A lot of illegal pot growing is happening, but the federal and local law enforcement agencies are doing their best. In 1986, a raid produced 117,277 marihuana plants that were seized and destroyed. All these horrible facts about Marihuana lead one to think there are no positive aspects of the Cannabis plant. Medical uses that are being studied for the future include treatment of anxiety, loss of appetite, insomnia, severe fever, pain, epilepsy, migraine headaches, high blood pressure, glaucoma and secondary symptoms of the common cold and flu. Physicians also have prescribed marihuana cigarettes to cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.
Patients report the cigarettes seem to control vomiting.
They also have been prescribed in terminal situations to control severe pain. As previously mentioned, marihuana cigarettes are also used in the treatment of glaucoma. Glaucoma is increased intraocular pressure which results in changes upon the optic disk and eventually can cause blindness. Marihuana cigarettes are sometimes used to relieve this pressure, and have proved to be very effective in some cases. Cannabis, as many other things in this world, has both a good side to it as well as a bad.