The "F*CK YOU" Finale of "Weed Wars"...

[RainDog]

16. a study of patients with MS found no increase in dosage - i.e. no tolerance

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although, yes, everyone is different.

however, in a study that included 167 patients with MS, they reported less pain, less muscle spasms, and less bladder incontinence with use of cannabis.

These patients reported that they were able to control symptoms with the same dose of cannabis for a mean duration of 434 days without having to increase their dose. (Wade, Multiple Sclerosis 10:425-33, 2004)

Researchers suggest that this study demonstrates that marijuana does not lead to increased tolerance requiring increased doses of medication, unlike the conventional medications used to treat MS.

so, over more than a year, patients with MS reported no tolerance regarding cannabis for relief of their symptoms.

This is different than the recreational use of cannabis, of course, but other substances, like opioids, indicate that tolerance is an issue whether they are used for symptoms of an illness or for recreational use.

We really need to do more studies on cannabis, and ones that are not given funding only when trying to prove a negative about cannabis - which is the standard for the U.S. - iow, if you want to study cannabis, you have to present a study that attempts to show cannabis is bad, harmful, addictive, etc. etc.

People who claim you can find a study to back up anything ought to also recognize that there is an institutional and financial bias toward negative findings... which would tend to make the negative findings less valuable since there is an incentive other than inquiry for setting up a study that will report what the govt. wants to hear.