A 2006 study performed by researchers at the University of California in San Francisco found that marijuana helps improve the effectiveness of drug therapy for hepatitis C, an infection that roughly 3 million Americans contract each year. Hepatitis C medications often have severe side effects like loss of appetite, depression, nausea, muscle aches and extreme fatigue. Patients that smoked marijuana every day or two found that not only did they complete the therapy, but that the marijuana even made it more effective in achieving a quot;sustained virological response,quot; which is the gold standard in therapy, meaning there was no sign of the virus left in their bodies. - Spannabis 2012 Barcelona weed expo
