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Glaucoma. The human eyeball is filled with fluid which exerts pressure to keep the eyeball
spherical. Glaucoma is a condition where the drainage system channels through which the fluid
flows gradually become blocked, thus preventing the nourishing fluid that is constantly
produced inside the eyeball from flowing out.
The intraocular pressure (IOP) gradually increases causing increasing damage to the optic
nerve and gradual deterioration of vision. This is called intraocular pressure because it is
pressure inside the eye. As excessive amounts of fluid build up inside the eyeball, there is
an increase in pressure. In glaucoma, intraocular pressure rises to abnormally high levels.
When intraocular pressure gets too high, or remains at high levels for too long, it can cause
permanent damage to the retina and the optic nerve. Because the optic nerve carries all visual
information to the brain, this can often result in the impairment or even total loss of
vision.
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Glaucoma is the
second-largest cause of blindness, and affects 1.5% of 50-year olds and 5% of seventy-year
olds.
Glaucoma is an eye disease that is defined as a characteristic optic
neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve. Raised intraocular
pressure is a significant risk factor for
developing glaucoma. There is no set threshold for intraocular pressure that causes
glaucoma - while one person may develop nerve damage at a relatively low pressure,
another person may have high eye pressures for years and yet never develop damage. Untreated
glaucoma leads to permanent damage of the optic disc of the
retina and resultant visual field loss, which can progress
to blindness.
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Glaucoma and Cannabis
Fourteen percent of all blindness in America is from glaucoma, a progressive loss of vision.
Cannabis smoking would benefit 90% of our 2,500,000 glaucoma victims, and is two to three
times as effective as any current medicines for reducing ocolar pressure. And, cannabis use
has no toxic side effects to the liver and kidneys, nor is there any danger of the legal
pharmaceutical glaucoma drugs/drops. Most California eye doctors will discreetly advise their
patients to use "street" marijuana in addition to their toxic legal glaucoma medicines.
visit: http://www.peacenotwar.com/glaucoma.htm
and:
visit: http://www.streetdrugtruth.com/drugs/marijunatruth.php4
Discovery of the ability of cannabis to lower intraocular pressure was more or less
fortuitous. Intraocular pressure was measured as part of a multifaceted study of the effects
of chronic smoking of large amounts of cannabis. Intraocular pressure was found to decrease
as much as 45% in 9 of 11 subjects, 30 min after smoking. Lowered intraocular pressure
lasted 4 to 5 h after smoking a single cigarette. Its magnitude was unrelated to the total
number of cigarettes smoked. The maximal effect on intraocular pressure was produced by the
amount of THC absorbed in a single cigarette containing 19 mg of THC. When patients with
ocular hypertension or glaucoma were tested 7 of 11 showed a fall of intraocular pressure
of 30%. Confirmatory evidence was obtained from a trial in which i.v. injection of THC in
doses of 22 ug/kg and 44 ug/kg produced an average fall in intraocular pressure of 37%, with
come decreases as much as 51% . Many experiments done in rabbits using various routes of
administration, including instillation of cannabinoids into the eye, have confirmed the
ability of cannabis to reduce intraocular pressure.
visit: http://cannabis-seeds.com/medicinal-cannabis/cannabis-glaucoma.php
“Glaucoma” (article) Can smoking pot really cure glaucoma?
Q: “Can you please confirm if marijuana can cure glaucoma (eye disorder)? I live in England
and my sister has this disease and is losing her eyesight.”
Jane,
Cornwall, England
A: Marijuana lowers the intraocular pressure in the eye and this slows the progression of
the disease. One of the seven patients remaining on the federal government's Compassionate
Use program, Elvy Musika, claims that it is the only drug that has stabilized her condition.
See “Ask Ed [Rosenthal]” at: visit: http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2904.html
Medical Use of Marijuana by Patients with Glaucoma (article)
Marijuana has shown promise as a possible glaucoma treatment in numerous published
studies. In controlled studies at UCLA, it was
discovered that patients smoking marijuana experienced, on average, a 30% drop in eye
pressure. visit: http://www.marijuana-as-medicine.org/Alliance/facts.html#Glaucoma
Elvy Musikka on Cannabis and Glaucoma; Elvy Musikka is a woman in her mid-forties who lives in
Hollywood, Florida. This is her story:
In late February 1975 I went to see Dr. Rosenfeld, a general practitioner in the Ft.
