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I would love that the state sponsored research into chronic pain. Big pharma has no incentive to find cure, they want to push a suite of addictive pills that ruin lives or they spend money to block medical cannabis. Millions of people suffer with no way out.

Edit: why people downvote the truth? I guess none of you suffered this and I hope you will not, but silencing a voice like that is inhumane.

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I didn't downvote, but if I had to guess, I suspect it's because your comment seems to have very little to do with the article (apart from the fact that the article is about medical research and you are advocating for a different sort of medical research). If there's a specific reason to think that mRNA could be used in treating chronic pain, including that could make your comment more obviously on-topic. (Not that your underlying point is a bad one! It's just hard to see how it fits in a discussion of this particular article.)

Well…there is state sponsorship, via the NIH.

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/nih-pain-research-center/research-...

“Pain” is almost never the disease. (OK, maybe CRPS.) There’s a lot of things that cause pain, almost self-evidently, so it’s not one particular thing to attack, unlike a virus.

(Also we are at 36 states now with medical marijuana, so I think the “pharma wants to block this” ship has sailed, especially when you consider big-hitters like California and New York have full recreational marijuana now.)

Probably because it's not really on topic.

Worth reviewing the site guidelines here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Gilead has made billions curing hepatitis c, so I think your theory is disproven.

Chronic pain is just a symptom. There could be million causes that needs to be treated first. And cannabis is just another form of "addictive pill", no better than opioids.

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