[robertpaulsen]

"Researchers seem to have lost interest in one once-promising use of marijuana - to treat glaucoma. They discovered early on that marijuana reduced the intraocular pressure resulting from this potentially blinding disease. However, the treatment never caught on with more than a handful of patients; to keep pressure down, marijuana must be taken every two to four hours, and patients didn’t like being high continuously. Also, many new drugs work well, with minimal side effects."
-- Marijuana as medicine - How strong is the science?, Consumer Reports, May, 1997

"...it’s well known that smoking marijuana can reduce pressure within the eye, a hallmark of the disease. But the drug may also reduce the blood supply to the optic nerve - the last thing a glaucoma sufferer needs - and it doesn’t seem to prevent blindness. Even if marijuana could save eyes, smoking it enough would take extraordinary effort. ‘In order to substantially reduce eye pressure,’ says Dr. Harry Quigley of John Hopkins University’s Wilmer Eye Institute, ‘you’d have to be stoned all the time.’"
-- Can Marijuana be Medicine?, Newsweek, February 3, 1997)

[alicewonders]

For now, let's just forget about pot as medicine - I prefer it's use for recreation & relaxation. Why should that be a problem?

[stands2reason]

I didn't see 8-10 joints underlined there, sport.