Marijuana for Pain Relief
The results, which included improvements in mood and sleep, were published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Dr. Mark Ware and colleagues at McGill University and McGill University Health Centre got the ball rolling for the study almost a decade ago, but found it was a long road to get all the necessary approvals and import a convincing marijuana placebo from the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high.
The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain.The results, which included improvements in mood and sleep, were published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Dr. Mark Ware and colleagues at McGill University and McGill University Health Centre got the ball rolling for the study almost a decade ago, but found it was a long road to get all the necessary approvals and import a convincing marijuana placebo from the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
