Legalisation Through Education
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
North Korea. Cannabis was never made illegal and remains the preferred herb of the citizen
North Korea. Cannabis was never made illegal and remains the preferred herb of the citizen
There may not be any food on the shelves of North Korean shops, but
the private ‘closed state’ of North Korea has plenty of weed growing in
the countryside. North Korea never implemented the marijuana
prohibition laws like the rest of the world, as a result cannabis plant
remains free of stigma and is used and grown freely.
Whilst many would have assumed that weed users in North Korea would face the firing squad, the opposite is true according to this report
http://www.nknews.org/2013/01/struggle-is-the-enemy-weed-is-the-remedy-the-truth-about-marijuana-in-north-korea/
Whilst many would have assumed that weed users in North Korea would face the firing squad, the opposite is true according to this report
http://www.nknews.org/2013/01/struggle-is-the-enemy-weed-is-the-remedy-the-truth-about-marijuana-in-north-korea/
Who would have thought it? North Korea remains a stoner paradise.
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Copyright © American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.
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Department of Neuroscience, Farber Institute for Neurosciences, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:
Illicit drug use, particularly of cannabis, is common among opiate-dependent individuals and has the potential to impact treatment in a negative manner.METHODS:
To examine this, patterns of cannabis use prior to and during methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) were examined to assess possible cannabis-related effects on MMT, particularly during methadone stabilization. Retrospective chart analysis was used to examine outpatient records of patients undergoing MMT (n = 91), focusing specifically on past and present cannabis use and its association with opiate abstinence, methadone dose stabilization, and treatment compliance.RESULTS:
Objective rates of cannabis use were high during methadone induction, dropping significantly following dose stabilization. History of cannabis use correlated with cannabis use during MMT but did not negatively impact the methadone induction process. Pilot data also suggested that objective ratings of opiate withdrawal decrease in MMT patients using cannabis during stabilization.CONCLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE:
The present findings may point to novel interventions to be employed during treatment for opiate dependence that specifically target cannabinoid-opioid system interactions. (Am J Addict 2013;22:344-351).Copyright © American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.
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Zip 420: Rihanna Loves Marijuana
Zip 420: Rihanna Loves Marijuana: Millions Of People Love Marijuana Worldwide First of all, I want to apologize to all Zip 420 readers, as I have not been able to upload any new posts for the past
couple of days. The truth is that I went out on a vacation, to Cancun,
Mexico, were I had lots of fun, but had some problems trying to find
some weed. Over the years, I have travelled a bit and since I have been
an avid cannabis smoker for about 15 years now, I have bought weed in
several cities and countries as well.
It was on this trip to Cancun that I had some problems finding some
weed, which I thought was not going to be hard at all, but it was. After
going to Coco Bongo for some drinks and an amazing show, I went on a
search for cannabis and found that they do sell some tiny bags for $60
USD, which is actually a lot more than I am used to paying for my weed,
but it was worth it. Hope that you all had a nice weekend too and that
you get to travel to Cancun at least once in your lifetime.
Just like me, there are millions of people who love cannabis out there
and Rihanna is one of them. This famous singer and actress, has made it
clear that she loves marijuana and this is why we love her so much at Zip 420.
Rihanna Really Loves Smoking Marijuana
It has been several times, when Rihanna has made her love for marijuana
public, as she has sung about it in some of her songs, she has featured
some joints and other cannabis related things in her album covers and
she has also worn clothes that show her love for this plant.
It was just recently, when Rihanna was going to a concert, that she
decided to wear a white t-shirt, which had said "High Fashion" and had a
cannabis plant on it, Just as you can imagine, Rihanna looked
incredibly hot and she proved her fans that she is really not afraid of
hiding her love for the cannabis plant.
Not only did Rihanna wear this t-shirt with a beautiful cannabis plant
inside a heart, but she also posted to her Twitter account about it and
this is certainly great for the legalization of cannabis around the
world. Rihanna has also been using her Instagram account to post some of
the things that she has been doing in Amsterdam and how she has had an
excellent time with her friend Jenn Rosales, who can be seen smoking a
huge bowl of marijuana in some of the pictures and Rihanna as well.
In this post, you can also see Rihanna smoking two enormous joints and
this should give you an idea of how much she loves the cannabis plant.
Thanks to celebrities like Rihanna, we are getting closer to legalizing
marijuana worldwide and this is why we have talked about her in this
blog several times.
Please remember to like and share this article and to leave us your
email in the box to the right, so you can receive our mailing list and
learn more about the marijuana plant and how its legalization is closer than ever.
Marijuana Is A Very Important Plant For Human Kind
Cannabis and the Occult, Chris Bennett
Cannabis historian Chris Bennett talks about the occult history of cannabis following the Cannabis Grail trail via The Assassins, Knights Templar, Rabelais, Alchemists, Blavatsky, Crowley and other well known occult figures.
at the 14th annual hempology convention
www.hempology.ca
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer
Zip 420
Studies Prove That Smoking Marijuana Is Not That Bad
According to some professors from UCLA, consuming cannabis is not very
harmful to our lungs and if you only smoke it every once in a while, it
does not lead to lung cancer. This is certainly good news for us, as
this will help legalization to take place worldwide and we need to tell
as many people as we can.
Donal P. Tashkin is one of the professors that has been studying the
effects of marijuana on the human body for a long time and he has stated
some very interesting things about this. "Finding from a limited number
of well-designed epidemiological studies do not suggest an increased
risk for the development of either lung or upper airway cancer from
light or moderate use, although evidence is mixed concerning possible
carcinogenic risks of heavy, long-term use", says Tashkin.
This basically means that if you smoke a little cannabis, you have
little risks of being diagnosed with lung cancer or other similar
diseases, which is certainly something that should put many people at
ease. Although it is still unknown, if heavy use of marijuana is
dangerous for our lungs or not, I certainly believe that it is a lot
less harmful than smoking tobacco and this is why it should be legalized
worldwide.
Smoking Marijuana Can Help To Fight Cancer
The studies have also proven that consuming cannabis does affect some of
our airways, but that this is not as harmful as some people might
think, which is why you should really not worry about your health much.
The smoke of cannabis, is the only thing that could harm your body a
bit, but there are also some studies, which prove that some of the
compound's in marijuana can help to fight some of the most
aggressive types of cancers out there and that it can even stop the
disease from spreading, which is certainly a very good thing.
These studies were realized at the California Pacific Medical Center in
San Francisco and many people have testified to the fact that cannabis
does help to fight certain types of cancers and that they feel much
better with this herb.
Let's Promote The Legalization Of Marijuana
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mailing list, by leaving us your email in the box to the right. We will
send you valuable information about smoking marijuana and what
this herb can do to help your life., It is time to legalize cannabis
worldwide and here at Zip 420 we want to promote this herb.
Friday, 21 June 2013
Thursday, 20 June 2013
9 Mind-Blowing Marijuana Gadgets That Will Revolutionize Weed Smoking
9 Mind-Blowing Marijuana Gadgets That Will Revolutionize Weed Smoking
As investors flock to the expanding marijuana industry, new marijuana
gadgets are emerging, promising to improve your pot-smoking experience.
(AP Photo/DEA Strike Force, File)
A gadget that turns any Starbucks venti cup into a bong, a power cleaner for resin-clogged pipes, and chewing gum that cures cotton mouth are among products that marijuana aficionados may see in their favorite head shops before the end of the year.
A flock of American businesses, seeking to take advantage of an investment rush into the marijuana industry, are behind a wave of new weed-smoking accessories designed to improve on such classic devices as the bong, the pipe and the one-hitter. The new so-called ganjapreneurs are hoping to capitalize on a speculative mania that cannabis industry insiders call a “green rush.”
“People have been trying to do this for a really long while and now is really the time,” said Ross Kirsh, owner at New York based Quark, which creates accessories used to store and display medical marijuana.
At two marijuana business networking conferences last week in New York, ganjapreneurs shook hands, smoked joints, made deals, and shared plans for profiting from the creeping legalization of pot. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia allow medical marijuana, and two states, Colorado and Washington, legalized recreational adult use of cannabis last year. The federal government still considers pot illegal to possess or use.
“There was a lot of uncertainty in this business in 2011," Kirsh said. "People were hesitant to see where business would go after what was a federal crackdown. But after legalization in Colorado and Washington, the attitude has completely changed.”
Los Angeles-based Royght! plans to sell a gadget that fits snugly atop the standard-issue wax-paper cups used by takeout restaurants. For $19.95, super-sized becomes super high.
Matt Luxton, the company’s 30-year-old owner, said he’s gone through 24 prototypes, but believes “lucky number 25” is ready for market. He said designing, manufacturing and -- particularly -- testing his product has been an eye-opening experience for him as an entrepreneur.
“One of the things we’ve found in testing is people like the ability to fill the cup up with whatever -– coffee, orange juice, vodka, Coca-Cola from the McDonald’s fountain -– and smoke through that,” Luxton said.
Click on the slideshow below to see eight other products likely to come out of the marijuana industry’s “green rush.”
A gadget that turns any Starbucks venti cup into a bong, a power cleaner for resin-clogged pipes, and chewing gum that cures cotton mouth are among products that marijuana aficionados may see in their favorite head shops before the end of the year.
