Cannabis Heals Quotes

I believe that marijuana, aka cannabis should be recognized for what it is - an effective herb, grown from soil and seed, nurtured by sun and rain.

Witches the Church simply burned at the stake, but something more interesting happened to the witches’ magic plants. The plants were too precious to banish from human society, so in the decades after Pope Innocent’s fiat against witchcraft, cannabis, opium, belladonna, and the rest were simply transferred from the realm of sorcery to medicine, thanks largely to the work of a sixteenth-century Swiss alchemist and physician named Paracelsus. Sometimes called the “Father of Medicine,” Paracelsus established a legitimate pharmacology largely on the basis of the ingredients found in flying ointments. (Among his many accomplishments was the invention of laudanum, the tincture of opium that was perhaps the most important drug in the pharmacopoeia until the twentieth century.) Paracelsus often said that he had learned everything he knew about medicine from the sorceresses. Working under the rational sign of Apollo, he domesticated their forbidden Dionysian knowledge, turning the pagan potions into healing tinctures, bottling the magic plants and calling them medicines.

THC oxidizes to Δ-8-THC as the plant ages, so higher levels can be a sign of aged plants or poor storage. Δ-8-THC is also a partial agonist of both CB1 and CB2 receptors.[69],[70] Δ-8-THC is considered to possess similar therapeutic properties to THC but is not as psychoactive (about 50% less than THC) and is generally less potent.[71] Both CBD and Δ-8-THC diminish the psychoactivity of THC, suggesting that combining the three may be an effective medicine while minimizing the negative mental effects of THC.

Having confidence in the healing power of nature, and spreading that message, is the most important thing you can do. —Dr. Andrew Weil, speaking at the 2019 Integrative Nutrition Conference

The roots of jazz and blues extend back through slavery to the collective rhythmic patterns of indigenous tribes in West Africa, where cannabis had thrived for centuries. Thrown upon bonfires, marijuana leaves and flowers augmented nocturnal healing rituals with drum circles, dancing, and singing that invoked the spirit of the ancestors and thanked them for imparting knowledge of this botanical wonder. It was only natch that Satch, the musical savant and dagga devotee, felt right at home as soon as he set foot on West African soil. “After all,” he explained, “my ancestors came from here, and I still have African blood in me.

If we can get the mitochondria working at its proper level with deuterium-depleted water, tamp down inflammation with cannabis, and then send the all-clear signal with a compound like suramin, we might be setting the stage to heal even our most challenging chronic diseases.