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Watch more Marijuana Facts & Medical Marijuana videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/506387-Does-Marijuana-Cure-Glaucoma-Marijuana In the 1970s, a man named Robert Randall who suffered from glaucoma sued the federal government because they had conducted studies showing that marijuana could relieve the pressure, the intraocular pressure from the eye. That is to say they federally funded studies done at UCLA showed when you actually used a medical device, the pressure on the eye would go down when you inhaled marijuana. He had discovered this himself and began to use it. He was a professor at, I believe, Rutgers University. And one day he came back from…

Watch more Marijuana Facts & Medical Marijuana videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/506367-How-to-Ingest-Marijuana-Marijuana Marijuana, when used for therapeutic use, can be prepared and ingested in several different ways. The most common way that most people know about is smoking. Rolling that into a cigarette-looking item, and inhaling. I think that’s how most of us have seen cannabis used in movies or recreationally. Another mode of ingestion, that has very similar effects on the body as smoking, is vaporization. And patients report liking this method, because it actually takes out the smoke and inhaling cannabis. And there are several large machines on the market or…

Watch more Marijuana Facts & Medical Marijuana videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/506368-Smoking-Marijuana-vs-Eating-Marijuana-Marijuana Depending on how you ingest cannabis, your body is going to feel different effects and for different periods of time. If you ingest cannabis by smoking or vaporizing you’re actually going to feel the effects of cannabis right away, probably within anywhere between 30 to 90 seconds. Now, this can be good for people who need pain relief right away, but it’s also a good way to see how much cannabis you want to consume. You can take a small inhalation and wait a few minutes and see what the effects…