On August 18, 2008 A La Times medical reporter interviewed a group of doctors that were researching the benefits of medical marijuana. The discussion on whether or not marijuana is a drug that should be considered dangerous and put into the same category as drugs like PCP and heroin, or whether it's a miracle herb with a treasure trove of health benefits that the government is secretly trying to suppress is all contingent upon whom you ask--or could it possibly be something that straddles the line of both fences: a plant with medical benefits as well as drawbacks that should definitely be worth exploring into.
While the political arguments continue over medical marijuana, a group of researchers continues to investigate the effects of inhaled marijuana to treat muscle spasms, nausea, and pain.
Doctors have long understood that all drugs come attached with risk--in most American homes the medicine cabinets are stuffed with aspirin, antihistamines, and pain killers. What Doctors try to do is balance out the risk versus the benefits of what the medicine can do--some argue this should be the same approach when it comes to looking at marijuana.
Researchers say that their findings show that marijuana does have medical benefits-- for chronic pain syndromes, cancer pains, AIDS wasting syndrome, nausea associated with chemo therapy, and multiple sclerosis. The research is hindered so progress is slow as they try to harness and understand all of the plants benefits. Another discovery has been that although there are real risks attached to marijuana, they are generally small.
Dr. Donald Abrams, chief of hematology and oncology at San Francisco General Hospital and professor of clinical medicine at UC San Francisco, says he sees patients experiencing nausea and vomiting from treatment, cancer patients in pain, not eating or sleeping well, and being depressed about their general situation.
He's happy that he live in a state like California where medical marijuana is legal by state law--this even as federal agents continue to raid on a regular basis the cannabis dispensaries that are in the state as well as scrutinize doctors who prefer to treat some of their patients with marijuana.
"I can talk to patients about medicinal cannabis [and] I'm often recommending it to them for these indications," Abrams says.
The medical use of marijuana has gone on for thousands of years. In the days before the bible, the plant was used as a medicinal tea in China, and in India it was used as a stress formula and pain reliever--All throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Africa marijuana was use for earaches, childbirth, and many other remedies.
recently, there have been studies to test the effect on how marijuana treats people with spinal injuries, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and anxiety.
While the political arguments continue over medical marijuana, a group of researchers continues to investigate the effects of inhaled marijuana to treat muscle spasms, nausea, and pain.
Doctors have long understood that all drugs come attached with risk--in most American homes the medicine cabinets are stuffed with aspirin, antihistamines, and pain killers. What Doctors try to do is balance out the risk versus the benefits of what the medicine can do--some argue this should be the same approach when it comes to looking at marijuana.
Researchers say that their findings show that marijuana does have medical benefits-- for chronic pain syndromes, cancer pains, AIDS wasting syndrome, nausea associated with chemo therapy, and multiple sclerosis. The research is hindered so progress is slow as they try to harness and understand all of the plants benefits. Another discovery has been that although there are real risks attached to marijuana, they are generally small.
Dr. Donald Abrams, chief of hematology and oncology at San Francisco General Hospital and professor of clinical medicine at UC San Francisco, says he sees patients experiencing nausea and vomiting from treatment, cancer patients in pain, not eating or sleeping well, and being depressed about their general situation.
He's happy that he live in a state like California where medical marijuana is legal by state law--this even as federal agents continue to raid on a regular basis the cannabis dispensaries that are in the state as well as scrutinize doctors who prefer to treat some of their patients with marijuana.
"I can talk to patients about medicinal cannabis [and] I'm often recommending it to them for these indications," Abrams says.
The medical use of marijuana has gone on for thousands of years. In the days before the bible, the plant was used as a medicinal tea in China, and in India it was used as a stress formula and pain reliever--All throughout Asia, the Middle East, and Africa marijuana was use for earaches, childbirth, and many other remedies.
recently, there have been studies to test the effect on how marijuana treats people with spinal injuries, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and anxiety.
About the Author:
For the past three plus decades, Dr. Myriam Rosshauckler has studied the medicinal effects that marijuana seeds have been used in history. She has a web site full of information on the marijuana seed and the many uses it has had throughout humancivilization.
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