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Research into the compound that make up cannabis have shown possible medical utility in traumatic brain injury, inflammatory bowel disease, allergic contact dermatitis, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease (10).

The hemp seed is actually a fruit and comprises half the weight of a plant and does not contain detectable amounts of THC (11 ). Hemp seeds are 35 percent oil by weight, and this oil contains 80 to 81 percent Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) (12 ).EFA is a natural immune booster as noted by R. Hamilton, ED.D. PhD medical researcher-biochemist U.C.L.A Emeritus (13 ). Also hemp seeds are al so rich in omega-3, an important nutritional supplement(14 ).

Hemp seeds can help you maintain a healthy heart as researched called "Cholesterol Induced Stimulation of Platelet Aggregation is Prevented by a Hempseed-Enriched Diet." Has indicated (15 ).

There is also evidence that cannabis can prevent migraine headaches(16 ).

Cannabis has long been consider a treatment for Glaucoma. Cannabis is two to three times as effective as are current legal medicines for reducing eye pressure, without toxic side effects or damage to the liver and kidneys associated with presently approved Glaucoma drugs(17 ).

Cannabis is also good dilator of the airways called the bronchiole, small air tubes of the lungs(18 ).

Research shows that 60% of all epileptics could be helped by cannabis (19 ). A 1989 issue of the " Journal of Neurology " by doctors in Federal Republic of Germany noted improvements in Multiple Sclerosis after taking cannabis. A Cannabis derivative Cannabidiol, is promising anti convulsant (20 ).

Cannabis may stave off Alzheimer's disease (21 ).

Compounds in cannabis have trigger the formation of new neurons or brain cells and cut inflammation linked to dementia in experiments. Other research has shown cannabis acts on the parts of the brain involved in memory, appetite, pain and mood(22 ). This brain cell reproduction could offset the onset of Alzheimer's disease (23 ).

Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia discovered that cannabis could be effective in treating both benign and malignant tumors (24 ).

A committee of the Institute of Medicine for the National Academy of Science speaking on cannabis recommended further research, especially in the relief of nausea and vomiting in cancer chemotherapy, Asthma, seizures and spasticity (25 ).

About half the patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy being treated with anti cancer drugs suffer severe nausea. 30 to forty percent use antimetic drugs(26 ). Researcher, A. Chang, found that patients got less relief from synthetic THC after one or two chemotherapy sessions. As oppose to long relief cannabis provides(27 ). Studies on Cancer patients legally permitted to smoke cannabis in New Mexico, California, Michigan, New York, Georgia and Tennessee revealed cannabis often reduces nausea and vomiting when all available prescriptions fail to work(28 ).