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Search The Huffington Post Matt Ferner National Reporter, The Huffington Post Marijuana Ingredient Can Help Heal Broken Bones, Study Says Medical potential of this cannabis compound is "simply undeniable." Posted: 07/20/2015 03:46 PM EDT | Edited: 07/20/2015 03:48 PM EDT Scientists in Israel are exploring another medical use for marijuana: Their research indicates that a compound in the plant helps heal bone fractures. The new study, published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, found that broken bones healed faster and stronger when the patient received the nonpsychoactive compound cannabidiol, or CBD. "We found that CBD alone makes bones stronger during healing, enhancing the maturation of the collagenous matrix, which provides the basis for new mineralization of bone tissue," said Dr. Yankel Gabet, one of the lead researchers, in a statement. "After being treated with CBD, the healed bone will be harder to break in the future." Researchers administered CBD to a group of rats with midfemoral fractures. After just eight weeks, they saw marked improvement in the broken bones. They injected another group of rats with a mixture of CBD and THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. Comparing the results, they concluded that CBD alone was an effective treatment. Researchers explained that humans have a naturally occurring endocannabinoid system, which regulates a number of physiological processes as well as the skeleton. The human brain and body are thus prepped to be responsive to cannabinoids, even those from an outside source like marijuana. FRONT PAGE POLITICS BUSINESS MEDIA WORLDPOST SCIENCE TECH HEALTHY LIVING HUFFPOST LIVE FOLLOW HUFFPOST SUGGESTED FOR YOU 1. 'RHOC' Meghan Edmonds Thinks Husband Jim Deserves To Be In The Hall Of Fame a week ago live.huffingtonpost.com The Huffington Post HuffingtonPost.com (AOL) huffpost live 2. Hillary Clinton's Shifting Rhetoric On Coal Is A Departure From Her Coal Miner Roots 3 hours ago huffingtonpost.com NationalJournal.com Marina Fang Marina Fang Hillary Clinton Campaign 3. Lisa Flynt Dies A Week After Car Crash 9 months ago live.huffingtonpost.com The Huffington Post HuffingtonPost.com (AOL) lisa flynt 4. Men Masturbated For Science, And Here's What Came Of It HuffPost Healthy Living HUFFPOST NEWSLETTERS [email protected] Subscribe! Get top stories and blog posts sent to me each day. Edition: US
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Marijuana Ingredient Can Help HealBroken Bones, Study SaysMedical potential of this cannabis compound is "simply undeniable."
Posted: 07/20/2015 03:46 PM EDT | Edited: 07/20/2015 03:48 PM EDT
Scientists in Israel are exploring another medical use for marijuana: Their research indicates
that a compound in the plant helps heal bone fractures.
The new study, published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, found that broken
bones healed faster and stronger when the patient received the nonpsychoactive compound
cannabidiol, or CBD.
"We found that CBD alone makes bones stronger during healing, enhancing the maturation of
the collagenous matrix, which provides the basis for new mineralization of bone tissue," said
Dr. Yankel Gabet, one of the lead researchers, in a statement. "After being treated with CBD,
the healed bone will be harder to break in the future."
Researchers administered CBD to a group of rats with midfemoral fractures. After just eight
weeks, they saw marked improvement in the broken bones. They injected another group of rats
with a mixture of CBD and THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. Comparing the results,
they concluded that CBD alone was an effective treatment.
Researchers explained that humans have a naturally occurring endocannabinoid system,
which regulates a number of physiological processes as well as the skeleton. The human brain
and body are thus prepped to be responsive to cannabinoids, even those from an outside
source like marijuana.
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Gabet of the Bone Research Laboratory at Tel Aviv University and the late professor Itai Bab of
the Bone Laboratory at Hebrew University led the research.
A number of studies in recent years have demonstrated the medical potential of marijuana.
Purified forms of cannabis have been tied to better blood sugar control and may help slow the
spread of HIV. A growing body of research suggests CBD may also be effective in reducing
inflammation brought on by multiple sclerosis, stopping metastasis in many kinds of aggressive
cancer, killing cancerous cells in people with leukemia and serving as an alternative
antipsychotic treatment.
"The clinical potential of cannabinoidrelated compounds is simply undeniable at this point,"
Gabet said.
Seventeen U.S. states have legalized CBD for limited medical use or research, and 23 other
states have more broadly legalized marijuana for medical purposes. Still, the federal
government continues to ban the plant, classifying it as one of the "most dangerous" drugs
with "no currently accepted medical use."
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Thomas Hall · Ohio UniversityThe many uses of the compounds found in some varieties of marijuana are continuingto show great promise for healing and health benefits. Just think that had America andthe Nixon conservatives been more sensible about it and opened it up for study andresearch rather than using the "War on Drugs" to go after the antiNixon youth sincemere assembly and protesting were legal. Nixon also used the "War on Crime" to goafter the blacks that also voted Democratic and exploded our prison population thatwas around 250,000 in 1971 to 2.3 million today with another six million on parole orprobation.... See More
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Fenton Whoopie · Works at RetierdYou just discovered this?
