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News Of Marijuana Benefit May be Weighed Down By Political Arguments

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Despite political squabbling as to how America should handle its growing healthcare problem, millions remain uninsured.  With mental disorders being diagnosed more frequently and skyrocketing treatment costs, we seem to be heading down a path of widespread medical disaster, where many still will not be able to afford treatment.

Repealing Obamacare (the goal of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney who ironically can be considered its architect) will be a huge topic for debate in the upcoming presidential election.  We have witnessed the obsession with eliminating the president’s healthcare plan since it was passed.  However, we have heard very few ideas as to how the next plan would provide help to so many who are in desperate situations.  Marijuana activists have offered their own plans to provide relief for millions, though marijuana alone cannot address all of our healthcare needs.  However, when it comes to affordable medicine with little side effects, marijuana could act as an viable alternative.  Government sponsored clinical trials with cannabis could produce some of the most effective treatments from both a standpoint of financial accessibility and medical effectiveness.

Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney have embraced medical marijuana, but as their endless debate unfolds, we at marijuana.net want to make sure a new development does not get lost in the campaign squabbling.  We were pleased to learn of even more evidence that cannabis holds more than just pain relief potential.  In the journal titled “Psychiatry Research” a study was recently published that showed frequent cannabis users demonstrated higher neurocognitive performance when suffering from bi-polar disorder than those who did not use cannabis.  The scientists were not willing to say that marijuana should be used specifically as a treatment for bi-polar disorder.  Authors of the study were concerned about side effects and supposed links to possible psychological problems linked with marijuana use.

Scientists who were part of the study concluded that may need to develop treatments that mimic the positive effects of cannabis while limiting any negative side effects.  Clearly more research is needed, but even if cannabis has some negative effects for those with mental disorders, lifting restrictions on marijuana research could eventually produce a strain of marijuana that could be ideal for bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia, or other mental disorders.  In Israel, where partisan politics have not restricted and severely hindered research, scientists were able to produce a strain of marijuana with high levels of CBD and low levels of THC (CBD and THC are both cannabinoids).  The result is a strain that will address pain relief without creating the expected psychedelic effects commonly associated with marijuana.  If our president and congress were to abandon the rhetoric, we may soon see scientists create treatments for the new age, medicine that is affordable, natural, and effective.

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