While the drug almost certainly helps ease nausea, there is no research showing how it stacks up against highly effective anti-nausea drugs developed over the past 15 years. Stopping weight loss. Marijuana clearly improves appetite. However, the drug has not been adequately tested in people who are unintentionally losing weight, such as those with AIDS or cancer. Treating muscle spasticity conditions, including multiple sclerosis.
Many victims say it helps, and some animal research backs up the idea.
Researchers especially want to test it on AIDS patients with peripheral neuropathy, numbness and pain in the feet that afflicts between 20 percent and 30 percent with the disease. Animal studies suggest marijuana may be a mild to moderate painkiller, and many with AIDS are already using it, since there is no other good treatment. All of the research done on genuine marijuana will use pot supplied by the nation's only legal supplier, the federal government's National Institute on Drug Abuse. Every year or two, it pays the University of Mississippi to plant an acre and a half of marijuana for experiments.