The clear take
home is that raw marihuana needs to be integrated into our diet and never
smoked. The health benefits are
remarkable, particularly tackling some of our more intractable health issues. It will not stop you from abusing your diet
from too much sugar and starch but will certainly stall off the nasty effects
for much longer.
The state
involvement in the drug trade prohibition business has been an utter disaster
and has promoted outright spillover into the medical industry itself in ways
that can only be characterized as evil.
Why we foist a thirty year old failed therapy protocol on cancer
patients is beyond rational explanation and recruits the medical profession
with cash in a way that is obscene.
The good news
is that this regime appears to be cracking at least in the marijuana
trade. They appear to be giving it up
while of course grasping everything else.
When the history of this era is written few will believe the willfulness
and convenient blindness exhibited. It
makes the original prohibition a modest side show.
There Is No Doubting The Health
Benefits of Cannabis
April 4, 2014
Marco Torres,
The question is no longer which disease
cannabis can cure, but which disease can’t it cure? A study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and
detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer,
but preserve normal cells.
The study by Manuel Guzman
of Madrid Spain found that
cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in
laboratory animals. They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways,
thereby inducing direct growth arrest and death of tumor cells, as well as by
inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that supply the tumor.
The Guzman study is very
important according to Dr. Ethan Russo , a neurologist and world authority on medical cannabis:
“Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal
signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body
requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell
death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas
and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die.”
“But, that is not all,”
explains Dr. Russo: “The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they
are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth
of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is
truly incredible, and elegant.”
There really is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the
greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism,
science, and our fundamental values,” said MarijuanaNews.com editor Richard
Cowan.
Top Health Benefits
It’s no surprise that
the United States has
decreed that marijuana has no accepted medical use use and should remain classified as a highly dangerous drug
like heroin. Accepting and promoting the powerful health benefits of marijuana
would instantly cut huge profits geared towards cancer treatment and the U.S.
would have to admit it imprisons the population for no cause. Nearly half of
all drug arrests in the United States are for marijuana.
According to
MarijuanaNews.com editor Richard Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis
prohibition “…there really
is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the
greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism,
science, and our fundamental values,” Cowan notes.
Besides the top 10 health
benefits below, findings published in the journalPLoS ONE, researchers have now have now discovered that
marijuana-like chemicals trigger receptors on human immune cells that can directly inhibit a type of human immuno-deficiency virus
(HIV) found in late-stage
AIDS.
Recent studies have even shown
it to be an effective atypical anti-psychotic in treating schizophrenia, a disease many other studies have inconsistently found it
causing.
1. Cancer
Cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals and also kill cancer cells. Western governments have known this for a long time yet they continued to suppress the information so that cannabis prohibition and the profits generated by the drug industry proliferated.
THC that targets
cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 is similar in function to endocannabinoids,
which are cannabinoids that are naturally produced in the body and activate
these receptors. The researchers suggest that THC or other designer agents that
activate these receptors might be used in a targeted fashion to treat lung
cancer.
2. Tourette’s Syndrome
Tourette’s syndrome is a neurological condition characterized by uncontrollable facial grimaces, tics, and involuntary grunts, snorts and shouts.
Dr. Kirsten Mueller-Vahl
of the Hanover Medical College in Germany led a team that investigated the
effects of chemicals called cannabinols in 12 adult Tourette’s patients. A
single dose of the cannabinol produced a significant reduction in symptoms for several hours compared to placebo, the researchers
reported.
3. Seizures
Marijuana is a muscle relaxant and has “antispasmodic” qualities that have proven to be a very effective treatment for seizures. There are actually countless cases of people suffering from seizures that have only been able to function better through the use of marijuana.
4. Migraines
Since medicinal marijuana was legalized in California, doctors have reported that they have been able to treat more than 300,000 cases of migraines that conventional medicine couldn’t through marijuana.
5. Glaucoma
Marijuana’s treatment of glaucoma has been one of the best documented. There isn’t a single valid study that exists that disproves marijuana’s very powerful and popular effects on glaucoma patients.
6. Multiple Sclerosis
Marijuana’s effects on multiple sclerosis patients became better documented when former talk-show host, Montel Williams began to use pot to treat his MS. Marijuana works to stop the neurological effects and muscle spasms that come from the fatal disease.
7. ADD and ADHD
A well documented USC study done about a year ago showed that marijuana is not only a perfect alternative for Ritalin but treats the disorder without any of the negative side effects of the pharmaceutical.
8. IBS and Crohn’s
Marijuana has shown that it can help with symptoms of the chronic diseases as it stops nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
9. Alzheimer’s
Despite what you may have heard about marijuana’s effects on the brain, the Scripps Institute, in 2006, proved that the THC found in marijuana works to prevent Alzheimer’s by blocking the deposits in the brain that cause the disease.
10. Premenstrual Syndrome
Just like marijuana is used to treat IBS, it can be used to treat the cramps and discomfort that causes PMS symptoms. Using marijuana for PMS actually goes all the way back to Queen Victoria.
Mounting Evidence
Suggests Raw Cannabis is Best
Cannabinoids can prevent cancer, reduce heart attacks by 66% and insulin dependent diabetes by 58%. Cannabis clinician Dr. William Courtney recommends drinking 4 – 8 ounces of raw flower and leaf juice from any Hemp plant, 5 mg of Cannabidiol (CBD) per kg of body weight, a salad of Hemp seed sprouts and 50 mg of THC taken in 5 daily doses.
Why raw? Heat destroys
certain enzymes and nutrients in plants. Incorporating raw cannabis allows for
a greater availability of those elements. Those who require large
amounts of cannabinoids without the psychoactive effects need to look no
further than raw cannabis. In this capacity, it can be used at 60 times more
tolerance than if it were heated.
Raw cannabis is
considered by many experts as a dietary essential. As a powerful
anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, raw cannabis may be right up there with
garlic and tumeric.
About the Author
Marco Torres is a research specialist, writer and consumer advocate for
healthy lifestyles. He holds degrees in Public Health and Environmental Science
and is a professional speaker on topics such as disease prevention,
environmental toxins and health policy.
Sources:
safeaccessnow.org
gsalternative.com
bigbudsmag.com
berkeleypatientscare.com
washingtonpost.com
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