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ORDominantM -> RE: I knew it...Pot makes you stupid (4/14/2015 7:10:28 AM)
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Also, anyone wishing to learn about why cannabis has so many people reporting such broad ranging medicinal benefits from it's use as an effective treatment in most any chronic, metabolic disease you can name, from diabetes and cancer, to Chron's, IBS, lupus, COPD, MS, Parkinson's, Alzheimers, and MANY more...
Learn what you can about the endocannabinoid system. Recently discovered in the mid 1980's, when scientists finally found the receptors THC acts upon, and the cannabinoids our own bodies make. Even doctors being trained today aren't being taught about it, so with a few hours of reading, you'll probably be wiser than your MD!.
It's general function is to maintain homeostasis (Balance within safe operating limits) for systems throughout our bodies, ranging from the cellular to the organ and macro level... Energy metabolism at the cellular level, balancing pro and anti-inflammatory immune responses, protection of nerve cells from excitotoxic damage, just about every organ function you can think of... pulse, respiration, other autonomic nervous system functions... ALL kept in balance by your endo-cannabinoids. The cannabis your body makes. If you give it the right nutritional support to do so.
You know those Omega EFA's your doctor knows are SO important to your health? He or she will likely not even realize that a major usage of them is to make the endo-cannabinoids and cannabinoid receptors.
Unfortunately the stigma that was given cannabis during the yellow journalism of the 20's and 30's that helped usher in the fraudulently instituted federal prohibition of all cannabis other than specially bred "ultra-low THC", prohibition compatible "industrial hemp" strains (Not cousins, not a separate species... SAME plant... it's ALL cannabis) is far from dead, as backward looking folks continue to believe that the medicinal effects are "minimal" and the hazards are large... which happends to be about as far from the truth as possible.
There is NO toxicity to cannabis that is not contaminated with externally produced compounds. Cannabinoids are even patented as neuro-protectants and anti-oxidants by none other than the US Department of Health and Human Services, under US Patent # 6630507.
Read Granny StormCrow's List for a broad overview of the peer reviewed and published science so far as to cannabinoids and various diseases.
http://grannystormcrowslist2014.webs.com/
An interesting sentence about Acetaminophen, and how it doesn't even do the work of relieving your pain... Your own endocannabinoid Anandamide does: "Acetaminophen, on the other hand, is transformed by your body into a compound called AM-404, which blocks the break-down of anandamide, your body’s own version of THC. Just like THC, anandamide makes you “feel good” and decreases pain. Blocking the break-down of the fragile anandamide by AM-404 results in more anandamide being in your body, relieving your pain. The acetaminophen, itself, does nothing to relieve your pain!"
For a great overview of the functionality of the endocannabinoid system, and thus the medicinal value of cannabis, check out this video of dual PhD (Non-linear Thermodynamic Physics and Microbiology) Dr. Robert Melamede, who has been collecting and interpreting the peer reviewed science on cannabis and cannabinoids for the last 40 years.
He is, in my opinion, uniquely qualified to understand the complex workings of the complex array of medicinal compounds in cannabis, and their effects within the the complex, chaotic, dynamic system that is the human body.
The lecture is titled "The Holistic Biochemistry of Cannabinoids" and while a good portion of it is hypothesis based on Dr. Melamede's review of the literature through the lens of his own expertise in related areas, much of it is bearing out to be true.
http://www.veoh.com/m/watch.php?v=v18546849b5ZAj4zC
Bottom line is that those whose profit streams are threatened by cannabis legalization, from drug warriors, to private prison corporations, to drug test manufacturers, to addiction treatment providers, to food, fiber, fuel, and medicine producers and those influenced by them, ALL are stuck in a backward looking position, and fighting to protect their existing profit streams from changes that most forward looking people would view as positive.
They will continue to cherry pick data and methodologies to "prove" that the sky is going to fall if we free this plant.
All this said, I am not for legalization, or decriminalization. I staunchly and unwaveringly support FULL REPEAL of the fraudulently instituted federal prohibiton we've lived under since 1937, followed by complete deschedulling from the Controlled Substances Act. Any other option leaves patients and recreational users arguing over how much, of what type, for whom, and under what circumstances, ad infinitum. We have had 78 years of this fraudulent prohibition not working, and not protecting anyone... More than enough to know that no matter HOW many dollars and drug warriors we throw at it, people will continue to make the safer choice...
Perhaps it's time we stopped throwing them in jail and stealing their property through civil forfeiture for it.
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