How Researchers Revealed Benefits In Marijuana

Even though the benefits of smoking pot may be overstated by advocates of marijuana legalization, new laws is helping researchers study the drug's medicinal uses and better understand how it impacts the body.

Keep in mind, though, that there are negative effects of smoking too much pot or using it for non-medicinal purposes.

Currently just  6% of studies on marijuana has helped in analyzing its medicinal properties. During the analysis researchers made known that there are at least two active chemicals in marijuana that have medicinal applications.

1. Cannabidiol (CBD) — which seems to impact the brain without a high— and

2. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — which has pain relieving (and other) properties.

These Are Some Proven Results That Uncovers Its Positive Use On The Body System.

1. Treatment Of Glaucoma
Marijuana is said to be used for the treatment and prevention of the eye disease, Glaucoma, ( which increases pressure in the eyeball, damaging the optic nerve and causing loss of vision).

These effects of the drug may slow the progression of the disease, preventing blindness.

2. May Improve Lung Health
May help reverse the carcinogenic effects of tobacco and improve lung health.

Researchers looking for risk factors of heart disease tested the lung function of 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Tobacco smokers lost lung function over time, but pot users actually showed an increase in lung capacity.

It's possible that the increased lung capacity maybe  due to taking a deep breaths while inhaling the drug and not from a therapeutic chemical in the drug.

3. Helps In Controlling Epileptic Seizures.
A study in 2003 showed that Marijuana use can prevent epileptic seizures. This was backed up by a researcher in Virginia Commonwealth University, Robert J. DeLorenzo, who in his experiments gave marijuana extract and synthetic marijuana to epileptic rats. The drugs was said to have rid the rats of the seizures for about 10 hours.

4. A Chemical In Marijuana Stops Cancer From Spreading.
In 2007 researchers at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco reported that a chemical found in marijuana ( Cannabidiol)  may help prevent cancer from spreading.

A study, published in the journal, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, backed up this belief by saying Cannabidiol stops cancer by turning off a gene called Id-1, found. Cancer cells make more copies of this gene than non-cancerous cells, and it helps them spread through the body.

5. It Slows The Progression Of Alzheimer's Disease.
THC, (An Active Chemical Found In Marijuana), is said to slow the formation of amyloid plaques by blocking the enzyme in the brain that makes them. These plaques are said to kill brain cells which in turn cause Alzheimer's.

There are still more to uncover on the health benefits of marijuana, but still the misuse is the cause for problems on the globe.