Cannabis might be a better treatment for epilepsy sufferers

[foolsgold]

Cannabis is now apparently the cure for everything from cancer, diarrhea, bipolar disorder and Multiple sclerosis, to an ailing economy and even being a smart aleck teenager.

The latest chronic illness to get the chill-out treatment is epilepsy.

British scientists from the University of Reading tested a compound in pot called cannabidivarin on rats and mice with six types of epilepsy, and found it "strongly suppressed seizures" without the unpleasant side effects of current anti-epilepsy drugs.

With 1 percent of the world's population suffering from the disease, the head of the research team, Ben Whalley, says there's a pressing need for better treatments. “It’s a chronic condition with no cure and currently, in around one-third of cases, the available treatments do not work, cause serious side effects and increase fatalities,” he said.

http://now.msn.com/epilepsy-treatment-found-in-cannabis-may-prove-better-than-current-methods

 

[Portillo]

Another disease that wont be cured because of the war on drugs.

 

[foolsgold]

most likely yes

 

[skillet]

I wouldn't say never; now scientists can figure out how it works and design a different (patentable, less illegal) molecule that does the same thing. So, you know, maybe 10-20 years.

It's not really a cure though, just a potentially better treatment.

 

[trees_please]

I think this would have been figured out 25 years ago if the whole world saw it as a fucking flower instead of some stigmatized poison apple kinda shit..