A flock of American businesses, seeking to take advantage of an investment rush into the marijuana industry, are behind a wave of new weed-smoking accessories designed to improve on such classic devices as the bong, the pipe and the one-hitter. The new so-called ganjapreneurs are hoping to capitalize on a speculative mania that cannabis industry insiders call a “green rush.”
“People have been trying to do this for a really long while and now is really the time,” said Ross Kirsh, owner at New York based Quark, which creates accessories used to store and display medical marijuana.
At two marijuana business networking conferences last week in New York, ganjapreneurs shook hands, smoked joints, made deals, and shared plans for profiting from the creeping legalization of pot. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia allow medical marijuana, and two states, Colorado and Washington, legalized recreational adult use of cannabis last year. The federal government still considers pot illegal to possess or use.
“There was a lot of uncertainty in this business in 2011," Kirsh said. "People were hesitant to see where business would go after what was a federal crackdown. But after legalization in Colorado and Washington, the attitude has completely changed.”
Los Angeles-based Royght! plans to sell a gadget that fits snugly atop the standard-issue wax-paper cups used by takeout restaurants. For $19.95, super-sized becomes super high.
Matt Luxton, the company’s 30-year-old owner, said he’s gone through 24 prototypes, but believes “lucky number 25” is ready for market. He said designing, manufacturing and -- particularly -- testing his product has been an eye-opening experience for him as an entrepreneur.
“One of the things we’ve found in testing is people like the ability to fill the cup up with whatever -– coffee, orange juice, vodka, Coca-Cola from the McDonald’s fountain -– and smoke through that,” Luxton said.
Click on the slideshow below to see eight other products likely to come out of the marijuana industry’s “green rush.”
Cannabis and Epilepsy, Seizures & Fits
Cannabis and Epilepsy, Seizures
Anti-epileptic Action of Marijuana-Active Substances (full – 1949) www.onlinepot.org/medical/Dr_Tods_PDFs/s3_6.pdf
Anticonvulsant nature of marihuana smoking. (abst – 1975)
www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=39 320
Anticonvulsant activity of four oxygenated cannabidiol derivatives. (abst – 1975)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1188178
Cannabidiol–antiepileptic drug comparisons and interactions in experimentally induced seizures in rats. (full – 1977)
jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/201/1/26.abstract?ijkey=8457ace5313942358e64d156c12d04bd3c7d5f21&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
Anticonvulsant Action of Cannabis in the Rat: Role of Brain Monoamines.
(abst – 1978) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/104333
Chronic administration of cannabidiol to healthy volunteers and epileptic patients.
(abst – 1980) www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=42
Antiepileptic potential of cannabidiol analogs. (abst – 1981)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7298873
The cannabinoids as potential antiepileptics. (abst – 1981)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6975285
Hypnotic and Antiepileptic Effects of Cannabidiol (abst – 1981)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7028792
Anticonvulsant effects of the (-) and (+)isomers of cannabidiol and their dimethylheptyl homologs. (abst – 1982)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=7071126&dopt=abstractplus
Effects of cannabidiol on behavioral seizures caused by convulsant drugs or current in mice. (abst – 1982) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6129147
ILLICIT DRUG USE AND THE RISK OF NEW-ONSET SEIZURES
(abst – 1990)
aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/132/1/47.abstract?sid=9fd403c4-2e6e-4df4-a57c-208434b8ad0a
Marijuana use and the risk of new onset seizures. (full – 1992)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376682/?tool=pmcentrez
Treatment with CBD in oily solution of drug-resistant paediatric epilepsies.
(full – 2001) www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=173&&search_pattern=EPILEPSY
Therapeutic Aspects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids (full – 2001)
bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/178/2/107.pdf
Anticonvulsant activity of N-palmitoylethanolamide, a putative endocannabinoid, in mice. (abst – 2001) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11442148 321
Alcohol and marijuana: effects on epilepsy and use by patients with epilepsy.
(abst – 2001) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11737161
The Endogenous Cannabinoid System Regulates Seizure Frequency and Duration in a Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (full – 2003)
jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/307/1/129.full?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabinoid&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=160&resourcetype=HWCIT
Experiences with THC-treatment in children and adolescents (abst – 2003)
www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=80
On the application of cannabis in paediatrics and epileptology. (abst – 2003)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15159680
Cannabis may help epileptics (news – 2003) www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/4423.php
Cannabis ‘could help epileptics’ (news – 2003) news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3162000.stm
Marijuana Use More Prevalent With Epilepsy (needs free registration)
(news – 2003) www.medscape.com/viewarticle/465891
Endocannabinoids and Their Implications for Epilepsy (full – 2004)
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1176361&tool=pmcentrez
Cannabinoids: Defending the Epileptic Brain (full – 2004)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1176332/?tool=pmcentrez
Marijuana use and epilepsy – Prevalence in patients of a tertiary care epilepsy center (abst – 2004)
www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/62/11/2095?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=marihuana&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=1760&resourcetype=HWCIT
Epilepsy patients are smoking pot (news – 2004) www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=1638
Cannabinoids as potential anti-epileptic drugs. (abst – 2005)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=16044663&dopt=abstractplus
Anandamide Induced Anti-Convulsion in an In Vitro Model of Epilepsy (abst – 2005)
www.kau.edu.sa/centers/spc/jkau/Doc/Med/12/Mada.pdf
Selective antiepileptic effects of N-palmitoylethanolamide, a putative endocannabinoid.
(abst – 2005) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15461672
Not Too Excited? Thank Your Endocannabinoids (full – 2006)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627306005927 322
Forebrain-Specific Inactivation of Gq/G11 Family G Proteins Results in Age-Dependent Epilepsy and Impaired Endocannabinoid Formation (full – 2006)
mcb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/26/15/5888?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabinoid&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=1360&resourcetype=HWCIT
The Endocannabinoid System Controls Key Epileptogenic Circuits in the Hippocampus (full – 2006) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1769341/?tool=pmcentrez
Cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonists cause status epilepticus-like activity in the hippocampal neuronal culture model of acquired epilepsy (full – 2006)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1808496/?tool=pmcentrez
Activation of the Cannabinoid Type-1 Receptor Mediates the Anticonvulsant Properties of Cannabinoids in the Hippocampal Neuronal Culture Models of Acquired Epilepsy and Status Epilepticus (full – 2006)
jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/317/3/1072.full?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabinoid&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=320&resourcetype=HWCIT#ref-list-1
Arachidonyl-2′-chloroethylamide, a highly selective cannabinoid CB1 receptor agonist, enhances the anticonvulsant action of valproate in the mouse maximal electroshock-induced seizure model. (abst – 2006) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16930590
Brain’s Cannabinoid System ‘Mellows’ Seizures (news – 2006)
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060817103710.htm
Brain’s cannabinoid system fights seizures (news – 2006) www.physorg.com/news75053658.html
Downregulation of the CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor and Related Molecular Elements of the Endocannabinoid System in Epileptic Human Hippocampus (full – 2007)
www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/28/12/2976?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabinoid&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT
Endocannabinoids block status epilepticus in cultured hippocampal neurons
(full – 2007) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2617750/?tool=pmcentrez
Development of pharmacoresistance to benzodiazepines but not cannabinoids in the hippocampal neuronal culture model of status epilepticus (full – 2007) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2094113/?tool=pmcentrez
Marijuana: an effective antiepileptic treatment in partial epilepsy? (abst – 2007)
www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=157
Ultra-low dose cannabinoid antagonist AM251 enhances cannabinoid anticonvulsant effects in the pentylenetetrazole-induced seizure in mice. (abst – 2007) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17870135 323
The phytocannabinoid Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabivarin modulates inhibitory neurotransmission in the cerebellum. (full – 2008) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2438968/?tool=pubmed
The cannabinoid anticonvulsant effect on pentylenetetrazole-induced seizure is potentiated by ultra-low dose naltrexone in mice (abst – 2008) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18502613
The effects of intracerebroventricular AM-251, a CB1-receptor antagonist, and ACEA, a CB1-receptor agonist, on penicillin-induced epileptiform activity in rats.
