Oral Thc Reduces Aggressive Behavior

[+EdwardGlen]

The more science we have the better off we'll be. A rational person would not would not decry science as "a half truth without faith in God behind it" I'm not sure if that's the correct quote but its close to what some Tea Party or GOP wing-nut said.

 

But those are the type of people out to take away our medication to them science is fiction.

 

Education and correcting lies and mis-information is a must and the more science we can have to back the medicinal value of cannabis we all know it has the better we'll be.

 

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=8419

 

Oral THC Reduces Aggressive Behavior In Patients With Refractory Psychosis, Study Says

 

December 9, 2010 - Orangeburg, NY, USA

 

Orangeburg, NY: The administration of oral synthetic THC is associated with improved symptoms of psychosis in patients with refractory schizophrenia, according to the findings of four case reports published in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

 

Investigators at the Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, New York, the Columbia University Medical Center, and the New York University School of Medicine assessed the efficacy of oral THC (dronabinol) on eight patients with refractory psychosis. The subjects in the trial had a history of symptomatic improvement when using cannabis and had been unresponsive to conventional medical treatments.

 

Researchers reported significant improvement in four of the eight patients after oral THC treatment. In particular, authors reported that cannabinoid administration produced a significant reduction in subjects' aggressive tendencies.

 

No patients in the study experienced any significant adverse side effects from THC.

 

"t appears that a predisposed subset of patients with schizophrenia may actually improve with cannabinoid stimulation," investigators concluded.

 

The team had previously reported positive results with oral cannabinoid therapy in four of six patients with chronic, refractory schizophrenia.

 

In March, investigators at Edmundston Regional Hospital in New Brunswick, Canada reported that male patients diagnosed with schizophrenia obtained subjective benefits from inhaling cannabis.

 

Survey data published in 2008 in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing also reported that schizophrenic patients obtained subjective relief from cannabis, finding that subjects consumed cannabis to reduce anxiety, mitigate memories of childhood trauma, enhance cognition, and "improve their mental state."

 

For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director, at: paul@norml.org. Full text of the study, "Improvement in refractory psychosis with dronabinol: four case reports," appears in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

[lawyercaregiver]

The study sample was self selected as previously benefiting from smoking cannabis. Of course a high percentage of them are going to benefit from cannabis.

 

I worked with psychotics at a group home for a few years when I was in school and most of them hated smoking weed because it made them even more paranoid A few of them mentioned really liking it though so this study is like sticking your hand in water and acting surprised it is wet.

 

Still some of the most obvious truths are right in front of us and we refuse to see them. This could be a landmark study in mental health.