Relief

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) noted the following symptoms or conditions under Appendix IV of their November 2002 report titled //"//Descriptions of Allowable Conditions under State Medical Marijuana Laws":
 * 1) //Alzheimer's Disease//
 * 2) //Anorexia//
 * 3) //AIDS//
 * 4) //Arthritis//
 * 5) //Cachexia//
 * 6) //Cancer//
 * 7) //Crohn's Disease//
 * 8) //Epilepsy//
 * 9) //Glaucoma//
 * 10) //HIV//
 * 11) //Migraine//
 * 12) //Multiple Sclerosis//
 * 13) //Nausea//
 * 14) //Pain//
 * 15) //Spasticity//
 * 16) //Wasting Syndrome"//

Nov. 2002

Lester Grinspoon, MD, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, wrote in a Mar. 1, 2007 editorial in the //Boston Globe// titled "Marijuana as Wonder Drug": //"The mountain of accumulated anecdotal evidence that pointed the way to the present [marijuana as treatment for HIV neuropathic pain] and other clinical studies also strongly suggests there are a number of other devastating disorders and symptoms for which marijuana has been used for centuries; they deserve the same kind of careful, methodologically sound research.//

//While few such studies have so far been completed, all have lent weight to what medicine already knew but had largely forgotten or ignored: Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe -- safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug."//

Mar. 1, 2007

Ethan Russo, MD, clinical neurologist, researcher and author, told ProCon.org in a Dec. 17, 2001 email that marijuana might provide relief for the following:
 * //"Migraine,//
 * //neuropathic pain,//
 * //post-amputation pain,//
 * //neuropathy,//
 * //trigeminal neuralgia,//
 * //rheumatoid arthritis,//
 * //multiple sclerosis,//
 * //nausea of cancer chemotherapy,//
 * //AIDS wasting,//
 * //motion sickness,//
 * //menstrual cramps,//
 * //glaucoma, etc."//

Dec. 17, 2001

National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Regulation, IRP, noted on the NIMH website, updated Jan. 25, 2002: //"Electrophysiological, neurochemical, and behavioral studies have shown that cannabinoids (marijuana-like drugs) suppress pain neurotransmission. [...]//   The UK's Medicinal Cannabis Research Foundation published on its website in Nov. 2001:   //"Research to date suggests that research into the medicinal uses of cannabis and cannabinoids has the potential to make exciting breakthroughs in the management of severe symptoms such as pain, spasm, bladder dysfunction and nausea and could therefore bring a dramatic improvement in quality of life for people with:// Tourette's syndrome ||
 * AIDS wasting syndrome || Glaucoma ||
 * Alzheimer's disease || Hypertension ||
 * Arthritis || Multiple sclerosis ||
 * Asthma || Nail Patella Syndrome ||
 * Brain injury/stroke || Nausea w/chemotherapy ||
 * Crohn's/colitis || Pain ||
 * Depress./mental ill. || Phantom limb pain ||
 * Eating disorders || Migraine ||
 * Epilepsy || Spinal cord injury ||
 * Fibromyalgia ||

Nov. 2001