Cannabis Use Linked to Severe COVID-19....What Absolute Bullshit as far as I'm personally concerned....
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https://neurosciencenews.com/cannabis-covid-26358/
I'm 62 years old, and have been using Cannabis since I was 18, I used to drink every single day when I worked in Casinos in Amsterdam from 1983 until 2001.Last couple Years I hardly drink at all now, but I use Weed Everyday, that's what keeps me fucking sane.. I'm Not an Addict 🤣😎Its just something 'Normal' to me...You would Not know whether I was stoned or not if you met me... Point is .... With my Age and being a frontline worker during Covid, I Only wore my mask If I was forced to at the shops... I dealt with +- 50 Customers face to face everyday, some shook hands and some didn't.. Never Got Ill ONCE !!, At All.... So with my age plus my habits during Covid plus the fact I Use Cannabis Everyday, I should Be DEAD really.... Why Not, I'm Nothing special...Its Just I Have a GOD given Immune system that has never let me down in my life... So that's why IMO this is BS....
Edit : Don't know why I didn't say this earlier but I think I'm in the health I am Partly due to smoking weed my entire adult life...
The study is tainted with tobacco/cannabis data. Secondly the ENTIRE health/med industry participated in premeditated MURDER. So now I'm supposed to trust anything they do or say? Jessica Church (author) needs to smoke some weed.
https://hightimes.com/study/pygmies-get-higher-than-we-do/amp/
Cannibas seems to have an anti parasite effect on the body.
Also coca leaf (cocaine) has antifungal and anti parasite effect. Seems like many of the so called plants that get us high have an anti parasitic or antifungal benefit.
Cannabis reduces inflammation which causes pain by killing the worms that cause inflammation.
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/terpenes-and-cbd-may-reduce-inflammation-and-fight-viruses#:~:text=A%20study%20has%20found%20that,influenza%20A%20virus%20in%20cells.
https://greatawakening.win/p/17tLB1mpQf/x/c/4ZCZxPZWBFI
You are an addict. My dad is the same way, smoked weed since he was young, acts perfectly normal on it. But, you take him away from it for a week and he shows his addiction.
Though extremely biased off one single reference point, marijuana is no more addicting than sugar is. It's just the facts, I'm sorry if you aren't okay with it. I've smoked heavily, stopped, then lightly and the only difference is maybe a week of irritability, which is even better than cigarettes, that causes long term constipation, agitation and restlessness for at least a month. Maybe your dad has major depression or anxiety, and it's not being legitimized.
I wouldn't compare the addictive-ness of weed and sugar. Sugar is INSANELY addictive. Weed is mildly addictive if anything. May be different for different people, but I'd personally argue Sugar is more addictive/harder to quit than hard stimulants like Meth.
Again, from my experience, not really. I actually can't eat much sugar at all because it makes me sick. It does to most people who don't consume a lot of it. Same with weed, I can't really smoke a lot anymore cause it makes me sick, plus it's wasteful and pointless. Just like sugar.
Being clear here, I'm referring to artificial sugars and sweeteners. And meth, opiates and sometimes alcohol are almost impossible without a lot of dedication and strength since they alter you in many ways, sometimes permanently, not so as much as sugar. I see you are agreeing with me mostly, just wanted to offer what I've seen since I've been around it a lot.
With all that being said though, most importantly, with govt getting involved in weed production, it's highly probable that they can manipulate strains and everything and anything could happen to you, so be careful where you get your bud and ask questions.
I don't do sugar. Largely a keto diet these days with a handful of supplements to ease the ills that flesh is heir to. But I love stimulants because they work. Makes the brain buzz for a bit. I limit myself to coffee and nicotine otherwise I would spend the rent.
Sugar is highly addictive.
Not really. You can cut out sugars basically instantly if not in extreme cases gradually if you want to, unless you suffer from a medical condition. Anything else smug to say?
Yes really. Go carnivore and suffer extreme "keto flu" (withdrawal)
I can feel your blood pressure rising from here, lol.
We don't know that, Internet Doctor. I suspect that's true, but you don't know until you quit cold turkey and start feeling terrible cravings and maybe some withdrawal symptoms. That's the indication of physiological dependence. A lot of people have the psychological dependence too. It's "force of habit." It "helps me relax after work." It 'helps me focus at work or be more creative." Whatever, but we don't know til you cut it off and this person has told us nothing to indicate one way or the other.
