Benefits of Marijuana – Healing Properties And Components – Cannabis Cures
Benefits of Marijuana – Healing Properties And Components – Cannabis Cures
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Marijuana (Cannabis) became a “schedule 1″ narcotic under the “Controlled Substance Act” in 1970′s. Before this marijuana extract was sold in pharmacies in the U.S. to treat pain, inflammation, and muscle spasms. Marijuana was classified as a schedule 1 narcotic drug because all of a sudden there were no benefits of marijuana.
Clearly the history of marijuana’s use showed there were significant benefits of medical marijuana, but political maneuvering and economic interests led marijuana’s classification as a schedule 1 drug. The oddest thing is that the government indicated there were no benefits of marijuana and that it had no medicinal properties, but the government has its own marijuana U.S. Patent 6630507.
The U.S. Patent 6630507 reads as follows:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention.”…
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