As a doctor in 2014 i changed my position about marijuana because the promising evidence based research done in it . In Medical community you cant say any claim without supporting it with controlled clinical trial witch show a statically significant result , Any one can claim anything but not any point medically relevant , so what am trying to say is there is huge difference between legal an medical Marijuana .
Cannabinoids witch an active chemical component in Marijuana interact with endocannabinoid system in Central nervous system , the last interact with many body function like producing pain , sleeping , heart function ,,, etc
hundreds of clinical trials conducted by Neuroscience Research community recently about Marijuana benefit and actually the old view to Marijuana as harmful addiction material associated with crime changed a lot , now Marijuana start to being accepted in most of the world not only as healthy supplementary but as a potential medicine to control symptom and treat disease .
As i mention above you should know that recognizing Marijuana as supplementary and legalize it is totally different from consider it as a real medicine , to treat with Marijuana is a very long way to go because you need many controlled study conducted in many level with variant sample size with acceptable result just to be accepted by medical community as a potential medicine with no harmful side effect then you need to do trial with Marijuana vs stander of care like for example as analgesic effect , after that post marketing survey is mandatory to see side effect in large community scale .
So a lot of time needed for Marijuana to be prescribe as medicine by doctor , to go from legal to Medical Marijuana , but that is on progress
The list of disease that Marijuana may treat or help control the symptom is long
1 - Pain management
2 - schizophrenia
3 - Glaucoma
4 - Alzheimer's disease
5 - Tourette’s syndrome.
6 - improve symptoms of some autoimmune disorder likke SLE
7 - control epileptic seizures
8 - help fine tremers for Parkinson's disease
9 - anxiety
10 - reducing nausea during chemotherapy
11 - improving appetite in HIV/AIDS
12 - improving sleep
the list is looooong with more than 30 area of active research now but using marijuana medically will be different than what people think , you will not smoke marijuana to benefit medically ( i know most of you want to ) :) instate the active component will be given as tablet , iv solution or inhaler .
Marijuana based coin ( now more than 5 ) is cool but it is so early for it is real use by people for purchasing it , so if you invested in that you need to be all the way patient , YES like years from now , i think based of what is happening after 2020 we will see massive use of Marijuana but is the coin success if happened at all will take more time .
Let me know what you think below
It's great to see it becoming more freely available for its medical benefits. But what I'd really like to see is it decriminalised everywhere, so people can grow their own, just like any other herb.
so one day we will get high with medical benefit