Uses for Medicinal cannabis

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In 2009 the Journal of Neuroscience said that cannabidiol was now being used in medicine to treat pain and other symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis (14 ).

Research into the compounds 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 (15 ).

Cannabis may also Prevent the onset Alzheimer's disease (16 ).

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(17). This brain cell reproduction could offset the onset of Alzheimer's disease (18 ).

Professor Gary Wenk and associate professor Yannic Marchalant of the Ohio State Department of Psychology found that a canavanoid reverse memory loss in rats in an experiment (19 ).

Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia discovered that cannabis could be effective in treating both benign and malignant tumors (20).

A nonpsychoactive component reduces cellular signs of cardiac stress, thus improving your hearts health(21 ).

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 (22 ).

About half the patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy being treated with anti cancer drugs suffer severe nausea. 30 to forty percent use antiemetic drugs(23 ). 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 (24). 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(25 ).

Studies New Mexico and Tennessee found cannabis reduced nausea and vomiting in more than 90 percent of patient receiving chemotherapy. Studies in New York and Michigan found 80% cancer patients who use cannabis got relief from emesis. A study in Georgia had 73 percent (26 ).