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They've been studying marijuana for nearly a century, (if not longer). It's the most "studied" drug in the world. Problem is, the only goals they have had until recently were to find something WRONG with it. NOW they are finding that it has many beneficial uses. Oops!And I didn't say ALL natural remedies were better, did I? but the poster I responded too eleded that ALL man made drugs were superior than something found in nature. If you thought I was talking about those kinds of chemicals you described, you are seriously mistaken. I was talking about benign treatments like those practiced in Chinese herbal medicine or what the indigenous peoples of South America use.
I think a little a little pot brownie would have been much better for pregnant women with morning sickness than taking Thalidomide, don't you?
LOL.
I don't know specifically to what substances you are referring, but I'm guessing the vast majority of those also have a poor benefit to risk ratio.
And your analogy is not a good one. I can think of any number of naturally occurring compounds that are more toxic than thalidomide. And for certain disorders, thalidomide is vastly superior to pot brownies.
Actually the Chinese have survived forever & the South American peoples who have not been exposed to 'modern man' have gotten along quite nicely & also have survived without the need for 'better living thru chemistry'. A lot of medicines first came about using plants from the rain forest, but have fallen by the wayside for cheaper, easily obtained substances made in the lab- thus raising the profit factor for those drug companies.
Well, perhaps in the case of leprosy, you are correct about the use of thalidomide... but not for a far more common ailment of morning sickness AS i have stated. If cannibinol, the active compound in marijuana, had no medicinal value- the US Government wouldn't bother holding a patent on it, now would they? the FDA & big Pharma are in bed together & there's a reason why it's not being marketed... ie...not as much profit to be made.
The Chinese have shorter lifespans than Americans. Not sure any of them have lasted 'forever'.
The South Americans who have not been exposed to modern man also have quite short lifespans.
Again, the drugs that are in plants are vastly improved by a bit of medicinal chemistry, boosting both their efficacy and lessening their toxicity. Nature generally doesnt place compounds in plants to make you feel better... they are usually in there to discourage you (or more likely, other thngs) from eating them.
Cannabinol may have medicinal value. The only way to know is to do extensive studies. Anecdotes are suggestive, but not that helpful, especially if you want to compare it to rigorously tested modern drugs.
Yep, The profit motive for looking at THC is minimal, and we probably wont get real extensive data for a lot of things. But the absence of evidence is not evidence. And history tells us that there are lots of nasty surprises when you use drugs without extensive studies.
Cannabis reduces tumor growth in study
Not really. Just seeing how patients do on a drug isnt really rigorously 'studying it' and its not even close to being the 'most studied drug in the world' since most medical research on the drug has been banned for the last fifty years or so. It used to be very, very hard to do any type of study using marijuana. Now its just very hard- its still a federal Schedule 1 drug, you know.
And I wouldnt get real excited about tumor growth reductions. Those studies tend to be pretty specific about concentrations and specific compounds - what they really do is define the roles of certain receptors in tumor growth, which can be helpful.
Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
Abstract
Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH.sub.3, and COCH.sub.3. ##STR1##
United States Patent: 6630507
60 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Medical Marijuana
Medical Studies Involving Cannabis and Cannabis Extracts (1990 - 2014)
60 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Medical Marijuana - Medical Marijuana - ProCon.org
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