Cannabis

Applications of marijuana

The most interesting of these new alternatives is that break new ground to patients who may have lost confidence in traditional medicine, or who are unwilling to go through, important in the case of the most aggressive skin treatments side effects. Indeed, the use of any derivative of marijuana can continue to raise suspicions, because often associated with recreational use, but many studies, and a long historical trajectory of the many applications of hemp seed, have shown that this is a way of research and a path would be wrong to ignore.

Recreational and medicinal use

As the various laws coincide in considering that there are huge differences between recreational and medicinal, will surely be easier to research in this field, though any alternative to traditional drugs is observed closely by the different governments and can find the outright rejection of the big pharmaceutical companies. Hopefully clears the way to a wider range of options to heal, regardless of who manufactures, distributes seeds or the substance in question.

Today we also know that, under certain circumstances, cannabinoids are able to protect neurons against various damage situations, which could be of interest for the treatment of episodes of acute brain damage and perhaps neurodegenerative diseases.

Their participation in learning and memory processes suggests that cannabinoids may be useful in disorders such as extinction of aversive memories in post-traumatic stress.

Similarly, the presence of cannabinoid receptors in limbic regions of the anterior hypothalamus and in this case allow the blocking of these receptors can be pharmacologically important approach in treating eating and metabolic disorders and compulsive phenomena related addiction drugs.

Prevalence of marijuana

once in life

general population (12-65 years old)

Mexico

6% of 2009 consumption is legal

Half a kilo of marijuana costs in the mountains of Sinaloa about 300 pesos. In the US, a wholesaler gets $ 550 for it. Retail, produce 10 or 15 times. Who is surprised that there is so much corruption and crimes for the largest slice of that pie. Who is surprised that the Chapo has fascinated Forbes.

Marijuana is the main source of income for Mexican drug cartels. 60% of the 13,800 million dollars a year sold in the United States, according to figures from the White House Office for Drug Control. Roughly 8,600 million annually.

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