Posts by Bill Smith
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Hard News: Medical cannabis advocacy you…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Yes Ian, interbreeding has spread gene mutations like Hemochromatosis around the globe with little consequence for offspring, when a carrier of the Gene mates outside of its ancestral gene pool. This however is not the case, when two carriers get together.So the progression of humans around the globe has caused many anomalies and diet being just one.
Cannabis is an ancient food and I think that when we use the term eat your greens, it shouldn't just mean cabbages. I have a close friend who has been battling terminal leukemia and things weren't go that well for her. this woman was to scared to use Cannabis, because of its legal status.This however changed, as the disease progressed and her caution, succumbed to fear.
Through a friend network she was started on CBD oil form Sativa strains and after a couple of months no real progress was being made. After more research of other patient accounts, she switched to a high THC oil and that's when the first signs of a recovery started to take place. Then at about one month after that she started drinking two smoothies a day of fresh Cannabis material and that's when huge changes to her markers kicked in. This process took just over a year in all, but she's at almost normal levels now.She is still taking two smoothies a day and doing fine.
I think my point really is that, this plant in its raw form, through to processed essential oils holds great benefits and to allow it to be classified as an illegal pharmaceutical, instead of a supplement, hinders thousands of patients from taking a self defense approach to their own health.
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Hard News: Medical cannabis advocacy you…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
One can only speculate this was an evolutionary process, due to an abundance of mineral and vitamin rich foods in the diet of this subset. As like Humans and other animals like bats, we would have foraged on many fruit bearing trees and plants containing ample levels, possibly making this process redundant.
Nature throws out many anomalies like Hemochromatosis or Iron overload disease, this Gene mutation which causes the body to store iron is a destructive process with our modern iron rich diets, But for the ancient Scott's, who are the main subset effected by this mutation and their Iron deficient diet, nature found a way to store this essential mineral required for life.
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Hard News: Medical cannabis advocacy you…, in reply to Shane Le Brun,
Yes I agree Shane, I think many people underestimate what a dark tunnel many find themselves in, when a twist of fate deals a blow to their health or that of a loved one.
There's often very long waits and depending on the situation little or no funding available for innovative treatments. When it comes to the subject of pain, this transcends multiple conditions of disease and injury. It has been a huge focus of modern medicine to control pain. The poppy gives us Opium, Willow bark was the forerunner to Aspirin, ancient healers used the Cannabis plant and it was a staple for Doctors up until very resent times as well.
The issue in the case of Cannabis is not whether people find it effective, but one of unreasonable regulations that have been designed to benefit multinational pharmaceutical company's. As I said I have no problem with development of innovative drugs from Cannabis compounds.
But I have a serious problem with the over regulation of the plant itself with its goal to wipe it out of existence. This is not the case for the Opium Poppy which you can legally grow in your garden, as long as you don't bleed them. I just don't see any benefit from trying to make nature illegal other than a financial agenda of certain interests.
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Hard News: Medical cannabis advocacy you…, in reply to ,
"That's one hell of an analogy. If you don't use vitamin C, you'll get scurvy. I don't smoke dope but I still managed to get an art degree".
There's two ways to get Vitamin C, one from a balanced diet the way nature intended, or secondly by purchasing a supplement that not very long ago, had New Zealand almost forced by Australian pressure, to over regulate, this in turn would have made the sale of supplements like Vitamin C, prescription only products.
For many people the smoking of Cannabis for pleasure, may quite well be their only interest in this subject. But for the many patients who use the essential oils of this plant, it's a lifeline to a host of phytocannabinoids to supplement their bodies own endocannabinoid system.
As every cell in the human body is regulated by this system is it not reasonable to have access to natures own super-food in its natural form, just as citrus fruits and vegetables are our natural source of vitamin C.
On the subject of smoking Cannabis and your Art's Degree, we'll never know now if you could have up sized it, to a Masters or a PHD. LOL good on you mate.
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If you do a search, into the makeup of the Government approved medicine Sativex, you will find that this approval is for a whole Cannabis plant extract. This fact alone proves that the safety of whole Cannabis plant extracts has been established and only leaves to question, healthy growing practices and preparation of Cannabis whole plant, essential oil products. I must add that the extraction of essential oils is a very common practice in a very wide range, of everyday over the counter health supplements.
There needs to be more understanding that it’s the Cannabis plant itself, that’s the medicine and if through the course of time and investment, new drugs are made from targeting compounds in Cannabis, well that's good too. But to allow a lie that doesn't recognize this plants place in medical history is like denying the value of Vitamin C, to good health.
There's another point to be addressed and that's the issue of privacy, which is guaranteed to all patients and their families. All medical settings are rquired.to give patients by virtue of right, the upmost level of privacy at all times, be it a consultation, treatment, or simply dealing with pharmacy staff.
This Cannabis issue has now forced many patients into the spotlight in an effort to be deemed worthy enough to receive a medication of their own choosing and this choice has often been in consultation with their own Doctor. As a politician, Peter Dunne hasn't sworn the Hippocratic Oath and has no place in deciding patient care and in doing so, comes between Doctor patient relationships, compromising their rights to privacy to an unacceptable level.
The fact that even legal Cannabis based medications, requires a politician to sign off on it, seems an extremely moralistic and political approach to patient care and can only be seen as a futile attempt to control the third most widely used drug in society, by abandoning patients in need.