Marijuana as Medicine Marijuana as medicine has been studied for many years. In some cultures it is already used as a medicine and dates back many generations. There are many good uses of marijuana as medicine which will be discussed in the following paragraphs. The problem is that in order for marijuana to be used as medicine in America, it must be legalized. Marijuana has a long history of medical use. It is one of the oldest living plants and, in ancient times, was used as various forms of medicine through ingestion of the plant. The first documented use of marijuana as a medicine occurred in China. It was reported in the Pen Tsþoo Ching in the 1st or 2nd century AD. He reported that ma-fe-san (boiled hemp compound) was used as an anesthetic for surgical patients. But fen (hemp fruit) had many uses such as purifying the blood and cooling the temperature, relieving flows, relieving rheumatism, and discharging pus from patients. China isn't the only country to use the drug in its early days. It was introduced to Southeast Asia around the 16th century AD. Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are said to have current uses of marijuana as medicine. In Cambodia they have a huge list of uses, but to name a few they are: curing malaria, relieving asthma and calming the nerves, regulating heart function and curing paralysis. In Thailand it is used in folk medicine and official medical reports. In folk medicine, people dry the leaves in the sun and boil them to treat migraines and dizziness. It is also taken as a relaxant before bed. In Vietnam it has many uses. Cannabis is used to relieve memory loss, eliminate blood loss and to treat gynecological problems. As you can see, there are many different uses of marijuana as medicine. It is impossible to explore all uses of the drug, but now we will look at some of them in detail. One question is how effective THC is in reducing nausea in chemotherapy patients. As cancer is on the rise, there are more and more people using chemotherapy as a treatment in America. There are many different types of chemotherapy drugs right now, and they all have the same side effects. Some are: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, dyspepsia, heartburn and ulceration. These are just the gastrointestinal effects. There are hair effects, skin effects, and muscle and nerve effects to these drugs. Drugs given to treat the side effects of nausea and vomiting are mostly ineffective. However, there are reports that THC, taken in capsules or in a cigarette, reduces nausea and vomiting. The controversy is that some patients have had hallucinations while taking the drug. The hallucinations were experienced perhaps because too much of the drug was taken at one time. The question that is raised is: What is the effective dose? First, the way the drug is taken varies from individual to individual. Some people react differently to all types of medications taken by mouth. After deciding how the patient should take the medication orally, the person administering the medication must keep other considerations in mind. First, the drug must be administered early enough to prevent early vomiting. This is a well-known phenomenon in cancer patients. That is, chemotherapy patients expect to vomit, and in anticipation of this, they begin vomiting before treatment even begins. Another consideration when administering the drug is the level of concentration in the blood. The amount of the drug should increase the concentration of the drug in the blood to more than 10.0 ng./ml. On the other hand, it must be at a level of.