Marijuana has been the one of the rending topic throughout this year. Although many oppose the fact that the use of marijuana should be prohibited and marked illegal, doctors and scientists have confirmed that the use of this “drug” can be a great healing process for many problems that occurs in our body internally.
Research has unraveled that it can considerably heal bone fractures. The study has been aimed to find out future use of cannabinoid drugs to combat osteoporosis and other bone-related diseases. It was undertaken at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University, who figured out that administration of the non-psychotropic component cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) helps heal bone fractures.
The experiment for this study was implemented on rats with mid-femoral fractures, and it was revealed that CBD noticeably improved the healing process of the femora after just eight weeks, even when it was isolated from tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); which is the major psychoactive component of cannabis. In an earlier study, by the same group, it was exposed that cannabinoid receptors within our bodies stimulated bone formation and inhibited bone loss.
The researchers believe, this has offered the future use of cannabinoid drugs to combat osteoporosis and other bone-related diseases, a much smoother path. Dr. Yankel Gabet of the Bone Research Laboratory at the Department of Anatomy at Tel Aviv University stated that the clinical potential of cannabinoid-related compounds is just indisputable at this point, even with the fact that there is a lot of development left for suitable therapies. Dr. Gabet adds, it is clear that it is possible to detach a clinical therapy objective from the psychoactivity of cannabis, and CBD which is the principal agent in their study, is mainly anti-inflammatory and has no psychoactivity.
Our bodies are designed with a cannabinoid system, which regulates both vital and non-vital systems, and we only react to cannabis because we are built with intrinsic compounds and receptors that can also be activated by compounds in the cannabis plant; says Dr. Gabet.
During the research, the team uncovered that the skeleton itself is regulated by cannabinoids, and it can be affected even the addition of a non-psychogenic compound acting outside of the brain. CBD just by itself was found to make the bones stronger during healing, uplifting the maturation of the collagenous matrix, which provides the basis for new mineralization of bone tissue. Dr. Gabet added that after being treated with CBD, the healed bone will be harder to break in the future.
The study, published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research , involved the researchers to inject one group of rats with CBD alone and another with a combination of CBD and THC. The team revealed, CBD alone provided the necessary therapeutic stimulus when they evaluated the administration of THC and CBD together in the rats. Dr. Gabet reassures supporting their findings with other studies that have also shown CBD to be a safe agent instructing them to believe; they should chase this lead and undertake clinical trials to judge its usefulness in improving human fracture healing.
