Research Suggests Cannabis Cures?

Way back in 2001 a fellow E.U member became one of the first country's  to decriminalize all drugs, Portugal now almost 15 years later has not only seen a 'decline' in overall drug consumption but also has a reduction in drug related deaths. Diseases are also declining. This model they have introduced is clearly working. Isn't it time the world followed Portugal's incredibly brave move and defeat its war on drugs by making it non existing. The future for children would be healthier as schools and health centers could gather more information to assist addicts or abusers getting the help they really need, while educating children on the harmful effects of drugs. Instead of jailing our fellow humans and forcing them into a life of crime, we should once again be following Portugal by sending users to therapy. In the long run therapy is less of a cost on the state than prison. As it costs way more to lock up a human for those drugs they consume. Source : http://ww...

Check out the Questions & answers published by National Cancer Institute Cannabis helps & it should never have been made illegal Cannabis and Cannabinoids Cannabis , also known as marijuana , is a plant grown in many parts of the world which produces a resin containing compounds called cannabinoids . Some cannabinoids are psychoactive (acting on the brain and changing mood or consciousness) (see Question 1 ). The use of Cannabis for medicinal purposes dates back to ancient times (see Question 3 ). By federal law, the use, sale, and possession of Cannabis is illegal in the United States. However, a growing number of states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws to legalize medical marijuana (see Question 1 ). In the United States, Cannabis is a controlled substance requiring special licensing for its use (see Question 1 and Question 3 ). Cannabinoids are active chemicals in Cannabis that cause drug -like effects throughout the body, includi...

Safety is key and Cannabis is the safest natural drug on this planet. Education is the key , and this is your reality and the children of tomorrows future is at risk, The war on drugs is merely a human Guiney pig trap for the prisons to keep there populations up. And secondly the price of anything illegal always rises so therefore so much money wasted on police surveillance catching growers Etc. , Those #wastedresources could be used really to help kids who  are missing and possibly solve to premeditated murders.  Ain't it time they start fighting the real crime. Cannabis has been that illegal weed for as long as forever & yet it is on every street corner of almost every part of this globe, Trapping innocent potheads into only smoking what they are giving, taking away the rights of our life's by basically pushing the poison Alcohol onto us. The hippies were right keep up the fight. Alcohol kills more than any other substance on Earth yet its the mai...

Dr. Wilson Fights to Use Cannabis for His Daughter Dr. Michael Wilson testified before the committee about his professional and personal desires to see medicinal cannabis legalized. Before his turn, a woman named Tenille Farr discussed her experience treating her Stage II Hodgkin’s lymphoma with cannabis extracts instead of chemotherapy. She was pregnant at the time of diagnosis and could not use traditional treatments. After going to another state for treatment, her cancer stopped growing and became benign. Upon returning to Utah, the cancer started to grow again, and Farr now desires to reinitiate treatment. Check out the full Medical Jane article http://www.medicaljane.com/2015/02/28/utah-physician-fights-to-treat-16-year-old-daughters-cancer-with-cannabis/  

Hemp would be grown for research and cannabis products would be legalized to treat chronic seizures under two bills before the Kansas Legislature. The House Health and Human Services Committee endorsed a bill Monday that would allow companies to produce hemp oils and sell them to people suffering from chronic seizures. Democratic Rep. John Wilson of Lawrence sponsored the bill and said about 24,000 Kansans suffering from such disorders could be affected. The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on a separate bill Monday that would direct the Department of Agriculture to grow and study industrial hemp. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Jake Worcester said he supported the bill and that the department already has held preliminary talks with Kansas State University about potential collaboration on the project. Lets hope this bill comes through its time to end this war on drugs , fix the system one step at a time

DRUGS LIVE: CANNABIS ON TRIAL Finally the wait is over the live cannabis Trial is due this Tuesday night Channel 4 on 3 March 2015 Check out this sample video taking from the programme http://www.channel4.com/programmes/drugs-live/videos/all/jon-snow-takes-skunk Remember illegal cannabis growers do not test THC strength nor do they try to grow a plant with minimum THc , Cannabis is harmless but like everything else too much of something can be bad, It really means we need to control an regulate or grow ouor own , So then we can finally be safer smoking this herb. In the study which Jon Snow (a scientist who took cannabis while taking part in the show) and others took part, They are comparing the effects of two different types of cannabis. One type has high levels of THC but virtually no CBD (which is highly dangerous as humans need cbd in cannabis to keep there mental health just right) and is often referred to as "skunk". The other type, sometimes called hash, ge...

