Cannabis May Be The Future of Medicine
Disclaimer: Posting this information about Medical Cannabis, does not mean we endorse the practice of using cannabis without a doctor's prescription. However, we know that many individuals are searching for remedies that work better that medications already prescribed by their doctors. Some people are using cannabis, and instead of pretending that it's not happening, we decided to provide information that further educates those who chose to go this route.
All persons should be able to have access to all medicines grown in nature. Cannabis provides highly digestible globular protein, which is balanced for all of the Essential Amino Acids. Cannabis provides the ideal ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 Essential Fatty Acids. Critically, cannabis is the only known source of the Essential Cannabinoid Acids. It is clear that all individuals would benefit from access to cannabis as a unique functional food.
MEDICAL CANNABIS ACTIVE INGREDIENTS: THC AND CBD
Cannabinoids are the active chemical ingredients produced by the cannabis plant. More than 100 different cannabinoids have been identified, but research has focused on only two of them so far: delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD).
THC is the substance known to cause the psychoactive effects or the “high” felt from cannabis. Scientific studies, as well as anecdotal evidence, suggest that THC is effective in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), functions as an appetite stimulant for HIV/AIDS patients, reduces nausea and vomiting from cancer treatment, helps patients with insomnia, inflammation and pain.
CBD lacks nearly any psychoactive effect and is showing promise with epilepsy, including children with a severe form called Dravet’s Syndrome. CBD has also been used successfully by patients with genetic brain disorders, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and Parkinson's disease.
CBD also helps to make the “high” caused by THC more tolerable and can have an impact reducing the likelihood patients will experience paranoia or anxiety caused by THC.
Trichomes that grow on the outside of marijuana flowers contain the active ingredients in cannabis, including THC and CBD.
Cannabinoids are the active chemical ingredients produced by the cannabis plant. More than 100 different cannabinoids have been identified, but research has focused on only two of them so far: delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD).
THC is the substance known to cause the psychoactive effects or the “high” felt from cannabis. Scientific studies, as well as anecdotal evidence, suggest that THC is effective in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), functions as an appetite stimulant for HIV/AIDS patients, reduces nausea and vomiting from cancer treatment, helps patients with insomnia, inflammation and pain.
CBD lacks nearly any psychoactive effect and is showing promise with epilepsy, including children with a severe form called Dravet’s Syndrome. CBD has also been used successfully by patients with genetic brain disorders, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and Parkinson's disease.
CBD also helps to make the “high” caused by THC more tolerable and can have an impact reducing the likelihood patients will experience paranoia or anxiety caused by THC.
Trichomes that grow on the outside of marijuana flowers contain the active ingredients in cannabis, including THC and CBD.
Choosing the Right Cannabis Consumption Method for You:
As more people become aware that it's now legal to use medicinal cannabis in Jamaica, we will see a drastic increase in the types of cannabis products available. While smoking may be the most popular, there are a variety of alternative ways to use medical cannabis. The effect, duration, and onset time vary slightly with each consumption method. Many can be combined for synergistic, sustained relief.
The correct consumption method for you will be a matter of your individual illness or disease process, desired effect, intensity, duration, and personal preference. One size does not fit all. Christians may shy away from smoking cannabis for medical purposes, but there are a host of other methods that will work effectively in delivering good quality medicine to your body. It's a personal preference, do what works for you. It would be foolish not to use such a powerful medicine given to us from God's green earth.
As more people become aware that it's now legal to use medicinal cannabis in Jamaica, we will see a drastic increase in the types of cannabis products available. While smoking may be the most popular, there are a variety of alternative ways to use medical cannabis. The effect, duration, and onset time vary slightly with each consumption method. Many can be combined for synergistic, sustained relief.
The correct consumption method for you will be a matter of your individual illness or disease process, desired effect, intensity, duration, and personal preference. One size does not fit all. Christians may shy away from smoking cannabis for medical purposes, but there are a host of other methods that will work effectively in delivering good quality medicine to your body. It's a personal preference, do what works for you. It would be foolish not to use such a powerful medicine given to us from God's green earth.
Let's look at the actual, vetted, published and peer-reviewed research – bullet proof,
if we are to subscribe to the 'evidence-based' model of medicine – which includes over
100 proven therapeutic actions of this amazing plant,
featuring the following:
if we are to subscribe to the 'evidence-based' model of medicine – which includes over
100 proven therapeutic actions of this amazing plant,
featuring the following:
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The Brains Own Cannabis
Besides appearance, indica and sativa plants are commonly believed to have different effects on their user. These effects include: Sativa
Indica
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Clinical Application of Cannabinoids and Terpenes, Cannafest 2015
Moreover, this plant's therapeutic properties have been subdivided into
the following 40+ pharmacological actions:
the following 40+ pharmacological actions:
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CLICK Rx FOR DOSING INSTRICTIONS
Thanks to modern scientific investigation, it is no longer considered strictly 'theoretical' that cannabis has a role to play in medicine. There is a growing movement to wrench back control from the powers that be, whose primary objectives appear to be the subjection of the human body in order to control the population (political motives) -- what 20th century French philosopher Michel Foucault termed biopower, and not to awaken true healing powers intrinsic within the body of all self-possessed members of society.
Even the instinct towards recreational use – think of the etymology: to re-create – should be allowed, as long as those who choose to use cannabis instead of tobacco and alcohol (and prescription drugs) do not cause harm to themselves or others. How many deaths are attributed to cannnabis each year versus these other societally approved recreational agents, not to mention prescription drugs, which are the 3rd leading cause of death in the developed world?