Lauderdale area. He concluded a very thorough examination and said my eyes had been stricken
with glaucoma. My [intraocular fluid] pressures were in the high 40s [pressure in the low
teens is normal], and Dr. Rosenfeld insisted I see an ophthalmologist immediately. His
suspicions were confirmed and I was started on pilocarpine eyedrops.
Elvy Musikka on Cannabis and Glaucoma. from the chapter, "Glaucoma, " in Marijuana, The
Forbidden Medicine, pp. 52-57, by Dr. Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Associate Professor of
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. and James B. Bakalar, associate editor of the Harvard
Mental Health Letter
and a Lecturer in Law in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993, ISBN 0-300-05994-9.
visit: http://www.pdxnorml.org/MTFM_Musikka_1993.html
And …
“Blinded by Ignorance” Elvy Musikka (article) by Dana Larsen. “Elvy is one of only eight
people in the United States who receives legal medical marijuana from the government. Every
three months she receives about 600 grams of admittedly poor quality marijuana in the form of
hundreds of pre-rolled joints.
Since receiving her first legal prescription in 1988, the fifty-something Elvy has tirelessly
devoted herself to travelling across the US, spreading the good news about the beneficial
healing effects of marijuana.
"I realize now that I was never blinded by glaucoma, I was blinded by ignorance" Elvy Musikka.
Blinded by Ignorance. Interviewed by Dana Larsen ... glaucoma, I was blinded by ignorance. No
one in their right mind would have made the decision I made if they had known that
cannabis ...
visit: http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/jul96/elvybod.html
"Joe Smith" - Glaucoma; Patient Story (article) ["Joe Smith" is not this patient's real
name, but is being used to protect his privacy. He has consented to be named and to meet with
any medical or media professional who wishes to confirm the facts of his story.]
I was born and raised in Johnson County, Missouri, on the northwest Ozark prairie edge. From
the start, I was a hunter and naturalist. By junior high, I had hunted all upland game ...
here the old-timers I hunted with were in the ir 70s and 80s. I went to the University of
Missouri - Columbia in wildlife management for three years, taught field ornithology the last
two years, and managed to take several graduate courses in biological sciences and art ...
visit: http://www.ardpark.org/testimonials/JoeSmithGlaucoma.htm
Rx Cannabis Now! is a website dedicated to the re-legalization of cannabis as medicine. As a
glaucoma patient and arthritis sufferer, I know cannabis is good, natural medicine. Rx
Cannabis Now! features photos, information and links about cannabis events I have participated
in, from the Action Class in Philadelphia Hearing in March 1999, to San Francisco's version of
the Million Marijuana March on May 1, 1999, to activism and protest in Washington D.C. in
October 1999, to the first National Conference for Cannabis Therapeutics in April 2000 in Iowa
City, and, activism and protest in New Jersey in October 2000. Please visit my other sites
below. Thanks for stopping by! - Gary Storck.
visit: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7417
MED CAN related ORGS & BIZ
Robert A. Nelson: Hemp & Health on - Glaucoma: --- “Several million people worldwide are
afflicted with glaucoma, in which the unchecked rise of intraocular pressure (IOP) causes
irreparable damage of the retina and optic nerve, resulting in blindness. About 250,000
Americans suffer from glaucoma, and several thousand people go blind from the affliction each
year in the USA. Glaucoma is somewhat controllable with medications, all of which are attended
by dangerous side-effects -- with the exemption of cannabis.”
visit: http://www.rexresearch.com/hhusb/hmphlth.htm#hhl2a
Hemp & Health Internet Edition by Robert A. Nelson (online) ... Cannabis sativa, the "True
Hemp", is tightly woven into the tapestry of human life ... prescription that is prescient of
the modern use of cannabis in the treatment of glaucoma: ... REX RESEARCH was established in
1982 by Robert A. Nelson to archive and distribute information about "unconventional",
suppressed, dormant, or emerging sciences, technologies, inventions, theories, therapies, and
miscellaneous alternatives that offer real hope of liberating humanity. Contact Rex Research -
rexresearch.com * PO Box 19250, Jean NV 89019 USA *
visit: http://www.rexresearch.com/hhusb/hmphlth.htm
Cannabis as Medicine (ORG, CLAW) The Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition, Inc. (MASS
CANN) is working to build a consensus for a more moral and rational public policy regarding
all uses of the cannabis plant. ... Cannabis as Medicine. Home. Freedom Rally ... (Journal of
Neurology, 236: 120, 1989). Glaucoma reduces intraocular pressure to prevent degenerative
blindness ... visit: http://www.masscann.org/medicine.htm
Medical Marijuana Users Guide - Concept420 - Marijuana Entertainment and Information
... Cannabis can be used as an antiemetic, a drug which relieves nausea and ... intraocular
pressures in end-stage glaucoma. Cannabis however lowers intraocular pressures dramatically
... visit: http://www.concept420.com/marijuana_medical_med_uses.htm#Glaucoma
SIMM (Stichting Institute of Medical Marijuana) was launched in The Netherlands in 1993. Our
purpose ... To produce and supply patients with high quality medical cannabis, at the lowest
possible price; organically grown in soil in a clean environment, and properly handled
throughout the growing/curing process.
