A small study has shown that puffing cannabis from a pipe can considerably reduce the chronic pain of the patients suffering damaged nerves. In earlier studies it has been shown that the pill prepared from the extract of cannabis has successfully treated certain types of pain.
Research team from Canada carried out an experiment to test inhaled cannabis in twenty sufferers with chronic neuropathic pain caused by traumatic injury or surgery. They used herbal cannabis or grass at four potency levels. Suffers aged twenty-five to seventy-seven were asked to smoke twenty-five milligram of drug three times a day.
It was found that cannabis of highest potency that contains more than nine percent of THC reduced pain, anxiety, depression and aided sleep. The study trail did not show any serious side effects, except some occasional feelings like headaches, dry eyes, burning sensation, numbness, dizziness and cough. There were no significant changes recorded in vital symbols, like heart rate and kidney functions.
They have found that twenty-five mg cannabis that contain more than nine percent THC governed as single smoke inhalation three times a day for five days can considerably reduce normal pain intensity when compared with placebo in mature with post-surgical neuropathic pain, explained Lead researcher Dr Mark Ware from McGill University Health Centre.
The drug could activate mental health issues among people who have history of depression and schizophrenia, warned experts from The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Cannabis can also make some users mistrustful or apathetic. The authors of the study suggested that further studies with high potency of THC and follow up for long period is required.