It's crazy when you think about all the different kinds of foods we eat.

We just swallow and hope it all works out for the best.

Well, it turns out there are better ways to think about keeping our bodies humming

healthfully along.

Welcome to Nutrition Facts.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

It's time for the Nutrition Facts Grab Bag where we look at the latest science on a whole

variety of topics.

We start with a story on how cannabis smoking may help with IBD symptoms in the short term.

Medical marijuana, a panesia or scurge.

For five thousand years, cannabis has been used throughout the world for medicinal purposes,

even prescribed by American physicians early on.

A fact that's often used by medical marijuana proponents to justify modern medical applications.

But the field of old, tiny medicine was fraught with patent medicine, snake oil nonsense,

not to mention bloodletting and other questionable and harmful remedies.

Skeptics criticize the medical marijuana movement as the medical excuse marijuana movement,

insinuating that epileptic children in the terminally ill are just being used as props

to trojan horse in the legalization of recreational use or to pedal outlandish claims about

miracle cancer cures, frustrating researches, and the field who just want to get at the

science.

For example, what about the therapeutic use of cannabis for inflammatory bowel diseases

like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis?

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