Chronic Medical Cannabis Use by U.S. Legal Patients, Part 3

On Apr 30, 2021

Before giving results of the “Missoula Study” of four legal medical marijuana patients, Dr. Ethan Russo first examines the medicine itself – “marijuana cigarettes” from Sativa genetics; grown at the Univ. of Mississippi; freeze-dried and rolled at in NC; full of broad leaf, stems and seeds.
Then the govenment/pharmaceutical alternative – dronabinol (synthetic THC marketed as Marinol(tm). Largely ineffective, patients also complain about getting uncomfortably high, as conversion by the liver boosts the psychoactive levels of THC.
Finally, Dr. Russo gives the conclusions of the I.N.D. patient study:
1. Cannabis smoking, even of a crude, low-grade product, provides effective symptomatic relief of pain, muscle spasms and intraocular pressure…
2…Cannabis patients are able to reduce or eliminate other prescription medicines and their accompanying side-effects.
3. Clinical Cannabis provides an improved quality of life…
4. Side effect profile of N.I.D.A. Cannabis in chronic usage suggests some mild pulminary risk.
5. No malignant deteriation has been observed.
6…no neuropsychological or neurological deteriation has been observed.
7. No endocrine, hematological, immunological sequelae have been observed.
Recommendations:
1. Improvements in U.S. clinical Cannabis…sterilized, potent, organically-grown unfertilized female flower tops…
2…”Compassionate I.N.D.” should be reopened and extended…
3…laws amended to provide clinical Cannabis to suitable candidates.

* Editer’s note: Due to time constraint, Ethan’s wrap-up is not on this video – includes: gov’t anti-Cannabis propaganda; vaporization of Cannabis; the whole-plant extract, Sativex; and Richard Nixon’s musings on marijuana activists.
View the “Missoula Study” in it’s entirety at:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9112662989507508748

Also, the legal patients spoke at the conference:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1666087285986005807

Presented to Second Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics, Portland, Oregon in May, 2002, hosted by Patients Out of Time. DVDs are available at:
http://www.medicalcannabis.com

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