Throughout history, dating as far back as at least 5000 years, medical practitioners have used the cannabis plant as medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments and diseases. Currently, doctors are prescribing medical cannabis for helping in treating such health issues as AIDS, cancer, chronic pain, sleeping and eating disorders and also to counter the negative side effects from such treatments as chemotherapy. The cannabis plant contains dozens of medicinal compounds called cannabinoids, the best known of which are CBD and THC. Research is still ongoing, and intensifying every year, in order to fully discover their curative potential. Many diseases and conditions can be treated with medical cannabis, below is a list that proponents state can be treated with the plant.
D
• Damage to Spinal Cord Nervous Tissue
• Darier’s Disease
• Degenerative Arthritis
• Degenerative Arthropathy
• Delirium Tremens
• Dermatomyositis
• Diabetes, Adult Onset
• Diabetes, Insulin Dependent
• Diabetic Neuropathy
• Diabetic Peripheral Vascular Disease
• Diarrhea
• Diverticulitis
• Dysthymic Disorder
E
• Eczema
• Emphysema
• Endometriosis
• Epidermolysis Bullosa
• Epididymitis
• Epilepsy
F
• Felty’s Syndrome
• Fibromyalgia
• Friedreich’s Ataxia
G
• Gastritis
• Genital Herpes
• Glaucoma
• Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Cancer)
• Graves Disease
H
• Headaches, Analgesic
• Headaches, Migraine
• Hemophilia A
• Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
• Hepatitis C
• HIV/AIDS
• Huntington’s Disease
• Hypertension
• Hyperventilation
• Hypoglycemia
I
• Impotence
• Inflammatory Autoimmune-mediated Arthritis
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
• Insomnia
• Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)
• Intractable Vomitting
K
• Kidney Failure
L
• Lipomatosis
• Lou Gehrig’s Disease
• Lyme Disease
• Lymphoma
M
• Major Depression
• Malignant Melanoma
• Mania
• Melorheostosis
• Meniere’s Disease
• Motion Sickness
• Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS)
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
• Muscle Spasms
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Myeloid Leukemia
N
• Nail-Patella Syndrome
• Nightmares
O
• Obesity
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Opiate Dependence
• Osteoarthritis
P
• Panic Disorder
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Peripheral Neuropathy
• Peritoneal Pain
• Persistent Insomnia
• Porphyria
• Post Polio Syndrome (PPS)
• Post-Traumatic Arthritis
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
• Prostatitis
• Psoriasis
• Pulmonary Fibrosis
Q
• Quadriplegia
R
• Radiation Therapy
• Raynaud’s Disease
• Reiter’s Syndrome
• Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Rosacea
S
• Schizoaffective Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Scoliosis
• Sedative Dependence
• Seizures
• Senile Dementia
• Severe Nausea
• Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
• Sinusitis
• Sleep Apnea
• Sleep Disorders
• Spasticity
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Spinal Stenosis
• Sturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS)
• Stuttering
T
• Tardive Dyskinesia (TD)
• Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ)
• Tenosynovitis
• Terminal Illness
• Thyroiditis
• Tic Douloureux
• Tietze’s Syndrome
• Tinnitus
• Tobacco Dependence
• Tourette’s Syndrome
• Trichotillomania
V
• Viral Hepatitis
W
• Wasting Syndrome
• Whiplash
• Wittmaack-Ekbom’s Syndrome
• Writers’ Cramp