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| Marijuana is Not Just Non-Addictive! |
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Posted by FoM on May 14, 1999 at 14:40:15 PT Sometimes it can be Anti-Addictive! Source: Cures not Wars 
In two articles in Science dated June 30th of last year researchers attempted to explain what is going on in the reward system of the brain with marijuana in terms of indirect firing of dopamine by opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens of rats. If cocaine equals sex, the effect in question was about equal to food.
The problem was that the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Barry MacCaffrey went on to characterize the action of cannabis as being "even more like heroin than we previously believed." NIDA followed this with a barrage of comments to the effect that analgesics based on cannabinoids would be found that would make medical marijuana obsolete. The possibility that the majority of therapeutic effects of cannabis might result from a mechanism other than opiate-like analgesia has been introduced by Reiter and Robinson, who say "the fact that smoking marijuana is accompanied by a dramatic increase in melatonin production may explain some of the drug's positive effects"--listing the treatment of migraine, reduction of intra-ocular pressure, treatment of menstrual cramps, moderation of AIDS wasting, amelioration of chemotherapy toxicity and even THC's mild anticancer activity. Click the above link to read the whole article! http://www.cures-not-wars.org/index.html Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #1 posted by scrattnal on February 24, 2000 at 08:18:11 PT |
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