(full – 2009)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02098.x/full
Prolonged exposure to WIN55,212-2 causes downregulation of the CB1 receptor and the development of tolerance to its anticonvulsant effects in the hippocampal neuronal culture model of acquired epilepsy. (full – 2009) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757117/?tool=pubmed
Effect of arachidonyl-2′-chloroethylamide, a selective cannabinoid CB1 receptor agonist, on the protective action of the various antiepileptic drugs in the mouse maximal electroshock-induced seizure model. (abst – 2009) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19751793
Involvement of nitrergic system in the anticonvulsant effect of the cannabinoid CB(1) agonist ACEA in the pentylenetetrazole-induced seizure in mice. (abst – 2009) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19223154
Cannabidiol Displays Antiepileptiform and Antiseizure Properties In Vitro and In Vivo (full – 2010) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819831/?tool=pmcentrez
Cannabinoid-mediated inhibition of recurrent excitatory circuitry in the dentate gyrus in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy. (full – 2010)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871782/?tool=pubmed
AAV vector-mediated overexpression of CB1 cannabinoid receptor in pyramidal neurons of the hippocampus protects against seizure-induced excitoxicity. (full – 2010)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3006205/?tool=pubmed
Delta-Tetrahydrocannabivarin suppresses in vitro epileptiform and in vivo seizure activity in adult rats. (abst – 2010) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20196794
Anticonvulsant effects of GWP42006 in vitro and in vivo in rat (abst – 2010)
www.physoc.org/custom2/publications/proceedings/archive/article.asp?ID=Proc%20Physiol%20Soc%2019C117
Dynamic changes of CB1-receptor expression in hippocampi of epileptic mice and humans. (abst – 2010) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20618415 324
Endocannabinoid system protects against cryptogenic seizures. (full – 2011)
www.if-pan.krakow.pl/pjp/pdf/2011/1_165.pdf
Convulsions Associated with the Use of a Synthetic Cannabinoid Product. (full – 2011)
www.springerlink.com/content/9651q2672027n38g/fulltext.html
Pro-epileptic effects of the cannabinoid receptor antagonist SR141716 in a model of audiogenic epilepsy. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21733658
Synthetic cannabinoid WIN 55,212-2 mesylate enhances the protective action of four classical antiepileptic drugs against maximal electroshock-induced seizures in mice. (abst – 2011)
www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/21238473/abstract/Synthetic_cannabinoid_WIN_55212_2_mesylate_enhances_the_protective_action_of_four_classical_antiepileptic_drugs_against_maximal_electroshock_induced_seizures_in_mice_
Protective effects of CB1 receptor agonist WIN 55.212-2 in seizure activity in the model of temporal lobe epilepsy (abst – 2011)
www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/21469332/abstract/%5BProtective_effects_of_CB1_receptor_agonist_WIN_55_212_2_in_seizure_activity_in_the_model_of_temporal_lobe_epilepsy%5D_
L-Type Calcium Channel Mediates Anticonvulsant Effect of Cannabinoids in Acute and Chronic Murine Models of Seizure. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21928146
Changes in the cannabinoid (CB1) receptor expression level and G-protein activation in kainic acid induced seizures. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22079489
In vivo activation of endocannabinoid system in temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21303859
Marijuana, endocannabinoids, and epilepsy: Potential and challenges for improved therapeutic intervention. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22178327
Cannabis could help treat epilepsy (news – 2011) www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-186693.html
Cannabis could be used to treat epilepsy (news – 2011)
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8440303/Cannabis-could-be-used-to-treat-epilepsy.html
New research provides hope for those with epilepsy (news – 2011)
medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-epilepsy.html
Inverse relationship of cannabimimetic (R+)WIN 55, 212 on behavior and seizure threshold during the juvenile period. (abst – 2012) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22019959
‘Hammer Head’ ‘incense’ blamed for seizure of youth in Le Roy (news – 2012)
thebatavian.com/howard-owens/hammer-head-incense-blamed-seizure-youth-le-roy/29983 325
Cannabis and its role in controlling epilepsy and seizures
This information has been adapted from the Granny Storm Crow’s list.
Marijuana and Epilepsy (anecdotal- no date) www.rxmarihuana.com/epilepsy.htm
Anti-epileptic Action of Marijuana-Active Substances (full – 1949) www.onlinepot.org/medical/Dr_Tods_PDFs/s3_6.pdf
Anticonvulsant nature of marihuana smoking. (abst – 1975)
www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=39 320
Anticonvulsant activity of four oxygenated cannabidiol derivatives. (abst – 1975)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1188178
Cannabidiol–antiepileptic drug comparisons and interactions in experimentally induced seizures in rats. (full – 1977)
jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/201/1/26.abstract?ijkey=8457ace5313942358e64d156c12d04bd3c7d5f21&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
Anticonvulsant Action of Cannabis in the Rat: Role of Brain Monoamines.
(abst – 1978) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/104333
Chronic administration of cannabidiol to healthy volunteers and epileptic patients.
(abst – 1980) www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=42
Antiepileptic potential of cannabidiol analogs. (abst – 1981)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7298873
The cannabinoids as potential antiepileptics. (abst – 1981)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6975285
Hypnotic and Antiepileptic Effects of Cannabidiol (abst – 1981)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7028792
Anticonvulsant effects of the (-) and (+)isomers of cannabidiol and their dimethylheptyl homologs. (abst – 1982)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=7071126&dopt=abstractplus
Effects of cannabidiol on behavioral seizures caused by convulsant drugs or current in mice. (abst – 1982) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6129147
ILLICIT DRUG USE AND THE RISK OF NEW-ONSET SEIZURES
(abst – 1990)
aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/132/1/47.abstract?sid=9fd403c4-2e6e-4df4-a57c-208434b8ad0a
Marijuana use and the risk of new onset seizures. (full – 1992)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376682/?tool=pmcentrez
Treatment with CBD in oily solution of drug-resistant paediatric epilepsies.
(full – 2001) www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=173&&search_pattern=EPILEPSY
Therapeutic Aspects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids (full – 2001)
bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/178/2/107.pdf
Anticonvulsant activity of N-palmitoylethanolamide, a putative endocannabinoid, in mice. (abst – 2001) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11442148 321
Alcohol and marijuana: effects on epilepsy and use by patients with epilepsy.
(abst – 2001) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11737161
The Endogenous Cannabinoid System Regulates Seizure Frequency and Duration in a Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (full – 2003)
jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/307/1/129.full?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabinoid&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=160&resourcetype=HWCIT
Experiences with THC-treatment in children and adolescents (abst – 2003)
www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=80
On the application of cannabis in paediatrics and epileptology. (abst – 2003)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15159680
Cannabis may help epileptics (news – 2003) www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/4423.php
Cannabis ‘could help epileptics’ (news – 2003) news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3162000.stm
Marijuana Use More Prevalent With Epilepsy (needs free registration)
(news – 2003) www.medscape.com/viewarticle/465891
Endocannabinoids and Their Implications for Epilepsy (full – 2004)
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1176361&tool=pmcentrez
Cannabinoids: Defending the Epileptic Brain (full – 2004)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1176332/?tool=pmcentrez
Marijuana use and epilepsy – Prevalence in patients of a tertiary care epilepsy center (abst – 2004)
www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/62/11/2095?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=marihuana&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=1760&resourcetype=HWCIT
Epilepsy patients are smoking pot (news – 2004) www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=1638
Cannabinoids as potential anti-epileptic drugs. (abst – 2005)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=16044663&dopt=abstractplus
Anandamide Induced Anti-Convulsion in an In Vitro Model of Epilepsy (abst – 2005)
www.kau.edu.sa/centers/spc/jkau/Doc/Med/12/Mada.pdf
Selective antiepileptic effects of N-palmitoylethanolamide, a putative endocannabinoid.
(abst – 2005) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15461672
Not Too Excited? Thank Your Endocannabinoids (full – 2006)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627306005927 322
Forebrain-Specific Inactivation of Gq/G11 Family G Proteins Results in Age-Dependent Epilepsy and Impaired Endocannabinoid Formation (full – 2006)
mcb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/26/15/5888?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabinoid&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=1360&resourcetype=HWCIT
The Endocannabinoid System Controls Key Epileptogenic Circuits in the Hippocampus (full – 2006) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1769341/?tool=pmcentrez
Cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonists cause status epilepticus-like activity in the hippocampal neuronal culture model of acquired epilepsy (full – 2006)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1808496/?tool=pmcentrez
Activation of the Cannabinoid Type-1 Receptor Mediates the Anticonvulsant Properties of Cannabinoids in the Hippocampal Neuronal Culture Models of Acquired Epilepsy and Status Epilepticus (full – 2006)
jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/317/3/1072.full?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabinoid&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=320&resourcetype=HWCIT#ref-list-1
Arachidonyl-2′-chloroethylamide, a highly selective cannabinoid CB1 receptor agonist, enhances the anticonvulsant action of valproate in the mouse maximal electroshock-induced seizure model. (abst – 2006) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16930590
Brain’s Cannabinoid System ‘Mellows’ Seizures (news – 2006)
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060817103710.htm
Brain’s cannabinoid system fights seizures (news – 2006) www.physorg.com/news75053658.html
Downregulation of the CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor and Related Molecular Elements of the Endocannabinoid System in Epileptic Human Hippocampus (full – 2007)
www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/28/12/2976?maxtoshow=&hits=80&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=cannabinoid&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT
Endocannabinoids block status epilepticus in cultured hippocampal neurons
(full – 2007) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2617750/?tool=pmcentrez
Development of pharmacoresistance to benzodiazepines but not cannabinoids in the hippocampal neuronal culture model of status epilepticus (full – 2007) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2094113/?tool=pmcentrez
Marijuana: an effective antiepileptic treatment in partial epilepsy? (abst – 2007)
www.cannabis-med.org/studies/ww_en_db_study_show.php?s_id=157
Ultra-low dose cannabinoid antagonist AM251 enhances cannabinoid anticonvulsant effects in the pentylenetetrazole-induced seizure in mice. (abst – 2007) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17870135 323
The phytocannabinoid Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabivarin modulates inhibitory neurotransmission in the cerebellum. (full – 2008) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2438968/?tool=pubmed
The cannabinoid anticonvulsant effect on pentylenetetrazole-induced seizure is potentiated by ultra-low dose naltrexone in mice (abst – 2008) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18502613
The effects of intracerebroventricular AM-251, a CB1-receptor antagonist, and ACEA, a CB1-receptor agonist, on penicillin-induced epileptiform activity in rats.
