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March 13, 2011
Science 8
Weed
as a Medicine
Many people believe
that marijuana is a highly addictive highly dangerous drug. This
however is not true. Marijuana or weed has been known to cure or help
prevent things such as glaucoma, chronic pain, arthritis, migraines,
most cell mutation problems, many forms of cancer, insomnia, skin
conditions, infections, diabetes, warts, moles, ulcers, burns,
asthma, anxiety, depression, regulation of body weight, it heals scar
tissue, it rejuvenates vital organs, and more. Richard Simpson was a
Canadian who gave away hemp oil to cancer patients. This oil cured
multiple people from things as severe as cancer to simple things such
as wart removal. This man saved lives of Canadians every-were and was
later shut down. This has to do with physical science is that this
all has to do with chemicals and their function.
You may be asking
how weed can help people I was always told it was boy for you. Well I
don’t blame you now Days with so many anti Drugs programs we are
being told that Drugs are bad. What those programs don’t tell you
is which Drugs are bad and what they do to you. Marijuana is just
as much a medicine as Aspirin or whatever else you have in your
medicine cabinet. Now the question is HOW marijuana can cure some
forms of cancer. Well answers started in the 90’s when scientist
located receptors that bond with the cannabinoids present in weed.
Receptors are like locks and when unlocked messages can be scent
throughout the body such as that the body is in pain or that the
amund system must attack something. Scientist located two receptors
the CB1 receptor (found mostly in the brain) and the CB2 receptor
(mainly in cells of the amund system. The Cb1 receptors, although
mostly in the brain are also found throughout the body in the major
organs including the heart liver lungs kidney and pancreas as the CB2
receptor can act like a target for the cannabinoids and when they
bind with the receptor they can tell the cancer cells to die. The
scientist who tested this were able to destroy almost all the cancer
cells in test tubes, however weren’t sure what the results would be
when they tested tumors in mice. To their surprise 25%-30% of the
mice were completely 100% cured and the rest saw a large reduction.
This system is how weed can cure thing that aren’t just cancer but
dozens more desises that kill our friends and family.
Now this is just one
study I found about the success of weed as a medicine. So why isn’t
weed legal when it has been in use as medicine since 7000 B.C? Well,
it was until the 1930’s, in 1935 scientist developed a machine that
would allow us to effectively process hemp fiber, which was
revolutionary because hemp has HUGE industrial uses, but because it
was so hard to process more people used cotton. Only two years later
lumber industries founded movies such as Refer
Madness
that gave the world a false image of what weed does and so it was
made illegal. Economics still play a big deal in the illegalization
of marijuana as pharisaical companies, alcohol companies, tobacco
companies, and many other major corporations would lose millions of
dollars if hemp was legal. In fact partnership for drug free America
is largely founded by alcohol companies. Fortunately Medical cannabis
has become legal in 15 states including Washington D.C.
Now marijuana is
still a drug and like all drugs there are still side effects. Of
course these are different to different people and may not affect one
person as it does another. Short term effects include slight short
term memory loss, increased heart rate, and distorted perception and
under massive doses breast enlargement in males. This all depends on
how much you take and is different for different people. Marijuana is
a useful medicine and should, in my opinion, should be legal in the
United States.