10% of marijuana users do develop addiction, and I guarantee you 99% of those addicts deny it, just like alcoholics or other drug addicted people. Its the nature of the disease. People don't want to admit to themselves that they're no longer in control of their bodies and minds. The substance has control. This is why treatment programs are so insistent on making addicts understand it and say it. I think with weed, too, the side effects that come with THC addiction are so mild, it's just not seen as harmful, like how we approach caffeine addiction, and that's why people are so resistant to acknowledging it.
I was addicted to weed, it controlled my life and I hated that, I prayed to the Lord to take it away from me and he did. I woke up the next morning not wanting a smoke at all and never have touched the stuff since.
Praise the Lord!
I smoke 1-2 times daily, got my ENGR degree just last month. Smoked through the whole program.
Not getting enough THC is nowhere even close to not getting enough caffiene. I'm sure unhappy when theres no weed when I want some, but not having any coffee available when I need it is a fucking disaster.
For me THC feels like a "continual want" But caffiene feels like a "NEED"
Reefer madness!
How did you "take him away from it"
I forced him to go to my wedding which was across the country. He drove, but got stopped by police twice, they made him get ride of it.
At gun point?
Yeah, me too. Sort of like being an addict to air, water and food. It keeps my IDGAF factor in the sweet spot. Dealing with humans is hard work for some of us. Both left and right.
Oh yes. I agree. Weed is just as important to humans as air, water and food. If you are ever lost in the woods, you can die, 3 minutes of no air, 3 hours of no weed, 3 days of no water, and 3 weeks of no food.
so at this point you likely use to feel normal.
'normal'...Mmmm When I'm at work I don't smoke so I'm not 'stoned' and feel 100% normal, and when I get home and get 'stoned' I too feel 'normal'... Basically its what I do....😉😎
been there, I understand. Lay off for a month and then try it to see if you get a good high. Just a thought.
Don't get me wrong, I still get stoned but nowadays it's not really about how high I can get, like in my younger days...It has more of a 'calming' think before you act effect....🙂😎 If you know what I mean...Crazy times...
absolutely.
At 72, my experience is somewhat similar. Started using it frequently around 15. Quit during military service 20-24; drank alcohol like a fish when my ship was in port. After completing service I studied hard at university staying mostly sober in all regards there except for Friday nights, which were party nights for blowing off steam (mostly alcohol but some cannabis got sprinkled in). Graduated Summa Cum Laude in mechanical engineering. Restarted briefly after graduation but stopped everything for 25 years after my first child was born.
I used daily as a pain killer for about about 6 years when my knees went bone-on-bone. A puff or two every few hours. I went through 4 major surgeries after waiting a year and a half while elective surgeries were shut down due to the Covid game (unfortunately one knee got infected which lead to two additional surgeries on that knee.) It's the best pain killer of all time. Currently, I sometime take a puff or two before bed but it's no big deal if I do or don't. But I've stopped all alcohol and most sugar.
Never jabbed, started taking Ivermectin horse paste monthly (or more) Dec 2020. Haven't had so much a cold since then. Now my knees have been replaced I'm one of the healthiest people my age. Cannabis has been good medicine, and not been addictive for me.
👌👌But according to some we should be Long dead....
If what "they" said were to be believed I should be dead about 17 times in my 64 years since conception. If the next realm wanted me it had ample chances in my drinking years. Chemicals for a short stint in the middle of life. If I had to do it all over again... I'd still smoke weed and would have argued with MY parents that they would be better served to partake with me rather than drinking into their 50's and Mom becoming a "guinea pig" for pain management for arthritis. That lead into other issues with her body as each system began failing due to the poisons "they" push. Mom had a really great green thumb and I suspect if allowed to do so she would have produced a "high" quality product that would have let her live her life without killing off her body.
I mean I would assume smoking in general would cause issues with a respiratory virus.
Those that smoke menthol cigarettes were never infected by the "virus".
I work in a tobacco store. Very few of my customers caught covid. It was mostly the ones that only play lottery.
Completely anecdotal but when I saw an article about tobacco (or specifically nicotine, I think) seemingly being something that kept the virus at bay, I figured that might be why. Never heard about menthols specifically.
I'll offer a completely unsubstantiated hypothesis here. One of the most powerful defenses we have against viruses is a chain of molecules called the complement system. It's 9 enzymes that work together as a broad, generalized tool to fight off bacteria and viruses. The key component that works on viruses is ~10x more effective when you raise the body temperature about 2°C as happens with a fever, hence why you don't lower a fever unless it gets really extreme (>103-104°F). But there are alternative ways to achieve an increase in body temperature: sauna, exercise, etc, and both are seen as health-boosting activities.
