SYDNEY -- Australia is in the throes of allowing the medicinal use of cannabis, following the trail blazed by a number of U.S. states, as well as Canada, Israel and the Netherlands.
The moves to legalize what was widely seen as a forbidden drug highlight growing acknowledgement among scientific researchers that cannabis, or marijuana, could help with the treatment of many health conditions. Cannabis has been found to have anti-inflammatory properties and research has suggested it can be useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's, arthritis, chemotherapy-induced nausea, cancer, anxiety, depression, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and diabetic nerve damage.
