Study: Medical Marijuana Can Help Heal Broken Bones
Cannabis could be used in medicinal form to speed up the healing of broken bones, according to a new study. Researchers found that cannabidiol (CBD), one of 85 known cannibinoids in the marijuana plant, significantly sped up the healing process for fractured leg bones in rats after eight weeks. The same researchers previously found that cannibinoid…
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DogsRgoodpeople July 20th, 2015 at 22:11
It just keeps getting better.
whatthe46 July 20th, 2015 at 22:17
i stomped my baby toe, i know it’s broken and there’s no cast for that… Dr.!!! also, i want to prevent bone loss… Dr.!!! YES
Tommie July 20th, 2015 at 22:17
Marijuana can help alot of things but the pharmacies do not like this, since it cuts into their profits!
whatthe46 July 20th, 2015 at 22:18
grow your own. i would.
Tommie July 20th, 2015 at 23:20
I do not think my two white Republicans roommates would like that! Don’t get me wrong, they are very nice military folks and had a extra room to spare so they hooked a brother up!
whatthe46 July 20th, 2015 at 23:28
sweetheart, they get more fk’d up than you can imagine. lol.
Suzanne McFly July 21st, 2015 at 08:05
That is the group of lobbyists fighting the hardest against this.
Warman1138 July 20th, 2015 at 22:48
Wish I could but it’s illegal where I live.
whatthe46 July 20th, 2015 at 22:53
grow your own. and just don’t share. who will know?
Warman1138 July 20th, 2015 at 23:37
It’s easy to find somebody smoking just follow your nose. Besides it’s not unusual here for the coppers to do a sweep with a dog. All they need is one complaint and they come a running. ( Seen it happen more than once. ) It’s not like the good old days of the hippie era. Man I miss those days, it was a smorgasbord of weed. Acapulco Gold, Panamanian Red, Creeper Weed, Skunk etc.
whatthe46 July 20th, 2015 at 23:44
my son had cancer and we were living in a retirement (apt) complex, beautiful complex by the way, paid for by the hospital. he had his joints and he would smoke in the bathroom or outside. i would be with him outside, and no one complained, but i was afraid that at some point someone would. he passed 6 mons after being diagnosed. with it, he never got sick. sorry, i have to take a break.
Warman1138 July 21st, 2015 at 00:01
Bummer, my sympathies and condolences.
whatthe46 July 21st, 2015 at 00:10
thanks. it’s been 6 yrs and i still ball like a baby. and i needed a moment to do it again.
Warman1138 July 21st, 2015 at 00:24
I understand, last November I lost my little brother. He went in for a valve replacement and never left. And I’m calling it a night. ( I gotta wipe away, wipe away some moisture too, )
whatthe46 July 21st, 2015 at 00:27
sorry and love to you. that’s from the bottom of my heart.
Warman1138 July 21st, 2015 at 00:28
Ditto, good night and bless you.
Bunya July 21st, 2015 at 14:19
That’s so sad. You have my sympathy. My mother died from cancer back in the ’60’s. They didn’t give her anything for the pain and just sent her home to die. Watching my mother cry from the pain, knoing I could do nothing about it, was the worse thing I’ve ever encountered. I’m so happy your son went peacefully and contented.
Red Eye Robot July 20th, 2015 at 23:04
Medical marijuana’s most prominent effect is increasing the sales of Doritos
Bunya July 21st, 2015 at 14:21
See? Legalized marijuana increases the demand for junk food, which increases the need for workers to produce the junk food. It’s a win/win for the economy!
Dwendt44 July 21st, 2015 at 01:06
The government has been studying cannabis for over a hundred years. But they don’t want any medical studying that might show some real use for the weed. Never mind that some of our founding fathers grew it, and it was a strategic commodity during WWII. (rope). It was put on Schedule One in order to give federal agents something to do after they repealed prohibition.They knew even then that cannabis wasn’t addictive or seriously dangerous. It’s nearly impossible to overdose.
Robert Kennedy July 21st, 2015 at 19:10
There was a 40 year study in Jamaica which proved that pot has no real drawbacks. Sure, if you smoke as many joints as you do cigarettes it can give you lung cancer, but after you get used to its effects it doesn’t impair brain function or make you lazy. Everything the government tells you about it is essentially a lie. It just shouldn’t be used by children before their brains develop fully.
