasing THC.

Do you use medical marijuana? If so, do you track your usage? You should. Tracking provides valuable data that can only improve your experience.

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