Pot is not the cure they need

FOR years, it has been known that smoking marijuana can help easethe symptoms of an eye disease called glaucoma.

But a report in the November issue of the American MedicalAssociation's Archives of Ophthalmology says smoking marijuana isill-advised because of its toxic effects.

Yet the author suggests that researchers should considerdeveloping topical or oral antiglaucoma drugs based on thecannabinoid molecule.To control the disease, a person would need to smoke between 2,920and 3,650 marijuana cigarettes a year, the report says.Such long-term exposure to marijuana can cause respiratory,hormonal and pulmonary toxic effects plus effects on many otherorgansystems, …