Medical Marijuana: A Better Option to Pain Treatment over Prescription Opioid Narcotics
Medical marijuana is a much healthier alternative to narcotics in most cases for the use of treatment of pain for epilepsy, nausea relief, multiple sclerosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and cancer. Two of the main cannabinoids in medical marijuana are: delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidoil (CBD). CBD is the compound that has significant medical benefits and the fact that CBD-rich cannabis is non-psychoactive or less psychoactive than THC-dominant strains, makes it a wonderful option for people in search of relief from: inflammation, pain, anxiety, seizures, spasms, and many other conditions as well. On the other hand, the two most frequently …show more content…
There are many rules that come along with using marijuana legally, and just in the US alone each and every state has their own laws and regulations regarding marijuana. Colorado is one of the states that has legalized the use of marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes. In one specific case, a man named Raymond Schwab attempted to move to Colorado from Kansas to grow medical marijuana, and while preparing for the move, Kansas took five of their children into state custody on “suspicion of child endangerment”. Schwab is a US Navy veteran who uses a cannabis butter, that he makes himself, to treat is post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain. Schwab’s intentions were to move to Colorado so that he could grow marijuana legally and use it to help himself and fellow veterans through the anxiety, depression, and physical pain that they were faced with on a day to day basis. Cases like this cause countless problems because just in one country alone there are a great number of different rules and regulations regarding marijuana. Josiah Hesse points out in his article about the Schwab family, “A case like Schwab’s has one foot in both the legal and illegal dynamics of marijuana, since his case involves Kansas, where cannabis remains illegal, and Colorado, where it is legal for both medical and recreation sale” (Hesse par. 8). If marijuana was legal throughout the entire …show more content…
One doctor explains in his paper, Cannabis in Pain Treatment, “Despite continuing debate on these and other cannabis-related issues, many pain clinicians and researchers agree that cannabinoids are clinically promising chemical compounds” (Savage). Finding solutions to all of these challenges, and engineering a marijuana strain that contains the appropriate composition of THC and CBD for maximum therapeutic effects would lead to a much better alternative treatment to pain in cases regarding epilepsy, nausea relief, multiple sclerosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and cancer. This may seem like an impossible act, but with the technology and intelligence that we possess today, it is far from that; and obviously more and more clinicians and researchers are coming on board as well. Medical marijuana should be legalized in place of opioid narcotics for people who are in search of relief from pain in a way that is better for the body, and is responsible for less problems throughout
Medical marijuana is a much healthier alternative to narcotics in most cases for the use of treatment of pain for epilepsy, nausea relief, multiple sclerosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and cancer. Two of the main cannabinoids in medical marijuana are: delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidoil (CBD). CBD is the compound that has significant medical benefits and the fact that CBD-rich cannabis is non-psychoactive or less psychoactive than THC-dominant strains, makes it a wonderful option for people in search of relief from: inflammation, pain, anxiety, seizures, spasms, and many other conditions as well. On the other hand, the two most frequently …show more content…
There are many rules that come along with using marijuana legally, and just in the US alone each and every state has their own laws and regulations regarding marijuana. Colorado is one of the states that has legalized the use of marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes. In one specific case, a man named Raymond Schwab attempted to move to Colorado from Kansas to grow medical marijuana, and while preparing for the move, Kansas took five of their children into state custody on “suspicion of child endangerment”. Schwab is a US Navy veteran who uses a cannabis butter, that he makes himself, to treat is post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain. Schwab’s intentions were to move to Colorado so that he could grow marijuana legally and use it to help himself and fellow veterans through the anxiety, depression, and physical pain that they were faced with on a day to day basis. Cases like this cause countless problems because just in one country alone there are a great number of different rules and regulations regarding marijuana. Josiah Hesse points out in his article about the Schwab family, “A case like Schwab’s has one foot in both the legal and illegal dynamics of marijuana, since his case involves Kansas, where cannabis remains illegal, and Colorado, where it is legal for both medical and recreation sale” (Hesse par. 8). If marijuana was legal throughout the entire …show more content…
One doctor explains in his paper, Cannabis in Pain Treatment, “Despite continuing debate on these and other cannabis-related issues, many pain clinicians and researchers agree that cannabinoids are clinically promising chemical compounds” (Savage). Finding solutions to all of these challenges, and engineering a marijuana strain that contains the appropriate composition of THC and CBD for maximum therapeutic effects would lead to a much better alternative treatment to pain in cases regarding epilepsy, nausea relief, multiple sclerosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and cancer. This may seem like an impossible act, but with the technology and intelligence that we possess today, it is far from that; and obviously more and more clinicians and researchers are coming on board as well. Medical marijuana should be legalized in place of opioid narcotics for people who are in search of relief from pain in a way that is better for the body, and is responsible for less problems throughout