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Kevin Valenzuela

Emily Litle

ENG 121 001

April 15, 2018

Benefits of CBD Oils

There are many mental illnesses and disorders in this world that not only affect millions

of people but often times there are no medications good enough to help those people in dire need

of them. CBD oils (Cannabinol) have many benefits that your average medications do not

possess. Many people with these disorders can look forward to CBD oils because of it’s

astonishing benefits when treating these disorders. Researching CBD oils and finding out how

they work could be essential to having CBD oils completely legalized throughout the United

States which is why getting that research out to the open public could make millions of people in

denial see how beneficial CBD oils can really be. After seeing that this natural plant can be

beneficial in numerous ways, the regular citizen will no longer have pay a visit to the traditional

doctor for traditional medicine. This makes it easier on the patients who have mental disorders

along with the financial part that comes along with health care. CBD oil needs to be made widely

available to the public, and would offer more benefits than conventional medicine. CBD is one

of one hundred and thirteen cannabinoids identified in cannabis and its main purpose is for

medical and therapeutic use for mental disorders and chronic pains.

Cannabis has been a part of this world for over two thousand five hundred years. It was

found in the northwest region of china, still mostly intact, in a tomb atop of a body of a man as a

burial shroud (Becker). From this it is clear that cannabis was used for burial practices. On top of

that, archeologists found older fabrics made of hemp dating six to seven thousand years old
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(Becker.) Cannabis has had a bad reputation since the 1930s in America. Many of the people

who do not understand the uses and practices of this natural plant claim it as “illegal narcotics”,

like the federal government. Due to its inebriation on the people who ingested marijuana, states

started to ban the use and distribution of cannabis one by one until the Marijuana Taxation Act of

1937. This act prohibited industrial and medical use of marijuana by classifying the flowering

tops as a narcotic. (Hanrahan, et. al.). Though this act did prohibit the production and use of

cannabis, it was still being illegally used nu many individuals. Similar to the movement of

wanting to ban cannabis, there was a movement to legalize cannabis for medical use. By 2017,

twenty-nine states including the District of Columbia now have medical marijuana. (Hanrahan,

et. al.).

Even after the legalization of medical marijuana, there are always going to be individuals

and groups who are against the cause are only going to see marijuana as a “gateway drug.”

Although, many believe with the proper research and examples their perspective can be changed

for the better. If these individuals gave it a chance they might find that CBD could even help

with any chronic pain that the opposing side may be having. Aside of using cannabis for medical

purposes the natural plant had many other uses as well. It can be spun into a fabric and takes less

water to use than regular fabrics, including paper (Hanrahan et. al.). Plastics can also be made

from cannabis with the factor of it being biodegradable unlike the plastics we are using today

where it normally takes ten to one thousand years to decompose (Leblanc.) Going back to

medical purposes of cannabis, CBD oils can ease pain and can even have many chemical

properties which can heal and ease pain. CBD oils can be used psychologically, psychically and

spiritually because cannabis is known to have natural healing powers.

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I conducted a personal interview with a teammate that works with individuals who have

real and serious mental disorders that need heavy medications daily to get them by. Recently,

most of Joey Hussey’s clients have switched over to CBD oils over the medications that the

clients needed to take for their condition. He has personally seen how they affect the patients, for

the better. Usually when Hussey’s clients take the average medications they tend to become

drowsy, sleepy and it causes headaches for them. With CBD oils, the clients showed a mood

change, calmness and better communication skills. Before switching to CBD oils most of the

clients had a hard time expressing themselves to the people taking care of them because they

were too shy or they just simply could not express themselves. Once switching, the clients had an

easier time expressing themselves to the care takers, the clients were not moody or sleepy which

all the caretakers could see even when they had to switch off for shifts. Hussey’s had more

experiences, he also knew of a client that was in a bad automobile accident that left the man with

bad seizures. The man had seizures three times a week and most of his medications were not

working. When switching to CBD oils, the man only had one seizure a month and the

suppressing of his seizures are consistent.

To conclude all of what is written, medical marijuana should be legal and available to the

entire public. Though it has had a bad rep since the 1930s, marijuana is not bad. Law makers

faced backlash for having the prohibition law, the ban on alcohol, go through and at that time

immigrants were bringing in marijuana in because the immigrants used it for medicinal purposes.

So the law makers put lies on top of lies that marijuana turns the man into a wild animal. Over

the years research was done and in 2017 it was made legal because numerous amounts of uses

for marijuana were found both recreational and medicinal. Some of the uses are the materials that

can be made from cannabis like paper and fabric, natural products are better for the earth.
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Marijuana medically is CBD; CBD does not have the psychoactive THC (tetrahydrocannabinol)

which gives the user the euphoria form ingesting it. CBD oils are the key to helping those that

have mental disorders. The individuals do not need traditional medicine to help them get through

every day. Joey Hussey’s experiences shows that CBD oils realistically do help and the public is

starting to recognize the benefits of medical marijuana. This natural plant should be legal and

available to everyone. It has so much potential in the medical world and it will help millions.
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Works Cited:

Hanrahan, Clare, et al. "Marijuana." The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, edited by

Jacqueline L. Longe, 5th ed., Gale, 2015. Science In Context,

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d=SCIC&xid=7eea7372. Accessed 18 Apr. 2018.8s

Becker, Rachel. “2,500-Year-Old Marijuana Discovered in an Ancient Tomb 51 The

Marijuana Plants Had Been Used as a Burial Shroud, the Archeologists Say.” The Verge, 10 Oct.

2016. www.theverge.com/2016/10/10/13231772/ancient-pot-marijuana-cannabis-archeaology-

tomb-china

Leblanc, Rick. “How Long Does It Take Garbage to Decompose?” How Long Does It

Take Garbage to Decompose?, 20 Feb. 2018, www.thebalancesmb.com/how-long-does-it-take-

garbage-to-decompose-2878033.