Posted on 09/11/2010 7:35:57 PM PDT by neverdem
People with chronic pain who took just a puff of marijuana three times a day got some mild pain relief and, with rare exceptions, did so without getting high, a Canadian study reports. (Yes, they inhaled.)
The patients, who suffered from persistent nerve damage that did not respond to other pain drugs, also reported better sleep and less anxiety, the researchers said.
The study is one of the first randomly controlled clinical trials to test the pain-relieving properties of smoked marijuana and of its active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, said Dr. Mark A. Ware, a pain researcher at McGill University in Montreal who was lead author of the paper, published in The Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Twenty-one adult volunteers, all of them with intractable pain, completed the trial, which compared three different formulations of marijuana with various concentrations of THC — along with a placebo version, a formulation with no THC at all...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Actually it's the metabolites of THC, (not psychoactive THC)that remain for an extended time.
I have a friend that has MS and she has a medical Mary Jane card. She makes pot brownies or cookies with low dosages. She uses them in between her intermittent MS treatments which knock her out of commission for several days. She says it helps her and that is good enough for me. It does not take her out for several days and she can work.
She also had an aunt who had chronic pain and could barely sleep. She made her some very low dose cookies and told her try it. She said she had not slept that well in many years.
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