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Cannabinoids To The Rescue Stopping Seizures In Humans
The Liberator
Medical marijuana has been doing many great things for people on a variety of different health related issues. For someone who suffers with seizures, the cannabinoids have got your back on this one, as in this story you will learn all about how the cannabinoids are actually stopping seizures for people. I have seen it first hand how terrible it is when someone is having a bad seizure. I saw that a few years ago, a friend of mines cousin went into a violent seizure. Just to think the cannabinoids, the CBD on it’s own without the use of Big Pharma’s toxicology and the problem was handled accordingly. It does not make a person high either, there’s no THC invovled whatsoever.
From Prevent disease.com:
The history of medical marijuana and its use for epilepsy is a curious one. The marijuana plant, cannabis sativa, has been a part of folk medicine since antiquity and it has been used in Western medicine since the 19th century. One of its early uses was to control epileptic seizures. An obvious drawback, however, was that it was psychoactive — it made its users “high.” It was these psychoactive effects of cannabis that led to its being banned in most countries in the early 20th century. In the 1930s and 1940s, research chemists began to extract various pure compounds — called “cannabinoids” — from the cannabis plant and discovered that some extracts made you high while others didn’t.
The compound that causes the psychoactive effects of cannabis is “tetrahydrocannabinol,” which is usually abbreviated THC. A second compound which is without psychoactive effects is “cannabidiol” — abbreviated CBD. CBD has medicinal effects but it doesn’t make you high.
Scientific research into the seizure-suppressing effects of the cannabinoids was pioneered by Karler and Turkanis at the University of Utah. Working in animals, they showed that CBD — which doesn’t make you high — was as good as THC at suppressing seizures. Small clinical trials by other researchers confirmed that CBD also stopped seizures in humans and didn’t make them high either. This line of research led to an international symposium in 1981, which summarized most of what we know today about the cannabinoids and epilepsy. Then, suddenly, this line of research stopped dead. Nothing more was heard for thirty years or so.
