Marijuana Benefits

HIV & AIDS & Medical Marijuana

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) causes HIV infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV destroys the immune system, allowing opportunistic infections and cancers to multiply unchecked.

Without treatment, AIDS patients live, on average, about 10 years before they succumb to the disease . Infection is caused by a transfer of body fluids from an HIV host. HIV is present in infected immune cells of the blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate, and mother's milk.

"I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS."

-- Magic Johnson

Medical Cannabis and AIDS

As of 2015, 70 percent of Americans support the medical use of Cannabis and believe that it is effective to treat chronic medical conditions.

Many HIV sufferers have long known that Marijuana can ease their HIV-related conditions and symptoms. Many research studies by acclaimed medical institutions have found repeatedly, that Cannabinoids (components of Marijuana) are effective in treating AIDS conditions of; nausea, loss of appetite, anxiety, depression, wasting, and neuropathic pain. In addition, Medical Marijuana has anti-bacterial and anti-cancer properties that aid in battling associated opportunistic conditions.

"I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life."

-- Anthony Perkins

Facts and Figures - 2013

119,878 people are living with HIV and AIDS in California
73,291 were living with AIDS
4,636 newly diagnosed HIV
11% of Californians with HIV are not aware of infection
36.9 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS

-- Center of Disease Control and Prevention and WHO

Former Surgeon General of the United States and Medical Marijuana

“The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS — or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.”

-- Dr. Joycelyn Elders, MD: Former Surgeon General of the United States

Research Breakthroughs Everywhere

Pre-clinical Trials have shown that AIDS patients were twice as likely to gain weight as compared to placebo. Time and again researchers find that smoking Medical Marijuana has clear benefits in HIV positive subjects.

“Cannabis significantly reduced neuropathic pain intensity in HIV-associated conditions…. Mood disturbance, physical disability, and quality of life all improved significantly during study treatment.”

"The profile of cannabinoid drug effects suggests that they are promising for treating wasting syndrome in AIDS patients. Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana.”

-- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego 2008

The list of major institutions that believe that Medical Marijuana is efficacious in the treatment of HIV and AIDS goes on and on and includes; Consumer Reports, Institute of Medicine (IOM), the United Kingdom’s House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Australian National Task Force, National Research Council and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada etc. etc.