What they do not realize is that it is an oil that is derived from the actual plant and it does not give the “high” side effect. It gives cancer patients an appetite and helps with their pain. With the patients that have seizures after taking a couple of doses of medical cannabis they feel much better, and have less seizures. It helps patients that have a better life style, and better way of living without the constant pain that they would have on a usual basis. According to the scholarly journal from Harvard University the reason that there has not been many studies conducted for the use of medical cannabis to test if the results are safe it because there are many people that use this drug as a recreational drug. It is also the reason why they decided to make this drug illegal in some states. Researchers want to be able to conduct more research so that they can come up with more concrete information. “Unfortunately, most of the research on marijuana is based on people who smoked the drug for recreational rather than medical purposes.” (Harvard.edu). “A separate review by the American Medical Association (AMA) also concluded that the research base remains sparse. This was one reason that the AMA urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 controlled substance (prohibiting both medical and recreational use), so that researchers could more easily conduct clinical trials.”
What they do not realize is that it is an oil that is derived from the actual plant and it does not give the “high” side effect. It gives cancer patients an appetite and helps with their pain. With the patients that have seizures after taking a couple of doses of medical cannabis they feel much better, and have less seizures. It helps patients that have a better life style, and better way of living without the constant pain that they would have on a usual basis. According to the scholarly journal from Harvard University the reason that there has not been many studies conducted for the use of medical cannabis to test if the results are safe it because there are many people that use this drug as a recreational drug. It is also the reason why they decided to make this drug illegal in some states. Researchers want to be able to conduct more research so that they can come up with more concrete information. “Unfortunately, most of the research on marijuana is based on people who smoked the drug for recreational rather than medical purposes.” (Harvard.edu). “A separate review by the American Medical Association (AMA) also concluded that the research base remains sparse. This was one reason that the AMA urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 controlled substance (prohibiting both medical and recreational use), so that researchers could more easily conduct clinical trials.”