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Mostly it's used as a recreational drug.

But today it's recognized that there are some medicinal uses for it, it's turned out to be quite good at limiting the side effects of certain cancer treatments for instance.

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Cannabis is a very effective anti-nausea drug, the best known, and it is also useful in treating the eye disease, glaucoma.

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