ARTICLE SAYS HASH HELPS JOINTS

According to an article published in the Jerusalem Post on June 7,
"Hashish found to be good for joints," a doctoral student at the Hebrew
University's School of Pharmacy in Jerusalem has discovered that hashish
can be effective as an anti-inflammatory drug for rheumatoid arthritis.

For her work with hashish as a therapeutic agent, Susanna Tchilibon, a
32-year-old immigrant from Milan, has been named a winner of one of this
year's Kaye Prizes for Innovations and Inventions at the university.

The active agent, HU-320, is comparable to the known drug indomethacin,
but without the known and considerable gastrointestinal side effects
caused by that drug. Tchilibon added that use of hashish or marijuana
has never been shown to cause those side effects.

Lee Eisenstein, Watsonville