All I have to say about this, is just watch it. It's only 2 minutes and 30 seconds or so, and it very clearly demonstrates what an incredible benefit cannabis can have for shutting down the muscle tremors and spasms that are associated with Parkinson's disease. It's literally a life-changing night and day difference in a matter of minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNT8Zo_sfwo
This is information which has been circulated around lefty circles for a while, mostly among the pro-cannabis legalization crowd, but just because only lefties have been paying attention to it doesn't necessarily mean it isn't accurate. A lot of conservatives, due to their more adversarial attitudes towards cannabis use and legalization, do not seem to be aware of this yet.
Cannabis of course has a long and complex history regarding its prohibition, and legalization at the state level, and I don't really want to get into the legal complexities of state versus federal legalization or the morality aspects of its use as an intoxicant for recreational purposes with this post. There are a lot of ways in which medical knowledge can be politicized and weaponized, and to get into all of that here and now would take a really long time and be kind of exhausting.
The fact remains that the cannabinoids found in cannabis can do quite a lot to calm down the symptoms of some very serious diseases, as you can plainly see from the video above.
The reason why this works is because dysfunction in the endocannabinoid system is largely what is responsible for the active tremors and spasms that you see in many Parkinson's patients. The cannabinoids found in cannabis can help modulate your endocannabinoid receptors so they stop freaking out.
Now some people might rebut this and say that, well some studies also showed that cannabis didn't help Parkinson's patients! This necessitates differentiating between tremor-predominant and akinetic-rigid Parkinson's.
Parkinson's has a few different ways it can manifest, due to dysfunction in different types of neurons and receptors in the brain. A large part of Parkinson's dysfunction also involves dysfunction of your dopamine receptors, and your body's ability to produce dopamine. This is what results in the rigid forms of Parkinson's where people are more locked-in and unable to move at all.
If your dopamine system is fried, cannabinoids won't do anything to fix it. If your endocannabinoid system is fried, they might be able to help, and often do.
And for those who are not particularly keen on using cannabis for intoxicating purposes, you'll be pleased to know that the non-psychoactive CBD has also been shown to be extremely helpful, but Parkinson's is one of the diseases where the more active THC also has very important functions.
Here are some studies you can check out for more information:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31909680/ "Conclusion: Acute CBD administration at a dose of 300 mg decreased anxiety in patients with PD, and there was also decreased tremor amplitude in an anxiogenic situation."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24614667/ "Results: Mean (SD) total score on the motor Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale score improved significantly... Analysis of specific motor symptoms revealed significant improvement after treatment in tremor..."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33381646/ This study only had 13 people, 3 dropped out because they didn't react well to the medication, but the study still states, "Adverse events were mostly mild; none serious." It goes onto state that "Ten (eight male) that completed the study had improvement in total and motor Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale scores... Nighttime sleep and emotional/behavioral dyscontrol scores also improved significantly."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33216043/ This study involved a large survey of patient's self-reported results from using medical cannabis for their Parkinson's symptoms. The study states: "Reduction of pain and muscle cramps was reported by more than 40% of cannabis users. Stiffness/akinesia, freezing, tremor, depression, anxiety and restless legs syndrome subjectively improved for more than 20% and overall tolerability was good. Improvement of symptoms was reported by 54% of users applying oral CBD and 68% inhaling THC-containing cannabis. Compared to CBD intake, inhalation of THC was more frequently reported to reduce akinesia and stiffness (50.0% vs. 35.4%; p < 0.05)."
So, is there a buried cure for akinetic-rigid Parkinson's? What about other uses cannabis has in treating other serious issues like Crohn's disease?
Well, you'll have to wait for parts 4 and later to read about those. Stay tuned!
Humans are designed WITH cannabinoid receptors.
NOT TYLENOL, NOT OIL-BASED MEDICINE.
There's a big difference between artificial chemical concoctions and natural herbs.
I would not be surprised if cocaine leaves used for tea has some mild health benefits, even though crack cocaine is devastating.
The people down in South America who chew coca leaves and stuff like that basically just use it as a coffee alternative.
It's a very different animal when you use it that way.
The concentrations are very low unprocessed.
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."
—Paracelsus, 1538
I read an article back in the '90s that some low level toxins are actually beneficial - they are used to enhance the immune response. I think that holds true for some things.
We can all agree that alcohol is a toxin. But some alcohol, like wine with a meal, can release many beneficial components from foods, that are otherwise difficult for the body to extract. I'm not suggesting everyone start drinking wine (I seldom do), but I have noticed that many extracts have some alcohol in them because it's required to release the compounds we want to cook with.
Take saponins, for example. This is something I only recently uncovered when researching my own allergy issues, and I might have a megathread about just this at some point.
Saponins are common in many foods. In safe amounts, they have the function of upregulating your immune system response. If you have a weak immune system, this is actually quite helpful. If you have a strong immune system, a diet very high in saponins can actually make things like chronic allergies much worse, without getting to the point of having a full-blown allergic reaction. You might just experience this as, "Oh wow, my allergies are real bad this year, must be those damn trees kicking out all that pollen into the air! I'd better take a Benadryl."
