Cannabis For Breast Cancer
I’m a pink ribbon kid. Mom, grandma and two aunts on both sides of the family all either had or died of breast cancer. I’ve decided I won’t be doing the same, thank you very much. Tapping on the acupoints around the breast, including the thymus, helps keep the breasts free and clear of toxins, and the emotional issues can also be worked on by tapping as well using EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique.
Wonder of wonders too, last night I heard on the news that a compound found in cannabis, CBD, greatly slows the spread of aggressive breast cancer cells without the painful side effects of other treatments currently available.
Researchers at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco warn that this is not a recommendation to start smoking though, as you can’t get enough CBD this way. CBD, unlike that other cannabis compound, THC, does not get you high. The proposed CBD treatment would be the first all-natural, non-toxic breast cancer treatment, without the serious side effects of radiation and chemotherapy.
Having watched strong and precious women in my life become shrunken shells of their former selves while on radiation and chemo, this news comes as a great comfort. This herbal form of medicine may in time come to replace chemotherapy if all test results pan out.
My grandmother, Grace Evans Ratliff, a natural herbal healer who herself battled breast cancer, said that there is no disease known to man that God did not put a plant in the ground to either help or cure.
How sad that the plant in question happens to be illegal. Perhaps this research will at least see cannabis admitted once again, to the American Pharmacopoeia and world-wide materia medica – as it has been, safely and effectively for thousands of years.
Read the full article here:
http://cbs5.com/health/breast.cancer.marijuana.2.571109.html
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January 13th, 2008 21:18
rick simpson curing cancer’s since 2003[in human's] he will be sentenced on jan 25th 2008 amherst nova scotia canada that’s what happen’s if you find a cure for cancer’s thc hemp oil facin 12yr’s
i love you leaf and ribbon gif could i use it?
January 13th, 2008 21:28
Sure Mark, feel free to use the picture, I made it myself. Right-click and save to your disk. Anyone else wanting to use this one picture, consider it public domain. BTW, if you click on Mark’s website above, you’ll find it goes to a hemp oil for cancer site.
Perhaps a little education is in order, given that Americans and most Western societies are remarkably reactive – negatively so – about the hemp / cannabis / marijuana plant. Hemp seed is one of the most power-packed protein sources available in the plant kingdom. Its oil can be used in everything from cooking, (even making a tasty milk substitute and dairy-free cheeses) and in manufacturing. Even the inedible woody parts of the plant can be retted, carded, spun and woven into tough, durable fiber to make everything from clothes to maritime rope that is extraordinarily resistant to decay.
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The hemp flower oil and leaf that most people are familiar with, are powerful painkillers, anti-nausea agents, antidepressants / mood enhancers and now we find, help combat cancer. But it’s against the law to use this seed-bearing herb for this purpose or any other, as long as any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC, the component that gets you stoned) remain intact. Hemp seed, of interest, contains no THC and may be safely eaten with absolutely no euphoric effect. I have greatly enjoyed non-euphoric (but pretty darned tasty) hempseed butter in place of the less-safe peanutbutter, which almost universally contains some amount of aflatoxins (even if organic).
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Now, as to the politics. People in power have played with words and concepts to benefit small groups of the elite all through history. Historically in America it was the DuPont family, whose newfangled petrochemical oils, plastics and paints needed a legislative boost to sway the consumer market away from non-toxic, renewable hemp sources of those same compounds. Bingo-bango, the safe and natural medicine of hemp was outlawed in 1937 (timeline here), even though the American Medical Association representative himself inveighed heavily against banning "the perfectly safe" hemp plant, and further "…the plant that Congress intends to outlaw, has been used to treat scores of illnesses in America for over a hundred years".
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Fantastically enough, in addition to simple avaricious protection of their cronies, those in government today are openly intent on legislating such things according to their own religious agenda. Nevermind separation of church and state, their arguments are made using dictates found in the Christian bible, and what they say is God’s law here in America – even for those who are not adherents of that religion.
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Given this, it is mystifying to me that those in government outlawed a plant that according to the same book, God put on the earth for our use. And that those in power today are not only upholding that law, but pursuing it to a most illogical conclusion.
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Entered into evidence is this verse from Genesis 1:29 (KJV): "And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. "
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Every herb. All of them.
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Though this somewhat contradicts the story of Adam and Eve, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which God is recorded as expressly forbidding, God is not recorded in Genesis as saying "every herb…but THAT ONE"
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Following this same line of logic, who adheres to the Christian bible and prosecutes as a crime the consumption of an herb God has permitted humans to use in the very name of that God, is guilty of a most unChristian act, and is a hypocrite into the bargain. Particularly if that administration pursues very sick people whose last hope may lie in the curative or palliative powers of said herb.
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Legal or illegal, what a travesty of justice is this sector of the "war on drugs".
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Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. President.
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For a closer look at the kind of people are using cannabis for legitimate medical purposes and being prosecuted by the American government for it, please check out the Angel Raich story here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich for a dispassionate view, and at Angel’s own site here: http://www.angeljustice.org/
March 31st, 2008 06:49
Cannabis can be either psychoactive (“marijuana”) or non-psychoactive (“industrial hemp”). Both varieties produce CBDs, but only the marijuana gets people “high.” There is no reason to prohibit hemp, except that it competes with petroleum, chemical pharmaceuticals, GMO-soybeans, timber and cotton. At the same time, prohibition feeds the voracious, predatory prison industrial complex.
Individuals who are genuinely thankful to the Creator for the healing, nutritional blessings given to us in the Cannabis plant ought to be protected from prosecution by claiming our Article One, freedom of religion. If everyone who is grateful for every herb bearing seed were to stand up for their religious freedom, as individuals, we could end the prohibition that’s killing our planet through imposed scarcity.
Paul J. von Hartmann
California Cannabis Ministry
http://www.californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com