Sierra Natural Healing Collective

" Present evidence indicates that [cannabinoids] are remarkably safe drugs, with a sideeffects profile superior to many drugs used for the same indications."
- British Medical Association, November 1997

" When appropriately prescribed and monitored, marijuana/cannabis can provide immeasurable benefits for the health and well-being of our patients."
- American Academy of HIV Medicine, 2003

" The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by illnesses like multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS - or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day."
- former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, M.D., "Myths About Medical Marijuana," Providence Journal, March 26, 2004

Although a variety of drugs are available for the treatment of depression, therapy is not effective in all cases and finding alternative options is desirable. Results from animal studies, anecdotal ex-perience reported by patients using cannabis and observations from clinical studies where can-nabinoids were used in serious diseases suggest an anti-depressive potential of cannabinoid recep-tor agonists. From 2003 to 2006, 75 patients suffering from depression, stress and burnout syn-drome were successfully treated in a practice for general medicine with the cannabis ingredient dronabinol, alone or in combination with other antidepressants. Two case studies will be pre-sented. The presented observations suggest that dronabinol has an antidepressive potential that can readily be used in medical practice.