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RE: Cannabis Needs Your Vote

in #life7 years ago

We know that using marijuana (even to the point of overuse and possibly using it not for medical) will cause health problems for ourselves, ranging from lack of sperm quality, excessive anxiety, low blood pressure, and others. However, it turns out the positive side or benefits for health can be more, such as:

  1. Prevent glaucoma
    Cannabis can be used to overcome and prevent the eyes from glaucoma disease, which increases pressure in the eyeball, damages the optic nerve, and causes vision loss. Cannabis reduces the pressure. Based on research conducted by the National Eye Institute in the early 1970s, people who burn cannabis can reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with normal pressure and those with glaucoma. The effects of marijuana can slow the process of the occurrence of this disease, while preventing blindness.

  2. Increase lung capacity
    In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in January 2012, marijuana does not impair lung function and can even increase lung capacity. In the study, the researchers sampled 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Tobacco smokers lose their lung function throughout the time, but marijuana users instead show an increase in lung capacity.

  3. Prevent seizures due to epilepsy
    A study conducted in 2003 showed that marijuana can prevent seizures because of epilepsy. Robert J. DeLorenzo, from Virginia Commonwealth University, provides marijuana extract and synthetic marijuana in epileptic mice. The drug of marijuana was given to mice who had seizures for 10 hours. Cannabinoids such as active ingredients in marijuana, THC, control seizures by holding responsive brain cells to control stimulation and regulate relaxation.

  4. Kills some cancer cells
    The cannabidiol content in cannabis can stop cancer by shutting down a gene called Id-1, in a study conducted by researchers from California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, reported in 2007. In many cases, it is believed that cannabis can kill cells -selsel of other cancers.

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"will cause" is incorrect. There is no genuine evidence for poor sperm quality, excessive anxiety unregulated blood pressure or "others" like what the psychosis myth?

We know from Professor David Nutt the facts regarding any negatives and they have been consistently exaggerated ever since his findings which cost him his job in Tony Blairs government because he refused to exaggerate his own findings. You would need thousands of regular cannabis users over 5 years to produce just 1 case of psychotic related symptoms. Alcohol could do that to everyone within 1 year and actually cause fatalities.

I'm a regular cannabis medication user which helped me beat brain cancer which is what my normal blog is about. I suffered from anxiety through most of my 20's which only went away when I fed my endo-cannabinoid system. We also have a child on the way so I would love to see the logic/donor relations behind the author of these persistent theories.

We had a recent study in the UK that concluded: "95% of police cannabis seizures were high THC Skunk". It then turned out that 2 of the board members that funded this study were from GW pharmaceuticals who have a vested interest in keeping prohibition in place due to their license dominance for Sativex.

Rule of the thumb is to follow the money behind any study that wasn't conducted by Professor David Nutt when he was a government-appointed scientist to check for all the negative side effects to cannabis with the most robust budget ever used on such a study.