Recently, I visited my grandmother after she was released from the hospital. She hasn’t been doing well, and she can’t afford to pay for her medication. In addition, my grandparents must also pay for their house and with her not being able to work, life is very difficult for them. But the most surprising aspect of my entire visit was learning that my grandmother’s solution to her medical problem is smoking marijuana.
“If only it were legal, pot would make my life a lot easier,” she said.
She assured me that she doesn’t smoke marijuana, but that she has thought of relocating to a state where cannabis has been legalized for medical purposes, and I think she has the right idea. Several of her prescriptions are for ailments that can be treated with medical marijuana, so it would make sense to cut down on cost by using one drug for everything.
Marijuana’s first recorded use was over 10,000 years ago in Taiwan; shamans throughout history have used marijuana to treat illnesses, and for good reason. As the anti-prohibition wave sweeps America once again, medical uses for marijuana are being discovered more often each year. For example, I currently take medication for seven ailments on the list for marijuana treatment. It would be a lot easier on my wallet if I could have one prescription for everything.
I also experience random attacks of vertigo, but I can’t take medication for it because it makes me loopy; unable to think or write or function in the normal world. Marijuana has also shown improvement in patients with vertigo by shortening the attacks, and helping to reduce the nausea that follows.
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active substance in cannabis, acts as an antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant drug. The seeds are also helpful in providing a good source of necessary amino acids. With a list of uses as extensive as marijuana’s, it really makes me wonder why it was made illegal in the first place.
Article comments
1 - Kevin
At the same time that the US govt. claims that there is NO medical use for cannabis, this same govt. OWNS A PATENT on medical marijuana. Why lying hypocrites they are!
This was probably the reason why they always push Marinol on people.
Question: Why doesn't Marinol lead to heroin?
2 - Kevin
Here is the US govt. patent on medical Cannabis.
3 - Tayln Lang
The federal government has been providing medical cannabis for the last 28 years. Google Irvin Rosenfeld....
4 - Arch Conservative
Despite the fact that most people who feel so passionately about it being legalized are potheads or three steps away from being a pothead, I don't see why it should be illegal either.
When compared to alcohol, which is legal, it's much less dangerous. You can't really OD on it, it doesn't make you start fights and if you get in an accident while driving high the chances are pretty good that no one will get hurt because you were only going 12 mph.
Seeing as I don't smoke it myself anymore I say make it legal and tax the shit out of it.
5 - Arch Conservative
Darren is working toward a professional degree in writing?
I won't even ask Darren if he smokes pot because I already know the answer to that one but it does beg the question.....If Darren were to admit it on this site and the Administrators at OU found out..what would happen?
6 - zingzing
yay! archie and i can agree. i so rarely smoke it that i don't really care. but, the tax boon would be awesome. and it would free up the courts and make space in prison for people who really deserve it.
7 - Marie Matt
Yes, much better than apples too, lol. Best medicine on the planet, search Granny Storm Crow here in the city and behold the wealth of information she's gathered for us all.
Vote Stephen Colbert for President of the United States of Medical Marijuana