Medical use of marijuana

Medical use of marijuana

For many years the use of medical marijuana has been a topic for debate, mostly if the health care system should use it as an alternative treatment for patients, which in fact, many of them claim that cannabis provides relief for symptoms like pain, nausea, migraine and many more. So it´s time for governments, mostly the most conservative ones, to start to evaluate and investigate profoundly the possibility to include marijuana as a valid option for people to choose.

According to a series of researches, like the one done by the National institute of mental health’s and the UK’s medicinal cannabis research foundation, marijuana, and specially it’s substance called cannabinoids, can suppress pain neurotransmission and is very effective treating chronic pain. For example, in cases of people suffering from arthritis, cannabis act as an analgesic, secreting cytokines which are essential in host responses to infection, inflammation, trauma, cancer, sepsis and immune responses.

Besides, stated by the Institute of Medicine, marijuana, compared to other illegal and legal drugs like alcohol, nicotine and cocaine and even the ones used actually for medicinal purposes, has a low potential of addictiveness.

It’s still not a zero percent chance of becoming dependable and it can even cause some light withdrawal symptoms but with a supervised use in hospitals like any other medication it can potentially improve the life quality of people

The only thing left to do is to hear the voices of millions who claim that their experience whit marijuana has been positive and start to do something about it.