The potential use of cannabis sativa in ophthalmology

ABSTRACT

Forty patients with glaucoma and forty with normal intraocular tension were examined for changes in intraocular pressure before and after smoking tobacco and cannabis cigarettes. Smoking of cannabis cigarettes decreased the intraocular pressure in glaucoma. Smoking of tobacco cigarettes produced an initial rise in pressure followed by a fall. There was no change in the patients with normal intraocular tension (AU)