Marijuana Is An Old Remedy That Gives New Relief
As marijuana marches towards legalization in Canada, researchers are digging ever deeper into its potential therapeutic benefits. For people suffering from epilepsy it could mean reaching back to the wisdom of the ancients to deliver a modern form of relief.
For thousands of years, cannabis has been known to have anticonvulsant properties. It was used in both ancient China and India, and then much later during Victorian times in Europe.
In the 20th Century, researchers started to narrow down the source of the benefits, extracting a chemical from marijuana called cannabidiol (CBD), which unlike THC will not make you high, but which has shown promise in reducing seizures.
But in the 1980s, research virtually stopped. Some wonder whether it was a casualty of the Reagan Administration's War on Drugs. Researchers wishing to conduct studies of cannabis were frustrated by legal obstacles to access.
A neuroscientist in San Francisco named Catherine...
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