Introducing his study on smoked Cannabis (marijuana) in Pain and Palliative Care", Donald Abrams, MD, UCSF School of Integrative Medicine, presents methodology to the Fourth Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics, Santa Barbara, CA - April, 2006.
Dr. Abram's study was published in Feburary of 2007, as "Cannabis in Painful HIV-associated Sensory Neuropathy", in the Journal of the American Academy of Neurology:
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/68/7/515
Conclusion: Smoked cannabis was well tolerated and effectively relieved chronic neuropathic pain from HIV-associated sensory neuropathy. The findings are comparable to oral drugs used for chronic neuropathic pain.
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