Medical Marijuana: Putting Together California’s Research

Posted by gestroud Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | 5 views | Email | Print

After California became the first state to allow medical use of marijuana, legislators decided in 1999 to fund research that was supposed figure out what the drug was good for therapeutically. Now we have an answer: a report issued today says it seems to ease some types of pain, and maybe muscle spasticity from multiple sclerosis.
Of course, lots of state residents have found their own, much more varied, answers, since California?s law is one of the most open-ended about who?s eligible for medical marijuana. Anyone who can get a doctor to write a recommendation, based on just about any medical condition, can buy marijuana in California. But this is the official report from the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, based at the University of California, San Diego.
Since its 2000 found…

Medical Marijuana: Putting Together California’s Research
Source: MedWorm Tags: marijuana

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