RESEARCH - Smoking marijuana eases chronic neuropathic pain

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Smoking Marijuana Eases Chronic Neuropathic Pain

Medscape

Fran Lowry

August 30, 2010 — Smoking cannabis reduces chronic neuropathic pain

and also improves sleep, according to new research published today in

the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

A single inhalation of 25 mg of 9.4% tetrahydrocannabinol herbal

cannabis 3 times a day for 5 days was sufficient to achieve these

outcomes, lead study author Mark A. Ware, MBBS, from McGill University

Health Center, Montreal, Canada, told Medscape Medical News in an

interview.

" Patients have been reporting that cannabis helps control their pain,

and they have been saying so for a long time, " Dr. Ware said. " At the

time that we had secured the funding and began the trial, there had

been no clinical trials that had established this or investigated it. "

In addition, a large body of scientific knowledge is emerging abound

the role of cannabinoid receptors and cannabinoid ligands in the human

body, providing a potential scientific explanation as to why

cannabinoids would be analgesic, he added. " So the 2 main supports

came together, and in Canada at the time, there was an environment

where we were able to secure funding sufficient for studies of this. "

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So happy you posted this !

Many people have suggested that I take marijuana for my RA Pain, etc. But they

drug test me in my job once a year, so I cant. First, i dont want to smoke

anything, I think I will save my lungs, but to drink it in a tea or eat it would

be the way to go.....

I have friends who have cancer that soak it in olive oil and take one tablespoon

per day. I also have friends in Canada that take the THC from the pot and make

a dark hash-like substance and take a fingernail full everyday only and they

swear it works like magic on the pain and discomfort. They used to give it away

for free, but the man got arrested for growing it and is exciled in Amsterdam

now...

When they legalize medical marijuana in NY, I will be standing on the line, but

still, not to smoke it, but to drink it in a tea or eat it.