Question by : Hey everyone! What are some beneficial effects of Marijuana. I am doing to write a book.?
And don’t say that medical marijuana is a gimmick because I know that it has many healthy effects on the body. 1. It is used in cancer patients to increase appetite due to chemo therapy. That is a fact, weed simply makes people hungry. 2. It is a treatment for glaucoma. Marijuana has been proven to decrease interocular pressure in the eye by up to 45 percent. (I would much rather have people smoke weed than go blind because of glaucoma). This was concluded by different studies in universities throughout the U.S. 3. Marijuana treats AIDS patients not only to increase appetite but also to make the patient feel better. This is because the plant has known euphoriants in trace amounts. These euphoriants have been rendered harmless and are in amounts of less than 0.0002 % of the chemical make up of the plant. 4. The plant has been used in anorexic patients to increase appetite; therefore, it promotes healthier living. 5. Anti anxiety is another use of herb. When smoked in small amounts it remedies symptoms. 6. It is a major treatment for pain. In a study done by multiple universities in California and Boston professors have allowed patients the choice to take Marinol to help relieve pain. Approximately forty patients participated in the study. The study compared the use of smoked marijuana and codein (as you know an opiate derived from the papaver somniferum, or poppy plant). The study showed 20 mg of marinol were comparable to 60 mg of codein for pain relieve symptoms. In my opinion marijuana is much safer because it does not have the risk of dependancy of codein. (opiates can be extremely addictive). 7. It is also a mild anti depressant because if the euphoriants it posseses. But it does not run the risk of dependancy, and overdose that drugs like Prozac, Zoloft and others have. Also, these other drugs may increase the rate of suicide in children under eighteen and even in few adults. Many of these drugs have later shown to have unwanted, harmful side effects such as heart attack and cancer.
8. Marijuana has antioxidants and antibacterials such as the chemical a terpinol (a chemical known to act as an antioxidant and antibaacterial)
Thank you for reading my page I just have some more important points I wish to make.
– Marijuana is not a gateway drug. People just choose to use marijuana before they try other
drugs because it is the easy to find. Many weed smokers only use weed. That is why it is the
most popular illegal substance and not cocain, and meth.
– Marinol only contains THC one of the pyscoactives in weed it does not contain the other helpful
substances
– Im sure marijuana does have some mild effects on small amounts of people, but so do all drugs.
– Regardless of if you believe pot is good or bad people will do it anyway. If it is legal then people
it will be safe to use because it will be well regulated. People who wish to smoke it will grow it;
hence, there will be no chance that the marijuana will be laced with anything else.
– It has not been illegal until the 1930s but people have used it since before Christ for ship sails,
clothing, paper, rope, food (the have a very pure source of protein).
– The actual smoke can be bad for the lungs, but it is not as bad as cigarette smoke. Tobacco
produces more tar, and tobacco smokers inhale much more smoke simply because they smoke
more than a pot smoker.
– It has so many benifits, yet the FDA does not want us to know about these because the
government would not be able to sell all of their drugs. How is that for government health care?
– That is why every federal govnt. study on the issue is fake.    Read more...