Marijuana ? the info!

2009.05.11

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”, and same is the case with Marijuana. A lot of people aren’t aware of the health facts about Marijuana. We hear bad things and believe them to the extent that we don’t even do a research on the facts. Cannabis causes cancer, and killed brain cells, and many stories like these are not far from the truth.

As with excess of anything can have harmful effects like watching TV, or video games as well as good effects, Cannabis also comes with a various constructive uses. Cannabis works as an anti depressant. Not only does it helps with depression, but also bring up creative energy, reduces nausea, and makes one hungry.

Marijuana help treat eating disorders that makes you not eat as much. It would increase your appetite. It can also help you with relaxation. There may be a drug on the market that contains the main active chemical in weed (THC) but it doesn’t give you the full benefits of the plant. It’s the THC mixed with the thousands of chemicals which makes it work to its fullest extant. Research indicates that THC impairs the body's immune system from fighting disease, which can cause a wide variety of health problems. One study found that marijuana actually inhibited the disease-preventing actions of key immune cells. Another study found that THC increased the risk of developing bacterial infections and tumors. Several studies have found that children born to mothers who used marijuana during pregnancy exhibit some problems with neurological development.

Various researchers agree that there is a limited range of options in treating aggressive forms of cancer and treatments, such as chemotherapy, can be effective. But, they prove to be extremely painful for some patients. The substances used for the therapy are often toxic and difficult. The need is to search for a non-toxic therapy that could achieve the same results without any of the painful side effects.

A study suggests that a compound extracted from cannabis and opium poppy, called CBD (short form of cannabidiol), is believed to be capable of stopping the spread of cancer cells throughout the body.

CBD is now being seen as an alternative to chemotherapy and radiation. It is produced naturally in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. It will emerge as a non-toxic alternative in many forms of cancer.

Leaves and stalks of Cannabis sativa are also known as marijuana, cannabis or hashish. CBD being non-toxic and of psychoactive effect, it is not illegal according to some interpretations.

Cannabis is also used in some other medical practices and is enlisted as opioids – substances that pharmacologically behave like the primary active constituent of natural opium poppy, morphine.

Although cannabis cannot be termed as a narcotic in medical terms, law in many countries including US and India enlist it as narcotic and count it with ‘illegal products’.

Needless to say that proper knowledge and awareness is still lacking in the common masses.