Re: Medical marijuanna, what do you think about it?

[Anonymous]

Do you get high when you take ritalin or many other type of ADHD medication??? Still this is amphetamines on a controled level, but speed and extasy are also amphetamines, does it make all people taking medication junkie???

What I’m saying is not that cannabis can cure all life’s illnesses, you’ve done a great job generalizing though!!! What I’m stating is that cannabis does help in therapeutic way a lot of diseases.

Here’s something taken from the Compassion Club of Montreal website http://www.clubcompassion.org/conditions_eng_ccm.htm , those are the condition that lead to legal cannabis smoking in Quebec, I’d guess Canada too :

– AIDS/HIV : Improves appetite and relieves nausea.

– ADHD : Calms and encourages focus.

– Arthritis : Used as an anti-inflammatory and to help reduce pain.

– Brain/Head Injury : Relief from chronic pain and headaches. Increases focus, concentration, and mobility. Decreases neuralgia.

– Cancer : Pain relief, increased appetite, decreased nausea, sleep aid.

– Colitis : Alleviates pain, spasms and diarrhea.

– Chemotherapy : Helps to reduce or relieve nausea and vomiting.

– Crohn’s Disease : Alleviates pain, spasm and diarrhea.

– Epilepsy : Reduces seizure frequency.

– Fibromyalgia : Pain relief.

– Glaucoma : Reduces intra-ocular pressure.

– Hepatitis C : Decreases fatigue, nausea, and chronic pain in muscles and joints. Increases appetite.

– Irritable Bowel Syndrome : Increases appetite, aids in digestion, relieves diarrhea, and decreases bowel spasms.

– Migraines : Relieves migraines.

– Multiple Sclerosis : Reduces spasticity, pain, fatigue, bladder problems and depression.

– Muscular Dystrophy : Relieves muscle spasms and pain. Improves mobility and appetite. Aids in sleep.

– Nausea : Highly effective in relieving nausea.

– Chronic Pain : Reduces pain.

– Paraplegia/Quadriplegia : Relieves muscle spasms and neuralgia.

– Parkinson’s Disease : Reduces tremors, spasms, and pain. Increases mobility and appetite.

– Radiation Therapy : Relieves nausea and vomiting. Increases appetite and energizes.

– Seizure Disorders : Reduces seizure frequency.

– Sleep Disorders : Sleep aid.

– Addiction/Withdrawal : Decreases cravings, reduces withdrawal symptoms and relapse potential.

Patient might often need other kind of medications, but cannabis is much help for patient impairements.

I think you where raised in a way that state that cannabis is a bad thing, the prohibition in the 1890’s stoped the research with cannabis, and gave a really bad name for marijuanna. They only recover a social acceptance around the 1970’s. And research around this topic is explosing around the 1990’s… They’re still a lot of misconception about this.

Another thing, when you search for cannabis research chronology or timeline, you can see that human did use cannabis for medication purpose since 2727BC. It was actually mentionned in the first medical text (pharmacopoeia). Also, China did import/export of hashich until the 1930’s… It was legal since 1500BC. It was used in medication in the USA around the year 1840. It is one of the oldest drug used for medication purpose. I do believe that cannabis was prohibited only for political reason.

Does cannabis affect my reading? Or is it medicine researcher’s mass hysteria?

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