Like · Reply · 1 · Jul 20, 2015 1:30pm
Joe Baumann · Oak Lawn, IllinoisDon't forget all of the things we can make from hemp that also got banned justbecause it is related to what people like to smoke. I've never heard of anyonetrying to smoke hemp lol.
Like · Reply · 4 · Jul 21, 2015 8:27am
Morgan Gritleyi agree with you on everything other than the working class waking up. somewill others have heads of concrete and never will. everything else you wrote ishistory not just opinion. good comment.
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Kim JohnsonWell, looks like they lied about the cannabis, what else did they lie about?
Like · Reply · 15 · Jul 20, 2015 2:01pm
Leah Selman · Cazenovia, New Yorkwomen`s uteruses, come to find out, they dont wander around our bodiescausing sickness after all.
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Ariel Slick · Librarian at City of Garland@Leah Selmanat "Come to find out."Like · Reply · Jul 21, 2015 4:31am
Danielle Kichler · Transcriber at AshokaLeah Selman And when a woman is raped, she doesn't always have a way to"shut that whole thing down" either.
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Ralph ThothIn the US, marijuana is a Schedule One drug meaning it has no medical uses. TheFDA has approved the drug Marinol, which is manmade THC, the pschoactivecomponent of marijuana.
http://www.marinol.com/
It would seem that this alone would be reason to take it off Schedule One.
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Doe JohnRight, Marinol/Dranabinol is 100% synthetic THC,so according to the fedsthat's OK but the Natural stuff is not,,,,,,, go figure.
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Kathy Smelser · Owens Community CollegeAs someone with chronic pain , pot is a wonder drug
Like · Reply · 11 · Jul 20, 2015 8:51pm
Paul Rizzo · Coastal Georgia Community CollegePharmaceuticals completely own the FDA. Anything that resembles a cure orcompetition is quickly killed. That is the American way.
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Stewe DapplesIgnorance is more harmful than cannabis.
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Aleks Hunter · Kent State UniversityIn the pharmacopia, that great cabinet full of stuff we take to feel better andheal better, there is not much that is less harmful than cannabis.Like · Reply · Jul 21, 2015 10:09am
James Cornelius · College of the RedwoodsMy father in law smoked after a hip replacement. He was back at yoga classes after 4weeks of recovery.
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Donald Fields · American UniversityI have been a devotee for almost 50 years; at 69, I am in almost perfecthealth. Never knew, starting out, I was using a miracle drug. Everyone told meI was headed for ruin, and even I accepted that possibility and thought it areasonable trade.
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Barry RoseDonald Fields I am 67 and smoked daily for 49 years. I too am the picture ofhealth and ran a very prosperous business producing mid 6 figure incomesfrom the time I was 30. If I didn't do that I would have been a candidate forprozack or zoloft.
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Donald Fields · American UniversityBarry Rose I scoff at those who demean us old potheads. I probably readmore than 99% of those who disparage the use of marijuana, produce moreart, listen to more music, appreciate more sunrises, so on and so on. I am notsure I can attribute my appetite for living solely to pot, but I think it played amajor role.
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Dave KellyIt also keeps you from breaking bones, due to the fact you just sit on the couch.
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Terry Karrick · Works at SelfEmployedLay off the pure indica, that stuffs couch lock.Sativa is the way to go.
Like · Reply · 19 · Jul 20, 2015 1:42pm
Douglas Andrew Hanlon · Ramona, CaliforniaIt promotes bone healing cause you just sit stare and say far out dude
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It promotes bone healing cause you just sit stare and say far out dude
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Doug Card · LSUI smoked on and off for 30 years before I discovered this. I can't stop talkingwhen I am high on sativa. Probably be good for golf. You wouldn't get asupset when you shank it since you can blame it on the pot.
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Carey GosaJust another study confirming what many people know already.
The Marijuana plant is the most beneficial plant know to mankind.
Like · Reply · 9 · Jul 20, 2015 5:33pm
Joe Baumann · Oak Lawn, IllinoisDon't forget how much its cousin hemp can do for making things too. But justbecause some associate it with a "drug" so many grew up thinking even thatwas something harmful not even knowing you can't smoke it lol.
Like · Reply · 2 · Jul 21, 2015 8:37am
Carey GosaJoe Baumann absolutely, Hemp, even the oil from seeds, are all part of thisamazing plant and it's plethora of uses & benefits.
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Terrence Hussey · Hogan Senior HighCannabis and hemp could replace the majority of over the counter medicinesand replace major industries such as corn, cotton, lumber, biofuel, and evenbioplastics. Cannabis has been a part of almost every great empire and away of life for over 12,000 years. Industrialization and Big Pharma were thebaddies that made it illegal since it's hard to regulate a plant that grows prettymuch everywhere and can replace all their products.Like · Reply · Jul 21, 2015 6:35pm
Fenton Whoopie · Works at RetierdThe pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in DC will apply even more pressure on theiremployees, Congress, to keep cannabis as a Schedule One Narcotic. Ide explain why,but if you cant figure it out on your own, then there is no use trying to explain it.
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Lea Akins · Harvard Business SchoolHow cruel, if you have to be laid up with a broken leg you ought to be able to bestoned, as well.
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Daniel R Thompson · Senior Programmer at ValassisThis can't be true since Schedule 1 drugs have no medical value.
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