Ultimately, the politics surrounding cannabis access and the truth about its medicinal properties are so heavily a politicized issue that it is doubtful the science itself will prevail against the distorted lens of media characterizations of it as a 'dangerous drug,' and certainly not the iron-clad impasse represented by federal laws against its possession and use. All we can do is to advocate for the fundamental rights we all possess as free men and women, and our inborn right towards self-possession, i.e as long as what we do does not interfere with the choices and rights of others, we should be free to use an herb/food/textile that sprouts freely and grows freely from this earth, as God/Nature as freely made available.
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
~ Willie Nelson
"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?" – Bill Hicks
Even the instinct towards recreational use – think of the etymology: to re-create – should be allowed, as long as those who choose to use cannabis instead of tobacco and alcohol (and prescription drugs) do not cause harm to themselves or others. How many deaths are attributed to cannnabis each year versus these other societally approved recreational agents, not to mention prescription drugs, which are the 3rd leading cause of death in the developed world?
Ultimately, the politics surrounding cannabis access and the truth about its medicinal properties are so heavily a politicized issue that it is doubtful the science itself will prevail against the distorted lens of media characterizations of it as a 'dangerous drug,' and certainly not the iron-clad impasse represented by federal laws against its possession and use. All we can do is to advocate for the fundamental rights we all possess as free men and women, and our inborn right towards self-possession, i.e as long as what we do does not interfere with the choices and rights of others, we should be free to use an herb/food/textile that sprouts freely and grows freely from this earth, as God/Nature as freely made available.
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
~ Willie Nelson
"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?" – Bill Hicks
Cannabis Patents
Related To The Dietary And Medicinal Study And Use Of Cannabis
Related To The Dietary And Medicinal Study And Use Of Cannabis
Why does a country that vilifies users of the cannabis herb and demonize its use, own patents claiming the medical benefits/ properties of the same herb? Is it because they are hiding crucial medical information from the people? Or, is it because they know that the medical potency of the herb can erase many diseases and sicknesses that they would rather the people be burdened by? Or, maybe, the big pharmaceutical companies would rather that people only depend on fake or synthetic drugs that do not cure diseases, but only manage symptoms? Maybe they are trying to prevent the herb from becoming too popular with the people who would end up using it for cures, rather than use the fake medicines? Hmmm...
US Patent 6,630,507 (pdf-120KB)
“Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants” Assigned to the United States of America, it provides guidelines for relevant medical conditions and dosage schedules for CBD. Review LOG notes on the use of vaporization to separate CBD from THC
Medicinal Acidic Cannabinoids / US 7,807,711 B2 (pdf-120KB)
Invention relates to an acidic cannabinoid, the method for extracting and preparing.
Pharmaceutical Compositions For The Treatment Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease US 2009 / 0197941 A1 Aug. 6, 2009 (pdf-132KB)
Discusses the preferred ratio of CBD to THC being 1:1
Anti-nausea And Anti-vomiting Activity Of Cannabidiol Compounds / US 2003 0225156 A1 Dec. 4, 2003 (pdf-64KB)
Inventor: Raphael Mechoulam. The applied dose can be adjusted based on the relative bioavailability and potency of the administered compound. Adjusting the dose to achieve maximal efficacy...
Combination Of Cannabinoids For The Treatment Of Peripheral Neuropathic Pain US 2010/0035978 A1 Feb 11, 2010 (pdf-1.5MB)
This patent identifies “the ratio of CBD:THC by weight is between 10:1 to 1:10.”
US Patent 6,410,588 B1 (pdf-1.5MB)
Feldmann, et al. “Use of Cannabinoids as Anti-inflammatory Agents”
US 2007/0099987 A1 (pdf-1.4MB)
Weiss, et al. “Treating or Preventing Diabetes with Cannabidiol”
US Patent 6,946,150 B27 (pdf-2.7MB)
Brian Whittle. “Pharmaceutical Formulation.” Using a pump action spray to administer cannabinoids via the mucosal surfaces.
“Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants” Assigned to the United States of America, it provides guidelines for relevant medical conditions and dosage schedules for CBD. Review LOG notes on the use of vaporization to separate CBD from THC
Medicinal Acidic Cannabinoids / US 7,807,711 B2 (pdf-120KB)
Invention relates to an acidic cannabinoid, the method for extracting and preparing.
Pharmaceutical Compositions For The Treatment Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease US 2009 / 0197941 A1 Aug. 6, 2009 (pdf-132KB)
Discusses the preferred ratio of CBD to THC being 1:1
Anti-nausea And Anti-vomiting Activity Of Cannabidiol Compounds / US 2003 0225156 A1 Dec. 4, 2003 (pdf-64KB)
Inventor: Raphael Mechoulam. The applied dose can be adjusted based on the relative bioavailability and potency of the administered compound. Adjusting the dose to achieve maximal efficacy...
Combination Of Cannabinoids For The Treatment Of Peripheral Neuropathic Pain US 2010/0035978 A1 Feb 11, 2010 (pdf-1.5MB)
This patent identifies “the ratio of CBD:THC by weight is between 10:1 to 1:10.”
US Patent 6,410,588 B1 (pdf-1.5MB)
Feldmann, et al. “Use of Cannabinoids as Anti-inflammatory Agents”
US 2007/0099987 A1 (pdf-1.4MB)
Weiss, et al. “Treating or Preventing Diabetes with Cannabidiol”
US Patent 6,946,150 B27 (pdf-2.7MB)
Brian Whittle. “Pharmaceutical Formulation.” Using a pump action spray to administer cannabinoids via the mucosal surfaces.
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