(full – 2009)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02098.x/full
Prolonged exposure to WIN55,212-2 causes downregulation of the CB1 receptor and the development of tolerance to its anticonvulsant effects in the hippocampal neuronal culture model of acquired epilepsy. (full – 2009) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757117/?tool=pubmed
Effect of arachidonyl-2′-chloroethylamide, a selective cannabinoid CB1 receptor agonist, on the protective action of the various antiepileptic drugs in the mouse maximal electroshock-induced seizure model. (abst – 2009) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19751793
Involvement of nitrergic system in the anticonvulsant effect of the cannabinoid CB(1) agonist ACEA in the pentylenetetrazole-induced seizure in mice. (abst – 2009) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19223154
Cannabidiol Displays Antiepileptiform and Antiseizure Properties In Vitro and In Vivo (full – 2010) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819831/?tool=pmcentrez
Cannabinoid-mediated inhibition of recurrent excitatory circuitry in the dentate gyrus in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy. (full – 2010)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871782/?tool=pubmed
AAV vector-mediated overexpression of CB1 cannabinoid receptor in pyramidal neurons of the hippocampus protects against seizure-induced excitoxicity. (full – 2010)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3006205/?tool=pubmed
Delta-Tetrahydrocannabivarin suppresses in vitro epileptiform and in vivo seizure activity in adult rats. (abst – 2010) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20196794
Anticonvulsant effects of GWP42006 in vitro and in vivo in rat (abst – 2010)
www.physoc.org/custom2/publications/proceedings/archive/article.asp?ID=Proc%20Physiol%20Soc%2019C117
Dynamic changes of CB1-receptor expression in hippocampi of epileptic mice and humans. (abst – 2010) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20618415 324
Endocannabinoid system protects against cryptogenic seizures. (full – 2011)
www.if-pan.krakow.pl/pjp/pdf/2011/1_165.pdf
Convulsions Associated with the Use of a Synthetic Cannabinoid Product. (full – 2011)
www.springerlink.com/content/9651q2672027n38g/fulltext.html
Pro-epileptic effects of the cannabinoid receptor antagonist SR141716 in a model of audiogenic epilepsy. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21733658
Synthetic cannabinoid WIN 55,212-2 mesylate enhances the protective action of four classical antiepileptic drugs against maximal electroshock-induced seizures in mice. (abst – 2011)
www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/21238473/abstract/Synthetic_cannabinoid_WIN_55212_2_mesylate_enhances_the_protective_action_of_four_classical_antiepileptic_drugs_against_maximal_electroshock_induced_seizures_in_mice_
Protective effects of CB1 receptor agonist WIN 55.212-2 in seizure activity in the model of temporal lobe epilepsy (abst – 2011)
www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/record/21469332/abstract/%5BProtective_effects_of_CB1_receptor_agonist_WIN_55_212_2_in_seizure_activity_in_the_model_of_temporal_lobe_epilepsy%5D_
L-Type Calcium Channel Mediates Anticonvulsant Effect of Cannabinoids in Acute and Chronic Murine Models of Seizure. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21928146
Changes in the cannabinoid (CB1) receptor expression level and G-protein activation in kainic acid induced seizures. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22079489
In vivo activation of endocannabinoid system in temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21303859
Marijuana, endocannabinoids, and epilepsy: Potential and challenges for improved therapeutic intervention. (abst – 2011) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22178327
Cannabis could help treat epilepsy (news – 2011) www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-186693.html
Cannabis could be used to treat epilepsy (news – 2011)
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8440303/Cannabis-could-be-used-to-treat-epilepsy.html
New research provides hope for those with epilepsy (news – 2011)
medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-epilepsy.html
Inverse relationship of cannabimimetic (R+)WIN 55, 212 on behavior and seizure threshold during the juvenile period. (abst – 2012) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22019959
‘Hammer Head’ ‘incense’ blamed for seizure of youth in Le Roy (news – 2012)
thebatavian.com/howard-owens/hammer-head-incense-blamed-seizure-youth-le-roy/29983 325
Militarizing the Police and Killing Natives: How the US Drug War Is Ripping Honduras Apart
International News | The Compassion Chronicles
From Alternet, August 30, 2012
Militarizing the Police and Killing Natives: How the US Drug War Is Ripping Honduras Apart
Since the Central American peace processes began 25 years ago, a tremendous effort has been made to remove militaries from policing, an effort now apparently being reversed in the US’s increasingly militarized and multinational war against drugs.
On May 11, the US Drug Enforcement Administration led an operation that ended in the deaths of four indigenous Miskitu villagers on the Patuca River near the town of Ahuas, Gracias a Dios, Honduras. US and Honduran officials claimed the boat that came under fire was part of a trafficking operation. Neighbors, local authorities and human rights organizations claimed they were innocent bystanders.
Though the US Embassy provided technical assistance for the Public Prosecutors’ investigation, little probing occurred. In the weeks following the shooting US and Honduran officials made statements criminalizing the victims, Miskitu communities and local authorities.
In response, the Miskitu indigenous federation, MASTA, requested that two Washington-based organizations undertake an independent investigation. Through witness testimony, and interviews with Honduran and US Embassy officials, Rights Action and the Center for Economic and Policy Research brought into focus a disturbing picture of a peaceful indigenous community ripped apart by the US drug war. This disturbing picture has been created by the transfer of counter-insurgency strategies used in Afghanistan to Central America and a regional push to create militarized police forces.
The report was released August 15. Then, on August 27, Honduran Human Rights Commissioner Ramon Custodio, highly criticized for his role in the June 2009 military coup and coverup of abuses that followed, announced that his commission had also completed its investigation and intends to request that the US House and Senate Judiciary Committees investigate the shootings.
Gracias a Dios is Honduras’ largest region, and the country’s most peaceful. While Honduras suffers from the highest reported murder rate in the world, 86 per 100,000 residents, courts in Gracias a Dios, with a population of 76,000, registered six murders in 2011 and two in 2010. The last violent death in Ahuas occurred in 2004; it hardly seems like a hotbed of drug trafficking.
Survivors of the shooting explained that the boat had taken lobster divers to a commercial fishing boat in Barra Patuca, about six hours away. They brought passengers on the return trip, including two families moving to Ahuas from Roatan, a diver who had been treated for decompression sickness and family members of divers.
Just moments before arriving in Ahuas, the boat driver saw an apparently unmanned boat float by, and the passengers were awakened by low flying helicopters that soon opened fire on them. Survivors and the wounded explain they struggled to get to shore while two helicopters dropped security forces just 20 meters away at the town’s boat landing. Hilder Lezama got a call from a survivor who had swam to shore and borrowed a neighbors’ telephone to tell him that his mother, the 53-year-old boat owner, was wounded in the river. He hurried to the landing, just as the helicopters descended.
The first helicopter dropped what appeared to be Honduran police, though some spoke mostly English, and were described as “gringos.” A second helicopter landed, and stayed on the ground for over two hours. All on board were white English-speaking men–even the door gunner and pilots. All wore tan camouflage with American flags on their shoulders. To one resident who had studied near the Soto Cano Airforce base where the US Army Joint Task Force Bravo is stationed, the outfits looked like US army uniforms.
The white, English-speaking men forced Lezama to wait at gunpoint for what seemed an hour, and then ferried cocaine from a stranded boat downriver that held two gringo “soldiers” already onboard. He was not allowed to look for his mother who lay wounded on a log in the river. Security agents on shore also prevented neighbors from assisting those in the river.
US and Honduran officials, in contradictory statements, say that security forces fired in self-defense after the passenger boat rammed into and then fired upon a drug boat that had been seized by two Hondurans and one US agent. Honduran and US officials agree that only Hondurans controlled the helicopters’ mounted guns, and that the pilots were Guatemalan military and contractors. At least two of the helicopters were titled to the US State Department.
It is still unclear exactly what security forces were present. The Honduran Human Rights Commissioner says a DEA FAST team participated in the May 11 operation. FAST teams are a military policing model developed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia that operate with the logistical support of the US military to interdict drug shipments. It appears that DEA agents permanently assigned to Honduras may have also participated.
What is clear is that Honduran and US officials claim it was the Honduran police that pulled the trigger. DEA and embassy officials explained that the DEA officers in Honduras work beside a special unit of the Honduran police, the Tactical Response Team (TRT), which was created by and reports directly to the DEA. In the past, the US military joint task force in Honduras had piloted helicopters for the teams, but claim they did not participate on May 11.
In early August, the State Department issued a report explaining it was “carefully limiting assistance to special Honduran law enforcement units, staffed by Leahy-vetted Honduran personnel who receive training, guidance and advice directly from U.S. law enforcement and are not under [Juan Carlos] Bonilla’s direct supervision,” while it investigates allegations that the current director of Honduran police had directed a death squad in 2002.
This description appears to fit the TRT and a new security force being created as the State Department issued the report, the Intelligence and Special Security Response Groups Unit (TIGRES). Though it’s unclear whether the force has received training, guidance and advice directly from the US government, the team’s mandate closely matches US strategic interests in the region.
According to Honduran press, the TIGRES will live in military barracks, be commanded by military and police officers, and report directly to the Minister of Security, though they will report to the Minister of Defense in times of war. The force will focus on intelligence, information and communications technology; areal and maritime combat; control of population and territory; and combating organized crime, drug trafficking, and illicit association. The TIGRES will operate with “embedded” justice officials, public prosecutors and judges.
The day the law to establish the new force was presented, July 26, Honduran officials announced the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) would fund the force with a $57 million loan. Two hundred TIGRE agents were already in training, scheduled to be completed in August.
