The Benefits of Cannabis with Cerebral Palsy

3 Stories on how Marijuana Helps Cerebral Palsy

Evidence suggests that marijuana can help treat the symptoms of Cerebral Palsy. People with Cerebral Palsy experience spastic muscles, tremors, speech impediments, pain and rigidity of muscles.

Seth Green who suffers from Cerebral Palsy has found relief of his symptoms with medical marijuana. He lived in Tennessee where medical marijuana was not an option. Through Healthy Hopes he was able to attain treatment for his symptoms with cannabis. Seth plans to move to a legal medical marijuana state and run for a state representative position.(Source)

In the country of India cannabis is used to treat speech impediments.(Source) One example of this treatment is Jacqueline Patterson who suffers from Cerebral Palsy in Kansas City where medical marijuana is illegal. Her debilitating speech impediment is greatly reduced by cannabis. She can control the muscles in her mouth with cannabis medicine.(Source)

Terri Argast suffers from the muscle rigidity of Cerebral Palsy. She takes 9 pills in the morning and 12 at night to treat the symptoms. Living in Missouri she does not have access to medical marijuana. When she tried cannabis her symptoms where relieved with no side effects. She is an advocate for the legalization so she can treat her Cerebral Palsy with marijuana. (Source)

Source:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/cerebral-palsy-marijuana-seth-green_n_5508764.html

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/powers-weed-watch-woman-cure-speech-impediment-smoking-reefer/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9PkH0gxcGQ

Benefits of Cannabis for Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's Disease is the disruption of the endocannabinoid receptors in the brain. Nerve cells that produce dopamine are destroyed making the brain to not function in processing messages or muscle function. (Source)

Some studies have shown that the use of Marijuana to relieve Parkinson symptoms can be effective, but physicians warn that it should not be a replacement for prescribed drugs for the condition. Since the Drug Enforement Agency DEA has deemed cannabis as a schedule 1 drug, approval for research into the benefits of cannabis is lacking and conclusive evidence for benefits of Parkinson's is still in progress.(Source) Here are a collection of studies regarding marijuana and Parkinson's Disease:

Movement Disorders Journal with research done by Katerina Venderova in 2004 located in Prague did a study on Parkinson's patients and the results are as follows:

• 45.9% of patients showed mild to major treatment of parkinson's symptoms
• 30.6% showed treatment for rest tremors
• 44.7% showed treatment for bradykinesia ( slowness in movement caused by weakness, tremor or feeling of rigidity).
• 37.7% improvement in muscle rigidity
• 14.1% treatment in L-dopa-induced dyskinesias (disruption in brain signals of movement).
• 4% complained of cannabis worsening symptoms.
• Use of Cannabis for 3 months or more had significant improvement in Parkinson's symptoms

This study was done on less than a 100 patients and the conclusions are that more research needs to be done on a wider population for more concrete findings. (Source)

A theory but not studied enough is that marijuana could benefit Parkinson's Disease since the effects of Parkinson's symptoms are concentrated in the basal ganglia of the brain, which are packed with cannabinoid (THC) receptors that Cannabis main function relates to. (Cb1and Cb2 receptors)(Source)

To ad to the brain function, The British Journal of Pharmacology had a study that showed the following: “Given its antioxidant properties and its ability to activate CB₂ but to block CB₁ receptors, Δ⁹-THCV has a promising pharmacological profile for delaying disease progression in PD and also for ameliorating parkinsonian symptoms.” (Source)

One symptom that Parkinson's Disease has is REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). The patients studied using Cannabis (CBD) the non psycho-active component of cannabis showed significant improvement. (Source)

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Source:

http://www.parkinson.org/getdoc/6ffea1eb-3439-4e0c-b45e-5da1dc8d7537/default

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24845114

http://www.denverrelief.com/blog/conditions-treated-by-cannabis/parkinsons-disease-and-cannabis-marijuana-therapy/

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1476-5381.2011.01278.x/abstract

http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/06/its-hard-to-study-marijuanas-medical-benefits-when-its-illegal/373603/