Cannabis as medicin, medical marijuana

Cannabis has been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years before our era beginning. It is one of the safest therapeutic substances known to man, and can be helpful in a variety of disease states.




AIDS

Medical cannabis stimulates appetite, anti-nausea and pain caused by HIV and AIDS, and the side effects caused by the medicines used to treat the disease. Currently, the medical organizations that specialize in AIDS research some of the strongest advocates of medical marijuana, which they believe that medical cannabis can save lives.



Cancer

Cannabis prevents nausea in chemotherapy, and allows patients to eat and live normally. A wealth of reports from clinical research shows Marijuana effectiveness in cancer patients. Inhaled cannabis provides the advantage that the patient does not need to take the preparation orally, and thus likely to vomit it up before it took effect. Smoked cannabis provides an immediate effect, and patients will often find it easier to control the dosage from this form of ingestion.



Pain

Many researchers now believe that cannabis is very promising in the treatment of pain, as a safe substitute for many of the addictive drugs currently used to treat pain. American Institute of Medicine has ruled that cannabis counter pain on a scale that is comparable to opiates. It has also proved effective at a range of chronic pain, where conventional treatment with opioids does not operate - for example, neuropathic pain.



Epilepsy

Cannabis anti-convulsive effects are well documented, however, only a few studies specifically addressed the issue of its effects on epilepsy. Scientists behind one of these studies reported their findings in "Journal of the American Medical Association" in 1975, where they concluded that cannabis may possess an anti-convulsive effect in the treatment of epilepsy.



Glaucoma (glaucoma)

The aim of the treatment of glaucoma is to reduce the interockulära pressure (IOP) in the eye. Several studies have demonstrated that inhaled cannabis reduces IOP in individuals with normal IOP and glaucoma.



Migraine

Cannabis was a century ago, the most common and most effective medicine in the treatment of migraine. Recently held an article in the medical journal "Journal of the Association for the Study of Pain 'to cannabis, in the form of a marijuana cigarette, possesses the potential to quickly and effectively to treat acute migraine. The author also suggested that cannabis is far safer than many prescription medications for migraine, and that a large proportion of patients fail to respond to, or experienced severe adverse reactions to traditional treatment of migraine.



Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

A wealth of references in the medical literature suggests that cannabis can alleviate and prevent disease development. A survey in 1997 showed that between 30-97% felt that their symptoms were improved by cannabis, depending on the specific symptoms they were. British House of Lords Science and Technology Comittee recognized in 1998 cannabis' ability to alleviate MS. After a careful analysis of available data indicated chairman, Lord Perry of Walton, that "We have seen evidence that is sufficient to convince us that a doctor might legitimately want to prescribe cannabis to relieve ... symptoms of multiple sclerosis, and criminal law should not be way for this ".



It may be added that there are many testimonies from sick people who use and claims to be helped out of cannabis. Today, eight states in the United States voted for the decriminalization of medical marijuana, despite the U.S. government to criminalize all use of the drug - both patients and doctors risk jail if they use, recommend or prescribe medical marijuana.



Other countries have gone further with regard to this, and the therapeutic use of marijuana is now allowed in Canada and several European countries - Holland and Belgium, among other things, and now England are also expected omklassifiera cannabis in the greatest drug policy change in the country has undergone over 20 years.

Medical (and other) use of marijuana is currently illegal in Sweden and many other parts of the world. Sick people are arrested and branded as criminals, while the anti-drug lobbyists describe the therapeutic use of "a medical excuse to abuse". They believe that sick people who use cannabis to relieve symptoms are drug addicts who only seek a way to legitimize their own abuse.



Our common view maintains the view that it is deeply immoral, cynical and inhumane to advocate criminalizing sick people and denying them safe and effective relief from their illness. Many people are helped by cannabis, then they feel it is an effective and safe medicine - more would be helped if it was legal. Today, these people end up in jail because they seek relief from an illness, while others choose not to risk it and suffer a greater extent of their symptoms