Marijuana As a New Level of Medicine

Yes believe it, marijuana is good for your health. Today there is increasing interest in the use of medical marijuana for treating everything from cancer to menstrual cramps and migraine headaches. People who wouldn’t be caught dead using marijuana are now interested in medical marijuana because it may be able to save their lives.

Medical professionals worldwide have used marijuana for millennia to treat a variety of ailments. Modern medicine men are begrudgingly beginning to acknowledge medical marijuana can aid in the treatment and cure of many diseases.

Earliest Usage:
Marijuana, or more properly Cannabis Sativa, has been used for its medicinal properties for over 5,000 years. Its earliest documented use is in China. In the 28th Century, Marijuana was prescribed for gout, beriberi, constipation, ‘female weakness’, rheumatism and malaria among other ailments. Physicians in the US were prescribing marijuana for eye problems; marijuana was being used as an anesthetic and an anti-phlegmatic there are many reported that marijuana can be used for analgesia during surgery.

Modern Usage:
Today in many parts of US, medical marijuana is used to treat a wide range of ailments. It is also used as a sedative, an analgesic, an anti-hemorrhoid and an antispasmodic. One might infer marijuana is only used in ‘backward’ Asian countries with no knowledge of modern medical practices, But one would be wrong. Napoleon’s army used it to treat burns, as a sedative and as a pain reliever. In the United States in 1961 the National Institute of Mental Health did a study that indicated marijuana could be used for epilepsy, infant convulsions, treatment of tetanus, convulsions of rabies, treatment of depression, as a sedative and hypnotic in relieving anxiety and has antibiotic properties.

Today physicians prescribe medicinal marijuana to stimulate the appetite of AIDS patients, treat glaucoma and multiple sclerosis and reduce nausea for cancer patients. The British House of Lords in 2001 report stated marijuana could be used to treat migraine headaches, schizophrenia, asthma, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and general pain. Doctors also acknowledge it can help to treat high blood pressure.

Medical Marijuana Movement:
There is a major movement, particularly in California, to make medicinal marijuana readily available to patients through medicinal marijuana stores. California medicinal marijuana dispensaries and medicinal marijuana clinics, many of which are run by medicinal marijuana collectives and marijuana doctors, seek to make medicinal marijuana available to patients with medical weed cards that legally allow them to receive medical marijuana strains to treat a variety of illnesses. Medical marijuana is truly becoming a herb for the healing of the nation.

For the most part, the following health and medical conditions are fairly standard in every one of the states where medical marijuana has been legalized:

Cachexia
Cancer
Glaucoma
HIV/AIDS
Persistent muscle spasms
Seizures
Severe nausea
Severe pain

Although this seems like a rather brief list of qualifying conditions and health issues, a lot of this has to do with the fact that there are rigid restrictions in place for Medicinal marijuana in the state of California despite the fact that it is legal to purchase and use it.

Research that has been conducted in recent years has also shown medical marijuana to be effective for treating PMS and excessive weight loss. Additional studies and the findings that resulted from them have shown positive results when marijuana is used to relieve symptoms of the following:

Crohn’s disease
Fibromyalgia
Migraine headaches
MS
OCD
Tourette Syndrome

On a closing note, research regarding medical marijuana continues today and there may be proof that it will eventually be effective for the treatment of a number of other conditions and disease symptoms. Finally, you may soon see 7 states that legalize medical marijuana as they currently have legislation pending.