Growth and Industry
Medical Application
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100

Approximately 100 million Americans have tried marijuana at least once, and more than ____ million have smoked it in the last year. 

What is 25 million?
100

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not recognized or approved the marijuana plant as medicine.  True or false. 

What is true?
100

In college, Barack Obama was a member of the “Choom Gang,” a group of boys who played basketball and smoked marijuana.  True or false. 

What is true?
200

Since 2015, marijuana has become the fastest growing industry in the U.S. If marijuana becomes legal in all 50 states, the industry will become larger than which food industry. 



What is the organic food market?
200
In the United States, medical marijuana is most commonly prescribed for this. 
What is pain?
200

There is no cure for this disease, and few treatment options are available—most efforts are focused on prevention. Many studies have shown that medicinal marijuana can help prevent it. Both THC and CBD can positively affect the brain’s nerve cell function to reduce the chronic brain inflammation that causes this disease.

What is Alzheimer’s?

300

The first item sold over the Internet was a bag of marijuana over 40 years ago. Stanford students used Arpanet (an early form of the Internet) to buy weed from their counterparts at this school.



What is MIT? 
300
Recreational use of marijuana is now legal in 9 states.  How many states permit the use of medical marijuana. 
What is 29 states? 
300

Medical cannabis has been used around the world for a huge variety of different medical ailments, for thousands of years. The first recorded use of cannabis as a healing drug was in 2737 BC.  Which country was it first documented for its medical application?


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