Marijuana derivatives may provide MS treatment

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[low dose naltrexone] Marijuana derivatives may provide MS treatment

How is it that research money can be found to test marijuana for health reasons yet nothing for LDN?--http://news./s/nm/marijuana_treatment_dcMarijuana derivatives may provide MS treatmentWed Dec 7, 5:58 PM ETMarijuana derivatives or "cannabinoids" taken for one year for thetreatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) may reduce muscle spasms and other aspects of disability, results of a UK study suggest.Dr. J. P. Zajicek, from Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth andcolleagues previously reported that cannabinoids taken for 14 weeksappeared to improve mobility and patients' perception of their MSsymptoms. In an extension study, 80 percent of subjects agreed tocontinue on the medication for up to 52 weeks. The results are reported in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.The analysis included more than 500 patients who were randomly assigned to receive various cannabinoids or an inactive "placebo."Treatment with delta-9-THC, a synthetic cannabinoid, seemed to relievemuscle spasms. In addition, patients treated with this drug and othercannabinoids reported improvements in sleep and pain.Zajicek's group concludes that "there is now an urgent need toconstruct a long-term study in progressive MS to establish whetherdelta-9-THC has a role in long-term disease."Dr. J. Killestein and Dr. B. M. J. Uitdehaag, writing in a relatededitorial, agree with Zajicek's team about the need for more long-termtrials.The editorialists, from VU Medical Center in Amsterdam, theNetherlands, add that "these trials should also focus on differentcannabinoid products."SOURCE: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, December2005.

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i have been Rx'd marinol and it has the opposite effects that it is supposed to have.

schedule 1 drugs are not allowed to be researched in the USA. they have to move it to a different level to allow researchers to work with it.

funny enough, i met a woman a few years ago that comes to the beach near my house to see the sunrise. i don't know if anyone is from ny, but there is a columnist named jimmy breslin that is popular, and she is his daughter. her sister is prescribed marijuana for another auto immune disease and my friend and i did not believe her so she brought an empty Rx bottle from her sister with all the labels" government approved" and "do not distribute" all these labels. so it is available in the usa but only to the very rich and connected. there is a growing facility at north shore university hospital in manhassat long island. it is visible from the road if you look for the barbed wire. not fair. here's a fact. i used to smoke until a year ago and my therapist used the term low tone to describe my body. she wished that i would become a little more spastic so i wasn't so loose. now i have spasms and i guess she got her wish. take it europe lol.

has anyone had a bodily procedure and had pain in major muscles a day or so after?( my procedure was dental, extraction. best to all,

joanna