Health Benefits and Risks of Medical Marijuana

Fumiko Stuemke
Aug 28, 2017 · 2 min read

A large number of medical researches have been conducted to know about the pros and cons of medical marijuana. However, with many health benefits, medical marijuana has also some cons. Nevertheless, this article is going to present both pros and cons of medical marijuana.

Medical marijuana has considered as a very reliable medicine to prevent nausea and vomiting during the treatment of cancer especially in chemotherapy. Similarly, it also provides relief from nausea during pregnancy as well.

Marijuana weed is very effective for the treatment of glaucoma. Actually, glaucoma increases blood pressure in the eye of patient but marijuana reduces this blood pressure. It is also considered very reliable to cure the side effects of smoking. Similarly, it also keeps you away from the risk of many lung diseases. The use of marijuana is also good in the treatment of seizure disorder.

On the other hand, if we talk about disadvantages of use of medical marijuana then it could become a reason of sudden heart stroke and heart attack. It could also lead addiction and abuse as well. therefore, it is concluded that the need based use of medical marijuana is good but keep away from complete dependence or addiction of marijuana.

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