Israeli CANNABIS Study: Natural Cannabinoids Provide More COMPLETE PAIN RELIEF for Cancer Symptoms

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“Cancer patients using cannabis report better influence from the plant extract them from synthetic products.”


While there have been several studies in the past of marijuana cannabinoids positive effects on different forms of cancer, those studies have primarily been performed with synthetic cannabinoids. As marijuana is still considered a “scheduled one substance” within the controlled substance act, performing any studies with natural cannabinoids is still currently prohibited in United States. Fortunately for the world’s medical marijuana community, researchers at the Division of Oncology – Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care in Haifa, Israel – have no such restrictions. Offering more comprehensive research in a recently published edition of “Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine” the Israeli scientists discovered that the consumption of natural cannabinoids resulted in a “significant improvement” for “all cancer or anticancer treatment related symptoms." As should be expected…the scientist went on to report;

“cancer patients using cannabis report better influence from the plant extract them from synthetic products. However, almost all the research conducted to date has been performed with synthetic products.”

As a means of addressing this fundamental flaw, the Israeli scientists were careful to utilize natural cannabinoids, performed on human participants – rather than synthetic derivatives on some unsuspecting lab rat.

“The cannabis plant and the synthetic drugs based on the plant are considered medically safe. Most of the adverse effects are related to the fact that the plant and the drugs are psychoactive, mostly depending on their concentration and on the ?9-THC dosage."

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2013/510392/

This new comprehensive study indicates;

“vaporized cannabis in subjects who experienced neuropathic pain despite traditional treatment,” was vastly improved, and that “the study included 39 patients with central and peripheral neuropathic pain. The vaporized cannabis, even at low doses, showed analgesic efficacy with minimal psychoactive effects and may present an effective option for patients with treatment-resistant neuropathic pain. In the current study, the number of patients with severe pain (grade 3-4) was cut by half.”

The overall conclusion was that “the positive effects of cannabis on various cancer related symptoms… should push the use of cannabis in the practice of oncology palliative treatment.”



http://www.marijuana.com/news/2013/08/israeli-cannabis-study-natural-cannabinoids-provide-more-complete-pain-relief-for-cancer-symptoms/

[LanternWaste]

1. I'm curious about pot as a pain reliever...

I'm curious (a sincere curiously rather than an argument disguised as a question) about pot as a pain reliever...

Is it pain relief specific to certain types of cancer? I've smoked a lot of pot since 1984 (not saying whether I still do), and it's never really come across as a pain reliever. (Ant-nausea? Absolutely! A sip of Sprite and a few hits tones down any stomach bug I used to get to manageable levels) But I've tried it in the past to relieve headaches, backaches and even bouts of bursitis, and it's never done anything close to what one aspirin will do.

So I wonder-- is there a specific symbiosis between pot and the relief it brings specifically to pains brought on by particular cancers, or is the relief simply found in getting high (which would be quite understandable)?

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. well I can say that I broke my arm and needed surgery a few months back

I had to wait 5 days for surgery....my friend who never smokes suggested I find some...to help with the pain. She was right...it worked like a charm. I was able to stay comfortable until surgery....I absolutely believe in the pain relief.

I also know someone who used it during a bout of Hepatitis. A doctor said that eventually he would only be able to eat hard candy and then would need to be hospitalized. That never happened as his brother got a Hemoglobin shot and brought him one every day. He was able to eat steak etc the entire time...never got hospitalized at all.

MM is absolutely a fact. They need to get it off that Schedule 1 class....

[kestrel91316]

3. It works for every type of pain I've used it for. Don't have experience with it for

cancer pain, thank heavens. But it really helped my dad 30 years ago with it.

[cali]

4. doesn't do all that much for

I have a condition with the dubious distinction of being one of the most painful conditions known, CRPS. And it was the result of a really ugly break. Essentially I smashed my tibia and fibula into many pieces. lots of hardware. 3 surgeries. lots of pain from that too.

I've tried pot for the pain, but I do better with exercise (no matter how fucking painful) and opiates for when it gets horrific.

[Bennyboy]

5. You know I am a long term pot smoker as well and

I didn't really see how it relieved pain. in fact, in some instances (Migraines, toothaches) cannabis actually added to the pain.

I've never had cancer or that type of pain BUT, chronic pain I have. Carpal tunnel, shoulders etc..... When that got the point of chronic, I needed the chronic and the reasons changed for me. It does not make the pain go away, it refocuses your brain to sort of ignore the pain.

My dad had chronic back pain and cancer pain and he never took anything... no Vicodins, no OXY's none of that. he puffed weed and it made him "FEEL BETTER". Not kill the pain, but feel better. Instead of dwelling on the pain, which he did constantly when not high, he enjoyed things, like TV and coversation, things he did not enjoy when not high.`

A number of my chronic pain friends have puffed for decades as well and use cannabis to alleiavte the pain. Some use edibles and have to eat a dose so big that it would create an psychedelic/Mushroomy type trip for me, but for them, it gets them in a groove, so they can deal with the pain.

In studies it has shown as a good gateway to get people offa drugs like OXY and others..