tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post4268379519458947653..comments2023-11-25T01:12:34.326+00:00Comments on Benefit Scrounging Scum: Hunger Strike Woman From Peterborough 'Wins' Hunger Strike BattleBenefitScroungingScumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939136229593231935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-57071316534821469172010-07-08T14:19:27.803+01:002010-07-08T14:19:27.803+01:00Wow. Could they have focused on the 'marijuana...Wow. Could they have focused on the 'marijuana based spray' ANY more? Way to sideline the issues, BBC!<br /><br />It's a 'win' but no one has really won here.Arienettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05226584891432763246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-35456544552116209062010-07-08T13:06:51.107+01:002010-07-08T13:06:51.107+01:00I wonder if long term this could be used as a case...I wonder if long term this could be used as a case study so that other people without MS who might benefit from Sativex can access it.<br /><br />In the US, I take marinol which is a synthetic THC med (not as good as smoking cannabis or doing something with the actual plant) which is better IME with my chronic pain than opiates have been. Certainly you seem to get a fair bit of relief from cannabis as well and there's now some research out there about chronic pain that suggests that opiates are actually the wrong way to treat it all together and that instead THC and things like low-dose naltrexone will do a lot more for most people with chronic pain. (The research I read is suggesting that the mechanisms causing chronic pain are actually ones that will fight opiates which is why opiate tolerance happens. The mechanism instead has THC receptors and other factors that mean that a lot of the experimental meds out there such as THC-based and things similar to low-dose naltrexone work much better)Penelopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06266694020145632041noreply@blogger.com