15 Shocking Facts You Don't Know About Weed

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http://www.weather.com/health/shocking-things-you-dont-know-about-weed-20140407

 

 

Is marijuana nature’s miracle medicine or a dangerous, largely unknown entity?

It really depends on whom you ask.

“There’s huge, huge inter-patient variability,” said Kari Franson, associate dean for professional education at the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Studies, said recently at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference.

Anecdotally, it’s been shown to reduce pain and nausea, as well as other symptoms, in people with various medical conditions, J. Michael Bostwick, a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist wrote in a review of studies on medical marijuana published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

But research on its long-term medical effects — and its impact on healthy individuals — has been hampered by the federal government’s stance on its legality, he continued. “Pharmaceutical development has been thwarted by the federal government’s seeming unwillingness to have new scientific discovery supplant long-standing ideology.”

Medical probes into pot have been ongoing since the 1930s in the United States. In that time, some fascinating medical and health consequences have been discovered — positive and negative.

Click through to find out what pot really does to your body, plus where the federal government grows it, why some kids take it and more.

 

 

NEXT: Pot kills cancer?

 

 

http://www.weather.com/health/shocking-things-you-dont-know-about-weed-20140407

 

 

[t-pain]

is it still anecdotal if over 1 million people use marijuana for pain relief and other medical conditions in the united states alone?

 

bleh thats an article light on facts.

Edited May 7, 2014 by t-pain