Yes it has medicinal properties. People suffering through the nausea of chemotheraphy have found it very useful as it settles their stomach and they can manage to eat. I believe it is also used to help people who have glaucoma.

About medical marijuana, medicinal marijuana, and medical uses of marijuana. The debate over the use of marijuana for medical purposes has been ongoing for years. In June 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against medical use of marijuana, but emphasized the decision was not over whether marijuana is effective for pain relief.

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yes alot of people who have cancer need it for they’re nausea so they can eat

It’s very helpful for excruciating muscle pain.

marinol is an eyedrop solution that effects occular pressure, Im told.

Mostly for a kind anesthetic to relieve pain. Most people with medical cards have ongoing pain issues that aren’t strong enough to merit extended use of a hard pain killer. There are actually 2 major strains, sativa and indica. Sativa is usually what is used for medical purposes because it gives you a strong body high and makes it very easy to ignore these types of pains. Indica gives more of a head or mind high which is helpful, but not as much as sativa. It can also be used for various other applications, depression, various personality disorders. Truthfully the stuff is amazing for medical use, you don’t even have to smoke it, they ahve ways of making lip gloss out of it, variuous snack foods, even pills and stuff. California has an entire industry revolving around medical marijuana. Canada even has a sublingual spray called Savitex that is make from marijuana that is used to treat multiple sclerosis : )

Medical Marijuana: A Surprising Solution to Severe Morning Sickness
By Erin Hildebrandt
Issue 124 May/June 2004
http://www.mothering.com/medical-marijuana-surprising-solution-severe-morning-sickness

For more information about nausea or marijuana, see the following articles in past issues of Mothering: “Nausea During Pregnancy” no. 52; “Marijuana in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding,” no.42; and “Coping With
Nausea in Pregnancy,” no. 30.

~Divine

There are medical uses for it. Cancer patients can use it for the intense nausea and decreased appetite/wasting that comes along with chemotherapy or radiation, because marijuana has almost an immediate effect of stopping nausea, and stimulates the appetite so they can eat and therefore avoid wasting away. Many cancer patients also reported that if they use marijuana, they find that they don’t need to use as much narcotic medication for cancer pain. I know some of you may be thinking that cancer patients shouldn’t smoke it because smoke irritates the lungs, but most cancer patients use a vaporizer to use marijuana which is just inhaling the vapors instead of smoke.

I believe there are MANY uses of medical marijuana and it should be legal, for medicinal, religious or recreational use. It’s not a hard drug that causes people to go insane, commit crimes or kill others.. there is really no harm in it even for those who use it recreationally. Some people can use it for headaches, motion sickness, anxiety, and natural alternatives to conventional pain medicine. I don’t smoke it myself, but I definitely support legalization, even if it were solely for cancer patients. I have seen first hand the kind of suffering they go through watching my grandfather die from brain cancer that spread to his lungs and bones. He went through 6 months of the worst sickness and pain you can imagine before he passed away. I wished that marijuana were legal at the time just on the chance that he would be in less pain without having to take so many strong painkillers and be able to eat normally, even if his prognosis was grim and he had no chance for recovery. I can’t see any reason to deny a cancer patient something that could help them suffer less during radiation or chemo, which are absolute hell to go through.