Study shows pain relief with moderate dose of pot

[Refugee 7]

A UCSD study suggests that smoking moderate doses of marijuana helps reduce pain, while smoking large amounts might increase pain.

“This is the first study using different doses of cannabis and a tightly controlled pain stimulus that suggests that cannabis has a therapeutic window of pain relief,” lead researcher Mark S. Wallace, director of the Center for Clinical Pain Research, said in a statement.

Researchers used a group of 15 healthy people to smoke low, moderate and high doses of pot. Pain was then induced by injecting capsaicin, the spicy chemical found in chili peppers.

There was no effect on pain within five minutes of smoking the drug, but pain was significantly reduced 45 minutes after lighting up a moderate dose.

When smoking a larger dose in the same time frame, the subjects felt more high, as well as more pain.

The study appears in the November issue of Anesthesiology. –K.D.

[Echosoftom 3]

I guess the trick is trying to figure out what is a moderate or large dose of pot. :confused: LOL!

[Marleen 2]

So if your adolescent son gets home with red eyes and a sleepy look in the middle of the day. Put him on a diet of chili peppers ....

[surfnburn 5]

I bet it wasn't hard for them to find volunteers for this research... lol

[Mary Jane 49 0]

i`ve never taken a drug in my life except nicotine , but sometimes when my pain is intense i start wondering about wether pot really works , i wouldn`t know where to get some though Lol

[Refugee 7]

^ LOL!

[kira 0]

I didn't know so many of my friends were in pain!!!

Actually when my friend Judy was advanced in her cancer, she was given a prescription for oral THC. You would not believe what her husband had to go through in signing for these pills and only one place in town carried them. They made her sick to her stomach, and we were laughing cause she quit smoking pot in college for the same reason. She offered them to me but I don't smoke. Makes me want to crawl under a table and analyze how stupid every thought that comes into my head is.

[nurktwin 2,143]

lol, they waited til 2007 to start this study. all they had to do was ask any baby boomer!!!!!

[Pankie 0]

A puff a day keeps the doctor away.....

[agirl 0]

^^lol!

[Mary Jane 49 0]

Nurk ,Whats a baby boomer?

[Pankie 0]

A baby boomer are one of many people that were born starting in 1946 through 1964. It was called this because this generation is the largest generation in our time. If you want to know more about the Baby Boomers, check out "Boomer Nation" by Steve Gillon. It's a great book...

[Ladywiz 4]

Hey, I have nausea...and a headache! hahaha!

[wildgator 0]

YAY! I suffer from migraines...bring it on!

[Refugee 7]

It's great for insomnia. :028:

[nurktwin 2,143]

i have a feeling ref is feeling no pain.......lol