Cannabis Medical World

by April M. Short

As a society, our seniors are suffering. The health problems associated with aging—everything from joint pain and arthritis to depression and more serious illnesses like cancer—are typically treated with opiates and other pharmaceutical medications that numb, rather than fix, the problem.

According to data collected for the U.S. government (via the service IMS Health), 55 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers were written last year for people 65 and up. This marked a 20 percent increase over five years, and almost double the growth rate of the nationwide senior population. The number of benzodiazepine prescriptions climbed 12 percent over that period, to 28.4 million.

This is especially tragic since there already exists a safe plant medicine that can successfully mitigate—and sometimes cure—many of those health problems: cannabis.

Cannabis has been used in healing for thousands of years. Countless patients in the 23 US states that allow legal access to cannabis for medical purposes have used it for decades to treat pain, nausea, inflammation and dozens of other symptoms. While the majority of medical marijuana patients are younger people, seniors are increasingly turning to cannabis for help for their pain and psychological problems.....



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