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Pot Might Ease PTSD: Study
Synthetic marijuana reduced post-traumatic stress disorder in rats
-- Robert Preidt
FRIDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Marijuana may help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study.
PTSD affects 10 to 30 percent of people who experience a traumatic event, such as a car accident or terror attack. These people continue to suffer stress symptoms for months and even years after the incident.
Israeli researchers conducted a series of experiments in which rats were subjected to stressful experiences, such as receiving electric shocks. The study found that the rats' stress levels could be reduced by giving them a synthetic form of marijuana that has properties similar to that of the natural plant.
Further investigation revealed that the synthetic marijuana prevents increased release of a stress hormone the body releases in response to traumatic situations.
"The results of our research should encourage psychiatric investigation into the use of cannabinoids in post-traumatic stress patients," wrote study author Dr. Irit Akirav of the department of psychology at the University of Haifa.
The study was published in a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
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The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has more about PTSD.
SOURCE: University of Haifa, news release, Nov. 4, 2009
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#1
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:18:32 AM
Talon, as a Dr.YOU are the MOST QUALIFIED Poster on this subject. I am a Disabled Vet, with Degenerative Bone Disease along with PTSD, and also Bi-Polar, Manic Depressive. I have also had Chronic Pain Syndrome for 30yrs+. I have been on MEDS for a long time with no help for my problems.Except my Xanax for Panic attacks. I have been taking my Herb for 42 yrs. It is the ONLY thing that can help with my most dreaded problem, Like PAIN from so much Degeneration and Arthritis.
I don't take the meds, except xanax, I just hit my LIL bowl mid morning and mid afternoon and I feel like a REAL Human. I also hit it Before bedtime so I can get my 4hrs of uninterrupted sleep. No pill, I repeat NO PILL can do this.I told my Psychiatrist what I was doing to help and then, after He CONDEMNED me, I told him to go home and look up the BENEFITS of using MJ for Medicinal purposes. The next time I saw him He Apologized for treating me the way he did and said,"YOU(I) have proven your point", I have been making for years. In Tn. they can't perscribe it, even though it is our #1 cash crop(illegal).
Tn is so screwed up Financially that they should De-Criminalize it and Tax it For Benefit of Our State.
I don't take the meds, except xanax, I just hit my LIL bowl mid morning and mid afternoon and I feel like a REAL Human. I also hit it Before bedtime so I can get my 4hrs of uninterrupted sleep. No pill, I repeat NO PILL can do this.I told my Psychiatrist what I was doing to help and then, after He CONDEMNED me, I told him to go home and look up the BENEFITS of using MJ for Medicinal purposes. The next time I saw him He Apologized for treating me the way he did and said,"YOU(I) have proven your point", I have been making for years. In Tn. they can't perscribe it, even though it is our #1 cash crop(illegal).
Tn is so screwed up Financially that they should De-Criminalize it and Tax it For Benefit of Our State.
#2
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:41:33 AM
i am glad you had the nerve to call these people out good job... i have really bad back disease and it has helped for years the government could make a lot of money if they would just stop take a look around and pull there head out of their ass and see that just because you smoke a little ganja you don't see pink elephants and want to jump off of a cliff that is just wrong....hope you live out your life happy and as healthy as possible and i will remember to send light and love your way for you and your wife.. smile it helps the body send it love everyday.. peace to you and yours !! your new friend......
#3
Monday, November 16, 2009 8:02:37 PM
Just to add to my comment from a couple of days ago.....
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/HealthPolicy/16987
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/HealthPolicy/16987
#4
Monday, November 16, 2009 4:41:52 AM
very well said....GL1200a. I agree. The way i see it, if you havn't walked a mile in my shoes don't judge me for the way i live my life...if a person has never tried it, for whatever their reasons may be, don't judge it by the "stories" you hear about it...
#6
Sunday, November 15, 2009 11:31:04 PM
Hi Everybody,
The government should get one of those "Golden Fleece Awards" for this one if not for anything else.
Humans have known for at least four thousand years that cannabis has many medicinal uses as well as recreational uses, and quite probably for thousands of years before that.
Most of the states that have approved medical "marijuana" have figured out how to collect at least some money by charging for a growers or users license. In some cases where the user is the grower, they get charged for both.
Unfortunately, the situation in this country is that we have 535 money grubbing idiots telling 330 million citizens what they are going to do, instead of 330 million people telling these 535 idiots what we would like to do. We have government of the people, by our representatives and senators for the benefit of the representatives and senators. Things will be extremely hard to change as long as we have the "Good Old Boys" in both houses.
We need to get rid of all of the elderly shysters and replace them with individuals in the thirty to forty year old range and make sure that all of them are working class people.........Hire two or three good younger lawyers for each house to make sure that the bills that are sent through the two houses are properly worded so as to be enforceable. They should also forced to write these bills in spoken English......This business of 'The Party of the first part will place that part in the Party of the second part's part until they shall decide to part' is strictly lawyerese to confuse the Hell out of the average person so that they will have no idea how badly they are getting screwed.
