(CNN)Medical marijuana is now legal in 28 states and the District of Columbia. Increasingly, people are turning to cannabis to treat a range of symptoms and conditions, including nausea, bipolar disorder and seizures.
But when it comes to using marijuana to treat chronic pain or post-traumatic stress disorder, two related reviews published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine find little scientific evidence to support either its effectiveness or its safety.
Up to 80% of people who request medical marijuana want to ease pain, while more than a third cite PTSD as their primary reason, the US Department of Veterans Affairs researchers wrote, citing a separate recent small study.
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It causes these disorders...Bipolar disorder.....play with your natural chemistry and that is what you get.
CNN the shrill for tobacco and booze and big pharma indutries
The internal medicine researchers have a vested interest in the proclamation that marijuana is ineffective in the treatment of pain. I don't trust Big Pharma one bit on this topic.
So says fake news champ CNN
But when big pharma can charge you for it they'll be extolling it's value.
3:34 what's your scientific background?
Article is Bull. For starters they have never been able to do tests on the benefits of medical marijuana because of the Schedule it is listed under. It would be illegal to do testing. I have had a medical marijuana for the past three years.
I have migraine headaches, which my neurologist treats with seizure meds, migraine meds, muscle relaxers, and Ibuprofen.
I also have occipital neuralgia headaches. My pain management doctor treats that with seizure meds, nerve block shots, Botox shots, facet injections in the neck.
You'll notice I take no prescription narcotics. Their reasoning for this has been, "well you already have nausea and vomiting, narcotics would only make it worse." I have lived with headache pain for over 30 years and the last ten years it has been so bad that 5 out of 7 days I wake up vomiting the pain is so bad.
I get a tincture from the State of Delaware which is 2.45% THC and 78.08% CBD. I also get several products from them which are smokable. Some have very high THC levels. I have gone for days on end with headache, nausea, and vomiting and none of the medicines helped. Sat down with the tincture and the smokable and within 30 minutes the headache was gone. Nausea was gone even quicker. Lasted about 3-4 hrs. Repeated.
I also have Chronic Lyme Disease which the government will tell you doesn't exist. They say Lyme can be cured with 28 days of antibiotics. They don't say how the 13 member panel who decided this had 9 members who have received money from the insurance industry. The government has been taking the licences of doctors who treat Chronic Lyme for over the 28 days for several years now and most of these doctors were reported to the government by the insurance companies. Any questions.
I also have Systemic Candida which is basically a yeast infection all through out my body. Once again the American Medical Association doesn't recognize this as a legitimate disease. So to treat these diseases it is all out of pocket which the medical marijuana is also. As long as the government can claim something doesn't exist or is not good for you, they can help the insurance companies deny coverage for the treatment.
Don't believe me, google Chronic Lyme and check out some of the list of things that wonderful little bacterial disease causes. Google Systemic Candida. It has a great list also. And both of these sure have a whole lot people who have them for something that doesn't exist. So don't belive this bullshit about medical marijuana not helping. It helps tremendously.
Thank you, 4:18!
4:18 You are 100% correct! After 60+ rounds of chemo this was the only thing that helped with the pain, nausea, and pain from joint inflammation (thanks to all the chemo).
Dr's have repeatedly prescribed OxyContin for me but it does not help with the pain like marijuana does. I threw the prescription drugs away and stuck with the marijuana. Doctors would rather push the prescription drugs on you than something natural. Big pharma at its finest.
3:34 You are so full of $hit.l right along with this study. Take it from someone that knows.
They just want monetary control. Bet when these dispensaries and growers start the state will get a huge slice of green spendable portion
Is the tobacco settlement with MD ending soon?
it's a wonder drug that will cure the world of all illness and make everyone prosper...smoke another one.
We have been using it a long time it must be good for something or we would not still have it around.
This is the plan to replace it.
I just smoke it to get high I like it.
We used to be free
Only one college is allowed to grow pot for these studies. It is a horrible product that could never be sold.
It is like testing tea and seeing if it helped it is nothing at all like the pot on on the street or legal medical pot.
You can not overdose on pot. No one dies from it unless they act stupidly. Meaning an accident while using it. Generally it makes you tired so you are unlikely to act stupidly.
It helps everything that ails you. It was used in the Holy Anointing oil in the bible and they used this herb vor medication.
It was eliminated in order to eliminat competition selling rope, clothing, paper and drugs of course.
Horrible decission.
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