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Plants of the Gods: S4E10. Cannabis: Seeing Through the Smoke

Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast

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The History of Cannabis and Pain

The National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine said there's definitive evidence that cannabis works for certain types of pain, especially neuropathic pain. In every single study, their health-related quality of life goes up with cannabis use,. So it helps in about seven different ways. And the endocannabinoid system, the system of neurons, receptors and transmitters that cannabis works on to so many things in the body at once that cannabis helps pain in a variety of different ways.

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