Marijuana In Medicine

In the modern medical world today there are many prescription drugs that are available to the public for uses such as nausea, pain, appetite and sleeping aids. But, what if all this can be solved by one drug? Marijuana has these powers and is much more conservative and cheaper than prosthetic prescription drugs. If marijuana were presently used for medical purpose the government would be saving time and money. Cannabis Sativa, or Marijuana, has a common stereotype of being a non-reproductive drug that is good for making couch potatoes and dummies. This may be true for common marijuana users who have no ambition in life but, marijuana can be one of the best medical break throughs and the government just hasn’t realized it yet.
Marijuana has been used as a medicine for thousands of years (Lewin 1931; Walton, 1938; Robinson, 1996). Chinese, Arab, Indian, and Hindu all have remnants of marijuana in their historic medical books. Some of these books have been traced to have publishing dates



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in the hospital for five days at a time, once a month, for four months. But midway through my treatment I could tell that Zofran, then a new hot drug prescribed to combat nausea, was losing its effect. For the remainder of my chemotherapy I turned to marijuana to keep my head out of the toilet.

brain function, numerous studies were conducted and not one supported this idea at all. A report submitted to the Dutch Government in 1996 by van Amsterdam et al. said:

The government should really consider the legalization of marijuana for medical use. It could save the citizens money instead of buying high priced prescription drugs and it could also make the government more money if they grew in mass quantities and taxed the crop for sale.

In 1992, I was found to have testicular cancer. My chemotherapy put me

Although this is only one person’s account it is certainly a valid one. The prescription drug was not solving his pain from chemotherapy so he tried something more na

Some topics in this essay:
Immune System, Pharmacology, Marijuana, Testosterone, Cannabis, Drugs, Nausea, Medicine, Dutch Government, Chemotherapy,

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