The IDB loan is one of 22 planned for Central America within the framework of the Central American Regional Security Strategy of the Central American System for Regional Integration [SICA], an initiative spearheaded by the Inter American Development Bank and the US Department of State. A group of friends was created to promote the strategy, including Chile, Colombia, the US, Canada, the OAS, the United Nations and others.
Chile, Colombia and the US are playing a hands-on role in implementing the strategy, which clearly promotes the use of the military in policing. Chile’s Carabineros–a militarized police force renowned for forming death squads and reprimanded by the Inter American Commission on Human Rights in October 2011 for excessive use of force in recent student protests– are working closely with SICA and the OAS to reform the region’s police forces. The US has partnered with Colombian police who are training Central American police and military in a new center located in Panama.
Despite the international partnerships it’s clear that the US is leading the implementation of the drug war in Central America. This year the US is partnering with Central American security forces in Operation Anvil, a Central America wide anti-drug operation involving the US military, DEA and Central American police forces and militaries. The May 11 massacre was just one of several Operation Anvil interdictions which stirred up controversy.
One interesting example is the June 13 operation in which a drug plane crashed, killing both pilots. Though US and Honduran officials claimed the plane crashed while under pursuit, Honduran newspapers reported it had been shot down. On August 25 the Honduran daily La Tribuna reported that the head of the Honduran air force was forced to resign after an US investigation uncovered that a Honduran Tucano fighter plane had shot down the drug plane, and that one of the pilots was a DEA agent. US officials denied a DEA agent was on board.
Amidst the complexities of undercover DEA operations and corrupt police and military forces that make it difficult to distinguish the trafficker from law enforcement; the introduction of counter insurgency tactics to a region without a war; and multinational coordination of security efforts, one resident of Ahuas proposed a solution: the US must find a way to solve its drug problem that does not turn indigenous communities into battlefields.
From Alternet, August 30, 2012
Militarizing the Police and Killing Natives: How the US Drug War Is Ripping Honduras Apart
Since the Central American peace processes began 25 years ago, a tremendous effort has been made to remove militaries from policing, an effort now apparently being reversed in the US’s increasingly militarized and multinational war against drugs.
On May 11, the US Drug Enforcement Administration led an operation that ended in the deaths of four indigenous Miskitu villagers on the Patuca River near the town of Ahuas, Gracias a Dios, Honduras. US and Honduran officials claimed the boat that came under fire was part of a trafficking operation. Neighbors, local authorities and human rights organizations claimed they were innocent bystanders.
Though the US Embassy provided technical assistance for the Public Prosecutors’ investigation, little probing occurred. In the weeks following the shooting US and Honduran officials made statements criminalizing the victims, Miskitu communities and local authorities.
In response, the Miskitu indigenous federation, MASTA, requested that two Washington-based organizations undertake an independent investigation. Through witness testimony, and interviews with Honduran and US Embassy officials, Rights Action and the Center for Economic and Policy Research brought into focus a disturbing picture of a peaceful indigenous community ripped apart by the US drug war. This disturbing picture has been created by the transfer of counter-insurgency strategies used in Afghanistan to Central America and a regional push to create militarized police forces.
The report was released August 15. Then, on August 27, Honduran Human Rights Commissioner Ramon Custodio, highly criticized for his role in the June 2009 military coup and coverup of abuses that followed, announced that his commission had also completed its investigation and intends to request that the US House and Senate Judiciary Committees investigate the shootings.
Gracias a Dios is Honduras’ largest region, and the country’s most peaceful. While Honduras suffers from the highest reported murder rate in the world, 86 per 100,000 residents, courts in Gracias a Dios, with a population of 76,000, registered six murders in 2011 and two in 2010. The last violent death in Ahuas occurred in 2004; it hardly seems like a hotbed of drug trafficking.
Survivors of the shooting explained that the boat had taken lobster divers to a commercial fishing boat in Barra Patuca, about six hours away. They brought passengers on the return trip, including two families moving to Ahuas from Roatan, a diver who had been treated for decompression sickness and family members of divers.
Just moments before arriving in Ahuas, the boat driver saw an apparently unmanned boat float by, and the passengers were awakened by low flying helicopters that soon opened fire on them. Survivors and the wounded explain they struggled to get to shore while two helicopters dropped security forces just 20 meters away at the town’s boat landing. Hilder Lezama got a call from a survivor who had swam to shore and borrowed a neighbors’ telephone to tell him that his mother, the 53-year-old boat owner, was wounded in the river. He hurried to the landing, just as the helicopters descended.
The first helicopter dropped what appeared to be Honduran police, though some spoke mostly English, and were described as “gringos.” A second helicopter landed, and stayed on the ground for over two hours. All on board were white English-speaking men–even the door gunner and pilots. All wore tan camouflage with American flags on their shoulders. To one resident who had studied near the Soto Cano Airforce base where the US Army Joint Task Force Bravo is stationed, the outfits looked like US army uniforms.
The white, English-speaking men forced Lezama to wait at gunpoint for what seemed an hour, and then ferried cocaine from a stranded boat downriver that held two gringo “soldiers” already onboard. He was not allowed to look for his mother who lay wounded on a log in the river. Security agents on shore also prevented neighbors from assisting those in the river.
US and Honduran officials, in contradictory statements, say that security forces fired in self-defense after the passenger boat rammed into and then fired upon a drug boat that had been seized by two Hondurans and one US agent. Honduran and US officials agree that only Hondurans controlled the helicopters’ mounted guns, and that the pilots were Guatemalan military and contractors. At least two of the helicopters were titled to the US State Department.
It is still unclear exactly what security forces were present. The Honduran Human Rights Commissioner says a DEA FAST team participated in the May 11 operation. FAST teams are a military policing model developed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Colombia that operate with the logistical support of the US military to interdict drug shipments. It appears that DEA agents permanently assigned to Honduras may have also participated.
What is clear is that Honduran and US officials claim it was the Honduran police that pulled the trigger. DEA and embassy officials explained that the DEA officers in Honduras work beside a special unit of the Honduran police, the Tactical Response Team (TRT), which was created by and reports directly to the DEA. In the past, the US military joint task force in Honduras had piloted helicopters for the teams, but claim they did not participate on May 11.
In early August, the State Department issued a report explaining it was “carefully limiting assistance to special Honduran law enforcement units, staffed by Leahy-vetted Honduran personnel who receive training, guidance and advice directly from U.S. law enforcement and are not under [Juan Carlos] Bonilla’s direct supervision,” while it investigates allegations that the current director of Honduran police had directed a death squad in 2002.
This description appears to fit the TRT and a new security force being created as the State Department issued the report, the Intelligence and Special Security Response Groups Unit (TIGRES). Though it’s unclear whether the force has received training, guidance and advice directly from the US government, the team’s mandate closely matches US strategic interests in the region.
According to Honduran press, the TIGRES will live in military barracks, be commanded by military and police officers, and report directly to the Minister of Security, though they will report to the Minister of Defense in times of war. The force will focus on intelligence, information and communications technology; areal and maritime combat; control of population and territory; and combating organized crime, drug trafficking, and illicit association. The TIGRES will operate with “embedded” justice officials, public prosecutors and judges.
The day the law to establish the new force was presented, July 26, Honduran officials announced the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) would fund the force with a $57 million loan. Two hundred TIGRE agents were already in training, scheduled to be completed in August.
The IDB loan is one of 22 planned for Central America within the framework of the Central American Regional Security Strategy of the Central American System for Regional Integration [SICA], an initiative spearheaded by the Inter American Development Bank and the US Department of State. A group of friends was created to promote the strategy, including Chile, Colombia, the US, Canada, the OAS, the United Nations and others.
Chile, Colombia and the US are playing a hands-on role in implementing the strategy, which clearly promotes the use of the military in policing. Chile’s Carabineros–a militarized police force renowned for forming death squads and reprimanded by the Inter American Commission on Human Rights in October 2011 for excessive use of force in recent student protests– are working closely with SICA and the OAS to reform the region’s police forces. The US has partnered with Colombian police who are training Central American police and military in a new center located in Panama.
Despite the international partnerships it’s clear that the US is leading the implementation of the drug war in Central America. This year the US is partnering with Central American security forces in Operation Anvil, a Central America wide anti-drug operation involving the US military, DEA and Central American police forces and militaries. The May 11 massacre was just one of several Operation Anvil interdictions which stirred up controversy.
One interesting example is the June 13 operation in which a drug plane crashed, killing both pilots. Though US and Honduran officials claimed the plane crashed while under pursuit, Honduran newspapers reported it had been shot down. On August 25 the Honduran daily La Tribuna reported that the head of the Honduran air force was forced to resign after an US investigation uncovered that a Honduran Tucano fighter plane had shot down the drug plane, and that one of the pilots was a DEA agent. US officials denied a DEA agent was on board.
Amidst the complexities of undercover DEA operations and corrupt police and military forces that make it difficult to distinguish the trafficker from law enforcement; the introduction of counter insurgency tactics to a region without a war; and multinational coordination of security efforts, one resident of Ahuas proposed a solution: the US must find a way to solve its drug problem that does not turn indigenous communities into battlefields.
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
‘Incomplete’ vs. ‘Complete Proteins Hemp
‘Incomplete’ vs. ‘Complete Proteins’…Hemp
Our bodies can synthesize 16 of the 23 amino acids that we need. That leaves 8 essential amino acids (9 for children), which must come from the foods we eat.
