Your skin, is your largest organ, and serves as the body’s boundary, tough enough to resist all sorts of environmental assaults, yet sensitive enough to feel a breeze. Anything that irritates, clogs, or inflames your skin can cause symptoms such as redness, swelling, burning, and itching. Allergies, irritants, your genetic makeup, and certain diseases and immune system problems can cause rashes, hives, and other skin conditions.

Recent years have brought a wealth of new scientific understanding regarding how medical marijuana or cannabis can be beneficial for treating Skin Conditions.

Your skin covers and protects your body and provides a variety of functions:

• Holds body fluids in, preventing dehydration
• Keeps harmful microbes out, preventing infections
• Helps you feel things like heat, cold, and pain
• Keeps your body temperature even
• Makes vitamin D when the sun shines on it

Clinical Information Related to Skin Conditions and Marijuana Cannabis

• Epigenetic control of skin differentiation genes by phytocannabinoids
• Attenuation of allergic contact dermatitis through the endocannabinoid system
• Cannabinoids inhibit human keratinocyte proliferation through a non-CB1/CB2 mechanism and have a potential therapeutic value in the treatment of psoriasis
• Topical cannabinoid agonists. An effective new possibility for treating chronic pruritus