CANNABIS 'EASES PAIN CAUSED BY ARTHRITIS'

CANNABIS can significantly ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis, a
study revealed yesterday.

Taken in medicine form, the Class C drug was shown to reduce pain,
improve quality of sleep and ease inflammation.

Scientists insist the element of the drug which creates a potential
"high" is an essential therapeutic component of the treatment and
cannot be removed.

The authors of the study are now calling for a larger trial to back up
their findings to help the 600,000 rheumatoid arthritis sufferers in
the UK.

The trial was led by David Blake, a professor of bone and joint
medicine at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, in
Bath, and the University of Bath.