What is Medical cannabis?
'''Medical marijuana''', aka '''medical cannabis''', is [[cannabis]] and [[cannabinoid]]s that are given by doctors to their patients.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Medicinal Cannabis|year=2015 |journal=The Australian Prescriber|pmc=4674028 |last1=Murnion |first1=B. |volume=38 |issue=6 |pages=212–215 |doi=10.18773/austprescr.2015.072 |pmid=26843715 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Marijuana as Medicine|publisher=The National Institute on Drug Abuse|url=https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana-medicine|access-date=May 4, 2017|archive-date=April 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417154854/https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana-medicine|url-status=live}}</ref> The use of marijuana as a [[medicine]] has not been tested much because it can be difficult to get enough of it to test and because of other governmental regulations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Release the Strains|publisher=Nature Lexicon's|url=http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v21/n9/cull/nm.3946.html|access-date=May 4, 2017}}{{dead link}}</ref> Medical cannabis can help with [[nausea]] and [[vomit]]ing during [[chemotherapy]]. It can improve [[appetite]] in people with [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]. It can reduce [[chronic]] [[pain]] and [[muscle]] spasms.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Pharmacologic and Clinical Effects of Medical Cannabis|year=2013 |publisher=Wiley Online|doi=10.1002/phar.1187 |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/phar.1187/abstract;jsessionid=8140BAE38A1304145A4D83F62A00C43E.f03t01|access-date=May 4, 2017|archive-date=May 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508035351/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/phar.1187/abstract;jsessionid=8140BAE38A1304145A4D83F62A00C43E.f03t01|url-status=live|last1=Borgelt |first1=Laura M. |last2=Franson |first2=Kari L. |last3=Nussbaum |first3=Abraham M. |last4=Wang |first4=George S. |journal=Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=195–209 |pmid=23386598 |s2cid=8503107 }}</ref> Short-term use