States around the country — more than 23 in total — have legalized medical marijuana.
23 Fantastic health benefits of medical marijuana. Experts have been changing their minds too — recently, CNN’s chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta reversed his opinion on medical marijuana.
Many people agree with Gupta’s new stance, and believe that the drug should be legal for medical uses. New laws will help researchers study the drug’s medicinal uses and better understand how it impacts the body.
There are at least two active chemicals in marijuana that researchers think have medicinal applications. Those are cannabidiol (CBD) — which seems to impact the brain without a high— and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — which has pain relieving (and other) properties.
I have recently had 2 back surgeries fusing 3 vertebrae and adding spacers in between those. I have been smoking Marijuana during the recovery process. Marijuana has helped even in very small doses with muscle relaxation, better than with pharmaceuticals like baclifen and flexoril. I have chosen to use smaller doses, because I have been unable to continue my current line of work, construction, so I attend college and choose to be more allert for my studies. I wish there was a way to get the relief given from Marijuana in a form that I don’t get high. I’m not saying I don’t like the high, I do very much, just only when productivity is not warrented. Please make it legal in Pennsylvania medicinally and social use.