How Powerful Marijuana (THC/WEED) Medicine can be distributed as cannabis throat lozenges

Researchers from a pharmaceutical cannabis company, Cannabis Science Inc., have found marijuana to have even more medicinal properties. After the outbreak of the dangerous and contagious swine flu, researchers quickly recognized that the symptoms, mainly pain related, could be treated with marijuana. Unfortunately, by smoking the drug, the irritating effects of the smoke would likely cause more harm than good for the infected individual. This, however, did not stop pro-medical marijuana developers from finding a successful way to deliver the drug to patients. Rather than completely discounting traditional flu remedies, researchers embraced them by making marijuana throat lozenges. These lozenges are an effective and non-toxic way for patients to ingest the THC. This is just one of many examples showing how marijuana can be used as a powerful medicine.

There have been countless studies aimed to prove the worth of marijuana in the medical world. Many of these studies show, with a great amount of certainty, that marijuana is in fact a useful tool in treating a variety of illnesses.

Columbia University conducted a study on the usefulness of marijuana in treating the symptoms of HIV/AIDS patients. All participants were asked to smoke four times a day and were then monitored on their behavior. The study concluded, obviously, that all smoking patients had a significantly larger appetite which had been previously curved by the HIV medication. Not only did patients claim to eat massive amounts of food, but also stated that they felt a considerably lower amount of HIV related pain.

A study by Complutense University of Madrid found that marijuana is actually an extremely effective way to treat brain cancer. Through testing on lab rats with human cancer cells implanted into their brains, the study concluded that the active ingredients in marijuana force the cells into a process called autophagy. In this method, although still unknown why, THC reacts with the cells in a way that it causes the cancer cells to absorb each other but leave all other brain tissue completely healthy.

At the Scripps Research Institute of California, researchers have found evidence that suggests marijuana as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Though still too soon to tell for sure, if the THC reacts as it is thought to, it can help those suffering from Alzheimer’s by blocking certain proteins from depositing in the brain. These proteins account for a large portion of the memory loss that develops with Alzheimer’s.

Additionally, marijuana has also been conflictingly determined to offer medicinal benefits for depression, asthma, arthritis, breast cancer, lung cancer, glaucoma, head injuries, hypertension, and pain. Medicinal marijuana has such potential to help aid so many people in their fight against terrible illnesses.

The initial evidence is so strongly in favor of marijuana being such a useful tool that to oppose its potential is to indirectly attack the crippled and sick. Those who fight against the legalization of medical marijuana are essentially denying people medicine that would likely be beneficial towards their healing and comfort. How is something that could literally “cure cancer,” so flagrantly hated upon? I understand that many people absolutely hate even the very existence of marijuana on this planet due to its mind altering qualities conflicting with their own personal beliefs, but I beg everyone to stop and reconsider for the benefit of those who could use it. Marijuana is not unlike the heroin alternatives that are injected during a surgery to block pain or the caffeine in a cup of coffee for a quick wake up. Used in moderation and with a purpose, these drugs can help alter the human body in ways that improve overall life satisfaction. Recreational drug users may find it hard to practice this moderation, however, because they have developed an addiction to the drug’s pleasure. Although physical addiction to marijuana is supposedly impossible, recreational users can get psychologically addicted to the feeling of being high. Allowing its medical use will probably give recreational drug users more opportunities to smoke and buy marijuana for lower prices, but it just doesn’t make sense to punish and forbid drugs to someone who needs it, only to try and stop someone who willingly threatens his life with them.