Medical marijuana is legal in many states. From smoke to edibles, learn what symptoms it treats and what forms it comes in here.
When people talk about medical marijuana, they're referring to any part of a marijuana plant used to alleviate any health problem. People don't use this to get high, but rather to ease their medical symptoms.
CB2 receptors are also found in the brain, but to a lesser extent. CB2 receptors play a role in human reproduction, too, from embryonic development to sperm survival. Cannabinoids act on CB2 receptors to reduce the gastrointestinal inflammation found in conditions like inflammatory bowel disease .Your body makes its own cannabinoids, which are called endocannabinoids.
Along with its many potential health benefits, medical marijuana also causes several potential side effects. In the short term, medical marijuana can disrupt short-term memory, disrupt the ability to make decisions, and alter mood, making a patient feel happy, relaxed, sleepy, or anxious. experiences withdrawal when reducing or stopping use of the drug, including either symptoms of withdrawal or use of a similar drug to achieve similar results;neglects other pleasures and interests in order to either use, obtain, or recover from marijuana;Risks of marijuana dependence are lower than dependence risks of other common drugs. The risk of cannabis dependence has been estimated at about 9%, as compared to 32% for nicotine, 23% for heroin, and 15% for alcohol.
Since these foods often resemble food without cannabinoids, medical users should be careful to keep them away from children, pets, and unsuspecting others.Perhaps the most common method of taking cannabis is to smoke it, either in a rolled paper cigarette , in a pipe, or through a water-filtering bong.
Another, more recent, form of breathing cannabis is through vaporizers. Vaporizing marijuana has been shown in some studies to reduce potentially harmful tars and cause fewer respiratory symptoms than typical cannabis smoking. However another study showed that vaporizing marijuana created more harmful levels of toxic ammonia, which can bring on asthma and irritate lungs.Probably the least common method of using medical marijuana is as a topical patch, salve, or ointment.
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