Marijuana use to be known as being a very dangerous drug and if someone was caught with it, it would lead to very serious consequence. Recently scientist have proved the true benefits of marijuana making the benefits outweigh the risks in many occasions. In order to truly understand the importance of marijuana and the positive and negative effects it has on our society we must take a step back to the first siting of marijuana used for medical purposes. Let’s go back in time to 2700 B.C. in China when the emperor of China, Shen Neng, touted cannabis tea as a treatment for gout, rheumatism, malaria and even poor memory, The drug's popularity as a medicine spread throughout the Middle East, Asia and then to Africa and India, where Hindu sects …show more content…
Recently we have seen marijuana help in a tremendous ways for disorders like autism epilepsy and even PTSD. Outside the medical field marijuana has helped many states economically, a good example is Colorado and California. As society modernize so should our views and ways of thinking, even though at the time of most politicians youth marijuana was seen as such a contraband substance in our modern cultural marijuana is now viewed differently. It is viewed as something “everyone” does, it is viewed as something that can truly help science find cures for people, it is now viewed positively which is why the benefits of marijuana do outweigh the risk of …show more content…
The idea that marijuana may have therapeutic effects is rooted in pure science. Marijuana contains 60 active ingredients known as cannabinoids. The body naturally makes its own form of cannabinoids to modulate pain as stated by scientist Donald Abrams, an integrative medicine specialist for cancer patients at the University of California. Noa Shulman a 17 year old girl with autism is one of the very first clinical trial patient to test the effects of marijuana on people with autism. Marijuana has something in it called CBD which helps kids in a way no other medicine can, scientist are using Noa to see if these links are real. Another major medical benefit marijuana provides is for those illness that have an intense pain attached to them. A great example is many forms of cancers, recently scientists reported that THC and other cannabinoids such as CBD slow growth and/or cause death in certain types of cancer cells growing in lab dishes. Some animal studies also suggest certain cannabinoids may slow growth and reduce spread of some forms of