Medical Marijuana Patients Support Group

Hello all,

To the poster who said she located websites that described the treatment of various illnesses based on the classification of the medical cannabis, could you tell me what those websites are? I'm hopiing to find physician/ healthcare professional/ scientific research & opinions that define what treats what.

Thank you!

Hi-

Which comment or thread are you referring to exactly? I can refer you to a video I did about why Cannabis helps with pain. If you go to www.reeferreport.com and scroll to the bottom of the page, there is a video there with links to the right which are to the articles used to reserch this topic.

As far as anything specific for which strains help what, most people will tell you that indicas help more with pain and are have more sedative properties, whereas sativas are more for appetite stimulation and have a more "up" effect. Here is a link to a page you might find informative. http://ocnorml.org/news/pot_strains.htm

If I come across anything else, I will post it.

Angela

Thank you very, very much for your help! I really appreciate it!

Suman

Angela,

I had another question...

I followed the link for the article that linked CB1 to epilepsy. Could you tell me if and/or how cannabis helps treat epilepsy via CB1 in a more simple manner than what was presented in the article?

Thanks,

Suman

If I remember correctly, pain receptors work with the same neurons that are responsible for epileptic seizures. One way to look at it is that it is very common for chronic pain patients to be given anti-seizure meds to treat their pain.

As far as CB1 receptors' involvement in this, the CB1s are in the brain, while CB2s are in the peripheral parts of the body. Since epilepsy is based in the brain, the CB1 receptors are the ones research has found to be related to marijuana helping with seizures. CB1 and CB2 are the cannabinoid receptors in the nervous system that allow for the absorption of THC.

This is a really simplified explaination, but should get you started with the understanding what the articles are saying.

Something I suggest when reading these articles is to stick to the abstract and results sections. A lot of what is in between tends to be logistics of how the research was performed and so forth.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Angela

Post edited by: geekGirl, at: 05/07/2009 06:46 PM

Thanks for the explanation! The article was a little confusing...

Thanks again,

Suman

Thanks for your questions

Angela