A man grew cannabis plants to help his suffering wife with agonising pain from serious back and neck injuries.
She used the cannabis as part of a recipe for cakes that she could eat rather than smoking it and this was less addictive than painkillers, a court heard.
As a therapeutic agent, most people are familiar with the palliative effects of the primary psychoactive constituent of Cannabis sativa (CS), Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a molecule active at both the cannabinoid 1 (CB1) and cannabinoid 2 (CB2) receptor subtypes. Through the activation primarily of CB1 receptors in the central nervous system, THC can reduce nausea, emesis and pain in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
