Pros and Cons of Medical Marijuana

     Medical Marijuana has a lot of benefits for treating illness, and pain. I was so excited to hear that Colorado had passed a bill allowing the recreational use of cannabis. But I thought that this would then allow more research to be conducted for medicinal use. But still, Doctors and politicians would say, that marijuana will do more harm than good. In fact according to ProCon "A past evaluation by several Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA), concluded that no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical use." 
 Maybe if they had decided from the beginning that marijuana can do more good than harm, we could have been saving more of these poor sick, suffering people from; cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, etc. 

     But the time has finally come my friends. thanks to Marijuana Activists, fighting for the legality of cannabis, in an article written by Joel Warner from IBTIMES, Warner stated "The DEA has rejected two other marijuana rescheduling petitions since in the past, but now there’s a glimmer of hope among activists that change could finally be in the works.As first reported last week by the Huffington Post, in a recent letter to a group of Democratic senators, the DEA referenced a 2011 petition to reschedule cannabis to Schedule II, noting, “DEA understands the widespread interest in the prompt resolution to these petitions and hopes to release its determination in the first half of 2016". 

*Marijuana Activist protesting outside of the White House*

     This is great news because it allows marijuana to be conducted in more research.  So far through the help of CMTLaboratories we have seen many benefits of Cannabis. Below is a chart of a few cannabinoids in the cannabis plant that CMT Labs has conducted research within some illnesses, or pain related symptoms. 

     According to CMT Laboratories, there has been many findings that cannabis has helped in many different illness. One for example is  findings obtained from the Radbound University, in the Netherlands "the cannabinoid system has been shown to have a vital role in dampening the effects of pro-epileptic events and vice versa: agonists of cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1) retard the development of kindling". Another finding from the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, "THC exhibits antitumor effects on various cancer cell types, but its use in chemotherapy is limited by is psychotropic activity. Results obtained in a panel of tumor cell lines clearly indicate that, of the five natural compounds tested, cannabidiol is the most potent inhibitor of cancer cell growth." 
 The marijuana industry has been booming the past few years in sales made and income, but what should be talked about is not only the lack of research, but the research that has been conducted in which we all as young adults in this social society can come together to promote more research for cannabis and health.




"US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Medical Marijuana - ProCon.org."ProConorg Headlines. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 July 2016.

Warner, Joel. "Marijuana Could Soon Be Rescheduled As A Less Dangerous Drug By The DEA, So Why Aren't Cannabis Proponents Excited?"International Business Times. N.p., 14 Apr. 2016. Web. 09 July 2016.