The Promising Future of Cannabis in Medicine: Anxiety and Cance…

Living the high life!

Have you ever heard someone explain to you or a bunch of curious kids that the high life is the best life? This is usually followed by another counter from the moral police that tells you all drugs do is ruin your life. The truth of the matter is, all things in an imbalanced amount are bound to be bad for both the mind as well as the body of anyone, so to pick and choose from a pair of glasses that only sees the thing in full black or complete white, is not the right way!

The cannabis plant, sometimes better known as dope, marijuana, weed, or even referred to as smoking pot, is popular globally. The use of marijuana is linked to several mental and physical side effects, such as a different state of mind, greater hunger for food, and the relief of the nerve-wracking feeling of pain.

The question here is, is it justified to use marijuana when it is so primarily publicized as “bad”, “detrimental”, and just plain wrong? Of course, everyone who likes to question things and use our thinking tank knows there’s always more to the story. To understand if marijuana is indeed all bad, keep reading below!

The Many “Faces” Of Marijuana

It is a known fact that people may go through different phases of consuming drugs, whether for recreational purposes or as medicine, and many don’t like the taste or feeling initially. On the other hand, some like it so much that they stick to a particular drug all their life, or at least for most of it. However, we’re not talking about those phases, but rather about the faces that have been presented to people for so long, but a specific one, mind you!

Marijuana has widely and aggressively been labelled as a bad thing and one to avoid. But nobody talks about the good side of it. Nobody tells you that it helps you calm your nerves down, it helps you sleep better, and most of all, research supports the use of marijuana in reducing the chances of developing cancer!

Sounds a bit exaggerated?

We don’t blame you for thinking as such because all we have ever been told is how all drugs are bad. Medicines, the scientific invention that has saved millions of lives over the years, are drugs.

Less Stress, More Fun

As we have said above, marijuana is not all harmful. It helps people with their anxiety, as research shows that increasing your consumption of cannabinoids like CBD can raise your levels of the happy neurotransmitter.

This alteration in body chemistry improves people’s mood and calms the central nervous system, helping the user unwind. Particularly CBD can aid in reducing anxiety symptoms like fear, jitteriness, and panic. As a result, many patients get benefits from cannabis.

Additionally, anxiety-related symptoms such as uneasiness, sweating, and sleeplessness can be treated with cannabis. Fast heartbeat, anxiety, shaking and quivering muscles, and generalized bodily stress can all be decreased by using CBD-infused edible items. What we have mentioned here and are aided by CBD are only a few typical signs of anxiousness. CBD can lessen these sensations, which in turn reduces general anxiety.

Anxiety needs to be treated with the right dosage, administration method, and supervision, just like any other medical issue. In addition, CBD-containing cannabis goods should be added to the daily eating plan. But of course, we are not encouraging you to self-medicate based solely on your research only!

Talk to a doctor. Ask your healthcare provider what to anticipate if you decide to use one of these medications. When you initially begin taking one of these medications, and after any quantity adjustments, it’s a smart option to have a companion with you. Employment of CBD products for particular medical issues, like anxiety, necessitates attention to the quality, administration, dose, and surveillance of using this product.

Reduce the Chances of Getting Cancer!

Every dream feels impossible to be valid until one daring individual decides to test all limits. So when we mentioned in the paragraph a little above that using marijuana can help reduce the chances of getting cancer, we bet that made you doubt us, didn’t it? Well, it is surprising news! A little shocking, but delightful, nonetheless.

For generations, marijuana has been a component of medicinal medicines. Researchers have found numerous physiologically active ingredients in marijuana. In addition, research has long demonstrated that participants in research trials who consumed marijuana products appeared to use fewer painkillers.

If we talk about the present, there is evidence of marijuana being helpful for cancer patients in recent studies, too! Researchers discovered that some cancer cells expanding in test plates were killed or had their growth slowed by THC and other cannabinoids like CBD. In addition, according to some animal studies, some cannabinoids may delay the development and prevent the progression of various cancers.

Research conducted on the lung carcinoma cell line A549 suggests a possible tumor suppressor role for cannabis extracts. Δ9-THC-rich cannabis extracts were found to be extremely effective against 12 different cancer cell lines. Marijuana prevents cancer cell from multiplying by causing programmed cell death. The exact effectiveness of an extract may well depend on the interplay of the combination of cannabinoids, in addition to a particular cannabinoid’s concentration.

Other types of cancers that cannabis has shown efficacy for include:

· Breast cancer

· Prostate cancer

· Liver cancer

· Pancreatic cancer

· Skin cancer

· Blood cancer

No Pain, All Gain?

We bet you are blown away by this news, aren’t you? It seems as if supervised by experts, smoking marijuana in limited quantities can be promising for somebody in a lot of pain. Well, the truth is that there is a long way to go for marijuana to be accepted as an over-the-counter drug for pain relief or to control other side effects caused by chemotherapy (such as nausea).

It doesn’t just stop at chemotherapy. According to research on the compounds (or more scientifically known as cannabinoids) present in the marijuana plant, some of these chemicals may be useful for relieving the pain caused by some kind of injury to nerves, in addition to vomiting and nausea brought on by chemotherapy.

But the good news is that research is being conducted on the many uses of marijuana and the mysterious universe of the drug’s effects on the human body, and as new information unfolds, more possibilities and innovation opportunities present themselves! All we have to do is make sure it is not given up on because people decide to be stubborn and choose to side with only one chapter of the entire story.