Benefits of smoking marijuana

2009.04.26

From the ancient times marijuana also known as cannabis has been used for medical purposes all over the world. However, on drug abuse issues the many governments all over the world have banned the use of marijuana as a therapeutic medicine and hence are refusing to acknowledge its many benefits if administered in right doses.

Marijuana has many advantages ranging from physical to psychological to spiritual benefits. However the physical benefits of marijuana are far more reaching than its other benefits.

The physical benefits of marijuana includes a better functioning and relaxed physical status of an individual, i.e. marijuana makes the consumer or smoker feel both relaxed and alert, in other words we can say stoned. Usually, the human body is either relaxed or alert but not both at the same time. With marijuana consumption both these states can be achieved quite easily and also simultaneously.

Another one of the main benefits of smoking marijuana is that it alerts and enhances the performance of the both sides of the brain. Through smoking marijuana, the right side of the brain’s reception increases while at the same time the left side of the brain’s perceptive way of seeing things is heightened. This is in fact a psychological benefit of marijuana smoking.

Moreover, by smoking marijuana one’s blood gets cleaner and increases in volume as well and this clean blood is send to the brain. The reason why blood supply to the brain is increased is because of marijuana the blood capillaries get diluted and relaxed. We in fact feel altogether relaxed, mellow, tired as well as alert, determined and strong. Marijuana smoking both stimulates as well as relaxes. A study shows that marijuana smokers are less likely to get cancer than cigarette smokers.

In today’s hyperactive and tense world, if for instance a person comes home dead tired and stressed out completely, smoking marijuana will help calm him down. This benefit can again not be ignored as it leads to increased creativity and better logic and intuition in that person than ever. This calming effect of marijuana smoking somewhat explains the term ‘expansion of consciousness’ or the ‘spiritual shifting of brain’.

Medical benefits of smoking marijuana are also many.  Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, a cannabinoid compound) is the active ingredient of marijuana which helps in medical treatment of patients under various circumstances. However marijuana is one of the most illegal drugs using worldwide. It has numerous medical benefits in the patients.

Even for serious diseases like cancer the benefits obtained from marijuana smoking are numerous. Firstly, repressed pain bought about by the element of unconsciousness, restoration of breath to its full capacity thereby eliminating toxicity in the body as well as balancing the whole physical organism of the body as well. Moreover, marijuana helps in cleaning of blood which further cleanses the poisons in the body’s cellular system. Last but not the least, it activates the entire brain which leads to one feeling positive and thus finishes of the feeling of dampening attitude or helplessness or depression or fear or resignation or even dread.