Drew Carey takes a look at Medical Marijuana dispensaries and patients who need and use medical marijuana.  Medical marijuana is used by patients to help treat the effects of cancer, glaucoma, HIV-AIDS, chronic pain and nausea, and other severe symptoms associated with serious illnesses.

Drew Carey while in the Marines 1980-1986

Now that the research is finally being done, it is becoming well established that Medical Marijuana has very real medical benefits.  A recent study published in the journal of the Canadian Medical Association provided the  following findings.

Three puffs a day of cannabis, better known as marijuana, helps people with chronic nerve pain due to injury or surgery feel less pain and sleep better, a Canadian team has found.

“It’s been known anecdotally,” says researcher Mark Ware, MD, assistant professor of anesthesia and family medicine at McGill University in Montreal. “About 10% to 15% of patients attending a chronic pain clinic use cannabis as part of their pain [control] strategy,” he tells WebMD.

But Ware’s study is more scientific — a clinical trial in which his team compared placebo with three different doses of cannabis. The research is published in CMAJ, the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Read the complete article regarding smoking cannabis and its effectiveness in reducing chronic nerve pain, from WebMD – http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=119303