how marijuan can help to relieve stress

Many find marijuana useful for dealing with stress and anxiety, and research points to its effect on the brain as the explanation.

Published last month in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, a team of experts from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of Calgary and The Rockefeller University summarized the current body of research on cannabis and anxiety.

As it turns out, despite marijuana’s wide range of effects, relief from anxiety and stress happens to be the most commonly reported reason for using marijuana.

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Medical Marijuana: Benefits, Risks & State Laws

Health Benifits

Medical marijuana is available in several different forms. It can be smoked, vaporized, ingested in a pill form or an edible version can be added to foods such as brownies, cookies and chocolate bars.

Because the federal Drug Enforcement Administration has classified marijuana as a schedule 1 drug — meaning it has a high potential for abuse and no legitimate therapeutic uses — it is exceptionally difficult to do high-quality studies on its medicinal effects in the U.S., said Donald Abrams, an integrative medicine specialist for cancer patients at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Marijuana

Advantages

Physical Benefits

The Physical benefits of marijuana are far-reaching, widespread, and long-term. Because of the way marijuana impacts the Autonomic Nervous System which expands the breath and relaxes the body, its potential for health and healing are enormous, and have been completely unrealized by Western Medicine.

Psychological Benefits

When we balance the Autonomic Nervous System, there is an effect on the mind that is both energizing and relaxing SIMULTANEOUSLY. In other words, we can think more clearly and more efficiently.

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Judiciary Chairman: State Laws Legalizing Marijuana Are Unconstitutional

A pro-marijuana rally in Denver on April 20, 2013.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa) said in a floor speech Tuesday that state laws legalizing marijuana are unconstitutional and that the Obama administration’s decision not to enforce the federal law banning marijuana in states that have legalized the drug is an abuse of prosecutorial discretion.

Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia have all passed initiatives over the past three years legalizing marijuana use.

Marijuana, however, is banned nationwide by the federal Controlled Substances Act, which lists it as a Schedule 1 narcotic.

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Things made from marijuana

 

Hemp

Hemp (from Old English hænep) is a commonly used term for high-growing varieties of the Cannabis plant and its products, which include fiber, oil, and seed. Hemp is refined into products such as hemp seed foods, hemp oil, wax, resin, rope, cloth, pulp, paper, and fuel.

Other variants of the herb Cannabis sativa are widely used as a drug, commonly known as marijuana. These variants are typically low-growing and have higher content of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The legality of Cannabis varies widely from country to country, and from state to state in the United States. In many countries regulatory limits for concentrations of psychoactive drug compounds, particularly THC, in hemp require the use of strains of the plant which are bred for low content.^[1]

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Where can i find legal marijuana

The use, sale and possession of cannabis (marijuana) in the United States is illegal under federal law. However, some states have created exemptions for medical cannabis use, as well as decriminalized non-medical cannabis use. In four states, Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, the sale and possession of marijuana is legal for both medical and non-medical use. Multiple efforts to reschedule cannabis under the Controlled Substances Act have failed, and the United States Supreme Court has ruled in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Cooperative and Gonzales v. Raich that the federal government has a right to regulate and criminalize cannabis. Also, if the cannabis is called “medical cannabis” the federal law still has priority.

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