Medical cannabis study for spinal injury pain wins NSW Health funding

Encouraging news coming out of the University of Sydney in Australia. Researchers at the University’s Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics have just been awarded 1.7 million to research the severe chronic pain that commonly occurs after spinal cord injury.

Why this matters: Current treatments for chronic pain caused by spinal injury can cause side effects almost as debilitating as the pain it is treating. For the very first time, researchers will investigate the effects of CBD on brain function in chronic pain and the relationship between changes in pain and brain structure and function associated with CBD.

The impact of this could be very wide reaching: “While there are some studies showing that CBD can reduce pain in other chronic conditions, no one fully understands how it works to reduce pain. Our study can help tease this out,” said researcher, Professor Luke Henderson.

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