Many countries around the world have legalized medical marijuana, during this process many experts have changed their minds, ensuring that this plant actually has healing powers.
While the recreational use of marijuana is controversial, science is convinced that the plant should be legal for medical uses. However, we keep in mind that there are negative effects.
When used excessively, it can lead to dependency, modify your memory and emotions.
Marijuana contains two active chemicals that researchers say have medicinal applications. These are cannabidiol (CBD) which improves brain conditions and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which eliminates pain. Now we present some of the benefits that science has found:
1. It can be used to treat glaucoma.
Marijuana use can be used to treat and prevent ocular glaucoma, a disease that increases pressure in the eyeball, damaging the optic nerve and causing vision loss.
Marijuana lowers the pressure inside the eye. Studies in the early seventies showed that marijuana lowered intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with normal pressure and people with glaucoma.
These effects of the drug can slow the progression of the disease, preventing blindness.
2. It can help reverse the carcinogenic effects of tobacco and improve lung health.
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, marijuana does not harm lung function and can even increase lung capacity.
3. Helps control epileptic seizures.
Marijuana consumption can prevent epileptic seizures, said a study published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
Cannabinoids, such as marijuana's active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (also known as THC), control seizures by binding to brain cells responsible for controlling excitability and regulating relaxation.
4. A chemical found in marijuana stops cancer from spreading.
CBD may help prevent the spread of cancer, reported researchers at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
Cannabidiol cancels cancer by deactivating a gene called Id-1.
5. Reduces anxiety.
Medical marijuana users claim that the drug helps relieve pain and suppress nausea, the two main reasons it is often used to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy.
In 2010, researchers at Harvard Medical School suggested that some of the benefits of the drug are reduced anxiety, which improves the smoker's mood and would act as a sedative at low doses.
But be careful, as higher doses can increase anxiety and make you paranoid.
6. THC slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
Marijuana may be able to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, say scientists at the Scripps Research Institute.
The study published in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics found that THC, the active chemical in marijuana, slows the formation of amyloid plaques by blocking the enzyme in the brain that produces them. These plaques are what kill brain cells and cause Alzheimer's.
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