The first study to use a cannabis-based medicine for treating rheumatoid arthritis has found that it has a significant effect on easing pain and on suppressing the disease.
There is anecdotal evidence that cannabis can provide pain relief for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).The researchers found that in comparison with the placebo, patients who had taken the cannabis had statistically significant improvements in pain on movement, pain at rest, quality of sleep, inflammation
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How do you do a double-blind study with cannabis? I don't think you could do it with smoking, surely the placebo people would know. Was it pills?
ReplyDeleteMy take on JJ Cohen's question is that it would have to be taken orally otherwise the placebo would be noticed by the fact that the people being studied would surely notice otherwise. Is injection as a placebo possible?
ReplyDeleteI remember reading somewhere of a study being done with cannabis and dried fruit/spices as the control. They used a hookah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah). thus all were "smoking". A simple lack of oxygen would suffice to produce a supposed high. regardless, I feel this is more a ploy to legalize cannabis versus any pain relieving properties it may have.
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