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Studies on Cannabis

Clinical investigations of the therapeutic use of Cannabis is more prevalent now than in any time in history.  In 1996 alone (the year California voters became the first of 14 states to allow for the drug’s medical use under state law), 258 scientific journal articles published.  In 2008, there were over over 2,100 published scientific studies.  There are now more than 17,000 published papers in the scientific literature analyzing marijuana.

Ailments

• Learn about AIDS/Cannabis Research
  A pair of clinical trials recently demonstrated that smoking cannabis reduces neuropathic pain in patients with HIV by more than 30 percent compared to placebo.

• Learn about Cancer/Cannabis Research
  Cannabis is know to treat the nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy — scientists today are exploring the potential role of Cannabis to modify disease.

• Learn about Multiple Sclerosis/Cannabis Research
  Clinical and reports of Cannabis' ability to reduce MS-related symptoms such as pain, spasticity, depression, fatigue, and incontinence.

• Learn about Chronic Pain/Cannabis Research
  Survey data indicates that the use of cannabis is common in chronic pain populations and several recent clinical trials indicate that inhaled marijuana can significantly alleviate neuropathic pain.

Read more about other studies (from NORML)

• Alzheimer's disease

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

• Chronic Pain

• Diabetes mellitus

• Dystonia

• Fibromyalgia

• Gastrointestinal disorders

• Gliomas

• Hepatitis C

• Human Immunodeficiency Virus

• Hypertension

• Incontinence

• Methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA)

• Multiple sclerosis

• Osteoporosis

• Pruritus

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Sleep apnea

• Tourette's syndrome

For a list of Ailments treated with Cannabis, click here

Deaths from Marijuana vs 17 FDA Approved Drugs

Source: ProCon.org: Deaths from Marijuana vs 17 FDA Approved Drugs

Other Links:

• Recent Research on Medical Marijuana

• Top 10 Cannabis Studies the Government Wished it Had Never Funded

• 67 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Marijuana

• Why was marijuana ever made illegal in the USA?

• Republicans for Pot

• Petition to lift medical marijuana dispensary ban in Costa Mesa

• Medical Marijuana States

• Deaths from Marijuana vs 17 FDA approved drugs

• 90 Physicians view on Medical Marijuana

• Marijuana and Aids

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