Here are several important ones:
 
ADD and RBS:
http://www.lightparty.com/Health/MedicalMarijuana6A.HTML

MS:

 

Glaucoma:
http://www.420magazine.com/forums/medical-marijuana-facts-information/67785-marijuana-glaucoma.html

 Cancer Chemotherapy

The drugs used to treat cancer are among the most powerful, and most toxic, chemicals used in medicine. They kill both cancer cells and healthy cells, producing extremely unpleasant and dangerous side effects. The most common is days or weeks of vomiting, retching, and nausea after each treatment. The feeling of loss of control is highly depressing, and patients find it very difficult to eat anything, and lose weight and strength. People find it more and more difficult to sustain the will to live, and many chose to discontinue treatment, preferring death to treatment.

Cannabis can be used as an antiemetic, a drug which relieves nausea and allows patients to eat and live normally. It is safer, cheaper and often more effective than standard synthetic antiemetics. Smoking cannabis is more effective than taking it orally (or its synthetic derivatives such as Marinol) as patients it difficult to keep anything down long enough for it to have an effect. Smoking cannabis produces an immediate effect, and patients find it easier to control the doseage. Additionally the euphoric properties act as an anti-depressant, and the hunger and enjoyment of food properties ('the munchies') make weight gain easy, and these increase the chances of recovery.
http://www.concept420.com/marijuana_medical_med_uses.htm

 Medical Marajuana-Treatment for Asthma

Dr. Phillip Leveque Salem-News.com

Phillip Leveque has spent has life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician and Toxicologist.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I was totally befuddled to read in the Oregonian newspaper August, 1, 2007, of a research study in New Zealand that smoking one joint of marijuana obstructs the flow of air (in the lungs) as much as five tobacco cigarettes.
The New Zealand Medical Research Institute further reports that long-time pot smokers can develop symptoms of asthma, bronchitis, obstruction of large airways and excessive lung inflation.
They seem to hedge their remarks by writing that the chronic lung disease, emphysema, (from tobacco smoking) was uncommon among marijuana smokers.
They further stated that only 1.3 percent of marijuana smokers had emphysema, while it was 16.3 percent with marijuana AND tobacco and 18.9 percent of tobacco only smokers.
 
THE CONCLUSION: MARIJUANA SMOKING IS SAFE FOR LUNGS.
I can’t figure how this news item got so screwed up. It sounds like “Reefer Madness” from Anslinger or the Hearst newspapers.
With my experience with more than 4,000 patients including many who have asthma, I was surprised when patients with asthma came in requesting marijuana permits.
This required considerable thought and consideration because I had heard for years that marijuana caused irritation of lung passages and coughing. It was time for some education for me by my patients.
Cannibinoids, the medicine in marijuana, cause smooth muscle relaxation and smooth muscles are the inside lining of the airways; therefore, marijuana should help asthma patients by enlarging the bore. It does.
The answer is simple. Old marijuana pre- about 1980 was usually 5 percent or less medicine and burning it as in smoking caused the irritants and bronchitis. We call that “Ditch Weed”.
I have seen the hemp plantations in New Zealand. That’s “Ditch Weed” and no self-respecting pothead would smoke it. This is obviously what these New Zealand guinea pigs were smoking.
For heavens sake, give them some good grass containing 15 percent THC.
I presume somebody down under is trying to frighten people from smoking marijuana. It won’t work. http://www.salem-news.com/articles/august302007/med_pot_83007.php

 

Chronic Migraine Headache:

five cases successfully treated with Marinol and/or illicit cannabis.

Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.

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Case 1

A thirty eight year old white female stock broker supervisor with a twenty-six year history of unilateral vascular headaches escalating to generalized headache with tension headache overlay. The severity and frequency of episodes responded only to parenteral dihydroergotamine, meperidine, and trimethobenzamide HCl with sedation and further immobilization.
Marinol (delta 1-9 tetrahydrocannabinol dissolved in sesame oil) was begun with gradual upward titration dropwise to avoid undesirable mental side effects. She experienced a significant decrease in the frequency of attacks except when she ran out of medication.
She tolerated 40 mg daily (10 mg QID) without side effects but experienced an attack after running out of the THC capsules. Because of financial straits secondary to her disability status and the high expense of Marinol she has partially substituted illicitly obtained marijuana which she has ingested orally with similar relief.
Over the past four years she has maintained better control over the attacks with only one trip to the emergency room for a meperidine treatment in the past two years. She continues to utilize illicit cannabis because of the high cost of Marinol but has difficulty with irregular dosage with either too little or too much.

Case 2

Her mother, a 58 year old hospital ward clerk who has experienced migraine headaches with similar symptoms but less profoundly debilitating than those of her daughter.Likewise, she was treated with a gradually increasing dosageof Marinol with stabilization at a 10 mg daily dose (5 mg BID).Notwithstanding her undergoing stressful conditions on the job she experienced successful stopping of episodes in prodromal stage.
Left neck numbness, anorexia, water retention and left diplopia were reversed with normalization of gastric motility, diuresis,and peripheral vasodilation. She subjectively felt a relief of affectual pressure. She experienced no debilitating side effects as with other antimigraine agents and sedatives. Perceptually she described a "shift of vision"- slightly out of focus. This effect was transient.

