Man grew cannabis to combat itchy 'nads

[Al B. Fuct]

Author: BBC Scotland

 

Date: Friday, 10 August 2007, 15:52 GMT 16:52 UK

 

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotlan...ral/6940713.stm

 

Copyright: 2007 BBC

 

Man grew cannabis to combat itch

 

A man has been shown leniency after explaining he was growing cannabis to use the drug to tackle a genital itch.

 

Gregor Spalding admitted cultivating the drug at his home in Blairgowrie.

 

Perth Sheriff Court heard the 30-year-old was arrested in April after police picked up the crop's smell while at his home looking for someone else.

 

Sentence was deferred for six months for Spalding to be of good behaviour. He was assured that if he maintained this he would be treated "leniently".

 

Relieving pain

 

The court was told his "amateurish attempt" to cultivate cannabis was provoked by chronic pain he had suffered for three years.

 

Spalding said prescription medicine had failed to tackle pain caused by constant itching around his genitals.

 

He had decided to try using the drug as a painkiller, after reading about it on the internet, and wanted to grow cannabis himself, instead of buying it from a drug dealer.

 

His doctor wrote a letter to the court confirming Spalding had suffered chronic pain from an itching condition known as pruritus for three years.

 

The doctor added: "It is quite reasonable that he thought cannabis might help his condition as there have been reports in the press of cannabis relieving pain in multiple sclerosis and other conditions."

 

The court heard Spalding had not been in trouble with the authorities before and had now been referred to Dundee's Ninewells Hospital.

 

Sheriff Derek Livingston said: "It does strike me that this isn't a case where someone is growing the plant to supply it to others.

 

"It was a stupid amateurish attempt. I am prepared to give you a chance. As long as it remains proscribed, you cannot grow cannabis plants in your house."

 

 

This MUST be the most creative excuse for growing dope I've ever heard!

[jimbojones5678]

Poor bastard...itchy balls are terrible.

 

Jimbo

[bongonaussie]

lmao wonder how I would go if I used that for an excuse..

 

I give him 10 out of 10 for originality..

[WantDaChronic]

ROFLMAO thats the most original excuse i have ever heard

[everest]

christ they bust the poor lad whilst lookin for some other cunt

 

that "jock" itch can be terrible

 

ev

[Budman2012]

Damn , I can't help feelin sorry for the guy .. that sounds nasty .. not too mention how embarrassing It would be for him with it making the press

And to top it all off the cops weren't even looking for him :0

 

Sounds sorta genuine .. but why did a European news corp run this story?

 

Anyway .. if it were true , sounds like that at least one good thing came of it .. he gets the medical treatment he needs .. and the coppers and and judge obviously must have felt sorry for him too

 

Btw , do yourself a favour and don't google Pruritis .. It'll make you itchy heheh

 

Keep Well

 

Budman

[chopitup]

Perhaps there's some scientific proof in this;

 

Role Seen for Cannabis in Helping Skin Disease

Posted by CN Staff on August 17, 2007 at 10:11:55 PT

Press Release

Source: PhysOrg.com

 

World -- Administering a substance found in the cannabis plant can help the body’s natural protective system alleviate an allergic skin disease (allergic contact dermatitis), an international group of researchers from Germany, Israel, Italy, Switzerland and the U.S. has found.

 

Allergic contact dermatitis is caused by reaction to something that directly contacts the skin. Many different substances (allergens) can cause allergic contact dermatitis.

 

Usually these substances cause no trouble for most people, but if the skin is sensitive or allergic to the substance, any exposure will produce a rash, which may become very severe. Allergic contact dermatitis affects about 5 percent of men and 11 percent of women in industrialized countries and is one of the leading causes for occupational diseases.

 

An article describing the work of the international research group, led by Dr Andreas Zimmer from the University of Bonn, was published recently in the journal Science. The article deals with alleviating allergic skin disease through what is called the endocannabinoid system. Among the members of the group is Prof. Raphael Mechoulam of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy.

 

In earlier work, Prof.Mechoulam’s research group at the Hebrew University isolated two naturally occurring cannabinoid (cannabis-like) components – one from the brain, named anandamide (from the word ananda, meaning supreme joy in Sanskrit), and another from the intestines named 2-AG. These two cannabinoids, plus their receptors and various enzymes that are involved in the cannnabinoids’ syntheses and degradations, comprise the endocannabinoid system. These materials have similar effects to those of the active components in hashish and marijuana, produced from the cannabis plant.

 

Research by groups throughout the world has since shown that the endocannabinoid system is involved in many physiological processes, including the protective reaction of the mammalian body to a long list of neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

 

In the article in Science, the researchers detail how the endocannabinoid system serves as a major regulator of cutaneous (skin) contact hypersensitivity (CHS) in a mouse model. In this model, they showed, for example, that mice lacking cannabinoid receptors display exacerbated inflammatory skin responses to an allergen.

 

Because the data indicate that enhanced activation of the endocannabinoid system may function to dampen the CHS response, the researchers administered cannabinoids such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a constituent derived from the cannabis plant, to the experimental animals. They findings showed that the THC significantly decreased the allergic reaction in comparison to untreated mice.

 

In order to better understand the molecular mechanism that may contribute to the increased CHS in cannabinoid-receptor deficient mice, the researchers performed a series of experiments which showed that mouse skin cells produce a specific chemical (a chemokine) which is involved in the annoying disease reaction. Activation of the endocannabinoid system in the skin upon exposure to a contact allergen lowers the allergic responses through modulating the production of this chemokine.

 

The results thus clearly show a protective role for the endocannabinoid system in contact allergy in the skin and suggest that development of cannabinoid compounds based on elements produced from the cannabis plant could enhance therapeutic treatment for humans.

 

Source: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Complete Title: Role Seen for Cannabis in Helping To Alleviate Allergic Skin Disease

 

Newshawk: Dongenero

Source: PhysOrg.com (US Web)

Published: August 16, 2007

Copyright: 2007 PhysOrg.com

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Website: http://www.physorg.com/

URL: http://www.physorg.com/news106487623.html

 

Source of article: http://cannabisnews.com/news/23/thread23260.shtml

[Al B. Fuct]

chop, thanks for posting that.

 

I wonder if the tests were done by applying the cannabinoid topically in a cream- or with little, tiny, lab-rat sized bongs?