MARIJUANA TO REPLACE OPIOIDS FOR PAIN RELIEF

Marijuana And Pain Anecdotal and historical accounts of pot’s painkilling properties abound. Marijuana pain relief should be the new way of fighting pain and at the same time fighting the abuse of opioid. But so far, scientific evidence that it works better than traditional painkillers is hard to come by. The U.S. government classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug with no medical use like heroin and cocaine leading to the funding for research hard to get. 2015 article in the journal Current Pain and Headache Reports points out, high-quality clinical studies of pot’s effectiveness randomized, double-blind and placebo controlled are limited. One of the first academic programs in the world dedicated to the study of cannabis, is hoping to conduct a high quality study using opioid patients. Studies has been designed to test different combinations of THC. The principal psychoactive component of marijuana, and cannabidiol, an anti-inflammatory component that does not get the user “high.” In a recent interview with NBC News, London said the study aims to find out which combination “produces the most good,”. With the goal of reducing pain and their use of opioids not to mention stemming the epidemic of opioid abuse.read more