Glaucoma is a progressive and incurable disease of the eye that is caused by pathological
increases in intra-ocular pressure. Left untreated, glaucoma leads to blindness. ... general
discussion of the use of medical cannabis for glaucoma. There will soon be available a ...
published scientific studies regarding the use of medicinal cannabis for glaucoma. ...
contact: Stichting Institute of Medical Marijuana * P.O. 2008 * 3000 CA * Rotterdam,
Netherlands * Tel: +31-(0)10-479-2850 * Fax: +31-(0)174-614387 *
* Or visit: http://www.medicalmarijuana.org/glaucoma.htm
See also -
NEWS and INFO
Major Cannabis Reports. (online) Compendium of Findings of Major Cannabis Reports. ... basic
biology indicates a role for cannabinoids in pain and control of movement, which is consistent
with a possible therapeutic role in these areas. ... Alzheimer's Disease. Glaucoma. Cannabis
Therapeutics ... visit: http://www.davidhadorn.com/cannabis/mjcannabis.html
The Significance of Cannabis in the History of Medicine (article) Cannabis indica, cannabis
sativa, cannabis americanus, Indian hemp and marijuana (or marihuana) all refer to the same
plant. Cannabis is used throughout the world for diverse purposes and has a long history
characterized by usefulness, euphoria or evil depending on one’s point of view. To the
agriculturist cannabis is a fiber crop (first recorded for this use in the twenty-eighth
century BC); to the physician of the past it was a valuable medicine (it was described as a
remedy as long ago as 1000 BC); to the physician of today it is an enigma; to the user, a
euphoriant; to the police, a menace; to the traffickers, a source of dangerous profit; to the
convict or parolee and his family, a source of sorrow. This paper is concerned primarily with
the medicinal aspects of cannabis. visit: http://www.mikuriya.com/cansig.html
“Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the treatment of end-stage open-angle
glaucoma” (article) by Flach AJ., Department of Veteran Affairs, Department of Ophthalmology,
University of California, San Francisco, USA * Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc 2002;100:215-22;
discussion 222-4. ABSTRACT - PURPOSE: Evidence exists that the administration of cannabinoid
derivatives can lower intraocular pressure. Some patients with glaucoma believe they are being
deprived of a potentially beneficial treatment. Therefore, the Research Advisory Panel of
California instituted the Cannabis Therapeutic Research Program to permit compassionate access
to cannabinoid derivatives. Data about the potential therapeutic usefulness and toxicity of
these agents were collected. This study reviews the results of this program with the specific
aim of providing further direction for these investigational efforts.
visit: http://www.cannabis.net/glaucoma
Erowid Cannabis Vault : Medical Use and Health - Information on health affects and concerns
related to Cannabis. ... Marijuana has many possible medical uses. Positive effects are
claimed for ailments such as cancer, AIDS, and glaucoma. AIDS can cause a loss of appetite
known as "wasting syndrome", which can lead to drastic weight loss and weakness. Chemotherapy
used in the treatment of cancer causes nausea resulting in an inability to keep down food.
