ew drug is trying to lower pressure and prevent the damage to the nerve cells. All other drugs don’t stop the lost of vision and this new drug may do just do that. Researchers are hoping that this new drug will help the people who the other drugs don’t work on. In some states there is yet another treatment. Some people in the world believe this is wrong, but it is the usage of marijuana. Marijuana has a active chemical that lowers the pressure in the eye.(Wallace L.M Alward) Smoking marijuana causes a fall in pressure in 65% of users.The American Academy of Ophthalmology(1992)stated: “There is evidence that marijuana(or its components), taken orally or by inhalation can lower intraocular pressure. However, there are no conclusive studies to date to indicate that marijuana (or its components) can safely and effectively lower intraocular pressure enough to prevent optic nervedamage… The dose of marijuana necessary to produce a clinically relevant effect in the short term appears to produce an unacceptable level of undesirable side effects such as euphoria, systemic hypotension, and/or dry eye and conjunctival hyperemia in the majority of glaucoma patients in whom the drug has been carefully studied. No data have been published on studies of long-term ocular and systemic effects of the use of marijuana by glaucoma patients.” Studies show that marijuana use doesn’t make any advantages over any other treatments. The first people that determined marijuana lowered pressure was Hepler and Frank. Hepler and Petrus did more experimenting and came up with that THC lowers the IOP, a lot more than normal treatments. One patient had a reduction from 40mmhg to 10mmhg in one eye and 35mmhg to 15mmhg in the other eye. What needs to be determined is if eating or smoking marijuana lowers pressure the most. It also needs to be determined if there is a safer way, such as a inhaler. Before using this treatment you should c...
