Does Marijuana have any medical benefits.?

Answer 1

Yes.

The US Government distributes it as a medicine. Every month, they send a big tin can full of 300 marijuana joints to a number of patients. The reason they do this is because some of those patients went to court and proved to a legal certainty that marijuana is the only medicine suitable for their needs.

The US Institute of Medicine report of 1999 is the biggest study of the subject done by the US Government. They said that there are some patients for whom there is no good alternative to marijuana. You can find their report at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer under Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy.

There is a prescription drug -- Marinol -- made from the primary active ingredient in marijuana. If the primary active ingredient in a plant has medical benefits then, obviously, the plant can have medical benefits.

Marijuana was used in about 250 common medicines when it was outlawed in 1937. The American Medical Association testified before Congress that it was a useful medication and that there was no evidence that it was a dangerous drug -- quite the contrary, in fact. They opposed making marijuana illegal and said there was no reason to outlaw it. You can find the complete transcripts of the hearings for the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/taxact.htm

The US DEA's own Chief Administrative Law Judge studied the issue for two years and accumulated 15 volumes of research. He concluded that marijuana met the legal standards for a medicine and that it was one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. You can read his report at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/YOUNG/index.html

Answer 2

Every toker will certainly say it does! LOL Nothing has proven it does...people just want an excuse to keep smoking it...legitimately. I've known people who've smoked for decades and frankly they claim it doesn't do anything but I find they are pretty slow mentally and most suffer from serious migraines and neck tension. Smoking one joint has got the same tar etc. as smoking 40 cigarettes..so it DOES SO have a negative impact.

Ask my friend who now has emphysema who used to smoke the stuff like cigarettes all day long...all he does now is say I wish I'd never started on the stuff, if I'd only known I would end up like this I would never have smoked....that is the sad part...in the end, everyone says "I wish" but it's too late then.

Answer 3

no medial benefits that have been proven by peer reviewed medical study. conversely there are no adverse health effects from marijuana use either.

Edit:

to the person who gave me a bad rating. You may want to look at the latest peer reviewed medical study performed by Harvard Medical school on marijuana.

Edit #2: for Eve

to date there has not been one reported case of lung cancer attributed to marijuana smoking alone. do some of your own research on a topic if you are going to talk about it...

Answer 4

Heavy marijuana use has well established long term consequences for cognition and mental health, but the effect on brain structure is less well understood. We used an MRI technique that is sensitive to the structural integrity of brain tissue combined with a white matter mapping tractography technique to investigate structural changes in the corpus callosum (CC). Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was obtained in eleven heavy marijuana users who started using marijuana in early adolescence and eleven age matched controls. Mean diffusivity (MD) and fractional anisotropy (FA) (which measure structural integrity and tract coherence, respectively) were analysed within the corpus callosum which was spatially defined using tractography and tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS). MD was significantly increased in marijuana users relative to controls in the region of the CC where white matter passes between the prefrontal lobes. This observation suggests impaired structural integrity affecting the fibre tracts of the CC and is in keeping with previous reports of altered and diversified activation patterns in marijuana users. There was a trend towards a positive correlation between MD and length of use suggesting the possibility of a cumulative effect of marijuana over time and that a younger age at onset of use may predispose individuals to structural white matter damage. Structural abnormalities revealed in the CC may underlie cognitive and behavioural consequences of long term heavy marijuana use.

Answer 5

Yes. It helps ease nausea and increase appetite for both Aids and chemotherapy patients. For some people (myself included, for migraines) it eases pain. Cancer and MS patients find it particularly useful for that reason, as do back injury and surgery patients. It reduces the pressure in the eyes for glaucoma patients. It elevates mood for some depressives. It helps to ease menstrual cramps, and I can personally attest that also, having suffered from endometriosis for many years. It can help reduce
high blood pressure, and is beneficial in many other conditions.

Note: You can find ANYTHING in print to support ANY point of view. I once had lesbian neighbors who had a book which "proved" that they could have a baby together - on their own, using their own genetic materials, with no sperm donor, and no surgical intervention (something tells me that they're still waiting). There are books "proving" that the Holocaust never happened. I saw a book long ago which "proved " that the world as we know it would end in 1984 (I'm still here, are you?). There are books which "prove" that some races are inferior or superior to others. There are just as many books "proving" the dangers of the demon weed Marijauna as there are books "proving" that it's beneficial. My point is that if your ONLY knowledge of marijuana is from books, you just may have been misled. There's a reason that marijuana is the #1 cash crop in the US, and it's not just that it's a fun high for some people. It's been used medicinally for generations. I helped clean out an old pharmacy once, which stocked both "Tincture of Cannabis" and "Homeopathic Cannabis" pills. George Washington grew it for hemp, and Abe Lincoln wrote about how he liked to relax on his porch smoking his "hemp" cigarettes, which he enjoyed for their soothing effect. There is much written, both pro and con, and there is much propoganda published in both camps. I only trust the evidence of personal experience. If you have none, you might want to consider acquiring it before entering the fray. Oh, and please read this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16322314/?GT1=8816

Thank goodness there are people left in this world who can think for themselves. Bless this man, and all those who help medical patients acquire it, albeit illegally, risking their own personal freedoms to help others. May we see compassion prevail.

Happy Holidays to all!

Answer 6

it seems to help cancer patients develop a appetite. It helps ease glaucoma and I am sure that there is far more things that I am not aware of. I do know that if there is going to be chemo treatments that they dont mix well together. I found that out when my best friend died from that sh*t 8 years ago. He couldnt eat so we got him some weed and the nurses said we would have to chart his intake of it for the chemo people.

Answer 7

it has alot of benefits for your health like pain for your body joints some people with cancer get it medical through hospitals. i know a few people that get it medical, if it helps, it helps.

Answer 8

yes it is a pain killer and cures pms

Answer 9

i don't think so