Cannabis can make pain less bothering

[OZ Stoners]

London, Dec 22 (ANI): Cannabis makes pain more bearable rather than actually reducing it, a new study suggests.

 

The Oxford researchers recruited 12 healthy men to take part in their small study.

 

Participants were given either a 15mg tablet of THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) - the ingredient that is responsible for the high - or a placebo.

 

The volunteers then had a cream rubbed into the skin of one leg to induce pain, which was either a dummy cream or a cream that contained chilli - which caused a burning and painful sensation.

 

Each participant had four MRI scans which revealed how their brain activity changed when their perception of the pain reduced.

 

Cannabis appeared to mainly affect the emotional reaction to pain in a "highly variable way."

 

Dr Michael Lee, lead study author from Oxford University's Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, said: "We found that with THC, on average people didn't report any change in the burn, but the pain bothered them less."

 

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London, Dec 25 (IANS) Cannabis can make patients feel less bothered about pain, says a study.

 

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[merl1n]

This is what I have been saying for years. It doesn't work as a painkiller but means that I can function and concentrate on something other than pain.

Finally, some actual science to back me up.

[Frank Reynolds]

Why do all these studies single out THC I thought it was past common knowledge now that there are many active chemicals that vary from

Cannabis plant to cannabis plant!