Re: Can marijuana help paraplegics recover?

Mark Thorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> bhanwara wrote:
> 
> > I happened to meet a person who became a paraplegic 13 years
> > ago in a diving accident.  But he had recovered enough to be
> > able to walk by himself now, though he still needs crutches
> > most of the time.
> >
> > He had used marijuana to keep himself happy despite his
> > accident.  But I wondered if there was a causal
> > connection.
> 
> How do you know that he might not have needed any crutches
> by now, had he not smoked anything at all?

I don't.  Like I said -- I "wondered".

But there are sufficient grounds to make this a reasonably valid
speculation.  I outlined those grounds, in the hopes that those
who are providing therapy to paraplegics may consider
if it's safe/worthwhile to try out such experiments.

Of course, given the government-sponsored high prejudice
against such substrances and therefore the practical risks involved,
such experiments do pose some problems of personal
risk to the experimenter...