In the past, it was seen strictly as a recreational product, but rapid advances in scientific and medical research have uncovered the astounding therapeutic potential of the cannabis plant. Cannabis can be used for a wide variety of ailments, however rigorous clinical researches are still relatively limited due to federal government regulations. Around the globe, however, controlled trials are taking place and more scientific information on the therapeutic effects of cannabis is being established.
The basic premise of the wellness theory of marijuana is that the vast majority of consumers use medicinal cannabis as a wellness aid, to enhance the things that are most important in their lives– not as an intoxicant, to escape from life.
But using cannabis for health provides many other less obvious wellness benefits—like extending patience, promoting gentleness and forgiveness, inspiring creativity, improving the appetite and enjoyment of food, making jokes funnier and sex more satisfying, enhancing our sense of play and wonder, and countless other ways of making us both healthier and happier. These too are all legitimate wellness uses for cannabis.
- Alzheimer’s disease: reduce agitation and nighttime tossing and turning, stimulate weight gain.
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: slow disease progression; reduce pain, appetite loss, depression, drooling.
- Chronic Pain: reduce nerve-related (neuropathic) pain, at lower doses.
- Diabetes Mellitus: slow disease progression, protect from eye disease, reduce neuropathic (nerve) pain, and reduce symptoms of heart-muscle disease.
- Dystopia: reduce muscle tension and involuntary, painful muscle contractions.
- Fibromyalgia: reduce pain and muscle stiffness, improve sleep quality.
- Gastrointestinal Disorders: reduce cramping, abdominal pain, acid reflux, intestinal secretion, disease activity.
- Glaucoma: reduce intraocular (eye) pressure. Cancer: inhibit tumor growth; reduce nausea and vomiting from cancer chemotherapy.
- HIV/AIDS: reduce neuropathic pain, anxiety, nausea, and appetite and weight loss.
- Incontinence: improve bladder control, reduce bladder inflammation/over activity.
- Multiple Sclerosis: reduce pain, spasticity, depression, fatigue, incontinence.
- Parkinson’s disease: alleviate L-dopa induced dyskinesia (LID), reduce tremor, rigidity and psychosis symptoms.
- Pruritus: reduce itching in conditions such as kidney and liver diseases.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis: reduce joint pain and swelling; suppress joint destruction and disease worsening.
- Insomnia: induce sleep and/or improve sleep quality.
- Toilette’s Syndrome: improvement of tics and obsessive-compulsive behavior.
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