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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Medical Marijuana Pill Could Mean Grandma Won’t Need To Borrow Grandson’s Bong

While it might make you giggle to think about grandmas smoking medical marijuana out of bongs or rolling joints, the reality is that many medical marijuana users have no way to get their treatment without inhaling the stuff. But new research into a marijuana pill and its effectiveness in alleviating pain could change all that — especially if your state is trying to outlaw bongs.

NBC News looks into a study that says marijuana in pill form — well, its active ingredient, dronabinol — may not only work just like toking up, but also might result in fewer side effects. Participants in the study either smoked pot or took the dronabinol, and then put their hands in icy water. Both groups could handle the icy pain longer than participants who just took a placebo.

Perhaps even more interesting is that those who took the pill reported that its pain reducing effects lasted longer, about 4.5 hours compared to 2.5 hours for smoking.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

false, anyting the govt has their hands in doesn't help...

You can not take the natural form of thc and put it in a pill WITHOUT adding things to it... you hear how all the pills have this or that and might cause this or that...

Anonymous said...

There are already alternatives to smoking medical marijuana. Brownies, cookies, butters/oils, etc etc.

Anonymous said...

Putting it in pill form is putting it all in the control of Big Pharma, and keeping control out of consumers' hands in that the raw weed can still be kept illegal to grow or possess. Don't you get that?
If they keep it the way it is, everybody will be growing their own and Big Gov won't get the tax revenue! We do know how to grow it undetected!

Anonymous said...

Can I smoke the pills?

Anonymous said...

marijuana is of nature intended to be used by us for what ever reasons.GOD placed it here for a reason