What are positive affects of medical marijuana?

Question

What are positive affects of medical marijuana?

Answer 1

increased appetite to counteract the negative effect of some medications is the main one.  It has also been found to relieve interocular pressure which helps glaucoma patients. It also is an alternative way to relieve pain in some patients who are at risk for liver damage.

Marijuana is a great alternative to "pills"...some medications have much worse side effects than it does.  the thing about marijuana is controlling the flow of it, if it were made 100% legal. All narcotic durgs are strictly maintained and controlled...if marijuana were legalized, that would be impossible since you can grow it anywhere.

Answer 2

No one knows what exactly the therapeutic component of Marijuana really is. Most suspect that it's the psychoactive part, the THC. But in trials of THC for chemotherapy-induced nausea/vomiting, there was no greater benefit than standard anti-nauseants. So we think that it may be a placebe effect. Patients THINK it will (or should) work, and so they report that it does. Cannabis has been reported, anecdotally but not in strict trials, to help in a number of conditions. But again, there aren't many good, strict studies to support these claims. And again, no one is sure which or the many thousands of chemicals, or which combinations of these chemicals, could be exerting an effect. And finally, Cannabis has soporific and anxiety-reducing effects. In the long run, that may be its only benefit. Again, that goes in the category of a placebe effect.

Answer 3

Sustainable reduction of pain in cancer patients. The US really irritates me on their restrictions of MM and on this subject in general. But I will stop now, or begin to rant.

Answer 4

My grandmother took marinol.  It increased her appetite from eating enough to make a cricket survive to eating enough to make a cow survive (not literally but big difference)  

I wouldn't call this a placebo effect especially when she had no idea what she's taking or why she's taking it!  

Clinical trials can't explain that one.