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Is it alright to use marijuana to help heal an eye injury?

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no: Marijuana could allow you to ignore the injury for a while, but any eye injury needs urgent evaluation by an ophthalmologist (not an optometrist) to treat sight threatening damage. Marijuana has no healing capability.

Dr Weston and another doctor agreed

Answered 6/17/2017

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