Marijuana for Dogs and Cats, What Is Your Experience, We Need Your Advice

As much as I’d like to see marijuana used for dogs and cats with the diseases described in the Caring for Pets previous discussion (Marijuana for Dogs and Cats, Who Would Benefit), we don’t have research giving us guidelines for how much marijuana to prescribe and which form of marijuana to use. University researchers haven’t published useful studies, but I suspect there are marijuana users throughout the US and Canada that have experience that would be helpful for those who want to use medical marijuana for  pets. If you would like to contribute to this discussion, please send me a note, and I’ll publish it for the benefit of pet families.

Your note describing marijuana use in your pet would be most helpful if it contained the following info about your pet:

• breed & age
• disease and if you have lab tests or other data supporting that diagnosis
• amount, type and frequency of marijuana given

Please include what you observed in the short term and long term when giving your pet marijuana:

• appetite
• weight
• interaction with family
• interaction with toys
• ease of movement
• nausea or vomiting

f the note you send will benefit others, it will be published in this blog, but your name and contact info will not be included.

The purpose of gathering this information is to develop anecdotal information on the use of marijuana in pets. The info is not being gathered in order to recommend marijuana for pets, but to look at what families have learned from their use of marijuana for their pets.

I personally don’t use marijuana for medical purposes or for recreation, but I am not offended by the idea that others might.

In a later Caring for Pets blog, we'll discuss the signs of marijuana overdose and how it’s treated. We’ll also look at the different forms of marijuana.                           

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