Why Do People Use Medical Marijuana?

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So currently Marijuana is an illegal drug in the many countries. In the past and still in the future some countries, people consumed Marijuana as spiritual drug, they believe Marijuana is "food of the God" and in the past people were using Marijuana for deep meditation and Samadhi. History of Marijuana except from medical use of Marijuana was little bit controversial but, the history reflected that the use of medical Marijuana in the ancient time was very popular in different countries to treat different type of medical conditions. Now a day people are using recreational Marijuana which is not used for medical purpose but used for pleasure and relaxation and for illegal purpose. According to history, Marijuana has a lot of medicinal properties …show more content…
Short term effects of marijuana in the brain are like, changed senses and its time, uncontrolled the body movement, problems in thinking and problem solving, challenged memory and changes in the mood. Long term effects of Marijuana in the brain of teenagers are, that decrease the thinking, learning ability and memory. Marijuana has some physical effects like, problems in breathing, heart rate are increased, problem with upcoming child of pregnant women. Breathing problem is occurring because the smoking of Marijuana irritates the lungs and this problem include cough and risk of lung infections. Marijuana increased the heart rate, which increased the risk of heart attacks. Use of marijuana during the pregnancy increased the risks of behavioural and brain problem in children. Marijuana has other mental effects, such as suicidal thoughts in teens, depression, anxiety and hallucinations. It also affects the user 's life, such as poor mental and physical health, lower life satisfaction and relationship …show more content…
9). Medical Marijuana is very useful to keep epileptic seizures. Cannabinoids is active ingredient in medical Marijuana which regulate seizures by joining to the cells of brain for maintaining and controlling relaxation. Medical Marijuana also very useful to diminish the sign and symptoms of severe seizure disease. Marijuana contain cannabinoids which may stop cancer from spreading. Side effects of chemotherapy include pain and nausea which is common and medical Marijuana is very useful to diminish nausea and relieve pain. Lower dose of medical Marijuana reduce the anxiety but in other hand higher dose of it increase anxiety. Medical Marijuana also very helpful to treat diaphragm spasms which is untreated by other medications. Treatment of hepatitis c include nausea, fatigue, muscle aches, depression and loss of appetite which is lessen by the use of medical Marijuana and improves effectiveness of treatment. Marijuana also very useful to treat inflammatory bowel

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