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Dr. Mary Jane

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People are increasingly using marijuana for it’s medicinal purposes. From headaches to achy joints to cancer, individuals are finding medical marijuana as a powerful, natural alternative to traditional medications. But strains vary widely and so do people’s preferences. Using state of the art techniques in information technology, we have developed a recommendation system that helps you find the specific strains that match your preferences.

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How the App Works

If you are similar to our users, your doctor has prescribed you medial marijuana for a chronic condition. Finally, a simple relief that doesn't include a range of hard-to-pronounce side effects! So you go to buy your simple relief and suddenly are overwhelmed with tens and hundreds of different strains and varieties. You could spend hours clicking through each strain, listing all the ones that help with your specific condition, only to realize that each one has a unique taste that you may prefer or dislike. This is where Dr. MaryJane comes in. We pull from a database containing all known strains, and filter through them based on your medical condition. Once we have those for you, we can take care of finding a sweet citrus strain that on top of treating your condition, gives you energy to power through your day. Or maybe one with a hint of strawberry that helps you relax and drift up off to sleep. Its up to you, and it is up to us to use our state-of-the art machine learning to find your perfect match in seconds. Now, visiting the dispensary couldn't be easier.

Usefulness of Marijuana as a Medicine

Medical marijuana is a relatively new term. While people have known about it's medical qualities for thousands of years, in the last hundred years or so it has been deemed by governments as a drug with absolutely no positive or medical benefits. It is now coming back into common knowledge that medical marijuana can be used to change lives. It is remarkable as a medicine to treat nausea, insomnia, aches and pains, and its effects can even help relieve serious or life threatening conditions such as seizures. Another unique and exciting aspect of marijuana as a medicine is that each strain can have very different medical properties. A certain strain can help an insomniac find sleep, while another can help a user with chronic pain get energized and pain-free as they start their day. This range of medical relief all comes from a plant bred for thousands of years, as opposed to new drugs tested on a small group for a few years before hitting the market to be sold at a huge markup. You can learn more about medical marijuana's benefits and find the newest information here.

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user review

Dr. MaryJane user Jessica has this to say about using our app:
" Before being diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) I had never considered using medical marijuana, and didn't know how it could help with my symptoms. My EDS gives me quite a few unpleasant symptoms, such as nausea, difficulty eating, headaches, and most debilitating, extreme pain in my joints and on the surface of my skin. I desperately searched for medicines to help alleviate these symptoms as they severely interfered with my ability to work and even just see my friends and family. I tried various expensive medicines to treat these, and ultimately my doctor felt that medical marijuana would give me the best relief with the least side-effects. I was apprehensive at first, especially when I searched the internet and saw just how many different strains there are! I am so glad that I found Dr. MaryJane, it helped me find strains that help with each of my different symptoms. It is so easy to simply input which symptom or symptoms I am having a hard time with, and then I have a list of options that all work for me on the spot. At first, I just wanted treatment for my symptoms, but now that I have found strains that alleviate those I am able to find some that treat my pain and give me a boost of energy. So now I can have relief that helps me get going and then later wind down for the evening. I don't know how I could have navigated through so many hundreds of strains without Dr. MaryJane! It has given me a variety of strains that let me do what I want without worrying about my symptoms. It really has made my life so much better! "