Marijuana's healing nature for these two illnesses is a result of its ability to increase a
person's appetite as well as relieving nausea, allowing a patient to regain weight. Marijuana
reportedly helps glaucoma patients by reducing intraocular pressure that can cause damage to
the eye. visit: http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_medical.shtml
And: http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_health.shtml
Medicinal cannabis (article) Medical marijuana can be effective in treating migraine
headaches and Glaucoma ... Medicinal cannabis. Like the inquisition, parents of sick or dying
child must go underground to seek relief ... been consider a treatment for Glaucoma.
visit: http://www.charlesrollins.com/drugs/manmd.htm
Medical Cannabis Picture Gallery - A Brief History of Medical Cannabis (online) For thousands
of years prior to its prohibition in the 20th century, cannabis was used as a medicine
throughout the world. During the 19th century the potent extract of cannabis was one of the
top three most prescribed medical agents in the United States. ... prohibition in the 20th
century, cannabis was used as a medicine throughout ... intraocular pressures in end-stage
glaucoma. Cannabis however lowers intraocular pressures dramatically ...
visit: http://www.conquestdesign.com/uncler/html/history.html
Including …
Therapeutic uses of cannabis. by Jack Herer. Taken from the 1998 edition of The Emperor Wears
No Clothes. There are more than 60 therapeutic compunds in cannabis that are healing agents in
medical and herbal treatments. The primary one is THC, and the effectiveness of therapy is
directly proportionate to the herb's potency or concentration of THC. Recent DEA reports of
increasingly potent marijuana therefore represent a major medical advance; but incredibly, the
government uses these very numbers to solicit bigger budgets and harsher penalties.
visit: http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=36
See also: visit: http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html
The health and psychological consequences of cannabis use: chapter 8 (article)
National Drug Strategy. Monograph Series No. 25. 8. ... effects of cannabinoids 8.1 Historical
background Cannabis has had a long history of medical ... time, patients with glaucoma who had
used cannabis recreationally also discovered its ...
visit: http://www.taima.org/au2/ch8.htm
Program guide to “Science Based Clinical Applications; The First National Clinical Conference
on Cannabis Therapeutics” which happened THURSDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 6-8, 2000 at THE UNIVERSITY
OF IOWA MEMORIAL UNION, IOWA CITY, IOWA * and which included ... Elvy Musikka: U.S. supplied
medical cannabis patient with Glaucoma ... Robert Randall: U.S. supplied medical cannabis
patient with Glaucoma ... visit: http://www.drugsense.org/ncct/mj_text.pdf
Ganja medicine in Jamaica (article) Jamaican researchers have developed legal marijuana
medicines. ... formal government approval for using cannabis as a glaucoma buster, raised eye
pressure leads to ... he and Lockhart began studying cannabis-glaucoma pharmacology in the
early 1970's ... visit: http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/59.html
BBC - Science & Nature - Hot Topics - Cannabis - Index Page (news, inf)
... News: Medical notes: Cannabis Depression, MS, epilepsy, glaucoma... ... for medical use of
marijuana 1970s Under ... Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, cannabis is classified ...
visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/cannabis/
Marijuana for Glaucoma
... Should Marijuana Be Used to Control Glaucoma? Your Guide ... marijuana use. Next Page:
Pros and Cons of Marijuana as a Glaucoma Therapy: ... The National Eye Institute in the 1970’s
conducted studies showing that marijuana does have properties that lower high internal eye
pressure (intraocular pressure) that can lead
to glaucoma. … The academy also states
that no evidence currently exists regarding potential side effects of long-term marijuana
use. visit: http://vision.about.com/od/glaucoma/i/marijuanaglauco.htm
Solons reject bid to legalize 'grass' (article) By Edwin G. Espejo Sun.Star General Santos
(Phil.) SENATOR Manuel Villar and Sarangani Rep. Erwin Chiongbian on Sunday said they are
strongly opposed to a proposed bill that would legalize the use of marijuana.
"Hindi tama 'yun (That is not right)," Villar told reporters during a press conference Sunday
noon.
Villar however admitted that he has not seen the proposed bill and read it only through the
newspaper. … Modern medicine uses cannabis in glaucoma and alleviating the pains of cancer
and chemotherapy. …
visit: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/gen/2004/11/30/news/solons.reject.bid.to.legalize.grass..html
Handbook of Energy Crops. unpublished. (online) Cannabis sativa L., Syn.: Cannabis indica
Lam., Cannabaceae - Hemp, Marijuana, Cannabis oil * Source: James A. Duke. 1983. Handbook of
Energy Crops. unpublished. A multiple-use plant, furnishing fiber, oil, medicine, and
narcotics. ... Modern medicine uses cannabis in glaucoma and alleviating the pains of cancer
and chemotherapy ...
Welcome to NewCROPTM, the New Crop Resource Online Program. The Web site of the Center for
New Crops & Plant Products, at Purdue University. NewCROP provides windows to new and specialty crop profiles.
visit: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Cannabis_sativa.html
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