IOM's findings recognized marijuana's therapeutic potential in decreasing the intraocular pressure for glaucoma patients, controlling the severe nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, acting as an anticonvulsant, relaxing muscles and thus counteracting spasticity problems, and other uses. The IOM investigators highly recommended further research to determine the full therapeutic potential of this drug. One must reasonably conclude that there is accepted safety for use of marijuana under medical supervision. Tolerance to natural marijuana develops slowly, if at all. A knowledge of addiction provides the nurse with the understanding that it is not the drug that makes the addict, but rather the negative relationship a person has with a particular drug or drugs.
People can become addicted to marijuana just as they can to any other psychoactive drug.
Treatment for their addiction should be available to these people. The prohibition efforts Under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, marijuana is a Schedule I controlled drug. This status prohibits its use by anyone and prohibits physicians from prescribing it for patients. Only 10 patients who had been approved and already were receiving their medicine have been allowed continued legal access to this drug. Use of the Mexican name of the cannabis plant, marijuana , was popularized by the Hearst newspaper chain to scare the public into believing that there was a new and dangerous drug being introduced to American youth by black musicians and Mexicans.