▲ 460 ▼ Scientists found a cannabis compound that relieves pain without the high (www.sciencedaily.com) submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 195 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) I have friends that use them and disagree. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago* You have friends that have made a therapeutic ritual out of using essential oils which helps them only because the placebo effect can be very powerful for pain. Literally anything could stand in for the essential oils. Swap their oil vials out with convincing fakes and they'll never know the difference because it's the ritual of smelling and/or applying the oils that's helping them, not any real physical mechanism of the compounds in the oils interacting with their biology. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago* You have friends that have made a therapeutic ritual out of using essential oils which helps them only because the placebo effect can be very powerful for pain. Literally anything could stand in for the essential oils. Swap their oil vials out with convincing fakes and they'll never know the difference because it's the ritual of smelling and/or applying the oils that's helping them, not any real physical mechanism of the compounds in the oils interacting with their biology. permalink fedilink source parent