The benefits of medical marijuana are vast and it is so because the plant and its healing properties have been around for thousands of years. Everywhere one looks there is more and more research being conducted into the benefits of marijuana. As reported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, research has shown that marijuana in a certain form can slow the process of cancer in a human body (Is Marijuana Medicine). This is just one report from pages and pages of documented medical marijuana effects. In a 2009 report from the Council on Science and Public Health, “cannabis reduces neuropathic pain, improves appetite and caloric intake especially in patients with reduced muscle mass, and may relieve spasticity and pain in patients with multiple
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If there was never any of these qualities to this plant, doctors, law makers, and parents of sick children wouldn’t be speaking out in acceptance. Doctor, Kate Scannell and Co-Director of the Northern California Ethics Department at Kaiser Permanente expressed her side to medical marijuana, she stated: "From working with AIDS and cancer patients, I repeatedly saw how marijuana could ameliorate a patient's debilitating fatigue, restore appetite, diminish pain, remedy nausea, cure vomiting and curtail down-to-the-bone weight loss” (What Are Physicians' Views). Doctor Kate Scannell has noticed many times in treating sick patients that medical marijuana is effective and can reduce a number of health problems. On another perspective of a doctor supporting medical marijuana, Doctor Andrew Weil, who at the time was the Director of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, stressed his aggravation, Doctor Weil states, “As a physician, I am frustrated that I cannot prescribe marijuana for patients who might benefit from it. At the very least I would like to be able to refer them to a safe, reliable, quality-controlled source” (What Are Physicians' Views). Doctor Andrew Weil is clearly accepting medical marijuana as a plausible, effective medical option. It’s not just doctors speaking out for medical marijuana, law-makers have begun to realize the potential of medical
If there was never any of these qualities to this plant, doctors, law makers, and parents of sick children wouldn’t be speaking out in acceptance. Doctor, Kate Scannell and Co-Director of the Northern California Ethics Department at Kaiser Permanente expressed her side to medical marijuana, she stated: "From working with AIDS and cancer patients, I repeatedly saw how marijuana could ameliorate a patient's debilitating fatigue, restore appetite, diminish pain, remedy nausea, cure vomiting and curtail down-to-the-bone weight loss” (What Are Physicians' Views). Doctor Kate Scannell has noticed many times in treating sick patients that medical marijuana is effective and can reduce a number of health problems. On another perspective of a doctor supporting medical marijuana, Doctor Andrew Weil, who at the time was the Director of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, stressed his aggravation, Doctor Weil states, “As a physician, I am frustrated that I cannot prescribe marijuana for patients who might benefit from it. At the very least I would like to be able to refer them to a safe, reliable, quality-controlled source” (What Are Physicians' Views). Doctor Andrew Weil is clearly accepting medical marijuana as a plausible, effective medical option. It’s not just doctors speaking out for medical marijuana, law-makers have begun to realize the potential of medical