Cannabis Prohibition: What does it mean to you?
PROHIBITION
Prohibition is a law, order or decree that forbids something. A well-known example of prohibition is Alcohol prohibition where except for medicinal or scientific purposes the manufacture, transportation, sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages was forbidden.
Was “PROHIBITION” a positive factor for the health and happiness of human beings?
Looking at history we can see the following points are relevant:
1. Prohibition creates disrespect for the law.
2. Prohibition creates an environment for Organized Crime to flourish
3. Prohibition creates an environment which leads to the Corruption of law enforcement, the court system and politics.
4. Prohibition overburdens the police, courts and prison system.
5. Prohibition financially, emotionally, physically and morally harms people.
6. Prohibition results in increased substance abuse.
7. Prohibition prevents treatment for problems associated with the prohibited substance.
8. Prohibition is phenomenally expensive.
“Australian governments spend about $4.7 billion a year on the war on drugs. This figure was arrived at using information from the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation and other sources and is an estimate of how much the Government would save and get in tax revenue if illicit drug sales were regulated and taxed the way tobacco is.”
http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-cost-of-the-war-on-drugs-20091002-ggiw.html
INDUSTRIAL
Cannabis has historically proven methods of use of which some are amazing. Most recently Japan and Russia have used Cannabis to absorb radioactive metals from soil that had been made uninhabitable due to nuclear disaster. After one crop of Cannabis the radiation levels dropped by up to 80%.
Other facts include:
- Paper made from Cannabis never goes yellow, even without bleach. Also very durable.
- Forests take 20 years to grow. With 20 years hemp can make 4 to 10 times more paper from the same space of land. Trees have 30% cellulose whereas Cannabis has 70%.
- Cotton requires pesticides and herbicides whereas Cannabis needs neither. Cotton uses 80% more water than Cannabis. Any carbon released by Cannabis is more than paid for by the Cannabis plant during its life cycle. This means Cannabis has a negative carbon footprint. In this case, negative is a good thing.
- Cannabis can be used as a building material. Historically it was mandatory to have a barrel of Cannabis seed on a boat as if there was a ship wreck the crew could create all necessary materials to rebuild a boat from scratch – using Cannabis to make all of those materials.
- Since 2000 years ago, Cannabis has been used to create „Hempcrete‟ which is a mix of lime, water and Cannabis cellulose. As it dries it draws in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and petrifies the cellulose into stone. In 50 years it is literally rock.
- Henry Ford proved that cars can be powered from Hemp Ethanol and that Hemp plastic is 10 times stronger than steel. Diesel engines can be made to run on hemp oil.
- 3 tablespoons of Cannabis seed has: Protein 11gm (25% RDI) - Highly digestible, .Zinc (25% RDI), Iron (15% RDI), 170 Calories Perfect 3:1 ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 fatty acids. All essential amino Acids. Phosphorous + Magnesium (50% RDI)
RECREATIONAL
The reality is that the human body is regulated by cannabinoids every day. Even after you finish reading this booklet your body will still be full of cannabinoids. Cannabinoids have an important role and that is to regulate cells. The cannabinoids in our body are called endogenous cannabinoids and the ones from the plant are called phyto-cannabinoids. The key to recreational use is moderation.
The difference between phyto-cannabinoids and endogenous cannabinoids: “The only difference is that the endocannabinoids that we produce are in such small quantities and they are also rapidly degraded so that therefore we are not high all the time or we don’t have that feeling of euphoria all the time” - Dr. Prakash Nagarkatti, Professor of Pathology and Microbiology, University of South Carolina
Professor Henningfield, Jack E., Ph.D.
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/expert_team/faculty/H/Henningfield.html
Worked from 1980-1996 in Government Service: National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, Pharmacologist, Chief, Clinical Pharmacology Research Branch
Professor Henningfield produced this report for the Government:
Comparing dangers of popular drugs:
Caffeine scores a total of 8.
Marijuana (Cannabis) scoring 8.
Australian Government Research Says:
“The weight of evidence suggests that the long-term use of Cannabis does not result in any severe or grossly debilitating impairment of cognitive function. However, there is clinical and experimental evidence which suggests that long-term use of Cannabis produces more subtle cognitive impairments in specific aspects of memory, attention and the organisation and integration of complex information.”
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/health-pubs-drug-cannab2-ch74.htm
MEDICINAL
Diabetes in Australia:
http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/Understanding-Diabetes/Diabetes-in-Australia/
In Australia Diabetes is associated with a myriad of complications which affect the feet, eyes, kidneys, and cardiovascular health. Nerve damage in the lower limbs affects around 13% of Australians with diabetes, diabetic retinopathy occurs in over 15% of Australians with diabetes, and diabetes is now the leading cause of end-stage kidney disease.
In people with diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the primary cause of death, with around 65% of all CVD deaths in Australia occurring in people with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Furthermore, 41% of people with diabetes also report poor psychological well-being with reports of anxiety, stress, depression and feeling „burned-out‟ from coping with their diabetes.
