Its interesting that cannabis was used as medicine for thousands of years before big pharma introduced their patent drugs....then all of a sudden they renamed it, and made out like it was some toxic drug from over the border....it would make you go mad and turn you into a sex fiend!
If you watch those 1936 "Reefer Madness" propaganda films now, you just laugh yourself silly.
The truth is, any drug, plant based or otherwise, needs to be administered in the right dosage or any drug can kill you....even paracetamol.
Contrary to popular opinion, cannabis in not physically addictive and should be the drug of choice to help addicts over their addictions to opioids, which kill more people every year than any other prescription drugs......and there is not a single case of cannabis overdose causing death, because it isn't toxic. If someone was admitted to hospital with a drug overdose leading to death, it will not be caused by cannabis, but by what was used in conjunction with it.
The fact that this medicine is only now surfacing as a legitimate medical treatment for so many conditions, is due to those brave enough to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry, and expose the lies they have told for decades......they do not want a cheap plant that you can grow in your own garden fixing conditions that they make big money out of not curing.
We have an endocannabinoid system in our bodies that is designed for this medicine. But you will never hear that from the orthodox medicos, who have been taught that it is useless and even harmful. But its application for PTSD, anxiety disorders, Parkinson's disease, Crohn's Disease and Epilepsy, to name just a few, has been incredible. Yet still it is labelled in many parts of the world as a schedule one drug....when it never was.
Pharma is into "treatments" which hopefully won't kill you, but will simply alleviate symptoms so that you will keep hooked on their over priced drugs for the rest of your miserable life, fleecing you every time you fill a prescription. Hasn't anyone twigged by now that the orthodox medical system is after only one thing....to empty your wallet and they use their indoctrinated pharmacology trained physicians to prescribe them.
The ignorance concerning the medicinal use of cannabis is appalling, and to see people even now still brainwashed by a system that is robbing them blind but curing nothing with their very expensive drugs and treatments....the majority of which are synthetic chemicals that your body does not how to deal with, producing all manner of "side effects" in a long list.
"Side effects" are the result of your body reacting badly to the synthetic chemicals that they are giving you to supposedly make you well....except that it is actually making you sicker. So to turn off one side effect they will prescribe another drug which will have another set of side effects. For those who have been on this carousel, and it has left them drug dependent..... you have my sympathy.
Its a treadmill I have been on and now will not have a bar of it. Natural medicines are now my "drugs" of choice and if I lived where there was a cannabis pharmacy, it would be my first port of call.
I envy Californians for their access to this medicine by people who know what to prescribe and what dosage should be given for any condition....we need at least one in every city...IMO.
