For more information regarding the specific medical uses for Marijuana, contact the Stichting Institute of Medical Marijuana.
Marijuana has been tested by millions of people, for thousands of years. In all that time, there is not a single recorded death caused by consuming Marijuana. Most prescription drugs have only been tested 10 to 50 years.
Eighty percent of asthmatics could add two to four years to their life spans by using Marijuana over the presently legal and toxic medicine used by asthmatics.
The greatest advantage of Marijuana as a medicine is its unusual safety. The ratio of lethal dose to effective dose is estimated to be 20.000:1.
D.E.A. Administrative Law Judge Francis J. Young said on 6 September 1988 "That Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man".
Ninety percent of glaucoma victims can benefit from the use of Marijuana. Marijuana is also the supreme dilator of the airways, the bronchi, opening them up to allow more oxygen into the blood. Marijuana is the best dilator of the small air tubes of the lungs, the bronchioles.
Medical research indicates that light Marijuana smoking would be the therapy of choice for mild emphysema to allow more fresh areas of bronchi to open up for more transfer, and to increase the quality of life for tens of millions of sufferers of emphysema.
Sixty percent of epileptics can benefit from the use of Marijuana. It is considered to be the best medication for many types of epilepsy and for most victims' post-seizure trauma.
Marijuana can alleviate the pain from migraine headaches, and when used as a preventative, reduce the number of attacks. Marijuana could replace 50% of all the Valium, Librium, Thoracine, and Stelacine used today.
Research into oxygen transfer effects caused by Marijuana smoking indicates that chest pain, shortness of breath, headaches and such, which are symptomatic of heavy smog exposure, are usually alleviated entirely by light marijuana smoking throughout the day.
Marijuana is the best way presently known to dry the mouth's saliva in dentistry. If legal, it would replace the highly toxic and deadly Probanthine.
Dr. James Malone-Lee, a consultant urologist at St. Pancras Hospital, London, has several MS patients who smoke Marijuana. "I'm quite impressed by what's happened to patients who have used it", he says.
"Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia", according to Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Nabilone (from Eli Lilly) a synthetic cousin of Delta-9 THC is still considered virtually useless when compared with Marijuana by doctors and patients alike.
The U.S. governments' leading scientists on pulmonary research, said in 1989 at UCLA "that you can't get or potentiate emphysema with Marijuana smoking".
The Herbel of Chinese Emperor Shen prescribed Marijuana as medicine in 2737 B.C.
Queen Victoria was regularly treated with Marijuana by her physician for several illnesses.
Between 1840 and 1900, more than 100 papers were published in the western medical literature recommending Marijuana for various illnesses and discomforts.
Between 1960 and 1986, some of the most extensive medical testing and medical hearings ever done on a therapeutic drug were conducted by the U.S. government, U.S. state governments, other world governments, universities, public and private hospitals, and various medical institutions and doctors.