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Ferre
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 Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:34 am Post subject: Results from three-year study, more prove... |
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Results from the world's largest study into the medical effects of cannabis have shown that the drug can reduce pain and improve the lives of people with multiple sclerosis. Scientists concluded that patients for whom other treatments have failed should be given tablets made from cannabis derivatives.
The three-year study, published in the medical journal The Lancet today, is the first clinical appraisal of whether cannabis-derived drugs can help treat MS.
Mike O'Donovan, chief executive of the Multiple Sclerosis Society said: "These improvements to quality of life can make a significant difference to people with MS. On the evidence now available, the MS Society believes those who might benefit should be able to have treatment prescribed on the NHS."
Patients say that smoking the drug reduces symptoms such as muscle stiffness and tremors, and gives them greater mobility. Pharmaceutical companies are working urgently to develop drugs using cannabinoids, the natural chemicals found in cannabis which appear to soothe pain and alleviate muscle stiffness.
About 85,000 people suffer from MS in Britain, and it is the most common neurological disease affecting young adults in the Western world.
Researchers from the University of Plymouth tested more than 600 patients with MS, giving some of them cannabinoid tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and the others a placebo. The groups were not told whether they were taking THC or the placebo.
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Echo
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Ferre, it is good that you bring the results of this study to our attention because just today radios all over the UK were claiming that the results of a study (not sure whether it is the same study) about the effects of cannabis on the muscle spasms of MS sufferers were inconclusive. Was that a cover up, a plain lie or the results of some other study? Anybody knows?
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