Cannabinoids

Diagnosis of a chronic illness brings about a wide array of emotions from the individual who will now be tasked with managing the symptoms of this disease without a cure. Epilepsy is a chronic illness characterized by frequent seizure activity; individuals diagnosed with epilepsy have excessive, uncontrolled, electrical discharge of neurons within the brain that can cause temporary loss of consciousness, jerking, muscle rigidity, automatisms, and even complete loss of muscle tone. There exist…

General purpose: Persuade my audience to agree that marijuana should be legalized due to its benefits Specific purpose: To change my audience’s mind about the many misconceptions of marijuana and convince them that it’s beneficial. Introduction: What if I told you that there was a treatment that could help reduce the symptoms of epilepsy, spastic and seizure disorders, depression, Alzheimer's, cancer, and many other common diseases and disabilities, would you invest in it? (show a raise of…

The way individuals ponder their agony as it is happening can affect their torment experience. Agony is both a tactile and additionally passionate experience; they are as one by nature. It is additionally essential to comprehend that all agony has a passionate segment. Nobody encounters torment without some kind of passionate response; we realize that agony improves the probability of feeling irate, perplexed, baffled, or discouraged. Progressing passionate states can change the view of torment;…

Legalizing Marijuana As of Tuesday, November 9th, 2012, Colorado and Washington legalized the use of Marijuana (pot). Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws states, "These two states are the only places on the face of the Earth that have actually put the imprimatur of the state on legalization of cannabis.” Elsewhere, marijuana law is either decriminalized, ignored, or convoluted. But Washington and Colorado have now completely…

Inverse agonism has great potential as a possible therapeutic treatment option in the future” Inverse agonism: Inverse agonism is phenomenon associated with G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR), in which inverse agonist binds to the same receptor as an agonist but induces an opposite pharmacological response to the agonist. For inverse agonist response the receptor must have an intrinsic activity in the absence of any ligand1,2. How inverse agonist act? According to the two state receptor theory,…

Marijuana is an ancient drug that has been used as early as 2700 BCE in China and India, then spreading worldwide to treat pain, seizures, insomnia, muscle spasms, poor appetite, nausea, asthma, depression, menstrual cramps; as well as many more health related issues. (Elizabeth Marie McGhee) Since marijuana has been illegal in the United States since 1937, research and studies for positive attributes have been made difficult. Though, as of 2012, Colorado was the first state to legalize…

of drug use, the officer was able to act immediately and determine which substances the person was using” (Graves). “THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the chemical responsible for most of marijuana 's psychological effects. It acts much like the cannabinoid chemicals made naturally by the body” (Bradford). Many think it 's a genius idea to drug test people who are on parole, but they don’t think about how much this may cost. The costs of drug tests are going to rise once they know things like…

Writings from ancient India confirm that its psychoactive properties were recognized, and doctors used it for a variety of illnesses and ailments.Marijuana can reduce the nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting from the condition itself and the medications as well.Marijuana relieves the internal eye pressure of glaucoma, with relieving the pain and slowing or even stopping the condition.Many side effects of the medication to stop cancer can be relieved with medical cannabis, some studies suggest that…

Medical Cannabis The use of medical marijuana is being widely tested for its use to help treat medical conditions that are debilitating too many different people. These tests are being done on two different groups, one is given the cannabis to smoke and another group is given the placebo. The amount of days on each study can vary since it is the researcher’s choice. It has been done randomly. After the participants are asked a few questions by the research who then records the information. The…

Legalizing Marijuana The word “Marijuana” has turned a lot of heads over the past few years and has raised the concern in many American households. There has been a lot of opposing viewpoints on the subject of decimalization. Over the past few years it still remains an important issue that we deal with as Americans. Although legalizing marijuana would have a lot of financial benefits such as a huge decrease in government spending. We should also look at the negative causes of legalizing…