Health Benefits of Marijuana and It’s Use in the Scientific World

A lot has been debated over the uses of marijuana and it side effects on the human body and no such unanimous agreement has been reached so far to finalize on its benefit or consequences. At present there are twenty or more states that have legalized the use of this plant. It needs to be mentioned that the states which criminalizes its use, happen to have a large population under the effects of this drug. Now whether marijuana actually causes some long term health issues have not yet been certified but nonetheless, the world has gone along the general perception of how harmful it is and how much it can be.

Conceptions and Misconceptions about Marijuana

Now there is something called medical marijuana which is due to be approved by the U.S Food and Drug Administration. Now this can either be smoked, or taken in the form of a pill or mixed into something edible. It has been found in many tests that taking of medical cannabis indeed has some health benefits.

It helps in reducing neuropathic pain in HIV patients. Mostly in a number of cases morphine is not enough and this is where medical marijuana takes its place. To expand the boundaries a bit more, such pain relief is not only limited to humans but animals as well. A number of them have had similar effects on intake of cannabis to soothe pain. Burning or numbness as a result of an overactive bladder can also be eased with this miracle plant.

Now chemotherapy has become a common procedure all over with the increasing number of cancer patients. Now as is known to all, chemo therapy has a number of unwanted side effects and one of them being a constant feeling of nausea. This is again the part where use of marijuana helps in reducing the nauseous feeling. Glaucoma is another problem which is caused due to increased pressure to the eye and in most cases leads to blindness. In this case ‘smoking of pot’ has been deemed extremely helpful. To avoid the effects of this issue, marijuana needs to be smoked several times, throughout the day. Another exemplary effect of cannabis is on schizophrenia patients.

Therefore if one has to argue in favor of the benefits of using cannabis, then it is surely going to be a long speech. There are many more health benefits that however have not been scientifically proven yet. People using it often talk about different realms and a whole new world that they seem to perceive when under its effects. It would not be completely wrong to therefore assume that they might be able to reach a certain level of the human subconscious mind that people otherwise are unable to reach.