§  Give a case -how he/she consume marijuana

§  What happen  (symptoms)

§  Why he/she use marijuana -problem in neurobiological explanation 

- Use of marijuana (2 minutes)

§  What chemical constituents in marijuana that give therapeutic effect to nerve
§  Give effects to nervous system –ease symptoms of neurological disorder

§  Explanation in term of neurobiology (mechanism etc)

 

 

- Conclusion (less than 1 minute)

§  Marijuana do effect(ease symptoms) +side effect

§  Illegal or legal

§  Critique the validity of information source

§  Distinguish between primary or secondary sources of information

-Reduce inflammation

-relieve chronic pain. 

-improve sleep disorder

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Case       ; 

-a 4years old boy with rare neurological problem, named Carter Halliburton, has improved seizure control and gotten better sleep using medical cannabis

- Carter was diagnosed with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), a rare kind of epilepsy in children and also diagnosed with incredibly rare neurological disorder, SYNGAP1 syndrome.

- Carter used to have over 100 seizures per day, prompting his parents and doctors to try a variety of medications, all of which had negative side effects.

- Carter has SYNGAP1 syndrome, frequently struggle with sleep irregularities and disturbances, resulting in sleepless nights for both patients and caretakers.

-Medical cannabis allow Carter to sleep without strong medication that induce deep sleep through the night and increase his qualities of life by reducing frequency of seizure.

-Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation (TXOG) worked with Carter's neurologist to balance medical cannabis with other treatment to Carter in which they saw a difference in seizure reduction, behavioral control, and sleep to balance medical cannabis with other treatments.

-TXOG located in Austin, Texas, have cultivate and manufacture a variety of natural, consistent medical cannabis products to meet patients’ unique needs.

Proven study and research
# Treatment using medical cannabis to ease symptoms 

1. multiple sclerosis (attack brain and spinal cord, weakness and muscle stiffness

-decrease stiffness and spasms 

-reduce nerve pain

2. muscular dystrophy (lack in dystrophin, weaken muscle function)

-reduce chronic nerve pain 

-decrease severity of muscle spasm and cramps

 3. epilepsy characterized by types of seizure (two form of epilepsy- Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, LGS, ~effect limbic activities)

+approved by FDA based on research on two years old children

-reduce the frequency of seizures

Marijuana also known as cannabis, pot, ganja and many other terms are well known drug which is known to alter the mind and body. Studies shows that marijuana may help several conditions including neurological disorders. So how can Marijuana Ease Symptoms of Neurologic Disorders? We’ll look into it!

marijuana is extremely complicated and it has many phytochemical components to it.

There are over 100 phytocannabinoids present in the plant marijuana. Cannabinoids are chemical substances that are able to activate receptors that we have in our body.

Cannabinoids  which is cannabidiol or commonly knowN as cbd andTetrahydrocannabinol which THC are extracted from the plant marijuana can acts on specific receptors in our body.

The human body has two type of receptors for cannabinoids. They’re called cb1 and cb2.

The Cb1 receptor is mainly found in the brain and central nervous system. The Cb2 receptor is mainly found In the immune system and in the guts.

So what is this endocannabinoid system and what does it do?

This sytem  is composed of the endocannabinoid and these chemicals that we have In our body theyre very similar to cbd and thc

And they play a role In appetite, blood pressure, bone growth, immune/inflammation, pain, memory, reproduction and muscle tone. this is widespread ancient system in our body 

In certain disease states we have dysregulation of endocannabinoid system, so either there’s something wrong with the levels of endocannabinoids in our body or there’s something wrong with the receptors, or our body is not clearing or maybe clearing too much of these endocannabinoid, so, this dysfunction may be associated with these desease states especially neurologic issues such as parkinson’s, huntington’s, galucoma

So we’re learing more about this and how can the marijuana improve our encocannabinoid system in terms of treating disease