Cannabidiol (CBD). Destroys all arguments against the exploration for the use of medical marijuana. Little girl (Charlotte Figi) experienced over 300 grand mal seizures per week as she suffered from dravet syndrome. Looking for alternatives, the mother bravely explored the use of medical cannabis as a treatment. In comes CBD, a strain that has very little to no THC at all. A strain by all characteristics, considered a throw away plant. 11 minutes: What is missing is the willingness to explore and research the potential uses for medical marijuana. Israel leads the planet in research but here in America, we lead the planet in not researching all while continuing to label the opportunity as dangerous and a leading target in the drug wars. Meanwhile, kids must continue to die while corporate profits are protected. How is that not a crime? If a child can be saved from living a life of constant seizures then is it not possible an adult can be treated for symptoms resulting from multiple concussions? We don't know that because prohibitionists wanna fight them drug lords. Charlotte is now free of pharmaceuticals, free from the feeding tube, allowed to socialize, free to sleep on her own...but outside the state of Colorado, her parents are criminals subject to having the very child they saved taken from them by CPS. That is if they refuse to cooperate and give up the names of the drug lords from which this harmless drug was obtained... The success from this little girl has propelled the success of other children who once lived the same life. Time to start listening to the kids.
It's much more lucrative to keep people on pharms with an arms length of side effects, in order to shove more meds down their throats to combat those said side effects. It's Big Pharmas way. Never ending money, and since cannabis can not legally be patented... Doesn't help that prisons are going privatized, hence it's more lucrative to keep locking people up over senseless shit.
Great story. Too many think medical marijuana is a scam for stoners but there are too many who have been helped by this. I know several who either wouldn't be alive or would have a very poor life without it. We do need to rethink our ideas.
Great post. I think public opinion about the use of cannabis has reached such a level that legalization is a foregone conclusion. It's no wonder that Big Pharma and the Private Prison System are the leading lobbies against the legalization of it.
Your opinion is appreciated but why it is that way is too easy. How we are going to change it is the challenge. Spreading the word. Reinvigorating the tired old debate and adding a fresh challenge is all that we can do to help protect the village. This is a matter that is almost entirely put forth to public vote. It was once legal in California and now it is not, voters decided that. How are we ever gonna fund the research necessary to bring these discoveries to the debate? Healthcare in America sucks. Folks are tired of being told how to take care of their bodies and many are starting to get it. This lady took a chance and her prayers were answered and now other children are rewarded with the same opportunity. If we focused more on providing opportunities to our bodies natural healing processes instead of masking the symptoms, them pills can just continue to collect on the shelves.
1.) Cali was the first to use it years ago, then the first to prohibit it, and now again was the first to allow its use for medicinal purposes. Times are changing and even Jersey is on the verge of allowing it for medicinal uses. Some places however, like Louisiana, will be one of the last places in the country to legalize cannabis. 2.) That's the reason Big Pharma wants to keep it prohibited. Meds are big business and an insurance scam. The more medications you're on, the more money Big Pharma makes, and the happier their shareholders are. Most people with the ability to think for themselves know that most if not all medicarions come with a whole sheet of paper with listed side effects and other possible side effects, and that cannabis does not. But Big Pharma has $billions$ and very powerful lobbyists who keep fighting against it. Once America wakes up from the stigma of cannabis use, Big Oharma stands to lose $billions$ and their not going to givethat money up easily. We all know cannabis even for recreational purposes is not the dangerous killer politicians make it out to be, in fact smoking cannabis for the same purposes that most drink is safer than alcohol. But until America wakes up, we're sruck with what we have... people going broke trying to afford their prescriptions, and non violent cannabis users users going to jail for nothing more then possessing a plant.
Red, your back! I was a tot in the 70's so I have no comparison but would like to hear some of the similarities between then and now. At least in my lifetime, this feels like the closest we've come to legalization.
90% of the youth in the 70's wanted legalization. Weed was $10 an ounce and everybody was smoking it. We assumed that as soon as the baby boom displaced the older generations in the voting booth that things would change. Instead, half of the baby boomers changed to conservative ideologues and opposed legalization.
At this point it's all about throwing up the middle finger to anyone who stands to lose money from Marijuana being legalized, INCLUDING POT FARMERS AND DISTRIBUTORS IN CALIFORNIA!!!!!
