ome alcoholics.There are other reasons people use marijuana such a medicinal use. The drug can be used for many medical problems, some of which are very extravagant. Such as some people with cancer use marijuana to be able to tolerate their chemotherapy. Cancer patients on chemotherapy often suffer severe nausea. Marijuana can control it and make their therapy more tolerable ( www.aidsinfonyc.org/Q-zone/maribill.html P.1).Marijuana is also used in AIDS patients. AIDS patients suffer from many things one of which is weight loss. Many people with HIV have massive weight loss or wasting that can be fatal. Marijuana can restore their ability to eat ( www.aidsinfonyc.org/Q-zone/maribill.html P.1 ).Another us of marijuana for medical purposes is for Multiple Sclerosis. Someone with Multiple Sclerosis is very incompetent and is in desperate need of anything that can help them in any way. Marijuana can improve muscle control for people with Multiple Sclerosis ( www.aidsinfonyc.org/Q-zone/maribill.html P.1 ) . Marijuana is also used in the optical industry as well. The drug can be used to improve the eye site of a glaucoma patient. It is also used in this case to slow down the effect of the glaucoma disease. This medical use was the first one to be discovered.The chemical in marijuana that is known to make the affect on these diseases and on the person using the drug is called THC. THC is the active ingredient in marijuana. This product has been in the market of medicine for more than a decade. It comes in the form of a capsule. But it is not as affective as the smoke form of the illegal drug marijuana.Medical purposes for marijuana were not discovered until about fifteen years ago. Know many people are trying to get the government to legalize the drug for medical use for the past few years. Doctors have been testing marijuana and many of its chemicals for other ways of us but none have been found yet, but any doctors believe that there are ...
