Researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) have been conducting a series of studies testing the effectiveness and safety of consuming cannabis. Their most recent study, which focused on full-spectrum hemp oil, has shown promising results regarding pain management. UNM recently found hemp oil “reduced mechanical pain sensitivity tenfold for several hours in mice
Researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) have been conducting a series of studies testing the effectiveness and safety of consuming cannabis. Their most recent study, which focused on full-spectrum hemp oil, has shown promising results regarding pain management.
UNM recently found hemp oil “reduced mechanical pain sensitivity tenfold for several hours in mice with chronic postoperative neuropathic pain,” the university says in a news release.
The university says this was its first cannabis study on legal hemp oil with low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) levels.
Researchers used a “chronic neuropathic pain model” to expose mice to pain levels that were equivalent to several years of chronic pain in human patients. (Neuropathic pain is caused by damage to the nervous system.) By doing so, the researchers were able to examine how hemp oil influences “momentary pain sensitivity to the affected region,” the university says.
