New Study: Pot Appears To Relieve Pain !

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/30/marijuana-medical-neuropathic-pain.html?ref=rss#socialcommentsFull Story
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Every study like this is another nail in prohibition's coffin. With enough hard evidence and the right leaders, outright prohibition is doomed.




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For some people it doesn't. I'd describe Marijuana as more of a muscle relaxer but as the muscles relax the pain subsides. I'm not sure what it would do if one has serious pain but for regular pain of varying degrees it is excellent and wont kill your liver like the "one doctors prescribe the most". Painkillers in the form of narcotics are closely tied to the fake war in Afghanistan. Opiates are coming into this country like never before. It's the devil's dust. Manufactured or otherwise narcotics are leading to serious crime and handcuffing communities who struggle to police their out of control streets. Eliminate that problem and allow Marijuana for personal consumption on a national level. Problem is the politicians are elected by drug dealers(pharmaceutical companies).

I thought this was interesting specifically BECAUSE it scientifically and methodically addresses something beyond what we've all felt as we melt into the couch from a nice heavy Indica. I'm working on getting a MM license to use it as a relaxant after I stopped taking cyclobenzaprine.

While I agree with you that narcotics do far more harm to the body (and to society), I don't really get this comment:

Problem is the politicians are elected by drug dealers(pharmaceutical companies).

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Granted I'm outside the US electoral system, but it seems to me that the realistic picture of modern democracy is that WE get to choose who will be bought and paid for by big business. That's why recall is so threatening to politicians - it's an end to the gravy train, nothing more.

Not when everyone is on happy pills and other processed medications. The pharmaceutical companies make large donations just like other big industry. Once elected the elected pays them back with tax breaks. In the US 99% of Congress & Senate are bought and sold for.

He is right.... They donate a lot of money and with the new S ruling allowing them to spend untold amounts on political ads, special interests now own our executive and legislative branches.

Back on Topic, I love to see any new evidence such as this! thanks for sharing. I've always used pot to relive headaches. My friend gets high blood pressure headaches now and then and weed always relieves it. I find it also reduces my anxiety.

it definitely reduces my arthritis, and when you have that shit nothing works! unless it's some dank

That's why congress needs to pass a Marijuana Stimulus bill to ease the suffering

Yeah, I guess I can chalk my opinions on the corporate lobby to the differences in our countries. We have the Federal Accountability Act which sets caps for political contributions and requires that both the contributions and the lobbyists be registered. The PM's office recently gave an MP the boot because her husband used her parliamentary office to meet with a lobbyist.

Anyway, studies like this one might be the most 'strategic' route toward the end of this silly prohibition. Studies like this wouldn't likely be conducted in the US because they don't seek to reinforce the carefully cultivated image of harm. Proponents of legalization will have a ready cache of close-to-home studies to draw empirical data from in support of legalization or decriminalization. I had a discussion recently about Prop 19 and whether we'd see weed legal in Canada or in the US first. My question, even if Prop 19 passes, what's to prevent the DEA from busting down doors anyway ?
We've seen that with the MM dispensaries.
Unless there are provisions to safeguard people from federal prosecution, it sounds like Prop 19 is just pissing in the wind.

At least with studies like this, we can see that the benefits are far more widespread than just its well-documented musculoskeletal and vasodilatory effects. Anytime that another group of patients can add to the argument, legalization is one step closer.