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Clinical Studies Show Marijuana Eases Pain and Helps MS Patients
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Mar 11, 2010 01:07am |
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| News Date | Thursday, February 18, 2010 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | For the first time in 20-years, results from scientific clinical trials show that marijuana offers therapeutic value for patients suffering from various conditions, including relief from pain caused by injury or diseases of the nervous system and muscle spasms suffered by MS patients. Researchers from the University of California’s Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) conducted the five scientific clinical trials and made their findings available to the California legislature and the public.
CMCR director, Igor Grant, MD, Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine, said the research team “focused on illnesses where current medical treatment does not provide adequate relief or coverage of symptoms.” “These findings provide a strong, science-based context in which policy makers and the public can begin discussing the place of cannabis in medical care,” said Grant. |
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