Dr. Allan Frankel, a board-certified internist at GreenBridge Medical in Santa Monica, California, has treated patients with medical cannabis for the past 13 years. The first time I interviewed him back in 2014, cannabis laws in the U.S. were quite different, so in this interview, he provides us with a much-needed update. Not only is recreational use of cannabis now legal in California and several other states, but hemp is also legal nationwide, thanks to a change in the farm bill passed at the end of 2018.1 As noted by Frankel: “Cannabis is becoming more and more a viable option that people can count on; you can have reliable dosing.…
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Cannabis Can Relieve Pain 30 Times Better Than Aspirin, New Study Finds
Medical marijuana is fast gaining credibility as a valid pain relief treatment, with data from various studies attesting to the medical and health benefits of cannabis as a viable alternative to pharmaceutical drugs. And now, researchers have uncovered a new reason why: the cannabis plant produces pain-relieving molecules that are 30 times more potent at reducing inflammation than aspirin. What makes the discovery so groundbreaking is that it could carve a new path to natural pain relief medications that would save patients who suffer chronic pain from the risks of addiction associated with opioid-based pain killers.
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The REAL Reason Why Cannabis is Banned | Johann Hari
“Most people think that someone sat down and weighed what was dangerous and what wasn’t… that didn’t happen”
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MSM Finally Admits Legal Hemp is the Answer to Dependency on Big Oil
After hemp was legalized nationwide in December, the mainstream media is now forced to report on its benefits, including how it can directly compete with big oil. Because government is the antithesis to freedom, industrial hemp has been banned nationwide since 1937 ostensibly due to the plant’s similarities to marijuana. Many have speculated that this move was also due to the fact that cannabis is in direct competition with the pharmaceutical industry by providing far safer alternative treatments as well as directly competing with the petrochemical industry. However, all this changed in December after President Donald Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement act of 2018, legalizing industrial hemp on a national scale.…
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The Endocannabinoid System and the Important Role it Plays in Human Health
Hemp has been outlawed in the U.S. since 1938. Thankfully, the latest Farm Bill signed into law at the end of 2018 makes it legal. In this interview, board-certified clinical nutritionist and expert on phytocannabinoids, Carl Germano, discusses the exciting implications of this change. Now, there’s a difference between cannabidiol (CBD) products made from hemp and those made from marijuana. While many mistakenly believe hemp and marijuana are interchangeable, they’re actually two different plants. “Both are considered Cannabis sativa by genus and species, but that’s where the similarity ends,” Germano explains. “Hemp has been cultivated for many reasons for the past few thousand years — food, clothing, fiber and fuel. The plant…
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The True History of Marijuana
‘The True History of Marijuana’ digs deep to expose a world-wide conspiracy, led by the petrolchemical industry, that has outlawed one of the most useful plants known to mankind. Cannabis has been used for thousands of years, in almost every culture, in ways you may never have imagined. Directed by Massimo Mazzucco [fvplayer id=”14″] Related Posts:The Endocannabinoid System and the Important Role it Plays in Human HealthDespite Big Pharma’s Heavy Lobbying, Cannabis Legalization Efforts in US Make New GainsThese 5 Organizations Are The Reason Cannabis is Still a CrimeA Flourishing Hemp Industry Is Growing in ColoradoPro-Cannabis Group Trolls Jeff Sessions By Putting His Face On Rolling PapersFBI: Marijuana arrests…
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Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells
Until recently chemotherapy and radiation have been considered the only game in town for someone to attempt to beat cancer. This, despite the fact that such treatments are poisons destroying the health of the immune system and its vital healing function while killing cancer cells — definitely counter-intuitive. Fortunately, cancer patients have gained the scientific seal of approval when it comes to using cannabis for symptom management of chemotherapy and radiation therapies. It reduces nausea and helps to slow down and/or prevent muscle-wasting syndrome, the cause of 20% of deaths in cancer patients, and is also used in palliative care. The big scientific news, however, is that the most researched active…
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Despite Big Pharma’s Heavy Lobbying, Cannabis Legalization Efforts in US Make New Gains
A young marijuana plant starts showing signs of flowering in a backyard home garden in Los Angeles, Nov. 5, 2018. Richard Vogel | AP Source: Mint Press News November 8, 2018 By Randi Nord LANSING, MICHIGAN — While Democrats and Republicans went toe-to-toe for control of Congress, voters across three states voted to relax marijuana laws, resulting in a huge victory for the grassroots decriminalization and legalization movement. With medical marijuana already legal in Michigan for several years, voters passed a ballot proposal on Tuesday to legalize recreational marijuana possession with 55 percent in favor of the measure. The measure made Michigan the first Midwestern state, and the tenth state…
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5 Amazing Benefits of Using CBD Vape Oil
Source: Waking Times November 2, 2018 Sofia Adamson CBD is short for cannabidiol, which is one of many cannabinoids derived from the cannabis plant. It is noteworthy that CBD and other cannabinoids communicate with the human endocannabinoid system (ECS). This system is responsible for keeping balance in our bodies, regulating functions like pain, sleep, appetite, emotions, moods, digestion, metabolism, memory, inflammation, and so forth. Furthermore, the human body naturally produces endocannabinoids, so when you use CBD, this fantastic compound imitates endocannabinoids. As revealed by several recent studies, CBD can be used as a treatment for a wide array of illnesses, medical conditions, and symptoms. As a result, the popularity of…
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Global ‘War on Drugs’ Terrible at Eradicating Drugs, But Great at Upending Societies: Report
The report—titled “Taking stock: A decade of drug policy”—evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the United Nations, peer-reviewed academic research, and a collection of grey literature from civil society. (Credit: Report cover / LSE) Source: Common Dreams October 22, 2018 By Jon Queally Another major study designed to assess how national governments wage their so-called “war on drugs” shows that the last ten years of such policies have not only failed to put a dent in the illegal drug trade, the tactics have had serious negative impacts for global health, human rights, public safety and economic progress. As a…
