It has been suggested that Cannabis can be used medically for those suffering with Asthma. Asthma itself is a breathing disorder. It’s caused by constricting muscles in the airways, cause it hard for a person to get enough oxygen into their lungs. Cannabis has been shown to stretch the bronchi – or one of the two main tubes coming from your trachea that carry air into your lungs – and reverses the muscle spasms in the airways. Because of this – derivatives of THC have been studied for the potential as anti-asthmatic drugs.

Because smoking itself is not healthy for someone with Asthma the study is focusing on not only the effects of Marijuana on patients, but also other ways in which we can administer the Cannabis. Perhaps someday in the near future we’ll be able to administer doses of THC by pill, or aerosol spray (which is one of the ways in which administration has already been researched extensively).

They hope that by the year 2020 we will have a more realistic means of standardizing the dosage of Cannabis in a pill form. Without studies just like this one we would be behind not only in research on THC, but in medical research in general. At the end of the day – when you break it down, THC is an herbal supplement – it like many drugs in the field today is derived from plants, and is like many other narcotics broken down into the elements that can cause a person to become “high” and separated away from those that have no purpose.