There's obviously a balance here and everyone's immune system is different. I'm already highly prone to allergies, so I now make a point to limit my intake of saponin-rich foods.
Is a saponin a "toxin"? I mean, not really. For some people, they are essential to maintaining a healthy immune system, for other people, they may simply cause your allergies to get worse. This is something that's understudied and varies a lot from person to person.
we used to be able to buy coca leaves online. many years ago
wife used to make a tincture out of it. it had a lesser speed effect than the gasoline version, but also gifts you with the squirts.
It used to be an ingredient in coke a cola !
👆👆 Initial formula (late 1800s): The original Coca-Cola contained coca leaves, which provided a small amount of cocaine along with caffeine from the kola nuts, giving the drink its stimulating quality. Removal of cocaine (1903): The cocaine was completely removed from the formula in 1903. Use of spent leaves (1904): After 1904, Coca-Cola began using a cocaine-free coca leaf extract from the spent leaves, though this extract still contained trace amounts. Cocaine-free extract (1929 onwards): By 1929, the Coca-Cola formula was entirely cocaine-free, using only a cocaine-free coca leaf extract.
Do you think there is something artificial about Cannabis?
Nope. Was making the comparison to big Pharma and their expen$$$ive designer drugs vs what nature affordably provides with minimal side effects if minimally processed.
Alright, you are intelligent. Thank you!
☝️☝️☝️☝️ Now do Nicotine!! ✌️👍
i am aware that nicotine is less harmful than caffeine.
the poison in cigarettes is the incineration of the tobacco, along with the chemicals it is treated with before packaging.
is that what you mean?
Nicotine and the use of it has many great benefits to the human body. Nicotine is naturally occurring in many vegetables and other foods. Smoking itself is one of the fastest ways to deliver nicotine to the body, however, the additional chemicals they put in cigarettes nowadays is what is really negative. Humans have been smoking tobacco for time and memorial, however there are evil people in this world that do whatever it takes to make money, including adding other chemicals to products in order to make them more addictive.
Nicotine is actually great when used properly. Same with "cocaine leaves" as u/G45Colt mentioned.
✌️ 👍
I read long ago that ammonia was added to tobacco to make nicotine much more addictive and increase cigarette sales.
There's a whole laundry list of shit they add to cigarettes these days. Unless you're smoking totally additive-free tobacco and go out of your way to source clean smokeables, you're basically actively being poisoned every time you smoke.
I could have a whole thread about just that. Maybe I will...
All I know is the smoke from cigarettes travels a long ways in an outside parking lot.
Way further than what less sensitive people are aware of.
Search says
While there are a little over 500 additives in cigarettes, the burning of a cigarette creates over 7,000 chemicals, including at least 70 known carcinogens (cancer-causing agents) and hundreds of other toxins
The other day I watched a video and a scientist discovered that through their own reports for the industry that it was a specific chemical that makes cigarettes bad and addictive and has nothing to do with tobacco it's self.
Smoke is a problem in and of itself, and I'm not going to pretend like it's completely without problems.
But those 500 additives are definitely not something to ignore, and arguably are even worse than what is created simply by burning tobacco leaf.
Interestingly, other research I've done has enlightened me to the fact that your body metabolizes things like cannabinoids differently whether they are ingested via smoking or via eating. Due to THC being metabolized into 11-OH-THC in the liver, this can actually lead to overstimulation of your CB1 receptors.
This only happens when THC is eaten, not other cannabinoids, and not when it is smoked - because it doesn't go through the liver when smoked.
If you have an immune system that is already primed and hypersensitive, this can in fact trigger a full blown allergic reaction.
The metabolic pathway is much different went smoked, and so it doesn't contribute to allergies as much.
This is why I don't actually eat edibles, I only smoke cannabis, because I have a history of severe allergy issues.
It's the radioactive particles (polonium 110) in the leaves from phosphate fertilizer.
Yeah I'm pretty sure ingesting any amount of polonium is bad.
That's a whole different rabbit hole I can get into at some point.
Correct. Im gonna do what i want as freemen should.
Excellent and very informative post. The medicinal benefits of cannabis and other illicit drugs have been suppressed for far to long to the detriment of far to many long suffering people. Thanks for posting this information, fren.
Scholar level post. Thank you.
So far, all data I have seen indicate overwhelming that the benefits far outweigh the "side affects". About 180° opposite of the majority of pharmaceuticals.
Yep. I have the same attitude towards cannabis as I do towards alcohol. Sure, some people might abuse it every once in a while and that's not good, and you should police bad conduct related to intoxicant use like intoxicated driving or consuming intoxicants in a public school while children are present, but the organized crime-related problems that arise from mass prohibition greatly outweigh those problems, and so in the interest of pragmatic law enforcement and social cohesion a legal-and-regulated model that simply enforces irresponsible use of intoxicants is the best way forward.