Here's the connection. Nicotine is typically consumed by smoking/inhalation. You light tobacco on fire, transfer the nicotine to hot smoke, and inhale it. How hot is that smoke? I'm not sure, but I know it's more than 102°F. Not for long. The energy is rapidly transferred to the surfactant in the lungs. But if you're smoking a lot, you may be getting enough heat applied to the target tissues that respiratory viruses typically hit to enter the body and start infections. The warmer lung tissue may be slightly better at fending off these first-line attacks.
Again, this is a random guy on the internet spit-balling. It's a hypothesis. There's no data behind this, so don't start smoking thinking that it's healthy. It's not. The balance of effects is overwhelmingly against smoking. Don't smoke. If you do smoke, get help from a professional and quit.
But it is an interesting idea that's worth exploring in a world were people have flavored vapes with no nicotine in them at all. If that actually works and we can achieve the effect without those harms, it's certainly worth an introductory study.
Nicotine attaches to same receptors that the spike protein does, so smokers have less receptor sites available foe spike proteins to attack, hence the reason why nicotine users were less likely to get covid.
I smoke too....Hardly ever get Ill...Maybe the sniffles once a year but that's it...
Anytime you read something like this, you need to check the methodology.
If it is not a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, at best, it is correlated (ie they happen at the same time), but causation cannot be proved without this type of study design.
Be aware of p-hacking. This is a statistical abuse. Typically, we say that if something has a less than 5% chance of happening randomly, it is very likely that the connection shown in the data is genuine. X causes Y, for example. But if you subject that data to a battery of tests, you can increase the chances of finding _something that meets that standard just based on random chance. Set our p standard at 0.05 (1 in 20 chance that it's random), but then do 20 separate tests on the data, we have a really good chance at least 1 of them will come up positive just by chance. The authors will report this correlation as being genuine, even though in reality, it's just a random event.
One good way to start sniffing this stuff out is if the correlations are wild and seemingly totally unrelated. Cannabis (THC) actually has immune boosting properties (weak, but present), so it was seem counterintuitive to suggest it was causing severe COVID, which is what these schiessekopfs are trying to do. They hide it behind the "linked to" language, knowing people will interpret it as "caused by." I'm no fan of marijuana legalization, but this claim looks totally fake.
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Cathy O'Brian in her book "Trance-formation of America" says that the only drug she wasn't allowed in the mkultra hell she was in was cannabis... Those who want you brainwashed and programmed, have been demonizing Ja's gift... It's not for everyone, but it is a beautiful and good plant.
Absolutely... And well put...
Weed is dumb. Its not the same stuff potheads like to claim, 'god gave the earth', type of pot, man has corrupted it.
Can be...Indoor and Hydro are 'corrupted' with additives and such which is fine if that's what you want...But what I smoke comes from the farms in Swaziland... Outdoor, natural growth...No additives
https://youtu.be/ujpCWMiQDWM?si=BYIV8zGp-BP88hFj
My thoughts on that -
What a load of bollocks!
That means it helps fight it in some way.
This is a crap-study. The "Cannabis users" from this study are defined as "people who reported using any form of cannabis at least once in the year before developing COVID-19". So people who took 1 draw or 1 edible 12 months before, are included in the group of "Cannabis users" from this study. But the long-time beneficial and protective qualities of Cannabis would obviously be the result of long-time regular or daily use.
What utter bullshit. The general public is far more educated about the endocannabinoid system of the human body to accept this undoubtedly well-funded "study" as legitimate. Even those who don't know much about the science behind why the derivatives of the cannabis plant fit so well with our physiology...they're probably veteran partakers whose relationship with weed is well-established and primarily unalterable, anyway. Nobody's buyin' it.
In any case, the only people who might give this a second thought are the ones who never tried weed in any form, and who never would. Closed minds appreciate stuff that feeds cognitive stasis.
I don't care what they say. I'm 66 and have smoked weed practically all of my life. I started in my teens. I can go days, weeks, months or years between joints, no problem. I'm also very healthy. I've never had the vax and refused to wear a mask. I think they are trying to poison us and I also think anything that is good for you they will say it's not.
Covid 19 was the regular flu. End of story
Made me wonder if Vapes and tobacco cured it
There is evidence that nicotine helps your immune system destroy unhealthy cells, which aids in fighting covid.... dunno if I can find the paper, but there is definitely findings to this effect.
Yes. There’s even an anti parasite called Niclosamide with some nicotine like properties. Actually the original tobacco was called “little magician” for its effects on the body. You could also blow the smoke into the rectum of a drowned person and revive their heart. Crazy stories going back to the 1800s.
That term blow smoke up my ass was about the emergency use of nicotine smoke to revive people who were believed to be dead.
Hahahaha. Only TRUST big pharma, big alcohol and big tobacco 😯