The Los Angeles Medical Marijuana Blog

Well the answer is maybe a yes or a no. Medicines that we intake in proper dose is good right but when we over used, it may affect our health.
The Los Angeles Medical Marijuana report, marijuana and medicines assessing the science base released in March 1999 that marijuana’s active components are potentially effective in treating pain.
The therapeutic effects of smoked marijuana are typically modest and in most cases there are more effective medicines.
Marijuana according to the study of Los Angeles Medical Marijuana is overwhelming because it can relieve certain types of pain and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis cancer and AIDS—or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. Indeed marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that mostly physician prescribe.
In their 1999 report the Los Angeles Medical Marijuana panel of experts flatly rejected the idea of that herbal(usually smoked)cannabis would ever be considered a safe and effective medicines for widespread use. Smoked marijuana cannot be subjected to careful, well controlled trials, because it does not come in standard formula or dose and cannot meet the accepted standards for drug purity, potency and quality.
Karen P. Tandy, JD, former Administrator of the Los Angeles Medical Marijuana, stated the following during her Senate Confirmation hearing, in an Apr. 30, 2003 document titled “Responses of Karen Tandy to Questions Submitted by Senator Durbin”:
”the active ingredient in marijuana THC has been accepted having medicinal value when process into Marinol.Marijuana itself however has not been shown to have medical benefits:accordingly I have no basis for believing that marijuana and smoking of marijuana has any such benefits.
”It is fundamentally wrong to make preserving one’s health—or life a crime. Yet the federal law on marijuana and many state laws do just that. There is overwhelming evidence that marijuana is one of the safest available options, when used at the direction of the physician.
Research has shown that marijuana alleviates pain, nausea, AIDS and cancer wasting and glaucoma. In trials where patients have been allowed to present evidence of their medical need for marijuana courts have frequently found that marijuana is necessary to their health.
We are facing Drug use on the rise. Many drugs are coming out every now and then. Not everyone who smokes marijuana will necessarily become an addict. Most reasons are only due to curiosity, peer pressure etc..It is in the person who used it that can only say if its doing any good or harm within himself.
If there is any benefit to the medical use of marijuana, which remains to be proven, it rest in THC, the active ingredient and not in the smoke and any other chemical contaminants found in the crude plant. We believe that the risks of marijuana use outweigh any potential benefits says Christopher Largen consultant of Los Angeles Medical Marijuana.