Larry, along with other people who suffer from AIDS and cancer, benefit from marijuana. They benefit from it because it’s used as an appetite stimulant. According to Joni Commons, a deputy director of the county’s health services, “smoking pot was the only thing that relieved her otherwise constant nausea from chemotherapy treatment for bre

In addition to being helpful to cancer and AIDS patients, marijuana is being developed as a weight loss drug. Sanofi, a French pharmaceutical marketer, has been experimenting on a treatment for obesity. He is developing a drug called rimonabant, which is the generic name (Goetzl 8). The company that is working with Sanofi on this experimental drug believes “that if smoking pot makes people hungry, a compound that blocks the hunger inducing effects of marijuana could make a great diet drug” (Hovey D2). An active compound in marijuana effects a part of the brain, which are called canabinoid receptors. The receptors control craving and dependence, such as appetite. The creator of the drug wants to find out how marijuana affects this part of the brain and why it temporarily blocks one’s appetite (Naik D3).

Smoking pot seems to be more of a medical benefit than a bad thing. It has helped patients with various diseases and even helped with weight control. It has been very beneficial in controlling pain. According to the studies, it appears that the inhaled (smoked) marijuana is the most effective. There are other ways of ingesting marijuana, but they have not proven to

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