Maybe we need to have them pee in a bottle and blow through the breathalyzer each time they enter chambers????????? If they fail the test more than once during their term, you stick them on a Grayhound and request that their home state send someone reliable to fill out the term.
Oh Hell! I'm seventy years old, and I've been enjoying the recreational benefits since I was fifteen - never found anything that does a better job of relieving stress of any kind.
The past eight years, its become more of a medical pain killer as I have been suffering with arthritis in both hips and both knees. Two or three good hits a little before bed time, and "Arthur" shuts up and I can get a decent night's sleep. I know, why don't I get replacement for the bad joints? For four years now, I've been the primary care giver for my quadraplegic wife and there is no way in Hell that I will put her in one of those hell holes they call a nursing home for two or three months while I recover from surgery. Thankfully, there is cannabis, and hopefully, it will keep me moving for another handful or two of years.
Good night all, I'm going to take my evening medicine and call it a night.
The government should get one of those "Golden Fleece Awards" for this one if not for anything else.
Humans have known for at least four thousand years that cannabis has many medicinal uses as well as recreational uses, and quite probably for thousands of years before that.
Most of the states that have approved medical "marijuana" have figured out how to collect at least some money by charging for a growers or users license. In some cases where the user is the grower, they get charged for both.
Unfortunately, the situation in this country is that we have 535 money grubbing idiots telling 330 million citizens what they are going to do, instead of 330 million people telling these 535 idiots what we would like to do. We have government of the people, by our representatives and senators for the benefit of the representatives and senators. Things will be extremely hard to change as long as we have the "Good Old Boys" in both houses.
We need to get rid of all of the elderly shysters and replace them with individuals in the thirty to forty year old range and make sure that all of them are working class people.........Hire two or three good younger lawyers for each house to make sure that the bills that are sent through the two houses are properly worded so as to be enforceable. They should also forced to write these bills in spoken English......This business of 'The Party of the first part will place that part in the Party of the second part's part until they shall decide to part' is strictly lawyerese to confuse the Hell out of the average person so that they will have no idea how badly they are getting screwed.
Maybe we need to have them pee in a bottle and blow through the breathalyzer each time they enter chambers????????? If they fail the test more than once during their term, you stick them on a Grayhound and request that their home state send someone reliable to fill out the term.
Oh Hell! I'm seventy years old, and I've been enjoying the recreational benefits since I was fifteen - never found anything that does a better job of relieving stress of any kind.
The past eight years, its become more of a medical pain killer as I have been suffering with arthritis in both hips and both knees. Two or three good hits a little before bed time, and "Arthur" shuts up and I can get a decent night's sleep. I know, why don't I get replacement for the bad joints? For four years now, I've been the primary care giver for my quadraplegic wife and there is no way in Hell that I will put her in one of those hell holes they call a nursing home for two or three months while I recover from surgery. Thankfully, there is cannabis, and hopefully, it will keep me moving for another handful or two of years.
Good night all, I'm going to take my evening medicine and call it a night.
#7
Sunday, November 15, 2009 5:32:53 PM
Don't worry Dr. Nuke....Lou Dobbs is there to help
#8
Sunday, November 15, 2009 5:04:33 PM
Ok.....alcohol kills, marijuana heals.....so to speak...has the government actually listened to the side effects of those "prescription" commercials? In other words, if it doesn't kill you first it "might" cure you...come on folks. WAKE UP.....legalize it, tax it, do whatever it takes...i know our farmers wouldn't be suffering, the deficit wouldn't be, what a trillion dollars and going up every second of every day, i would be able to buy and smoke it without having to feel like "society" is looking down on me...do i feel shame, NO...i smoke in the privacy of my home that I pay for out of my own pocket, where there again someone else is getting rich off of me and trying to tell me what i can and can't do...
#9
Sunday, November 15, 2009 3:47:31 PM
No, I'm not racist. I don't trust asians. The chinese have stolen so much intellectual property it is ridiculous. Then, they give Pakistan nuclear bomb technology, which is against the non-proliferation treaty. They send catfish to our country labeled as grouper. They kill our pets with poisoned food. Anyone who would trust those slant-eyed monsters clearly has NO CLUE as to what is really happening. I do love myself. I cannot love or trust chinese and other slant-eyes.
#10
Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:21:32 PM
kakaa don't be redonculus. I've had friends who smoke pot to get motivated. I mean they get **** done when stoned. Fathom that. Where are you pulling this rubbish about living with their mommy and daddy and financial troubles out? People can make rational decisions, savvy financial choices and believe or not- not live at home!!! WOWO! Praise Jesus! Seriously. Educate, don't hate.
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