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Article: Active ingredients in marijuana found to spread and prolong pain.
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- NewsRx Health
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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Imagine that you're working on your back porch, hammering in a nail. Suddenly you slip and hit your thumb instead - hard. The pain is incredibly intense, but it only lasts a moment. After a few seconds (and a few unprintable words) you're ready to start hammering again.
How can such severe pain vanish so quickly? And why is it that other kinds of equally terrible pain refuse to go away, and instead torment their victims for years?
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers think they've found at least part of the answer-and believe it or not, it's in a group of compounds that includes the active ingredients in marijuana, the ...