Moreover, diabetes is ranked in the top 10 leading causes of death in Australia.
The total financial cost of type 2 diabetes is estimated at $10.3 billion. Of this, carer costs were estimated as $4.4 billion, productivity losses were $4.1 billion, health system costs were $1.1 billion and $1.1 billion was due to obesity. “
As there is currently no cure for diabetes…” really???
Does introducing Regulating cells cure diabetes?
“The key to restoring production of insulin in type I diabetic patients, previously known as juvenile diabetes, may be in recovering the population of protective cells known T regulatory cells in the lymph nodes at the “gates” of the pancreas”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121008134030.htm
“As a result of this treatment, the animals were cured from diabetes: their beta cells re-grew (being protected from the autoimmune cells by the Treg cells) and they had normal blood sugar levels for the rest of their lives.”
How do I increase Regulatory T cells (Treg Cells) ?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828293/
“…It is noteworthy that THC treatment in ConA-injected mice led to significant increase in absolute number of Fork head helix transcription factor p3+ T regulatory cells in liver.”
Current cures for diabetes Type 1 (most likely all types too):
Bone marrow transplant = Reality: Too dangerous to perform on diabetics.
Cannabis consumption = Reality: Beneficial to the body in many aspects.
1) Diabetes in mammals is caused by lack of Treg cells.
2) Diabetic mammals, with increased Treg cells will return to normal, a life without diabetes.
3) THC causes a SIGNIFICANT increase in Treg cell count in mammals.
Cancer in Australia:
http://www.cancer.org.au/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/facts-and-figures.html
1 in 2 Australian men and 1 in 3 Australian women will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85.
Cancer is a leading cause of death in Australia.
Cancer costs more than $3.8 billion in direct health system costs (7.2%).
$378 million was spent on cancer research in 2000-01, 22% of all health research expenditure in Australia.
Curing Cancer: What is Cancer?
1) Cancer is an unregulated cell.
2) Inducing Apoptosis regulates the cancer cell.
3) Cannabinoids induce Apoptosis in cells.
Cancer is defined as “a broad group of various diseases, ALL involving UNREGULATED cell growth.“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer
Q: How do we regulate cells? A: Via Apoptosis
What is Apoptosis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis#Process
“Apoptosis (pron.: /ˌæpəˈtoʊsɪs/ also pron.: /ˌeɪpɔːpˈtoʊsɪs/) is the process of programmed cell death (PCD) that may occur in multicellular organisms.Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death. ”
“The process of apoptosis is controlled by a diverse range of cell signals, which may originate either extracellularly (extrinsic inducers) or intracellularly (intrinsic inducers). Extracellular signals may include toxins,[13] hormones, growth factors, nitric oxide[14] or cytokines, that must either cross the plasma membrane or transduce to effect a response. These signals may positively (i.e., trigger) or negatively (i.e., repress, inhibit, or dampen) affect apoptosis. ”
How do we make a cancerous cell go through Apoptosis?
We need cannabinoids/endocannabinoids to signal to Cannabinoid Receptors (CB1R, CB2R) to induce Apoptosis:
What is a CBR? (Cannabinoid Receptor)
“Cannabinoid receptors are activated by three major groups of ligands, endocannabinoids (produced by the mammalian body), plant cannabinoids (such as THC, produced by the Cannabis plant) and synthetic cannabinoids (such as HU-210). All of the endocannabinoids and plant cannabinoids are lipophilic, i.e. fat soluble, compounds.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_receptor
Can Cannabinoids signal to a CBR to induce Apoptosis?
“Studies in these disease models along with many in vitro experiments show that cannabinoids exert their immunosuppressive properties in four main ways: (1) induction of apoptosis,” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3005548/
Cannabis has the safest and most effective results in regulating cancer cells and restoring T-regulatory cell count.
A list of conditions that also benefit from Cannabis can be found here:
http://www.mcsocal.com/docs/chronic_conditions_treated_with_cannabis.pdf
Tod H. Mikuriya - director of non-classified marijuana research for the National Institute of Mental Health Centre for Narcotics and Drug Abuse Studies in 1967. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_H._Mikuriya
I Heard Cannabis Causes Schizophrenia is this true?
Cannabis does not create new mental health conditions. A compound in Cannabis, THC, taken in high doses will exacerbate any existing psychotic condition HOWEVER if this happens you just need to take more CBD than THC and ALL psychotic symptoms will become non-existent or mitigated. CBD is currently used as an equivalent anti-psychotic medicine except that it does not cause organ damage like existing anti-psychotics.
http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v2/n3/full/tp201215a.html
(Schizophrenics benefit from THC consumption)
Users of THC can prevent a “SLIGHT” size reduction of the hippocampus by increasing CBD levels. Having more CBD counters the effect where THC “SLIGHTLY” reduces the size of the Hippocampus.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21050680
