IS MARIJUANA MEDICINE?

IS MARIJUANA MEDICATION?

IS MARIJUANA MEDICATION? I guess that depends on who you ask. If you ask a law person they'll tell you, "NO", but if you were to ask someone who smokes the THC Marijuana I bet they will tell you, "YES".

I think we have to examine the real facts to find out the truth. Just because you like the way you feel after smoking a joint does not mean that good stuff is happening in your body. You could be dying with a smile on your face!😀

BlackDoctor website posted their take on the question: Is Marijuana Medication?

Here is their article 

Marijuana users beware! While that high may clear your mind or set you at ease, new research details both the good AND bad on marijuana use.

When it comes to the effects of weed on your health, it’s true, there’s a lot of misleading information circulating around the Internet. So, in an effort to soothe the chatter, we did a little digging ourselves.

Believe it or not, marijuana has many positive effects on your health. In fact, researchers at Vanderbilt University found that cannabinoid receptors discovered in an emotional hub of the brain in mice soothed anxiety as well as the flight-or-fight response. It “could be highly important for understanding how cannabis exerts its behavioral effects,” Dr. Sachin Patel, senior author of the study, said in a press release.

Other experts argue that weed-based medicines such as Sativex are effective when treating MS symptoms including neuropathic pain and muscle spasms.

Meanwhile, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy have revealed that it calms nausea and more.

“Certain cannabinoid drugs have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to relieve nausea and vomiting and increase appetite in people with cancer and AIDS,” says the American Cancer Society.

Other reported benefits associated with marijuana use include

• Increased lung health
• Nightmare control
• Sleep apnea
• Fibromyalgia
• Chronic pain
• Treatment of illnesses like Hepatitis C, Bowel diseases, Crohn’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s

On the flip side, pot use comes with a long list of potential health risks, whether the use is medicinal or recreational, a new report from the National Academy of Sciences states.

“Many people are using cannabis and cannabis-based products for conditions for which there aren’t good data,” report co-author Sean Hennessy, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia said in a statement. “That’s growing. That’s only going to go up. It’s not going to go down. The committee feels it’s very important to develop the data so people know whether or not there’s going to benefit.”

For example, despite popular belief, rolling a joint won’t soothe that dull achy pain piercing down your spine. According to the review, the finding indicates conclusive evidence that oral – not smoked — cannabis-derived drugs, containing THC, can ease chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Substantial proof also found that oral cannabinoids can effectively treat spasms from multiple sclerosis.

“Most of the data related to therapeutic use is not with smoked cannabis, but primarily oral forms,” Hennessy said. “Some of them are mixtures of TCH and CBD, and some of them were CBD alone.”

It’s important to note that while there’s still much work to be uncovered, medical marijuana has been authorized in 28 states – with eight states legalizing recreational use. A trend we don’t anticipate slowing down anytime soon.

Source: BlackDoctor.org

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I thought the health benefits they listed were very interesting in that they listed them under the entire plant 'Marijuana' and did not state if the benefits were contributed to the THC or the CBD parts of the plant and that makes a big difference.

So is Marijuana medication like many other plants we have on earth or maybe only certain parts of the plant are on the scale that we can say, 'we get the medication for this disease from this part of the Marijuana plant'!

Apparently, there need to be more studies done on both parts of the plant. In the meantime, if you are looking for the CBD products we have them all just click here.