Hemp Protein a complete vegan source!
Hemp Protein Powder can supply any diet with a vegetarian source of essential fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, fibre, chlorophyll and a complete, balanced gluten-free source of the essential amino acids.
Many plant proteins are labelled “incomplete” proteins as a resulting from the low amounts of one or more of the nine essential amino acids. Truth be told, the “incomplete” label is somewhat misleading as all plant proteins do contain each of the essential amino acids. But in most cases (e.g. grains, legumes), levels of one or more amino acid are insufficient for human needs. However, hemp protein supplies enough of each of the essential amino acids to contribute to the human body’s requirements. In fact, an important aspect of hemp protein is that it is a quality source of the amino acids arginine and histidine, both of which are important for growth during childhood, and of the sulphur-containing amino acids methionine and cysteine, both of which are needed in the production of vital enzymes.
Hemp protein also contains relatively high levels of the branched-chain amino acids that are crucial in the repair and growth of lean body mass, making a hemp protein shake after a workout a worthwhile investment.
Our Hemp 60% Protein
ALL plant-based foods have varying amounts of protein (plus carbohydrates, fats and other good things), and the body will combine proteins from all sources, to make ‘complete protein’. That’s true for everybody, veg or non-veg.
The term ‘complete protein’ means that all eight essential amino acids are present in the correct proportion.
Foods from animal sources have complete proteins Some foods from the plant kingdom, such as hemp and quinoa, have complete protein.
The term ‘incomplete protein’ refers to foods which have all the essential amino acids, but are low in one or more of them. That’s called the ‘limiting amino acid’.
Most plant foods have one or more limiting amino acids which limit the availability of all the other amino acids in the food. That’s why these foods are called ‘incomplete proteins’.
For example, the limiting amino acid in grains is usually lysine (Lys); in legumes it can be methionine (Met) and tryptophan (Trp). So, the low-level of Lys in grains is complemented by a higher level in legumes, and vice versa, to make ‘complete protein’.
However, vegetarians and vegans don’t need to worry about complete and incomplete protein. It is NOT NECESSARY for vegetarians and vegans to combine specific protein foods at one sitting to make complete protein.
Whenever we eat, our body deposits amino acids into a storage bank, and then withdraws them whenever we need them. So, it’s no longer considered necessary to eat complementary proteins together at one sitting, to make complete protein. Your body does that automatically, from all the foods that you eat over the course of a day or so.
Part referenced from: Frances Moore Lappé, author of ‘Diet For A Small Planet’, is well-known for the theory of combining complementary proteins at each meal. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of her book, she has altered her views in light of new knowledge about amino acid storage.
Our bodies can synthesize 16 of the 23 amino acids that we need. That leaves 8 essential amino acids (9 for children), which must come from the foods we eat.
Hemp Protein Powder can supply any diet with a vegetarian source of essential fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, fibre, chlorophyll and a complete, balanced gluten-free source of the essential amino acids.
Many plant proteins are labelled “incomplete” proteins as a resulting from the low amounts of one or more of the nine essential amino acids. Truth be told, the “incomplete” label is somewhat misleading as all plant proteins do contain each of the essential amino acids. But in most cases (e.g. grains, legumes), levels of one or more amino acid are insufficient for human needs. However, hemp protein supplies enough of each of the essential amino acids to contribute to the human body’s requirements. In fact, an important aspect of hemp protein is that it is a quality source of the amino acids arginine and histidine, both of which are important for growth during childhood, and of the sulphur-containing amino acids methionine and cysteine, both of which are needed in the production of vital enzymes.
Hemp protein also contains relatively high levels of the branched-chain amino acids that are crucial in the repair and growth of lean body mass, making a hemp protein shake after a workout a worthwhile investment.
ALL plant-based foods have varying amounts of protein (plus carbohydrates, fats and other good things), and the body will combine proteins from all sources, to make ‘complete protein’. That’s true for everybody, veg or non-veg.
The term ‘complete protein’ means that all eight essential amino acids are present in the correct proportion.
Foods from animal sources have complete proteins Some foods from the plant kingdom, such as hemp and quinoa, have complete protein.
The term ‘incomplete protein’ refers to foods which have all the essential amino acids, but are low in one or more of them. That’s called the ‘limiting amino acid’.
Most plant foods have one or more limiting amino acids which limit the availability of all the other amino acids in the food. That’s why these foods are called ‘incomplete proteins’.
For example, the limiting amino acid in grains is usually lysine (Lys); in legumes it can be methionine (Met) and tryptophan (Trp). So, the low-level of Lys in grains is complemented by a higher level in legumes, and vice versa, to make ‘complete protein’.
However, vegetarians and vegans don’t need to worry about complete and incomplete protein. It is NOT NECESSARY for vegetarians and vegans to combine specific protein foods at one sitting to make complete protein.
Complementary Protein Theory Debunked:
Scientists used to think that vegetarians, and especially vegans, would develop protein deficiency if they didn’t get eight or nine essential amino acids all together in proper amounts at every meal.Whenever we eat, our body deposits amino acids into a storage bank, and then withdraws them whenever we need them. So, it’s no longer considered necessary to eat complementary proteins together at one sitting, to make complete protein. Your body does that automatically, from all the foods that you eat over the course of a day or so.
Part referenced from: Frances Moore Lappé, author of ‘Diet For A Small Planet’, is well-known for the theory of combining complementary proteins at each meal. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of her book, she has altered her views in light of new knowledge about amino acid storage.
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
New Bill in Uruguay: the State will fully regulate cannabis
New Bill in Uruguay: the State will fully regulate cannabis
Uruguay’s position is clear. The State will regulate the use, consumption, cultivation and production of cannabis. Thus concludes the Bill presented by the Government which (it is hoped) will soon be approved; the final step in a long process that Sensi Seeds has been reporting on over the past few months.
In addition to the use, consumption, cultivation and production of cannabis covered by the bill, the new regulation will allow the government to control all the activities related to import, export, growing, cultivation, harvesting, production, acquisition, storage, marketing and distribution of cannabis and its derivatives.
There is no room for error, or differing interpretations. The law is absolutely clear and concise in all aspects so the control that will be exercised will be strict and accurate.
In addition, if Uruguay approves this proposal, all consumers must first register with a new public organization created especially for this purpose. It is the INCA, the National Institute of Cannabis, whose aims are twofold: to regulate the activities around cannabis so they are inside the law, and to promote actions to reduce risks and abuse. In fact, according to the law, the INCA will keep a record of growers and cannabis clubs. The new regulation marks that these clubs can have a maximum of 15 members, plant a maximum of 90 (psychoactive) plants and can possess no more than 7.200 grams of product per year.
Also, the Uruguayan Government affirms that the Junta Nacional de Drogas (National Drug Board) will be “obliged to make at least one drug prevention campaign per year”.
Concerning personal use, the bill allows the domestic growing, cultivation and harvest of up to six cannabis plants. Thus, the law interprets that “amount for personal consumption” means a maximum of 40 grams of cannabis per month.
For this reason, when the law will be adopted, it is expected that 25,000 daily consumers and 70,000 users who consume cannabis irregularly may even buy medicinal cannabis in pharmacies. The reason, according one of the forerunners of the new legislation, the Deputy of Frente Amplio (FA) Julio Bango, is that “pharmacies have the systems of information, the technical directions, the territorial distribution and the necessary public health controls”
Of course, the Bill has a lot of exceptions and the State’s power is nearly omnipresent, but the fact that it will allow, for example, the use of cannabis for scientific research or for therapeutic products, is already a big step forward.
Julio Bango, Frente Amplio
In the words of Bango, “with this Bill we will end a sort of social schizophrenia where marijuana use is allowed but forces the user to commit a crime buying it in the black market. Cultivation and purchase, with the limits established, will now be legal. In addition, he added that “for 40 years our country has allowed marijuana use but not access to the drug”. Also, the politician said that the project is open to receive contributions from the opposition.
In addition, the Vice President of the country, Danilo Astori, expressed his desire that the Bill will gain “a swift approval”, always making clear that the initiative “is not a decriminalization but a regulation of production and consumption”.
Uruguay’s position is clear. The State will regulate the use, consumption, cultivation and production of cannabis. Thus concludes the Bill presented by the Government which (it is hoped) will soon be approved; the final step in a long process that Sensi Seeds has been reporting on over the past few months.
In addition to the use, consumption, cultivation and production of cannabis covered by the bill, the new regulation will allow the government to control all the activities related to import, export, growing, cultivation, harvesting, production, acquisition, storage, marketing and distribution of cannabis and its derivatives.
There is no room for error, or differing interpretations. The law is absolutely clear and concise in all aspects so the control that will be exercised will be strict and accurate.
In addition, if Uruguay approves this proposal, all consumers must first register with a new public organization created especially for this purpose. It is the INCA, the National Institute of Cannabis, whose aims are twofold: to regulate the activities around cannabis so they are inside the law, and to promote actions to reduce risks and abuse. In fact, according to the law, the INCA will keep a record of growers and cannabis clubs. The new regulation marks that these clubs can have a maximum of 15 members, plant a maximum of 90 (psychoactive) plants and can possess no more than 7.200 grams of product per year.
Also, the Uruguayan Government affirms that the Junta Nacional de Drogas (National Drug Board) will be “obliged to make at least one drug prevention campaign per year”.
