It could also act on receptors and provide protection against damage to the optic nerve.
I was diagnosed with glaucoma almost two years ago. I was using eyedrops to lesson the pressure in the eye, but I was having a fair amount of complications from the eye drops. I had heard that smoking medical marijuana could help the glaucoma, but I didn’t know all the stats. I wanted to talk to my doctor and see what he thought about marijuana helping with glaucoma. I was afraid it was going to interfere with the optic nerve, and then I would be blind. My doctor told me she had read a lot about using medical marijuana, and the primary concern was that I would need to smoke marijuana every three hours. She had heard where that could be almost as damaging to the lungs and body as smoking nicotine cigarettes. There was some talk about making eyedrops that were high in THC; but marijuana wasn’t water soluble. There was no way they had to do more research into how to make the medical marijuana eyedrops, but thus far, that had not worked. She then said there was some more recent research showing that medical marijuana may not just treat glaucoma by reducing eye pressure. It could also act on receptors and provide protection against damage to the optic nerve. A lot of research still needed to be done, and at this time, she would not suggest medical marijuana in the treatment of glaucoma. I was ready to pay the cost in getting the medical marijuana ID card. I wanted to get all the paraphernalia needed to smoke marijuana, and then the doctor told me no.