Contents:
- Medical Video: Olivia Newton-John Speaks Out About Cancer and Marijuana
- Four types of marijuana are commonly used for medical purposes
- Health benefits of marijuana
- 1. Prevent glaucoma
- 2. Increasing lung capacity
- 3. Prevent seizures due to epilepsy
- 4. Turn off some cancer cells
- Not that it's safe
Medical Video: Olivia Newton-John Speaks Out About Cancer and Marijuana
Cannabis use is indeed quite controversial in the world. Its existence is also considered illegal and is included in illegal drugs, but on the other hand actually plants that also thrive in Indonesia are drugs that have quite a lot of positive benefits.
However, even though its use is not always dangerous, marijuana can affect your body and mind anytime when it enters the body.
Cannabis comes from a plant called Cannabis Sativa. It has an active ingredient called THC, which makes you feel drunk or high. THC and other ingredients in marijuana can also affect your body's performance.
Most people smoke dried marijuana leaves, flowers, stem and seeds. However, cannabis can also be mixed into food (such as brownies, cookies, even traditional dishes such as gulai), brewed as tea, or inhaled with a vaporizer.
Quoted from WebMD, marijuana or marijuana can be a medicine if treated medically. Dustin Sulak, DO, is a doctor who researches and makes medical marijuana. Sulak recommended several types of marijuana to his patients and saw surprising results. Patients with chronic pain need a few prescription drugs. Patients with multiple sclerosis experience fewer muscle spasms than before. Patients with severe intestinal inflammation begin to be able to eat again.
"These responses are the most extraordinary for me. With intestinal inflammatory disease, we see patients who look like they have no hope of recovery, it can improve dramatically, "said Sulak, who works at Maine Integrative Healthcare in Manchester. Maine itself is one of 20 regions, together with the District of Columbia, where medical marijuana is considered legal in the eyes of the law.
Sulak's experience is quite strong and adds a long history of marijuana as a therapeutic drug. The problem is, because marijuana is classified as an illegal item, it is difficult to do further research on this.
Four types of marijuana are commonly used for medical purposes
In the United States alone, there are four types of marijuana that have been allowed to be produced for medicinal or medical purposes, namely:
- Marinol and Cesamet: these two drugs are used to treat nausea and loss of appetite related to chemotherapy and in patients with AIDS. This is another form of THC, which is the main ingredient of marijuana that gives flavor high. Both of these drugs were FDA approved in the 1980s.
- Epidiolex: This drug is used in children with epilepsy and the FDA legalized it in 2013. However, its use in general is strictly prohibited.
- Sativex: currently being clinically tested in the United States and is a drug to treat breast cancer. It is a combination of chemicals contained in cannabis plants and sprayed into the mouth. Sativex was approved in more than 20 countries to deal with muscle spasms from MS and cancer.
Health benefits of marijuana
As reported by Business Insider, marijuana turns out to have a number of other benefits for health, which may be rarely known to many people, including you, maybe.
We know that using marijuana (even excessive and maybe using it not for medical purposes) will cause health problems for ourselves, ranging from lack of sperm quality, excessive anxiety, low blood pressure, and others. However, it turns out the positive side or the benefits for his health can be more, such as:
1. Prevent glaucoma
Cannabis can be used to treat and prevent eye from glaucoma, which increases pressure in the eyeball, damages the optic nerve, and causes loss of vision. Cannabis reduces the pressure. Based on research conducted by the National Eye Institute in the early 1970s, people who burn marijuana can reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with normal pressure and people with glaucoma. The effect of marijuana can slow down the process of this disease, while preventing blindness.
2. Increasing lung capacity
In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in January 2012, marijuana did not damage lung function and could even increase lung capacity. In the study, the researchers took samples from 5,115 young adults for approximately 20 years. Tobacco smokers lost their lung function during this time, but marijuana users showed an increase in lung capacity.
3. Prevent seizures due to epilepsy
A study conducted in 2003 showed that marijuana can prevent seizures due to epilepsy. Robert J. DeLorenzo, from Virginia Commonwealth University, provides synthetic marijuana and marijuana extracts in epilepsy mice. This marijuana drug is given to mice that have seizures for 10 hours. Cannabinoids like the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, control seizures by holding responsive brain cells to control stimulation and regulate relaxation.
4. Turn off some cancer cells
The content in cannabidiol can stop cancer by turning off a gene called Id-1, in a study conducted by researchers from the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, which was reported in 2007. In many cases, it is believed that marijuana can kill cells other cancer cells.
Not that it's safe
Even though the medical benefits are positively important, but if the use is not used properly and wisely, and also too much, you may actually experience a loss for yourself. Not to mention, there has been no research on the long-term effects of cannabis use. So, if there are other drugs that are more effective (and legal), it looks like you don't have to switch to marijuana.
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