Posts Tagged ‘pain’

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Getting High Not Needed for Pot to Relieve Pain, New UC Study Shows

Researchers at the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at UC San Diego have concluded that smoking pot provides effective relief of pain-related medical conditions. But the first major study on the effects of marijuana in two decades also indicated that pot smokers can achieve the same pain reduction at low doses as higher doses—meaning they [...]

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Medical Marijuana Has Merit, Research Shows

Marijuana can be a promising treatment for some specific, pain-related medical conditions, according to researchers at the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California who presented an update of their findings to the California Legislature and also released them to the public.

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Marijuana, the wonder drug

Lester Grinspoon Published: Thursday, March 1, 2007 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine that we still need “proof” of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years. The [...]