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Cannabis-based drugs might relieve bowel disease
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Posted on 08/13/2005 12:00:36 PM PDT by traumer

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Derivatives of the active compound in cannabis -- cannabinoids -- may have the potential for treating inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, UK researchers report.

"The system that responds to cannabis in the brain is present and functioning in the lining of the gut," lead researcher Dr. Karen Wright, of the University of Bath, explained to Reuters Health. "There is an increased presence of one component of this system during inflammatory bowel diseases," she explained.

Wright and her colleagues established the location of cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 in human colon tissue, and used human colon cell lines to investigate the binding of cannabinoid compounds and in wound-healing experiments. They report their findings in the journal Gastroenterology

The team found that CB2 was increased in colonic tissue characteristic of inflammatory bowel disease. Cannabinoids enhanced surface wound closure via CB1-related mechanisms.

"Cannabinoids, which we make ourselves, as well as synthetic cannabinoids, can promote wound healing in the gut, which is extremely interesting given that inflammatory bowel disease involves damaged gut linings," Wright said.

Although results are available yet, she added, relevant studies of the use of cannabinoids are taking place in the UK and a clinical trial is being conducted in Germany.


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To: lightislife

Where do you find Liberal Christian Fundamentalists? Seems an odd discription of a non-existent creature.


61 posted on 08/13/2005 2:27:47 PM PDT by em2vn
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To: antiRepublicrat

Joking right?


62 posted on 08/13/2005 2:29:44 PM PDT by em2vn
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To: muawiyah

"We got your number ~ you guys are all the time coming up with "new cures" from dope"

"Odds are always very good that druggies lie."

Wow. Two arrogant presumptions in one post. We also have the two standard fallacies that the dope hysterics always drag out on these threads:

Fallacy #1 - "only druggies could possibly care about finding new medicines, regardless of where they come from."

I'm not a druggie, don't like drugs and don't do any drug stronger than Scotch. Never have, never will But if someone finds a medical use for the chemicals in pot, I wouldn't refuse it out of hand.

Then of course there's the second common fallacy:

Fallacy #2 - "only druggies could possibly care about ever-increasing Federal power."

I don't love drugs, but I do love the Constitution. And on this issue, the potheads are closer to the Constitution than the statists are.


63 posted on 08/13/2005 6:28:39 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: brazzaville; nmh

And because somebody somewhere might be enjoying him/herself without nmh's approval, nmh somehow feels it necessary to deny that anything beneficial could ever possibly come from the same plant that somebody might be enjoying him/herself with.

The "logic" behind this thinking escapes me. Drugs are so bad that we mustn't even consider that they may be in some small way good. Bizarre.


64 posted on 08/13/2005 7:38:17 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: traumer
Derivatives of the active compound in cannabis -- cannabinoids -- may have the potential for treating inflammatory bowel diseases ....

MAY have the POTENTIAL??? Well, hell, if you're that sure about it....

65 posted on 08/13/2005 7:40:13 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: traumer

Headline: Cannabis Might Just Kill The Little Bit Of Brains You Have Left


66 posted on 08/13/2005 7:54:47 PM PDT by LifeOrGoods? (God is not a God of fear, but of power, love and a sane mind.)
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To: lightislife
Yeah, but don't tell the Liberal Christian Fundamentalists in this country that want more government intrusion into our personal lives.

A dope addict affects all he comes in contact with. I have the same to say about Alcohol, the worst drug in America. Stay strong, keep a strong mind, stay away from the bad chemicals.

67 posted on 08/13/2005 7:58:12 PM PDT by LifeOrGoods? (God is not a God of fear, but of power, love and a sane mind.)
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To: traumer
Our daughter died of Crohn's Disease last year. It is a terrible disease.
68 posted on 08/13/2005 7:59:17 PM PDT by MamaB (mom to an angel)
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To: highball

Just stay off the streets.


69 posted on 08/13/2005 8:34:57 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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To: muawiyah

Pray tell, why?


70 posted on 08/13/2005 8:37:13 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: traumer

DR. HIBBERT
Well, there is medication, although it is a little... controversial.

HOMER
Does it go in the butt?

DR. HIBBERT
I'm talking about medicinal marijuana. Prescription pot. Texas THC.


71 posted on 08/13/2005 8:39:46 PM PDT by chemical_boy
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To: Pearls Before Swine

This might be a wonderful adjunct to the fabled coffee enema.

Warning! Warning!
Remove seeds and stems before ingesting.

Coffee beans must be ground FINE or painful irritation
may result.


72 posted on 08/13/2005 8:40:20 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: keithtoo

Wow, thanks for that pic of the marijuana plants. I have always wondered what they look like. I am going to print it out for a reference when I take my walks seems as though it just might grow wild.


73 posted on 08/13/2005 8:44:49 PM PDT by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: Texas Eagle
"MAY have the POTENTIAL??? Well, hell, if you're that sure about it...."

Fallin down on the floor, screamin with fits of laughter, almost to the point of bladder control loss!!!

Oh! Oh! Oh! (gasp) Do ya spose it'll tighten up alla my aging sphincters? Ha Ha Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

74 posted on 08/13/2005 8:48:51 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Iraq! Our exit strategy is... VICTORY!!!)
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To: coconutt2000
It's got to better than ingesting non-soluable sulfa drugs in combination (but not ingested with) cortisone enemas.
75 posted on 08/13/2005 8:50:41 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: highball
Your post suggests you are currently ingesting copious quantities of otherwise prohibited substances.

Good idea to stay off the streets for a few days ~ 'til it wears off.

Bet your paranoia got the best of you for a few moments there eh?!

76 posted on 08/13/2005 8:53:39 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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To: muawiyah

Potheads amazingly can, if they try, clear up and knock it off. The psychological addiction is very, very powerful though. It's almost impossible for a pothead to get off for more than a year.


77 posted on 08/13/2005 8:56:10 PM PDT by Lauretij2
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To: traumer
Derivatives of the active compound in cannabis -- cannabinoids -- may have the potential for treating inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, UK researchers report.

That would benefit me because I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease two years ago.

Looks like some medical marijuana for me.

78 posted on 08/13/2005 8:57:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: JennysCool

LOL........ If it ain't it will be according to the "researchers".....


79 posted on 08/13/2005 8:59:38 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Lauretij2

My test for toxicity on the internet is simple ~ elicit feelings of paranoia. Never fails. A year?


80 posted on 08/13/2005 9:02:16 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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