Health Benefits Of Medical Marijuana in Sacramento
Let us get it straight to the point. Is Sacramento Medical Marijuana can heal medical conditions like any ordinary drug that can be found it the health industry? Cannabis fanatics would say yes because some of them experienced it personally. There were medical patients that testified that smoking cannabis in particular can heal medical conditions in an instant.
But what does the medical perspective say about marijuana? These questions have been answered and we will review the data and the conclusions derived from several studies.
“These Studies have explored puff volume and number of puffs, breathhold and potency as variables that may influence both physiological and subjective effects of cannabis smoking. Cannabis is the most wildly used illegal drug in the United States.”
“A common habit among users has been breath holding, with the perceived benefit of maximizing the absorption of delta 9-tetrahydro-cannabinol (THC) and thereby increasing the high or medical benefit. Breath holding may contribute to an increase of detrimental effects from cannabis smoking.”
It is interesting that this method of smoking does not seem to occur with tobacco smoking and studies confirm breath hold duration does not increase the absorption of nicotine. A typical breathhold time has been observed to be in the 10-15 second range during non lab recreational smoking.
The earlier paper entitled Breathhold Duration and Response to Marijuana Smoke was published in 1989 in Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior.
Local researchers used varying durations of the breath hold being: 0, 10, and 20 seconds during nine different sessions. Each time limit was used in three sessions (totaling 9) and were chosen randomly; not done in a sequence but varying. They measured heart rate, mood and carbon monoxide.
Results of the study were; the sensitivity of the response to breath holding when smoking cannabis is small. The effect of time after smoking had effect on the variables measured but breath hold itself had scant evidence that cannabis effects were responding to the breath hold maneuver.
“The study entitled Response to marijuana as a function of potency and breath hold duration by James P. Zacny and L.D. Chait was published in Psychopharmacology in 1991. This study by the same authors of the previous study looks at breath holds of 0 and 20 seconds using cannabis and a placebo. The subjects were exposed twice to each of four conditions: placebo at 0 seconds, placebo at 20 seconds, cannabis at 0 seconds, and cannabis at 20 seconds. The experiments done, though not clear at all, concluded that cannabis when smoke, can really benefit us in a better way.