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A new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that medical marijuana helps relieve some of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. The study found that marijuana helped reduce muscle pain and spasticity. From the Canadian Medical Association Journal:
Most trials have focused on the effect of oral cannabis rather than smoked cannabis.
Rather than rely on self-reporting by patients regarding their muscle spasticity a subjective measure health professionals rated the spasticity of each participants joints on the modified Ashworth scale, a common objective tool to evaluate intensity of muscle tone. The researchers found that participants in the smoked cannabis group experienced an almost one-third decrease on the Ashworth scale 2.74 points from a baseline score of 9.3, meaning spasticity improved, compared with the placebo group. As well, pain scores decreased by about 50%.
http://www.cmaj.ca/site/misc/pr/14may12_pr.xhtml
http://justsaynow.firedoglake.com/2012/05/15/study-marijuana-helps-with-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms/
librechik
(30,676 posts)this sort of comfort and relief cannot be allowed to those sinful smokers. God wants them to suffer! They can only be allowed to take factory made expensive and ineffective chemicals!
I'm scared! Thank you Emperor Romney!
do i need to add the sarcasm smilie?
EC
(12,287 posts)MM for his wife? Although the horse riding is one of the better therapies that many cannot afford and Bush cut the benefits for this. My daughter was a therapist that had her patients out at the horse ranch riding...
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)With Mittens' approval.
Just can't allow the Little People to benefit from it. They'll just use it for pleasure.
Attorney General Holder must be asleep at the switch!
The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine research lab is lucky it didn't get raided.
Ezlivin
(8,153 posts)'Cause my representative (Burgess) told me this in his response to my request for leniency on medical marijuana patients:
As for marijuana's therapeutic value, research indicates that its value as a legitimate pain therapy is minimal at best. In 1997, the National Institutes of Health convened a group of experts which concluded that scientific evidence was insufficient to definitively assess marijuana's therapeutic potential and advised that the traditional scientific process should be allowed to evaluate the drug's use for certain disorders. In its 1999 report, Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base, the Institute of Medicine
He never mentions the fact that the "costly war against drugs" has been going for over 30 years and still hasn't succeeded, the same failed, costly drug war that he wants to continue indefinitely.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)reveal the usual suspects, big PAC money, and big pharma has been generous. Sorry he's your rep
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00025219
xchrom
(108,903 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I predict that DEA/DOJ will now go after the researchers and departments involved and somebody is going to jail.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)can do for us and our world. I could (and probably will at some point) go on for pages about the possibilities we are discovering about this plant.
K&R
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)bashing and hating, they obviously want a Romney presidency. To disagree with Obama's policy is, in my opinion, the same as treason and should result in a death sentence or at least life imprisonment.
He knows things we don't, and knows what is best, not us, we only know what he is able to teach.
These bashing threads are getting too much to take.
spanone
(135,862 posts)just like us
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)It also helps with nausea that can come from extended bouts of vertigo.
Free the weed.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)I do what I need to to survive these flares. I am just miserable and needed to vent. I hate nausea. I'd rather have pain than nausea any day.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I've got a weird, rare one (Dermatomyositis ) and as my quads are wasting it hurts pretty bad. The oxy and other crap isn't touching it, but only leaves me dealing with medicine head.
My law abiding, never smoking pot, family has been notified and is cool. They just want me to be careful.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I've been working a lot and just caught this reply.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=673880
Whatever you do, send no link to this thread
There might occur a ginormous rift in the Space/Time continuum ( which hemp could patch up, if only it were legal )