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Former talk show host Montel Williams is an advocate who uses cannabis to treat his multiple sclerosis, a topic he has testified about in a number of states considering medical cannabis legislation. [143] Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders has also testified in support of medical cannabis legislation in several states. [144]
A cannabis plant includes more than 400 different chemicals, of which about 70 are cannabinoids. [15] In comparison, typical government-approved medications contain only one or two chemicals. [15] The number of active chemicals in cannabis is one reason why treatment with cannabis is difficult to classify and study. [15]
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) is recurrent nausea, vomiting, and cramping abdominal pain that can occur due to prolonged, high-dose cannabis use. [4] [5] Complications are related to persistent vomiting and dehydration which may lead to kidney failure and electrolyte problems.
The DEA publication Exposing the Myth of Smoked Medical Marijuana interpreted the IOM's statement, "While we see a future in the development of chemically defined cannabinoid drugs, we see little future in smoked marijuana as a medicine," as meaning that smoking cannabis is not recommended for the treatment of any disease condition. [52]
Rick Simpson Oil is a preparation made from cannabis oil, the oils of Cannabis flower. It is named after its Canadian creator, circa 2003, which he used to treat his tinnitus, and is also known as phoenix tears.
A dried cannabis flower. The short-term effects of cannabis are caused by many chemical compounds in the cannabis plant, including 113 [clarification needed] different cannabinoids, such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and 120 terpenes, [1] which allow its drug to have various psychological and physiological effects on the human body.
Cannabis use disorder (CUD), also known as cannabis addiction or marijuana addiction, is a psychiatric disorder defined in the fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and ICD-10 as the continued use of cannabis despite clinically significant impairment.
Cultivation of cannabis is the production of cannabis infructescences ("buds" or "leaves"). Cultivation techniques for other purposes (such as hemp production) differ.. In the United States, all cannabis products in a regulated market must be grown in the state where they are sold because federal law continues to ban interstate cannabis sales.