For decades marijuana smoking has been called stupid, dumb, illegal, ignorant and just about any other word you can think of. However, a recent 20 year study released in “The Journal of the American Medical Association” shows evidence that not only is smoking marijuana not dangerous to your health directly, but that there is evidence showing it actually improves your lung function. 5,115 men and women in 4 US cities, both black and white people were studied.
The study as reported by Fox News says that those that abuse marijuana may find that the study does not prove anything negative could take place in their health. It only profiled the participants smoking about a joint a day. Lifetime exposure to marijuana joints was expressed in joint-years, with 1 joint-year of exposure equivalent to smoking 365 joints or filled pipe bowls. Smoking marijuana as often as one joint daily for seven years, or one joint weekly for 20 years was not linked with worse problems.
Very few study participants smoked more often than that. Smoking marijuana obviously does not produce the harmful effects to your body that smoking cigarettes do and when it comes to air pollution the study actually looked at the effects of marijuana smoke over cigarette smoke. Already marijuana has been approved for pain relief but little people know what large list of health benefits marijuana carries. Here is a list of 10 health benefits of smoking marijuana over cigarettes:
1- The American Association for Cancer Research has found the marijuana actually works to slow down tumor growth in the lungs, breasts, and brain considerably.
2- Marijuana is a muscle relaxant and has “antispasmodic” qualities which have proven to be a very effective treatment of seizures.
3- Doctors have reported that they have been able to treat more than 300,000 cases of migraines that conventional medicine couldn’t through marijuana.
4- Marijuana’s treatment of glaucoma has been one of the best documented.
5- Marijuana works to stop the neurological effects and muscle spasms that come from the fatal MS disease.
6- Marijuana’s effects slow down the tics in those suffering from Tourette’s, and the obsessive neurological symptoms in people with OCD.
7- A well documented USC study done about a year ago showed that marijuana is not only a perfect alternative for Ritalin but treats the disorder without any of the negative side effects of the pharmaceutical, hows that for natural health?
8- Marijuana has shown that it can help with symptoms of IBS and Crohn's disease as it stops nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
9- Despite what you may have heard about marijuana’s effects on the brain, the Scripps Institute, in 2006, proved that the THC found in marijuana works to prevent Alzheimer’s by blocking the deposits in the brain that cause the disease.
10- It can be used to treat the cramps and discomfort that causes PMS in women.
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