Medical Marijuana Use in health care

Medical Marijuana Use in health care -

There are currently 14 states that allow the use of medicinal marijuana and more were considering joining the ranks. As for the controversy surrounding marijuana, the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (WCAR) was established to determine its medical and scientific uses. The research group has recently published five clinical trials of the use of marijuana, which showed favorable results for medicinal use of the drug

The WCAR believes marijuana is a "promising treatment" for medical conditions related to pain. especially for patients with multiple sclerosis and other diseases or nervous system damage.

Despite the research of the WCAR, who has been at it for ten years, many doctors are wary of prescribing marijuana. (Health insurance companies are probably wary of cover too.) It is not surprising that, with obvious direct health risks of marijuana to a patient's lungs and can be addictive nature.

Other medicinal benefits have been documented by the American Medical Association according to Wall Street Journal . WADA has found that marijuana increased appetite and nausea in cancer patients curbed through chemotherapy and patients with gastrointestinal problems.

We are not sure of the use of medicinal marijuana will never escape its controversial nature, but it is certainly interesting research.

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