Compounds responsible for the aroma of cannabis and many other plants may offer a surprising new way to relieve chronic pain. Researchers found that several cannabis-derived terpenes significantly reduced pain in mouse models of fibromyalgia and post-surgical pain, with one terpene, geraniol, showing especially strong effects. Unlike THC, these compounds are not associated with psychoactive effects, making them a potentially attractive alternative for pain treatment.
  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42 minutes

    I love as this news spread, all the “but i need it for my pain/depression/etc/etc!, its the only thing that helps!” types are now just straight up basically saying they don’t give a fuck about anything it does but the high.

    I knew this was gonna happen.

    Just like I know the type of responses I’m gonna get from the outed potheads and addicts.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
      37 minutes

      Potheads and addicts? Holy shit, is it still 1990 and you’ve got some weird fucking prejudice against how other people choose to spend their time or how they medicate themselves? Oh boy…

      Just like I know the type of responses I’m gonna get

      You invite the circus when you put the clown mask on.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20 minutes

        Potheads and addicts? Holy shit, is it still 1990 and you’ve got some weird fucking prejudice against how other people choose to spend their time or how they medicate themselves? Oh boy…

        I dont care what you do in your own home.

        But potheads, like vegans, cant just contain it to their own home and shut up about it. They gotta make sure everyone, everywhere, in every fucking conversation, knows about what they do.

        And for the longest time, they all tried to hide behind pot being the magical medicine that cured all woes, and now we have science actually isolating beneficial components without hte high, and the overwhelming response is “NO, I DONT WANT THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS, I WANT THE HIGH”, which is exactly what addicts would say.

        • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2 minutes

          What kind of naïve person makes grandiose claims of others, while also unfairly aggregating them to the grouping of your own subjective, unflattering, and inaccurate images of them? You’re basically inventing these people, potheads and vegan, to make a dumb point about how some people like to talk about their personal choices a lot. Whoopty doo, you dweeb.

          You know what’s funny? Aside from the fact that I’m mentioning it now, I consume a grotesque volume of cannabis. Truly grotesque, I promise more than whatever you’re thinking. I don’t bring it up, though, ever. Why? Because I’m an actual human being, as opposed to whatever fantasy you’ve got going on up there.

    • Timonesaysno@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12 minutes

      Used one without the high. Worked beautifully. Too expensive in the long run. But really appreciated it. Dont want the high at all. It had no side effects. Just gentle pain relief. Bliss.

    • Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14 minutes

      If I’m in chronic pain then I’m going to want to be high too. Nothing wrong with being high in your own house.

      -I don’t even like weed. The high just feels like taking benedryl to me.

  • Betch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours

    This is so stupid. Just more pointless research to make you look the wrong way. Like Cannabis is this miracle plant that could offer us things we didn’t have access to before.

    I love Cannabis, she has been one of my best friends for over 25 years but let’s not kid ourselves. These terpenes aren’t unique to Cannabis, you shouldn’t be getting them from Cannabis, you should be getting them from your food.

    Unfortunately the food you are sold is dead and empty. Not only are processed foods stripped of all you actually need to support a healthy body, the fruits and veggies you buy are mostly dead strains that are grown in dead soil. It’s cheaper upfront, but then you have to pay for it in supplements, taxes and hospital bills.

    Geraniol: Citronella, rose, lemongrass

    Linalool: Lavender, mints, citrus, coriander, basil

    Beta-caryophyllene: Black pepper, rosemary, cloves, hops

    Alpha-humulene: Sage, hops, ginseng, ginger, mints

    Terpenes are the key. Spice up your lives.

    • Numenor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      Slam it to the left if you’re havin’ a good time, shake it to the right If ya know that you feel fine

  • kakler bitmap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 hours

    Yall are fuckin wierd lol. I absolutely love cannabis, both recreationally and medically. But if there’s an additional choice to isolate the pain relief aspect without the psychoactive effects of THC, that would be amazing as well. It’s not an either/or choice - there are absolutely use cases for both. Regardless, I’m pretty skeptical that terpenes are any more useful for pain control than essential oils are.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      5 hours

      This industry relies on innuendo and bots to fill comments on Reddit, anything but actual clinical trials with placebo controls. Same thing with terpene sleep aids.

    • abc@suppo.fiEnglish
      6 hours

      Thing is, this is strain that’s gonna be legalized if any. So any fun use would still be illegal.

      • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6 hours

        The states in the US that have already legalized weed are not going to let go of that tax revenue anytime soon.

    • Cam@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
      9 hours

      If I’m not wrong, essential oils are rich in terpenes and maybe that’s what makes them useful as a pain treatment.

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4 hours

      They already did this a long time ago, with Marinol, a course of which costed like 20k, while a 50 dollar baggie of weed would better do the job.

  • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 hours

    Because god forbid anyone ever feel a high that doesnt benefit corporate cartels.

    • Axolotl@feddit.itEnglish
      9 hours

      I mean, i don’t want to feel high while i try to relieve some pain yk

  • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11 hours

    My dad his disautonomia so he has to smoke weed in order to cope with the pain from his nervous system.

    He’d rather not use pain killers aka morphine aka opiates for risk of getting addicted to those.

    Hopefully this compound will help his pain tolerance without giving him the high

    • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
      11 hours

      I hate the pain relief/numbing aspect of some strains, it makes me get comfortable in positions that don’t make me feel bad til the nexy day and then I feel bad for a week

    • gemakey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17 hours

      Huh…I’ve always heard “giraffe pussy.” Lol I never thought about it the other way.

    • Dvixen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 hours

      Maybe you and I can go splits. You can have my share of the stone if I can have the pain relief part.

    • Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11 hours

      Call me when they develop weed that gives all the pain and none of the relief!

      Let’s spice things up, russian roulette with weed instead of bullets.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54 minutes

        so they have these gummy bears with a shitton of capsaican, like 9,000,000 scovilles or something. you’re supposed to chew them for 5 minutes, and they say it’s like getting maced in the mouth. maybe a 6/10 of pain or something, it’s intense but it’s over fast. also you can make it easier with milk, that’d probably drop it down to a 4/10 or something. But 5 minutes and it’s over.

        if you want a pain russian roulette, use those.

    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15 hours

      Ngl that just sounds like my normal weed for years. Originally took it for foot pain after work and it did nothing, but I was high as fuck and didn’t care that much

      • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 hours

        that’s kind of how it works though. The first time i took weed I was doing 12 hour shifts in kitchen work, and i noted how it didn’t remove the pain, it just made me stop careing about it.

        • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          14 hours

          Definitely still couldn’t walk properly because of pain, seems a bit pointless, but that’s just me

          • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14 hours

            TBF foot/leg pain to a 20 something, is not the same as chronic pain due to an injury, so i’m not discounting you, just voicing my experience.

            also, i was smoking 'mersh not the medical grade stuff, so…

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      10 hours

      Your comment may be read as serious or jocose, and both work.

      My serious thought is that if I’m fucked, I might as well use any means at my disposal to lessen my suffering.