SEATTLE, WA -- New research is offering scientific proof that cannabis can be medicine, and it’s all happening at the University of Washington.
But the whole idea of the medical community being allowed to study cannabis and find scientific proof that it is helping people is something Michael Louella never thought would be possible.
“It was mind-blowing,” Louella says, recalling the day he was told about the research. “Our director, Ann Collier, stopped me in the hallway and told me the idea, and I just thought ‘hallelujah!’"
Louella and R-N Eric Helgeson work in the ACTU, or AIDS Clinical Trials Unit at UW Medicine. For the first time, they're looking at the effects of cannabis in the digestive system.
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