Case 3

A 44 year old female teacher has a thirty year history of familial unilateral severe vascular headaches with antecedent visual scotomata. She switched to self-medication with marijuana after 9 years of
meperidine/sedative treatments with their impairing effects.

Cases 4 & 5

She taught her daughters ages 21 and 17 to self-medicate with marijuana with similar success in aborting migraine headaches in the prodromal phase with scotomata.

Discussion

While hemp drugs (cannabis) were introduced to western medicine by O'Shaughnessy in 1839 and attained wide usage until the turn of the century with the development of synthetic and semisynthetic analgesics.Their use declined though maintaining mention in medical texts until removal from the formulary in 1940. Reclassified as a schedule I drug in 1970 alleged to having no medicinal redeeming importance, the synthetic THC created by government sponsored research contractors was downscheduled to II in 1986, the same as non-combination opiates requiring triplicate prescription.
Grinspoon has recently described use of cannabinoids therapeutically for migraine.
It would appear that further clinical trial of both Marinol and cannabis for the treatment of migraine headache would be desirable.

References

Fishbein, M Queries and Minor Notes: Migraine Associated With Menstruation JAMA Vol 120:4 Sept 26, 1942 p 326
Grinspoon L and Baklar Marijuana Forbidden Medicine
Mackenzie, S. Indian hemp in persistent headache. JAMA 1887 9:732.
O'Shaughnessy, W.B.: On the preparations of the Indian Hemp or gunjah; their effects on the animal system in health and their utility in the treatment of tetanus and other convulsive diseases. Trans. Med. and Phys. Soc., Bengal, 1838-40; 71-102, 421-461.
Osler, W., and McCrae: Principles and Practice of Medicine. 8th ed., D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1916, p. 1809
Reynolds JR On Some Therapeutical Uses of Indian Hemp. Arch Med London 1859 Vol 2 154 - 160
Reynolds, JR: Therapeutical uses and toxic effects of cannabis indica. Lancet 1890 1; March 22: 637-638
Solis-Cohen, S. and Githens, T.S.: Pharmacotherapeutics, Materia Medica and Drug Action. D. Appleton and Co. New York, 1928.
Volfe, Z, Dvilansky, A, Nathan, I, Cannabinoids block release of serotonin from platelets induced by plasma from migraine patients. Int. J Clin Pharmacol. Res, 1985; 5(4): 243-6
September 12, 1991
Berkeley, CA

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/migrn1.htm

 

Pot Stirring

Some are using marijuana as their drug of choice to curb anxiety

By Patsy K. Eagan | July 18, 2008 12:12 p.m.
A thimbleful is all it takes. After a day’s work, I pinch off a small amount of marijuana and put it in a steel-tooth grinder. The flowers, covered in tiny white diamonds of THC, release a piney scent when crushed. I turn on the TV, and instead of taking a glass of wine with my evening news, I take out my vaporizer and set it on the coffee table.
Outside the walls of my bungalow in Oakland, California, I can hear the rush-hour traffic, but I’ve already changed into my Big Lebowski–style robe and slippers. I tap the ground flakes into a canister that I attach to another piece, this one with a bag on the end, and set both on the vaporizer. I flip the switch, and the bag slowly inflates with plumes of white smoke. Once it’s fully clouded, I attach a mouthpiece to the canister, put this to my lips, and press. On the inhale, the cannabinoids taste like sunned grass. My prescription for anxiety disorder didn’t always begin and end with an herb. But I’ve run through enough pharmaceutical drugs to know that pot dulls my panic better than any pill.
One could say I diagnosed myself in high school, when I recognized my symptoms in a psychology textbook. Finally, I had “generalized anxiety disorder” to describe the dread I felt of some future event that was overtaking my present. I usually sensed the panic attacks first in my chest. Then my vision would start to go to static, and my body would crumple to the floor. There I’d ride it out until the adrenaline ran its course.
Soon after I started to suffer several of these episodes a day (and so often that fear of another one kept me indoors), I sought out a psychiatrist. I told her about the times I’d be driving and convince myself that I was about to spin off the road—the looping, invented terrors. A little talk therapy and a prescription later, I discovered that Zoloft only exacerbated my panic and depression. I stopped taking the little white pills and cut out caffeine instead; I exercised and practiced meditation. For years I abstained from medication, and aside from the occasional pot smoking with friends, I swore off drugs entirely.
By the time I graduated from college, I knew all about the female hysteric and how anxiety was still cast as a womanly defect. Women experience generalized anxiety disorder at twice the rate of men. Every year, as many as 4.5 million American women are diagnosed with GAD—not including the several other permutations of anxiety disorders, namely social phobia, obsessive-compulsiveness, post-traumatic stress, and agoraphobia—for which, as with most mental illnesses, they are prescribed medications. Thus, I resisted pills for the backward “rest cure” and institutionalization they stood for: the only thing to be done for the hysterical female.
http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitness/Pot-Stirring