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Medical Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's

Medical Marijuana Could Be Coming Before The End Of The Year.

STATES CHRONICLE – Last week, it was revealed that marijuana could be legalized by the end of 2016. One of the impediments which could bring that plan to a grinding halt, however, is the fact does not yet have any DEA-approved beneficial medical properties.

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has continued to investigate any such beneficial properties. Preliminary evidence is firmly pointing towards the fact that compounds naturally found in marijuana can enhance the cellular removal of a toxic protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientists have created an in vitro simulation of the rapid expansion of Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers subjected the dying brain cells to the marijuana compounds and observed the dying nerves managing to survive.

Regeneration is, of course, still slow and presents a high risk of decay. The early simulations, however, suggest that the researchers could engineer a process which could prevent the Alzheimer’s toxic proteins from infecting the nerve cells in the first place.

Continuous research was done to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease have led to extensive study on how the brain and the infection behave. Scientists realized that the cellular inflammation was caused by the Alzheimer’s infection and not the human body attempting to fight it. The chemistry then led them to several compounds which they realized were already present in marijuana.

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies would like to continue its research into ensuring that cannabis has more than just the potential to cure Alzheimer’s disease. The preliminary testing was performed at length in laboratory conditions and with exploratory laboratory models. They believe that all the data which could have been gathered from the preliminary stage has been made available.

The next step for the Salk Institute would be to proceed with authorized extensive clinical trials. Such trials do require adequate approval.

Presently, several other studies have been ongoing ever since medical marijuana was legalized in the state of California. Cannabis has been proven to have a multitude of beneficial medical effects.

The frequency of epilepsy seizures has been proven to decrease. Also, marijuana has been demonstrated be beneficial to individuals affected by type 2 diabetes, cancer, ulcerative colitis. Other less harsh afflictions have repeatedly been demonstrated to be ameliorated by cannabis.

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Medical Marijuana has been legal in California for 20 years.

STATES CHRONICLE – $3.1 billion is what the United States would earn in 2016 from sales tax revenue if medical marijuana would be legalized nationwide. Revenue comes from much more than sales taxes, it also comes from licensing fees. Medical marijuana growers, processors, businesses all require permits.

As of now, medical marijuana sales for 2016 will be estimated to sum up close to $6.7 billion. In 2020, this number will go higher than $22 billion. In less than five years, if nothing changes in the world of medical marijuana, sales will triple.

If it were legalized, the economic boom would be exponentially proportionate. The marijuana industry has one of the highest growth potentials in the history of the United States. So why is marijuana not legalized?

Marijuana is not legalized because the federal government still regards it as a schedule 1 drug. A schedule 1 drug is considered to have no beneficial medical qualities. It is also deemed illicit.

Schedule 1 drugs also imply some nasty tax implications, as all business need to pay taxes on gross profits and not net profits.

And if that in itself does not stop any would-be cannabis entrepreneurs in their tracks, banking systems are also not allowed to work well with schedule 1 drugs. Business owners are not allowed to handle their economics through banking, due to cannabis being illicit.

Businesses have the highest difficulty in making and receiving payments in cash invariably. It requires additional accounting, supervising, and security. Also, without the aid of banking transactions, other businesses might find it too much of a hassle to cooperate.

In order to legally demonstrate that cannabis does, in fact, have beneficial medicinal qualities, researchers have been on the case. Currently, several studies prove cannabis can help with reducing the frequency of epilepsy seizures. Cannabis is also being shown to be beneficial, in a medical way, to people suffering from type 2 diabetes, ulcerative colitis, cancer, and those are just the afflictions most people know.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants marijuana to be rescheduled, and the Drug Enforcement Agency now finds itself in the position where they need to make a decision. In the couple of weeks to follow, the DEA will either keep marijuana as a schedule 1 drug, decide current medical research is relevant enough to move it, either to schedule 2 or anywhere else down to schedule 5.

The dream, of course, is that they unschedule it complete, in which case the United States has an overnight economic boom and everybody wanting to partake in legalized recreational marijuana can do so.

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