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Dear Friends: Stay alert!

Dear friends, I think we have discovered a river of concern on this site (or in consulting terminology, a ‘felt need’).  Just since starting this website two months ago, I’ve been contacted by friends, friends of friends, and family members who are struggling with these health issues either for themselves or their partners or children.…

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Medical Marijuana and Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms

Medical Marijuana Offers Mild Relief for Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms and Is Safe—Mostly https://journals.lww.com/neurotodayonline/Fulltext/2018/12060/Meta_Analysis___Medical_Marijuana_Offers_Mild.4.aspx A meta-analysis of 17 randomized, placebo-controlled trials found that medical marijuana provided mild relief from such multiple sclerosis symptoms as spasticity, pain, and bladder dysfunction. And overall, cannabinoids were well tolerated. Physicians who treat MS patients said that patients are asking about…

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Comment: Cannabis and Multiple Sclerosis

Great plan, Dede. My husband has MS and we’d like to have access to cannabis. Go, girl! K, NC K, thanks! There are 3 mentions in articles which are posted on this site under research ‘multiple sclerosis.’ Also there are a couple of new research studies with NIH: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=medical+cannabis+%2B+multiple+sclerosis

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Comment: Cannabis and MS

My daughter has MS and has no legal access to CBD. And it would help. My mother has arthritis and I know it would help. And I think this is a great service. I will be a reader and supporter. M, NC Dede Osborn Thank you so much, M! I’m really learning so much and…

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Medical Marijuana and Multiple Sclerosis

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/jn-mmf100918.php Bottom Line: This study analyzed 17 clinical trials including 3,161 patients to evaluate medicinal cannabinoids — the chemical compounds in cannabis — for the treatment of symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Cannabinoids were associated with a limited and mild reduction in the subjective patient assessment of spasticity (contracted muscles), pain and bladder dysfunction in…

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