CN QU: Marijuana Can Reduce Pain Without High: Study

8/30/2010

MARIJUANA CAN REDUCE PAIN WITHOUT HIGH: STUDY

Trial Participants Reported Better Sleep, Less Anxiety At Low Doses

Briefly inhaling cannabis three times a day eases a kind of chronic pain that affects tens of thousands of Canadians -- without making them high -- Montreal researchers are reporting.

The new study, the first clinical trial in the world to allow patients to take marijuana home with them and "self-dose," found that for people with neuropathic pain -- a common and dreaded condition that causes electric, stabbing pain -- smoking cannabis reduced pain, improved mood and helped them sleep.

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