Current Studies

On a website of the US National Institutes of Health many ongoing clinical studies are listed. Please note that this list is not complete.

Here are some of the many current clinical studies.

THC / Dronabinol / Marinol
Efficacy Trial of Oral Tetrahydrocannabinol in Patients With Fibromyalgia at Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel.
For more studies please click here.

Nabilone / Cesamet
Efficacy and Safety Evaluation of Nabilone as Adjunctive Therapy to Gabapentin for the Management of Neuropathic Pain in Multiple Sclerosis at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
For more studies please click here.

Nabiximols / Sativex
A Study of Sativex® for Relieving Persistent Pain in Patients With Advanced Cancer in the United States, the UK and Germany.
For more studies please click here.

Cannabidiol (CBD)
Cannabidiol for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Meir Medical Center, Kefar Saba, Israel.
For more studies please click here.

Smoked / Inhaled Cannabis
Comparing the Effects of Smoked and Oral Marijuana in Individuals With HIV/AIDS at New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA.
Effects of Vaporized Marijuana on Neuropathic Pain at CTSC Clinical Research Center, Sacramento, United States.
For more studies please click here.

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Sweden

Laws
Court Rulings
Realties

Source: Magnus Brahn

Last update: 21 October 2008

Laws

Despite that the medical products agency (Läkemedelsverket) in several reports admits the possibly usefulness of cannabinoids against neuropathic pain and MS in particular, no real options are readily available at this time for patients, other than the illegal market.

Medicial users receive the same penalty as recreational users. The usual criminal penalty in swedish courts are for smaller drug offences of cannabis below 60 gram, which normally leads to fines. But the courts can hand out up to six months in jail.

The law governing the prohibition of marijuana in Sweden is called Narkotikastrafflagen (1968:64).

Court Rulings

Several medical marijuana patients have been charged, but the courts refuse to consider a medical necessity defense. One of these notable cases happened in the beginning of 2008 when a MS-patient was sent to one year in prison for growing her own medicine. She eventually spent six months in one of the toughest women prisons in the country.

Another case that got media attention took place in 2004 when a mother of five was sentenced to six months in jail after having grown and used cannabis in chocolate and for smoking to treat symptoms of her fibromyalgia.

Realties

The synthetic THC preparation Marinol has to be ordered specially and approved beforehand. Sativex is not generally approved, even though some patients have received special licenses to use the spray. You can apply for one of these licenses but the process is hard and burdensome and met with suspicion.

No political party has medical marijuana on its agenda, since it is regarded as a "back door" to legalize marijuana. Advocates are routinely labeled "drug liberals" and shunned in debates.

Nobody knows how many people in sweden are using cannabis medicinally today, since all the researh approved in in this field are for studies that research the harm, not the medical value of the cannabis plant.

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