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Cannabis can make patients “less bothered by pain”

Cannabis can make patients “less bothered by pain”

28 December 2012 at 12:50 Comments are Disabled

Using brain imaging, researchers found that the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis reduced activity in a part of the brain linked to emotional aspects of pain. But the effect on the pain experienced varied greatly, they said. The researchers’ findings are published in the journal Pain. The Oxford researchers recruited 12 healthy men to take partRead More …

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