Smoke a pound of weed youll fall asleep. Drink a fifth of vodka, you fall asleep and never wake up.
Now look up Charlotte Figi and Dravet's syndrome- Charlotte's Web is a strain that is low THC, high CBD, named after her. Im old enough to remember the Marinol debacle- cannabis is research worthy as a WHOLE PLANT, not just the individual components. The DEA should NOT be in charge of classifying drugs!!! Because of cannabis' classification research is completely slowed, and big pharma wins again...
There are a few high-CBD strains which may be quite helpful for people who may not want the intoxicating properties of THC for a number of reasons, however it is worth noting that the studies I shared specifically indicate THC as a major contributor of the medical benefits for Parkinson's, specifically.
True...
Every component of weed can be used as an individual molecule. Its best used with the synergy of accompanying molecules. Terpines are probably the most beneficial part overall.
Yeah, exactly. The studies I've seen seem to indicate THC helps more with rigidity and stiffness with Parkinson's patients, but CBD seems to help more with spasms and tremors.
Used in combination they synergize, and help reduce spasms, tremors, and also rigidity and stiffness.
I just saw a pretty good video on how Big Pharma and Big Food work, possibly together, to pay "influencers", including "medical experts", to promote various things such as "seed oils aren't bad", and also to discount narratives that are contrary to what they are pushing. It really is a battle of information!
"Seed oils" depends on the seed brother.
We talking about Nigella sativa seed oil?
I try to not paint things with such broad brushes if I can.
I'm referring to the highly processed seed oils used in junk food.
I dont really care ehat secular laws say. Are we going to be free or not? All these republicans against cannabis are full of shit if they say rhey are for freedom. Desantis has spent florida money to block recreational cannabis and change thebrules tonkeepnit off the ballot. yet we got drunks all over the place. either we are free or we arent. MAGA is bullshit otherwise. Sure hes tackling property taxes and 2nd amendment issues. We have 3x the needed amount by law to out this on thr ballot. LET US VOTE or this is what you will be remembered for. Cannabis isnt a partisan issue. As long as i cant go to a dispensary there will be the black market weed. And no i dont want to have to buy the privilege of medicating. Yku dont need a license to get a prescription of oxycontin. Stupid.
Most Christians fail to realize that mass prohibition was never a "Christian" value. Alcohol is shown in positive light and even explicitly permitted in responsible amounts as far back as the old testament. It was simply the most common and well known intoxicant back in antiquity, but to me it seems reasonable that you'd extrapolate that basic principle to other intoxicants as well. The main reason why Christians discouraged use of intoxicants or hallucinogens other than alcohol was because they were simply unknown factors at the time and they didn't really know much about them.
They viewed things like hallucinogens as "demonic" because they do things like make you question your assumptions about the world, which would make people do things like question their Christian faith, but at the same time those entheogens had been used by the local tribes in religious rituals for thousands of years, and new research is even showing that in the right context psychedelics can actually enhance a person's faith as opposed to undermining it.
Cannabis used to be in the Bible, around 1926 I believe as when ii was changed to a garbage herb. It was written with a K. I cracked my skull about 30 years ago and lost my ability to FALL asleep, everything the DRS used made it worse until Kaiser told me to go to the pot DRS. I smoked for the first time in years; I stopped back then when the price got higher than $10 a lid. I fell asleep standing in a doorway, and I had to be carried to bed where I then slept for 12 hours straight. I mostly smoke before bedtime every single night now. I went 1 night without and ruined everyone's vacation. Abusing anything is bad and it's the abusers that make it easy for the deep state to show reason to ban it.
I know of a Veteran who was suffering from PTSD and was having reoccurring nightmares.
He didn't want to take the pills that were prescribed for him and had heard of the horror stories of those who did.
Very light Cannabis use helped him get some sleep and made the nightmares go away.
Many such cases.
My old job used to host Weed for Warriors meetings. There are a lot of people like him out there.
I have a relative who has some kind of issue that causes a head rolling tic. He treats it with cannabis. I thought, O sure, an excuse to smoke dope. Then I saw him one day in great distress. He didn't have money to buy the cannabis. He had his head rolling thing going. It was forceful and out of his control. I gave him some money. He came back later. He was calm and the head rolling was all gone. I became a believer.
Knowingly
Yep. The feds have known about this for a very long time. And they colluded to bury it.
But it’s only temporary- just like all drugs it can’t heal. It covers symptoms temporarily. The symptoms may stop but it can heal. Carnivore heals. The brain is made of fat and protein. Where do you find the building blocks for the body human? Eggs beef lamb butter unpasteurized cheese and milk, fatty fish like salmon, venison, bison.
Any links to Parts 1 & 2?
Part 1: https://greatawakening.win/p/1ARJYDY5p3/cures-buried-by-the-deep-state-a/
Part 2: https://greatawakening.win/p/1ARJczrO4q/buried-cures-part-2--opiate-with/
Thanks Fren!