Can Marijuana Treat Headaches? A Doctor's Perspective

Today, in part two, we’ll go over a remarkable study that clearly demonstrates the potent effects of pot smoking on cluster headaches. We’ll also start our review on the possible mechanisms that underlie the cerebrovascular events that result in cluster or migraine headache, and how they are intimately involved with CB receptors.

Thankfully, cluster HA is fairly rare yet that fact fails to placate those who suffer from it. That’s because cluster headache is horrifically painful: a former patient of mine, a medieval history professor, once quipped that he would prefer the strappado rather than endure another debilitating series of cluster attacks. Really? If that’s the case it has to hurt.

Briefly, when an attack occurs it produces severe, stabbing pain on one side of the face and cranium, a runny nose, drooping eyelid and dilated pupil. The attacks occur in clusters for several weeks to months, and then just...

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