{"id":3925,"date":"2009-08-07T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T10:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2009-08-16T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T14:30:20","slug":"multiple-sclerosis-and-cannabis-a-cognitive-and-psychiatric-studymultiple-sclerosis-and-cannabis-a-cognitive-and-psychiatric-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/08\/multiple-sclerosis-and-cannabis-a-cognitive-and-psychiatric-studymultiple-sclerosis-and-cannabis-a-cognitive-and-psychiatric-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Sclerosis and Cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">A Cognitive and Psychiatric Study<\/p>\n<p>Originally, those asserting that crude marijuana should be approved for medical use claimed that it should be available for the terminally ill or those suffering from intractable pain. The scope of projected uses rapidly expanded to include \u201cdebilitating\u201d conditions, which might be anything that the user perceived was a handicap or impairment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marijuana contains numerous unique compounds known as cannabinoids.\u00a0 Several of these have been synthesized and developed into useful drugs for specific medical use but these drugs are devoid of the more than 2000 impurities found in smoked cannabis, and the potency and dose of these manufactured drugs can be carefully adjusted to the patient.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent study by Drs. Ghaffar and Feinstein, in the journal Neurology, 2008:71:164-169,(Multiple sclerosis and cannabis: a cognitive and psychiatric study),\u00a0 found that patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who were regular smoking of street cannabis had more extensive cognitive abnormalities compared to patients with MS who don\u2019t use cannabis.\u00a0 The study did not note this disparity in the controlled pharmaceutical use of cannabis-based medicinal extracts (CBMEs).\u00a0 The authors, in response to an inquiry in the January 6, 2009 issue of Neurology, stated that \u201cBased on the existing literature, it seems unlikely that the cognitive problems identified in our cannabis smokers are a function of a withdrawal syndrome, but we cannot be certain this given the limitations in our data.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 This statement acknowledges that there is a \u201cwithdrawal syndrome\u201d for cannabis and that \u201ccognitive problems\u201d are associated with withdrawal from cannabis.\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Source:\u00a0 Journal Neurology, 2008:71:164-169<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cognitive and Psychiatric Study Originally, those asserting that crude marijuana should be approved for medical use claimed that it should be available for the terminally ill or those suffering from intractable pain. The scope of projected uses rapidly expanded to include \u201cdebilitating\u201d conditions, which might be anything that the user perceived was a handicap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-marijuana-and-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}