Dwendt44 July 21st, 2015 at 19:20
A friend of mine told me that he drove once while stoned. Scared the heck out of him. Drove about 5 miles per hour all the way home.
whatthe46 July 21st, 2015 at 19:30
cracking up laughing. all it ever made me do was eat and laugh. be sure to go to the grocery store and stock up first.
Tommie July 21st, 2015 at 23:08
Yes, Yes, and Yes!
Robert Kennedy July 21st, 2015 at 20:02
Amateur!
whatthe46 July 21st, 2015 at 20:03
lol
Bunya July 21st, 2015 at 21:52
I believe it. My brother was driving home stoned one night. He was so scared he’d be pulled over, he drove about 5 mph. He got pulled over anyway for driving too slow. Since he just got home from Viet Nam, the cops cut him a break and he called my brother to drive him home.
Kick Frenzy July 21st, 2015 at 03:50
It’s so ridonkulous that they won’t move it out of Schedule 1, at the very least.
I mean, it clearly has medicinal uses, thus it’s not Sched 1 material.
warglegarbgle
bpollen July 21st, 2015 at 04:36
I got macular degeneration and glaucoma just so I could get medical pot!
I wish…
Talkin_Truth July 21st, 2015 at 12:22
Here is my problem with medical marijuana — it has taken on magical properties.
It should be tested like any other drug. If it is proven to heal broken bones (seems improbable) then fine. Make it a prescription drug.
Medicine should not be approved after real medical study, not through the political process.
Recreational drugs are different that way. Both caffeine and alcohol have medicinal uses but that’s not why they are legal.
Dwendt44 July 21st, 2015 at 12:28
Problem is, cannabis isn’t being studied like it should. As long as it’s schedule one, it won’t be. The government, thanks to heavy lobbying by big pharma, actually discourages research into medical uses.
IF cannabis would become a RX only commodity, you can be it’s price would be sky high.
Kick Frenzy July 21st, 2015 at 13:33
Improbable?
Did you not read the article?
It explains how it helped to heal fractures.
Nothing “magical” about the claims, it’s information about an actual study.
None of the claims are based on floofy magic, it’s all studied and tested.
Bunya July 21st, 2015 at 14:12
Marijuana is not a drug. It’s a plant. It’s less damaging than alcohol, which is legal. If you take prescription drugs, the side effects far outweigh the benefits. For example, one of the side effects of the high cholesterol medication, Crestor, is liver damage. So what do you do? Risk dying from a heart attack or risk dying from liver damage? Now, I don’t recall anyone getting sick on weed – unless of course they smoked 20 pounds of it. Then they might get lung cancer.
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And here’s a fun fact. The only reason marijuana is illegal is because the big pharmaceutical companies can’t control it, since it is found in nature, unlike the chemicals used to make prescription drugs.
cecilia July 21st, 2015 at 19:56
? What ?
this article is ABOUT research
you know…Science.
I’ve never used drugs and I don’t give a rat’s butt about this ‘getting high’ others seem to love. But as the population is getting older if something can help people keep their bones strong that got to be a good thing.
more research please.!!!
Hirightnow July 21st, 2015 at 19:55
Nonsense! I’ve been assured by no less an august body than the United States Food and Drug Administration that Marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, with no known medical benefits!
amersham46 July 21st, 2015 at 20:45
an endless toil ,,, dragging bureaucrats into the 21st century
tracey marie July 21st, 2015 at 20:49
Pot farmers and distributors are not felons, they are florists and now medical assistents
mcalleyboy July 22nd, 2015 at 00:25
We rarely see eye to eye but on this issue I agree with you 100%.
Kick Frenzy July 23rd, 2015 at 00:51
And yet, we still have these hardline Republicans who refuse to use any modicum of common intellect on this topic.
(I wouldn’t be surprised if the Koch brothers are funding the opposition.)
For instance, back on the 9th, they blocked another attempt at a scientific study.
“when a rare bipartisan pot proposal died a quiet death in the House that would have reclassified marijuana so that national laboratories could conduct “credible research on its safety and efficacy as a medical treatment.””
Other recent super happy funtime actions include “[w]hen a Senate committee this year passed a measure to let doctors discuss marijuana with patients at Veterans Affairs clinics, House Republicans shot it down. When the District legalized weed for personal use, a powerful House committee chairman threatened the city’s mayor with jail time.”
(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-republicans-say-no-to-allowing-federal-studies-of-medical-marijuana/2015/07/09/01029cda-262d-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html )
How about NOW, Refucklicans?!?