In order to be effective, marijuana must be taken daily. It seems to be the most effective three hours after dosage, and last for five hours.
One question is the effectiveness of THC to reduce nausea in chemotherapy patients. As cancer is on the rise, there are more and more people using chemotherapy as treatment in Australia. Right now, there are many different types of chemotherapy drugs, and they all have the same or similar side effects i.e. nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, heart burn, and ulceration. These are only the gastrointestinal effects. There are hair effects, skin effects, and muscle and nerve effects to these drugs. Loss of appetite and wasting are among the most lethal side effects of cancer treatments. Drugs administered to treat the side effects of nausea, and vomiting are mostly ineffective. However, there are reports that THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and other cannabinoid’s have a direct effect on pain signals in the central nervous system, while also reducing the effects of nausea and vomiting. While reducing the effects of nausea and vomiting marijuana also relieves pain, and provides comfort for people with long term illnesses. The controversy is that some patients experienced hallucinations while taking the drug. The hallucinations were experienced perhaps because too much of the drug was taken at one time. How can the Government ignore a drug that aids in the relief of these terminal diseases?
However many people say that the federal government should continue to reject marijuana use for medical purposes. Allowing its use at all could result in increased drug abuse as would-be pot smokers would try to get doctors certificates etc, for marijuana use for any "condition." Allowing the legalisation of medical marijuana could open the door to abuse, when other prescription drugs supposably produce the same medicinal effects as pot. A is also question is raised about tolerance when taking marijuana for extended periods. Some critics argue that after taken for a period of time, the person may become tolerant to the drug, and reduce effectiveness. This is true for a lot of pain relieving drugs. A person can not rule out marijuana on that question alone, and it has not been proven that a person will develop tolerance.
There are many uses for marijuana, and many are unexplored. There are probably many other uses that have not been found because of the lack of experimentation on the drug as a whole. If the drug is legalized, there will be much more research done on the drug, and hopefully the drug will begin to be approved for use. Denying cannabis treatment to the sick and dying is cruel and unnecessary. The terminally ill patients who use marijuana don’t pose any threat to the public or encourage the illegal trafficking of drugs. With all the research that had been conducted why is it that Marijuana isn’t legalised for medicinal purposes?