New study confirms marijuana works for pain relief 2008-04-17 13:51:00
In a recent study at the University of California at Davis, they showed that marijuana gives a significant relief to those who suffer from a verity of different pain cause by damaged nerves. Just over a year ago a similar study concluded that marijuana helped patients who suffered form other symptoms such as cancer and HIV.
In this study patients were given three different joints containing marijuana with different THC levels(0%, 3.5% and 7%). When patients smoked the joints with THC their pain was significantly reduced and it lasted for over five hours. "This is yet more proof that the American College of Physicians was right that U.S. government policy on medical marijuana is totally divorced from scientific reality," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. "Congress needs to act to end the federal war on medical marijuana, but in the meantime states should act on their own to protect medical marijuana patients from arrest, as several states are considering right now."
As Rob said, it's just amazing that with so many studies out that show marijuana is an effective medicine for a wide range of illnesses, and having the American College of Physicians, the second largest group of physicians in the United States, endorse medical marijuana, the government still decides they know best, without knowing anything at all.