Concerning personal use, the bill allows the domestic growing, cultivation and harvest of up to six cannabis plants. Thus, the law interprets that “amount for personal consumption” means a maximum of 40 grams of cannabis per month.
For this reason, when the law will be adopted, it is expected that 25,000 daily consumers and 70,000 users who consume cannabis irregularly may even buy medicinal cannabis in pharmacies. The reason, according one of the forerunners of the new legislation, the Deputy of Frente Amplio (FA) Julio Bango, is that “pharmacies have the systems of information, the technical directions, the territorial distribution and the necessary public health controls”
Of course, the Bill has a lot of exceptions and the State’s power is nearly omnipresent, but the fact that it will allow, for example, the use of cannabis for scientific research or for therapeutic products, is already a big step forward.
In the words of Bango, “with this Bill we will end a sort of social schizophrenia where marijuana use is allowed but forces the user to commit a crime buying it in the black market. Cultivation and purchase, with the limits established, will now be legal. In addition, he added that “for 40 years our country has allowed marijuana use but not access to the drug”. Also, the politician said that the project is open to receive contributions from the opposition.
In addition, the Vice President of the country, Danilo Astori, expressed his desire that the Bill will gain “a swift approval”, always making clear that the initiative “is not a decriminalization but a regulation of production and consumption”.
Monday, 17 June 2013
Cannabis Cures Cancer Without Poison
Cannabis Cures Cancer Without Poison
by Stasia Bliss on June 17, 2013.
Isn’t it strange that doctors can legally administer poison in the form of chemotherapy and radiation as well as numerous toxic pharmaceuticals and yet one of nature’s medicines- found to greatly assist cancer patients- which can be prepared by any common person without harmful side effects, is illegal and can send a person to prison for its possession? There are numerous studies, now spanning the globe, revealing the miraculous healing properties of cannabis oil and its ability to cure cancers and other ailments without poisoning the body.
The International Medical Verities Association, an organization who is dedicated to providing information about new forms of medicines to both physician and layman alike, has recently added cannabis oil to their list of cancer protocol along with alpha lipoic acid, magnesium chloride, iodine, selenium and sodium bicarbonate – all nutritional supplements you can buy over the counter – well, all of them until now.
Cannabis oil, or Hemp oil contains many healing benefits including a high amount of protein as well as essential fatty acids, including the harder to come by GLA’s – known to reduce inflammation and slow the growth of cancer cells. As far as essential fatty acids go, we need a particular ratio of Omega 3, Omega 6 and GLA’s in our body for good health. Omega 3 comes largely from fish, Omega 6 can be found in many of our cooking oils such as olive and sunflower, but GLA is only found in a few sources such as borage oil, spirulina and hemp. Hemp oil happens to contain the perfect 2:5:1 ratio of omega 3, 6 and GLA’s. Interesting.
As far as cancer goes, the research proof has been out there for a while.
Clear back in 1975 an article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute you can find an article called “Anti neoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids,” reporting the following cannabis positive results on cancer: “Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinol (CBN)” using two types of cannabinoids, a family of active components in marijuana.
Back in 1998, researchers at Madrid’s Complutense University in Spain had breakthrough studies showing “THC can selectively induce programmed cell death in brain tumor cells without negatively impacting surrounding healthy cells.” Selective cell death in brain tumor cells – without killing the brain? This is huge information for brain tumor patients, considering the harmful effects of chemotherapy and the high risk of surgery. In the year 2000, two years later, the journal Nature Medicine reported using injections of synthetic THC to eradicate malignant gliomas (brain tumors)successful in one-third of treated rats, prolonging life by six weeks in another third.
Four years later, in August of 2004 researchers reported in the American Association of Cancer Research - ”marijuana’s constituents inhibited the spread of brain cancer in human tumor biopsies.” Other studies showed cannabis could inhibit the gamma herpes virus, on of the many viruses thought to contribute to the development of certain cancers such as Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Burkitt’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s disease.
Three years later, at Harvard University, it was discovered -”Marijuana cuts lung cancer tumor growth in half. The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread.”
If this information has been known so long, why is it not being used? Why are we still ‘racing for the cure’ If we have already found it? If cannabis oil has been studied with so many positive curative results for so many years, why is it not regularly implemented as treatment? Cannabis has been shown to cure cancer without the poison. It is impossible to count the many lives that could have been saved from suffering and death with this information. All we can do is speculate that the enormous simplicity of creating your own cannabis oil, requiring only a bunch of hemp leaves and some solvent, would cause a great loss in income to the medical association and this is a main reason for suppression of this knowledge. Such a hard concept to swallow considering so many have placed their health and lives in the hands of the medical community with great trust and admiration.
A man by the name of Rick Simpson, out of Canada, was put on trial for using cannabis oil to cure friends and neighbors of cancer with great success. He explains how simple it is to make your own medicine and use it on such cases such as skin cancers, aches and pains and other troubling conditions with great success. He tells his story in this amazing documentary Run for the Cure:
Researcher Anju Preet, Ph.D. in the Division of Experimental Medicine was involved in an experiment where they found the active ingredient in cannabis (THC) to inhibit EGF-induced growth. She reports “The beauty of this study is that we are showing that a substance of abuse, if used prudently, may offer a new road to therapy against lung cancer.” The cannabanoid receptors are also thought to play an important role in the reduction of inflammation and pain.
I am not proposing that cannabis is the cure-all or the answer to all our prayers when it comes to cancer and the many who suffer, though it does seem – looking at the extensive research (not all listed here) that cannabis is worth using before the implementation of dangerous poisons, considering over 70% of people diagnosed with cancer die – according the The National Cancer Institute.
Yes, yes, we all know the fears have been in the abuse of such a substance. Seriously, the problem already exists to such an extent that legalization of such a powerful medicine would be more likely to reduce illegal use than drive the problem deeper. Those who use marijuana for recreation would be less likely to engage in other illegal activity were their smoking habit suddenly be made legal, especially if it were promoted as a healing medicine and the people were educated on the way to respect this herb for it’s place in health and society. We could go on and on about the benefits of hemp as a fabric, rope, etc., but that’s another story.
For the millions who suffer the life-crippling effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments for their cancer as well as the pain that accompanies illness, it is compelling to look at this evidence as another way. Cannabis oil has been shown to shrink and even cure cancers in all the studies conducted without poisoning the body. Isn’t it time to give the people a safe, legal alternative to such an ailment? Let us put aside our fears and greed and support nature in being our medicine, so she can further support us in healing.
(This article is not intended to diagnosis, cure or offer medical advise and is the research and opinion of the author. Please seek proper health advice from a qualified practitioner as well as tuning in to your own guidance when it comes to decisions about your body and health.)
Written by: Stasia Bliss
by Stasia Bliss on June 17, 2013.
Isn’t it strange that doctors can legally administer poison in the form of chemotherapy and radiation as well as numerous toxic pharmaceuticals and yet one of nature’s medicines- found to greatly assist cancer patients- which can be prepared by any common person without harmful side effects, is illegal and can send a person to prison for its possession? There are numerous studies, now spanning the globe, revealing the miraculous healing properties of cannabis oil and its ability to cure cancers and other ailments without poisoning the body.
The International Medical Verities Association, an organization who is dedicated to providing information about new forms of medicines to both physician and layman alike, has recently added cannabis oil to their list of cancer protocol along with alpha lipoic acid, magnesium chloride, iodine, selenium and sodium bicarbonate – all nutritional supplements you can buy over the counter – well, all of them until now.
Cannabis oil, or Hemp oil contains many healing benefits including a high amount of protein as well as essential fatty acids, including the harder to come by GLA’s – known to reduce inflammation and slow the growth of cancer cells. As far as essential fatty acids go, we need a particular ratio of Omega 3, Omega 6 and GLA’s in our body for good health. Omega 3 comes largely from fish, Omega 6 can be found in many of our cooking oils such as olive and sunflower, but GLA is only found in a few sources such as borage oil, spirulina and hemp. Hemp oil happens to contain the perfect 2:5:1 ratio of omega 3, 6 and GLA’s. Interesting.
As far as cancer goes, the research proof has been out there for a while.
Clear back in 1975 an article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute you can find an article called “Anti neoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids,” reporting the following cannabis positive results on cancer: “Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinol (CBN)” using two types of cannabinoids, a family of active components in marijuana.
Back in 1998, researchers at Madrid’s Complutense University in Spain had breakthrough studies showing “THC can selectively induce programmed cell death in brain tumor cells without negatively impacting surrounding healthy cells.” Selective cell death in brain tumor cells – without killing the brain? This is huge information for brain tumor patients, considering the harmful effects of chemotherapy and the high risk of surgery. In the year 2000, two years later, the journal Nature Medicine reported using injections of synthetic THC to eradicate malignant gliomas (brain tumors)successful in one-third of treated rats, prolonging life by six weeks in another third.
Four years later, in August of 2004 researchers reported in the American Association of Cancer Research - ”marijuana’s constituents inhibited the spread of brain cancer in human tumor biopsies.” Other studies showed cannabis could inhibit the gamma herpes virus, on of the many viruses thought to contribute to the development of certain cancers such as Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Burkitt’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s disease.
Three years later, at Harvard University, it was discovered -”Marijuana cuts lung cancer tumor growth in half. The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread.”
