Smoking marijuana does help relieve a certain amount of pain, a small but well-designed Canadian study has found.
People who suffer chronic neuropathic or nerve pain from damage or dysfunction of the nervous system have few treatment options with varying degrees of effectiveness and side-effects.
Neuropathic pain is caused by damage to nerves that don’t repair, which can make the skin sensitive to a light touch.
Cannabis pills have been shown to help treat some types of pain but the effects and risks from smoked cannabis were unclear.
Smoked cannabis for chronic neuropathic pain: a randomized controlled trial, http://mapinc.org/url/THI4fclA