Medical Marijuana News - June 2014

Many researchers, studies and patient experiences on medical marijuana have shown that cannabis is not addictive, offers a high level of safety (no deaths as with other drugs or some medications), cannot be overdosed and at the same time causes little to no side effects. If side effects do occur, such as fatigue, this is mild and can be excellently controlled by limiting the dose. In this way, every patient can find the dosage for him/herself with a competent doctor, with which he/she feels comfortable and which at the same time shows effectiveness for him/her. By taking cannabis with a vaporizer, a completely smoke- and tar-free and thus harmless consumption is possible.

 Therapeutic use of marijuana

Much more research is needed in the field of cannabis and its cannabinoids, as well as its medical application. Especially in the treatment of mental illnesses and disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder and autism, there are promising indications that cannabis could be an effective medicine in the future. Cannabis can also be effective in the treatment of neurological diseases, as recent studies show.

More and more doctors and researchers are therefore calling for patients to be given the access they deserve to marijuana and for scientific research in the field to be encouraged rather than hindered. Cannabis patients want to use marijuana with the same freedom as other efficient and safe forms of treatment.

Woopi Goldberg cures and treats her glaucoma with medical marijuana

Woopi Goldberg promotes medical marijuana

The us actress Woopi Goldberg, known from movies like Ghost and Sister Act, told the Cannabist of Colorado that she uses medical marijuana to successfully treat her glaucoma and the pain associated with it. She uses a vaporiser to consume cannabis oil and explains that cannabis has changed her life for the better. The actress reports that her eye pain disappears when she vaporises cannabis. She is excited because she was able to replace the medication ibuprofen, which has numerous side effects and which she had to take daily, with marijuana. According to Woopi, marijuana helps her to relax and has a relieving effect.

(Source: Cannabis, http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/04/17/whoopi-vape-pen-love-story-column/9571/)

In the USA, most doctors are in favour of legalising cannabis

An American study of 1544 doctors, from 12 different specialties, from 48 states shows that most of them want marijuana to be legalised nationwide. They see real benefits for patients. According to the results of the survey report:

• 69% of doctors that cannabis can help with certain treatments and diseases.
• 67% of doctors say medical marijuana should be available as an option for patients.
• 50% of doctors from countries where it is not yet legalised say it should be legal in their country.

The physician group of oncologists and haematologists showed the most support for medical marijuana with 82%. Medical marijuana is often used in cancer patients in conjunction with chemotherapy to stimulate appetite and minimise side effects of treatment. Neurologists report the highest number of patients (70%) stating that medical cannabis would help them.

One of the best documented uses of cannabis is for pain management. Marijuana may even be a stronger painkiller than oxycodone, according to some researchers, with much less addictive potential and far fewer side effects.

Marijuana cultivation for research

The Obama administration is currently still working in the US Congress to remove marijuana from the federal category 1, which is considered wrong and insufficient. Many American experts wonder about the origin of this misclassification of the marijuana plant and advocate for its immediate reclassification.

Cultivation of marijuana in the USA

The US government is already running into bottlenecks with cannabis production to meet the growing demand for scientific and medical marijuana for research. The annual production of the University of Mississippi, the only one producing marijuana for the United States government, had to increase the production quantity from 21kg to 650kg.

(Source: http://blog.norml.org/2014/05/06/federal-government-to-increase-its-supply-of-marijuana-for-clinical-research/)

 The College of Physicians of Quebec advocates the legalisation of marijuana

While in some countries such as France and Germany, sometimes bizarre theories about medical cannabis are still being spread and unscrupulous financial interests seem to be in the foreground, the prohibitionists are slowly but surely losing all credibility and making fools of themselves.

The College of Physicians of Quebec calls for the legalisation of marijuana

The College of Physicians of Quebec is in favour of legalising marijuana. Dr. Yves Robert explained that legalisation would include control possibilities, training in the field would be possible and also quality control. He goes on to say that the current approach is hypocritical, after all, it is not a law that prevents people from using marijuana. Nor can a law influence the will of users as to whether they want to consume cannabis or not. The question is rather under which conditions this consumption takes place.

Marijuana, an effective treatment for fibromyalgia

According to a National Pain Foundation study of 1339 patients with fibromyalgia, medical marijuana is much more effective at relieving the symptoms of the disease than the three leading classic officially used drugs, Cymbalta, Lyrica and Savella. These drugs generate millions of dollars in profits each year in the US and are marketed despite their known ineffectiveness.

Marijuana is significantly more effective than the drugs for fibromyalgia

The drug Cymbalta (duloxetine) has been found to be completely ineffective in 60% of patients with fibromyalgia. Lyrica and Savella (milnacipran) have been shown to be almost similarly ineffective. In contrast to these medications, it must be emphasised that 62% of sufferers report marijuana is very effective in relieving the symptoms of the disorder. For some, marijuana is the only treatment that can relieve them.

(Source: online survey of over 1,300 fibromyalgia patients conducted by the National Pain Foundation and National Pain Report http://americannewsreport.com/nationalpainreport/marijuana-rated-most-effective-for-treating-fibromyalgia-8823638.html)

Marijuana against brain degeneration

A new study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology shows that cannabinoids can protect nerve cells from degeneration in old age. Activation of the cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 enables effective protection against aggregated beta-amyloids.

Marijuana protects nerve cells from degeneration

This research is extremely promising for the medical use of marijuana or cannabinoids as a prevention or treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's.

(Source: S G Fagan and V A Campbell,Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin 2, Ireland. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.12492/pdf )

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