Marijuana as alternative medicine
Cannabis sativa

Cannabis in a medicinal context can be use to aliviate the patient´s pain requaring a prescription . People use it in differents ways such a dried buds, drinking or eating extracts, and taking capsules.
Medicinal use of Marijuana is legal just in few countries Canada, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Israel, Finland, and Portugal. In the United States, 13 states have recognized medical marijuana: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
This alternative medicine has temporarily analgesic properties, it means that the effect on the body is just for few time.
Generally people use it when they have backache, cancer, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation.
Unfortunately in Chile Marijuana is not used as medicine to treat illnesses that´s why people who get this herb could go to prision.



If you want to know more about it...
http://www.mjlegal.org/medicinal.html
http://www.gazette.com/articles/marijuana-52852-medical-state.html