If this information has been known so long, why is it not being used? Why are we still ‘racing for the cure’ If we have already found it? If cannabis oil has been studied with so many positive curative results for so many years, why is it not regularly implemented as treatment? Cannabis has been shown to cure cancer without the poison. It is impossible to count the many lives that could have been saved from suffering and death with this information. All we can do is speculate that the enormous simplicity of creating your own cannabis oil, requiring only a bunch of hemp leaves and some solvent, would cause a great loss in income to the medical association and this is a main reason for suppression of this knowledge. Such a hard concept to swallow considering so many have placed their health and lives in the hands of the medical community with great trust and admiration.
A man by the name of Rick Simpson, out of Canada, was put on trial for using cannabis oil to cure friends and neighbors of cancer with great success. He explains how simple it is to make your own medicine and use it on such cases such as skin cancers, aches and pains and other troubling conditions with great success. He tells his story in this amazing documentary Run for the Cure:
Researcher Anju Preet, Ph.D. in the Division of Experimental Medicine was involved in an experiment where they found the active ingredient in cannabis (THC) to inhibit EGF-induced growth. She reports “The beauty of this study is that we are showing that a substance of abuse, if used prudently, may offer a new road to therapy against lung cancer.” The cannabanoid receptors are also thought to play an important role in the reduction of inflammation and pain.
I am not proposing that cannabis is the cure-all or the answer to all our prayers when it comes to cancer and the many who suffer, though it does seem – looking at the extensive research (not all listed here) that cannabis is worth using before the implementation of dangerous poisons, considering over 70% of people diagnosed with cancer die – according the The National Cancer Institute.
Yes, yes, we all know the fears have been in the abuse of such a substance. Seriously, the problem already exists to such an extent that legalization of such a powerful medicine would be more likely to reduce illegal use than drive the problem deeper. Those who use marijuana for recreation would be less likely to engage in other illegal activity were their smoking habit suddenly be made legal, especially if it were promoted as a healing medicine and the people were educated on the way to respect this herb for it’s place in health and society. We could go on and on about the benefits of hemp as a fabric, rope, etc., but that’s another story.
For the millions who suffer the life-crippling effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments for their cancer as well as the pain that accompanies illness, it is compelling to look at this evidence as another way. Cannabis oil has been shown to shrink and even cure cancers in all the studies conducted without poisoning the body. Isn’t it time to give the people a safe, legal alternative to such an ailment? Let us put aside our fears and greed and support nature in being our medicine, so she can further support us in healing.
(This article is not intended to diagnosis, cure or offer medical advise and is the research and opinion of the author. Please seek proper health advice from a qualified practitioner as well as tuning in to your own guidance when it comes to decisions about your body and health.)
Written by: Stasia Bliss
Dr. Coldwell Says Hemp Cures Cancer
http://www.ihealthtube.com Dr. Leonard Coldwell says hemp can cure a number of cancers. He says it's one of the most nutritious products on the planet.
8 products made from industrial hemp
8 products made from industrial hemp
By | June 3, 2013
Hemp: Great for sturdy jewelry, bird seed, and... underwear?
Hemp underwear apparently exist.
Though the legalization of hemp farming has picked up steam solely on a state-level in the past two decades, the plant was actually once a staple crop in the U.S., and was used as canvas for ship sails and pioneer wagon covers. It was also used for paper: The Declaration of Independence was signed on hemp in fact. Founding fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson also both grew hemp.
But in the 20th century, when the public caught on to the (mostly) pleasurable effects of hemp's psychotropic cousin marijuana, also a member of the cannabis sativa family, hemp farmers took a hit as the federal government began to crack down on pot. Though hemp flowers contain way less THC than marijuana flowers (.2 to .3 percent, compared to 3 to 15 percent), opponents feared users could boil it down to a concentrated oil, or more likely that farmers could use hemp fields to hide marijuana plants. In 1970, the U.S. passed the Controlled Substances Act, outlawing hemp and marijuana, among other substances. Now, even in states that have approved hemp production, farmers grow at the risk of federal raids, fines, and jail time.
The North American Industrial Hemp Council and other pro-hemp groups claim that by failing to tap into hemp's potential and instead importing the product from Canada, Europe, and China, the U.S. is missing out on a huge economic opportunity. Hemp, claims the NAIHC, can be used to make some 25,000 products. (We assume they count hemp bracelets and hemp anklets as two separate products?) A look at some of the hemp products the U.S. could purportedly benefit from:
1. Bible paper
At a paper mill in France, the Fortune 500 company Kimberly Clark prints Bibles on hemp-based paper, which lasts long and doesn't yellow.
2. Biofuels
Hemp is resistant to pests and weeds, grows faster than other potential biofuel crops, and is easier on soil, making it a potential alternative fuel, some say.
3. Bird seed
In 1999 U.S. Customs confiscated 40,000 lbs of bird seed on the Canadian boarder, because the feed consisted of sterilized hemp seeds. "They say it's a tractor-trailer full of drugs," Jean Laprise, the farmer who grew the seed, told the New York Times. "We say it's a tractor-trailer full of birdseed."
4. Boxers
Though hemp textiles aren't always used for the most fashion-forward clothing, some hemp fabric is now light (and soft?) enough for men's underwear.
5. Burgers
Will Gaudet Jr., a 21-year-old from California, started Bay Roots, a brand of hemp seed burgers he makes using his mother's recipe. He hopes to raise enough on his IndieGoGo campaign to take his product national.
6. Cat scratch posts
If your cat has ever ruined your sofa, you know the importance of scratching posts, which according to Lifehacker.com can be created easily by winding hemp rope around a table leg.
7. Homes
North Carolina company Hemp Technologies uses materials like HempCrete, Hemp Insulation, and Hemp Mulch to build livable hemp homes in the U.S. and Canada. The company's founders say the material is resistant to fire, termites, mold, and dry rot, partly because of the material's lime content which makes it harden over time.
8. Makeup
Along with a range of moisturizers and shampoos, hemp seed oil can be used as a base in a range of cosmetics, from foundation to lipstick to nail polish.
By | June 3, 2013
Hemp: Great for sturdy jewelry, bird seed, and... underwear?
Hemp the base
material for the unattractive but amazingly sturdy jewelry one might see
at a Phish concert — might be on the verge of an industrial
breakthrough.
Last week, a California Senate committee passed the Industrial Hemp Farming Act,
which reclassifies hemp as separate from marijuana, thereby allowing
farmers to grow it legally. If passed by the full California Senate, the
law would make the Golden State the ninth to reclassify the versatile, controversial, and otherwise itchy plant for widespread cultivation.Though the legalization of hemp farming has picked up steam solely on a state-level in the past two decades, the plant was actually once a staple crop in the U.S., and was used as canvas for ship sails and pioneer wagon covers. It was also used for paper: The Declaration of Independence was signed on hemp in fact. Founding fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson also both grew hemp.
But in the 20th century, when the public caught on to the (mostly) pleasurable effects of hemp's psychotropic cousin marijuana, also a member of the cannabis sativa family, hemp farmers took a hit as the federal government began to crack down on pot. Though hemp flowers contain way less THC than marijuana flowers (.2 to .3 percent, compared to 3 to 15 percent), opponents feared users could boil it down to a concentrated oil, or more likely that farmers could use hemp fields to hide marijuana plants. In 1970, the U.S. passed the Controlled Substances Act, outlawing hemp and marijuana, among other substances. Now, even in states that have approved hemp production, farmers grow at the risk of federal raids, fines, and jail time.
The North American Industrial Hemp Council and other pro-hemp groups claim that by failing to tap into hemp's potential and instead importing the product from Canada, Europe, and China, the U.S. is missing out on a huge economic opportunity. Hemp, claims the NAIHC, can be used to make some 25,000 products. (We assume they count hemp bracelets and hemp anklets as two separate products?) A look at some of the hemp products the U.S. could purportedly benefit from:
1. Bible paper
At a paper mill in France, the Fortune 500 company Kimberly Clark prints Bibles on hemp-based paper, which lasts long and doesn't yellow.
2. Biofuels
Hemp is resistant to pests and weeds, grows faster than other potential biofuel crops, and is easier on soil, making it a potential alternative fuel, some say.
3. Bird seed
In 1999 U.S. Customs confiscated 40,000 lbs of bird seed on the Canadian boarder, because the feed consisted of sterilized hemp seeds. "They say it's a tractor-trailer full of drugs," Jean Laprise, the farmer who grew the seed, told the New York Times. "We say it's a tractor-trailer full of birdseed."
4. Boxers
Though hemp textiles aren't always used for the most fashion-forward clothing, some hemp fabric is now light (and soft?) enough for men's underwear.
5. Burgers
Will Gaudet Jr., a 21-year-old from California, started Bay Roots, a brand of hemp seed burgers he makes using his mother's recipe. He hopes to raise enough on his IndieGoGo campaign to take his product national.
6. Cat scratch posts
If your cat has ever ruined your sofa, you know the importance of scratching posts, which according to Lifehacker.com can be created easily by winding hemp rope around a table leg.
7. Homes
North Carolina company Hemp Technologies uses materials like HempCrete, Hemp Insulation, and Hemp Mulch to build livable hemp homes in the U.S. and Canada. The company's founders say the material is resistant to fire, termites, mold, and dry rot, partly because of the material's lime content which makes it harden over time.
8. Makeup
Along with a range of moisturizers and shampoos, hemp seed oil can be used as a base in a range of cosmetics, from foundation to lipstick to nail polish.
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