Is Marijuana Good for Your Health?
Yes, marijuana is good for your health. Medical marijuana
that is. 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 B.C. the Chinese Emperor Shen-Nung prescribed
marijuana for gout, beriberi, constipation, 'female weakness', rheumatism and
malaria among other ailments. In 2,000 B.C. physicians in Egypt were
prescribing marijuana for eye problems. In India in 1,000 B.C. marijuana was
being used as an anesthetic and an anti-phlegmatic and Hoa-Tho, a 2nd Century
A.D. Chinese physician is reported to have used marijuana as an analgesic
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Modern Usage
Today in many parts of India and especially in Ayer Vedic
medicine marijuana is used to treat a wide range of ailments. It is also used
as a sedative, an analgesic, an anti-hemorrhoidal 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 a 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.
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