How does medical marijuana help people with glaucoma?

How does medical marijuana help people with glaucoma?

Medical marijuana is supposed to decrease intraocular pressure which is the actual cause of glaucoma or the pathogenesis of it. The mechanism I'm not exactly sure of. It opens, it presumably opens up the canals through which the excess intraocular fluid can drain, but at the same time, we have topical agents that are very strong and very effective. They're usually prostaglandin derived compounds. And so I don't think that [unintelligible] cannabis is going to get very widely used in this area.