USING MARIJUANA TO TREAT DIABETIC NERVE PAIN
A NEW RANDOMIZED, CONTROLLED STUDY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO HAS SHOWN THAT INHALING CANNABIS CAN BLUNT DIABETIC NEUROPATHIC PAIN FOR SEVERAL HOURS.
“We found that the more concentrated the dose, the more relief people got,” says lead author Mark Steven Wallace, MD, chair of the Division of Pain Management at the University of California, San Diego.
In the study, published in the July issue of the Journal of Pain, Dr. Wallace and his team recruited 16 patients with pain in their feet from diabetes-related nerve damage. They randomly assigned them to inhale one of three doses of cannabis using vaporization, a process that heats the leaf enough to release the active ingredients but not hot enough to flash the leaf into smoke. (This method makes pot’s effects peak faster and avoids the hazardous carbon monoxide associated with burning the leaves.) Some participants got a placebo. After a...
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