Those who doubt medical marijuana’s usefulness, put this
in your pipe and smoke it: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and CNN’s
chief medical correspondent, formerly on your side, has reversed his
position and come out strongly in favor of the use of cannabis to treat
various medical conditions.
“I think we have been terribly and systematically misled in this
country, and I did part of that misleading,” he said, apologizing for
not supporting medical marijuana sooner.
He said there was “no scientific basis” for claims that marijuana was
not beneficial, while a host of studies conducted outside the U.S. and
patient experience proved it could alleviate symptoms that even
stronger, more addictive and dangerous drugs could not. Refusing to
offer marijuana as a medical treatment, he said, was “irresponsible.”
Sometimes when you think that there must be a conspiracy between some
parties controlling an aspect of your life, it may turn out that you
were right! You can watch a webinar about the history of Hemp Oil and
how it helps heal cancer and inflammation.
One excellent example of the conspiracies is the story of hemp. But before I get into that, let me tell you about coconut oil.
In the 90’s, coconut oil was used to top that yummy popcorn we all
ate as we watched our movies. Then someone decided that it caused health
problems and theaters were banned from using it. Coconut oil became
taboo.
True enough, not all coconut oil is cold pressed and trouble-free,
but coconut oil’s benefits are now shouted from the rooftops, or at
least in many health food store aisles.
So what really happened in the 90s?
The people who make vegetable oils won the public relations battle.
Coconut oil disappeared from the movie theaters and from grocery store
shelves for a decade, replaced by Canola, Corn and Safflower Oil to name
a few.
Hemp suffered a similar fate back in the 1940s.
Why should you care about it? Because hemp extract, and especially
one of its components, cannabidiol, are excellent anti-inflammatory
agents. Most everything that causes aches or chronic pain your body can
greatly benefit from adding cannabidiol (CBD) to your menu.
Let me quote some
government research:
Besides dealing with many types of cancer, CBD is very
good at calming over-excited nerves and “study demonstrated that
endogenous cannabinoid system signaling is likely to provide intrinsic
protection against colonic inflammation and cannabinoids may also
contribute to pain modulation through an anti-inflammatory mechanism.”
In 1937 the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration crafted the
Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the first US national law making cannabis
possession illegal except for industrial or medical purposes.
It was brought forward in the interest of the Hearst family – they
wanted to make paper from trees, not hemp – and of the Dupont family –
they wanted to use nylon, not hemp for rope and cordage.
Fast forward 60 years, and we have the near perfect replica of the
Prohibition years, except we call it the War on Drugs. We are jailing
millions of people, killing thousands of them in turf wars, and wasting
billions of dollars investigating, suppressing, incarcerating and
eradicating. How can the final outcome be anything different than what
happened with the Prohibition?
But I digress. This post is about health, inflammation, and cancer.
Raw Hemp has fantastic healing properties.
Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of the compounds, and it is responsible for much of the healing effects.
The good thing about it is this: it is legal. THC, the other major
ingredient in the varieties of hemp that would get you high, is not, at
least not in every state.
I found a
video
that explains rather well how juiced hemp deals with inflammation,
chronic pain, and other illness. Note one major point they make: even
the type of hemp that would get you high when heated (smoked or baked)
does not have the mind altering effect when ingested as cold-pressed or
juiced.
Let me address the most frequently asked questions about Hemp Oil:
1. Will I get high?
Sorry! Not with the CBD hemp oil. And not even with home made fresh hemp juice.
2. Will I become addicted?
Hemp oil does not cause your body to
crave more. It is non-addictive, harmless, and effective for practically
any medical condition.
3. Is this the same as hemp seed oil?
No! This oil is made from the hemp stem
and stalk extract. It is the essential oil of the hemp plant. Health
food stores sell oil made from hemp seed that is often mislabeled as
hemp oil – it should be called hemp seed oil. Although the seed oil is
very beneficial, it does not contain enough CBD to have any effect on
cancer and other serious illnesses.
I want to mention to you a movement that has been unfolding for
several years in the background or underground, started by a very brave
man, Rick Simpson. He has been using the name Hemp Oil for a product
that is the extract of the marijuana bud, rich in both CBD and THC. It
would be better if it were called “marijuana oil” to distinguish it from
the “hemp oil” that is rich in CBD only.
You can order CBD-rich
Dixie Botanicals products to help with your chronic inflammation, lower your pain, improve your moods.
My
story starts 30 years ago when as a naive young man I stepped into a
dentist's office with a freshly earned medical insurance. Twelve mercury
fillings later my life took on a new course. During the next 20 years
while I was working as an Information Technology consultant (my
university education is in business administration and computer
science), I also became my own research project in learning about the
dysfunctional medical system, its failure to seek holistic or strategic
solutions, and the collusion of industrial interests to perpetuate
treatment instead of healing. My health decline was profound, and
eventually I hit the proverbial wall. I gave up on the problem oriented
allopathic approach, and applied my training to analyze the situation. I
now understand the cause of degenerative disease, I reversed it in
myself, and am helping thousands to do the same for themselves. I
believe in personal empowerment. I help people take charge of their own
body and restore their health
. For the last 12 years I have been running Life Enthusiast, and work
there as a health coach. I am certified as a Metabolic Typing Advisor,
and write about Biological Individuality, the main reason people cannot
use the one-size-fits-all approach pushed in the mainstream. You can
find me on http://www.life-enthusiast.com I will write about chronic
health problems, and how they can be reversed using natural products. I
will advocate for organic food, and things one could find in health food
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