Really is time to End the war on this wonderful plant, it has so many uses and lessens domestic abuses. From the Nixon era to the here and now this so called illegal weed must be freed. Allow doctors , scientists and others do research without the risk of becoming a criminal, stop the hatred, Its time we were allowed choose which substance we want to consume, Cannabis still ain't harming anyone. Safer than meth ?? Who knows what ya find on the net .... A new study  published in Scientific Reports, a subsidiary of the journal Nature, which sought to quantify the risk of death associated with the use of various intoxicating substances, has found however that marijuana is far and away the safest drug. It's at the bottom of the list by some distance, and is also the only drug that poses a low mortality risk to users. (Picture: Washington Post) (Source: 'Comparing risk assessment of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and other illicit drugs using the margin of exposure approach...

Depression is bad alone then we have the illegal weed , illegality makes it worse on the users as they get stressed over cost and strength etc. Its time to unwind these laws break the chains, free the weed Source" theweedblog A study was recently released which found that marijuana can be an effective treatment for depression. Marijuana of course doesn’t cause the side effects that pharmaceuticals do. Per the Huffington Post : Neuroscientists from the University of Buffalo’s Research Institute on Addictions found that endocannabinoids — chemical compounds in the brain that activate the same receptors as THC, an active compound in marijuana — may be helpful in treating depression that results from chronic stress. In studies on rats, the researchers found that chronic stress reduced the production of endocannabinoids, which affect our cognition, emotion and behavior, and have been linked to reduced feelings of pain and anxiety, increases in appetite and overall feelings o...

     The effects of chronic marijuana use on the brain may depend on age of first use and duration of use, according to researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas. In a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers for the first time comprehensively describe existing abnormalities in brain function and structure of long-term marijuana users with multiple magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. Findings show chronic marijuana users have smaller brain volume in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a part of the brain commonly associated with addiction, but also increased brain connectivity. “We have seen a steady increase in the incidence of marijuana use since 2007,“said Dr. Francesca Filbey , Associate Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Research in Addictive Disorders at the Cen...

US Government Says Cannabis Is A Neuroprotectant Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants US 6630507 B1 Abstract Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of c...

Researchers with the University of London at St. George's said they've discovered cannabis extracts containing the key chemical in marijuana - tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC - actually help with brain cancer when combined with another chemical and radio therapy. The other necessary chemical is cannabidiol, United Press International reported. Scientists tested mice with brain tumors using the…

Cannabis does cure and the truth is out here. Educate yourself & awake the masses. CBD is a neuro protector. Cannabis Oil is the real medicine. Lets follow Colorado and Free TheWeed This is a must-watch video by Truth in Media Host, Ben Swann. Mr. Swann explores the cannabis issue and learns that the US government holds patents for cannabis all while keeping it illegal as a Schedule 1 substance. Swann exposes the hypocrisy, and he also explains why Dr. Sanjay Gupta is correct in regards to "The Entourage Effect." He explains that cannabis medicine is best when ALL of the ingredients are used, so companies like GW Pharmaceuticals, which seek to remove all cannabis constituents but THC and CBD oil from "Sativex," will ultimately fail, because their medicine isn't as good as Rick Simpson's. "Sativex" will never compare to Rick Simpson's hemp oil. Here is Ben Swann's Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/BenSwannRea...

  Emperor of Hemp: The Jack Herer Story 1999 Film           This documentary chronicles the life of Jack Herer and his struggle for awareness and enlightenment of cannabis sativa, a.k.a. marijuana or hemp. His research into this plant culminates in his writing The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Official Hemp Bible. He has dedicated his life to educating people about the history and many utilizations of hemp, the conspiracy against it, and ending marijuana prohibition. - Written by merk214      R.I.P : Jack Herer - RIP April 15, 2010   IMDb: Ratings: 6.7 / 10   Initial release : 1999 Director : Jeff Jones Running time : 60 minutes Cast : Peter Coyote Genres : Documentary film, Short Film, Political cinema http://www.jackherer.com/