Herbal Cannabis Not Recommended for Arthritis

[OZ Stoners]

A new article published in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), explores the risks associated with using herbal cannabis for medicinal purposes and advises healthcare providers to discourage rheumatology patients from using this drug as therapy. read full article Read related articles on: arthritis , cannabis , Health

 

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[The Stoned Jester]

What a load of shit, NO ONE know how much pain you are going though if they've never experienced it themselves, bunch of fucktards, cant be telling us what works and doesn't work.

[Matanuska Thunder]

never ever trust an article unless it is peer-reviewed and well referenced - this article is neither.

i went to the Arthritis Care & Research journal via my Uni... no recent articles that mention cannabis...

 

scare mongering at its worst

 

edit: spelking

Edited March 3, 2014 by Matanuska Thunder

[OZ Stoners]

There is not enough evidence to promote medicinal marijuana as a safe choice for patients suffering with rheumatic conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study.

 

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[louise]

Nah, not enough proof to promote cannabis... so what does get promoted to relieve these conditions?

 

NSAIDS which cause stomach bleeding, increase the risk of heart failure and can totally wreck your liver and kidneys if used in combination with alcohol or other commonly prescribed drugs.

 

COXIBS which increase the risk of circulatory failure by a factor of four (hailed as a replacement for the NSAIDS... but didn't they go off the market fast when the strokes and heart attacks began to multiply).

 

Narcotic analgesia... yeah no risks there

 

By the rationale of this article, all these risks are ok because we don't smoke the pills!