Potential For Abuse: Abuse Of Cannabis
Several studies demonstrate that abuse rates for cannabis are lower than rates for other common drugs. Cannabis use is usually not problematic use and...
Essay: Medical Marijuana And The Iraq Veteran
Medical Marijuana And The Iraq Veteran
by Colby Buzzell, Esquire Magazine
Can medical marijuana help returning soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan war deal with post-traumatic...
Treatment For PTSD Should Include Cannabis
For those who do not know it, the humans and all animals so far tested produce two marijuana like substances, Anandamide and 2- Arachidonal...
Pot-Like Chemical Helps Beat Fear
By Lidia Wasowicz, UPI Senior Science Writer
Source: United Press International
Natural molecules that act like the primary active ingredient in marijuana apparently play a key...
Cannabis Eases Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
William Woodward, MD, of the American Medical Association, testifying before Congress in 1937 against the Prohibition of cannabis, paraphrased a French author (F. Pascal,...
PTSD And Cannabis: A Clinician Ponders Mechanism Of Action
One often intractable problem for which cannabis provides relief is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I have more than 100 patients with PTSD.
Among those reporting...
For Veterans With PTSD, Marijuana Can Mean Life
Switching from marijuana to legal "prescribed" drugs can be a killer.
Lynn Morse was denied a Purple Heart for a battle injury that his life...
Medical Marijuana – PTSD And The Iraq Veteran
We're back from the war. We can't sleep. We're getting divorced. If marijuana is good for post-traumatic stress, who are we to deny its...
Marijuana-Like Substance In Brain Could Help Treat Parkinson’s
Neuroscientists have found that a substance similar to the active ingredient in marijuana but produced naturally in the brain helps to control mobility --...
Neuroprotection In Parkinson’s Disease: Modafinil And Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol
Abstract: In Parkinson's disease (PD) is the output of the basal ganglia irreversibly affected due to degeneration of the neuromelanin-containing dopaminergic neurons in the...
Morphine-Cannabis Super-Painkiller
Pain can often be better managed when two types of painkiller are used together. For example, it has recently become known that cannabinoids such...
Marijuana And Pain / Analgesia
The Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics published an article by researchers from GW Pharmaceuticals in the U.K. (Vol. 1, No. 3/4, 2001, pp. 183-205) which...
Finding The Dose Window For Optimal Pain Relief From Cannabis
Dose-dependent Effects of Smoked Cannabis on Capsaicin-induced Pain and Hyperalgesia in Healthy Volunteers
Abstract
Background: Although the preclinical literature suggests that cannabinoids produce antinociception and antihyperalgesic...
Pain Management With Cannabis
Cannabinoid Analgesia as a Potential New Therapeutic Option in the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Tammy L Burns, PharmD
at time of writing, Pharmacy Practice Resident, Creighton...
Dr. Robert V. Brody: Declaration. Cannabis And Hospice Ethics – Pain...
1. I am a physician licensed to practice in the State of California. I am currently Chief of the Pain Consultation Clinic at San...
Pharmacokinetics And Cannabinoid Action Using Oral Cannabis Extract
A simple dosing regimen for cannabinoid therapies is complicated by individual variance in rates of breakdown in the liver and intestinal absorption. This trial...