CANNABIS AND CANCER....

The efficacy of cannabis as a broad spectrum medication has been known for a very long time but in the same way that hemp (another strain of marijuana) was torpedoed decades back by corporate America as an alternative to cotton and a myriad other applications, the bottom line was simply that it posed too much of a threat to the established industries - paper, textiles, medicine, fertilisers and pesticides (hemp is a natural insect repellent) and it provides a much higher yield per acre than any other plant in any of those industries. Ergo: it couldn't be considered and thus was passed over to maintain the status quo while a bunch of crap propaganda was proffered about the dangers of industrial hemp being used to conceal the narcotic strain of cannabis by unscrupulous growers.

In the same way, the pharmaceutical industry simply cannot afford to have something natural that potentially cures cancer readily available to the public when their whole reason for existing is to maintain repeat business and manage sickness. They're not in the business of cures or managing health - that's not a sustainable business model. Harsh but true.

So their approach to cannabis as medicine is loaded with all the usual rhetoric - studies are still underway and inconclusive - the science isn't verifiable - the reports about cures through cannabis treatment are purely anecdotal etc.

All of which could be changed if the industry took the potential seriously and actually funded proper research in this area which they have had the means to do for decades yet they still haven't actively pursued this....

Why?

The answers are obvious.

The vilification of cannabis by the establishment as a schedule 2 narcotic (in the same category as heroin and cocaine!) is also a bogus attempt to keep the distribution and use of the substance suppressed.

It's been shown empirically (Portugal / Switzerland) that legalising drugs - ALL drugs leads to a dramatic drop in addiction rates and deaths associated with the clandestine underground drug business which is, due to the fact it's illegal, run by thugs and gangsters who wage war against rival operators and cut their products with all manner of dangerous additives to further their yield and no control whatsoever is maintained to protect their users. Who cares?

When the supply of drugs are regulated, governments gain control of the entire operation, profit at every level of the supply chain and the illegal operators have no viable opportunity to compete in the industry. Clinics are established for addicts and the stigma associated with addiction is dramatically reduced.

The casualty rates drop significantly. It's been done - the data's available.

It's a no brainer. But when the very governments and so called law enforcement agencies are inextricably involved in the illicit business as has demonstrably been shown time and again in the faux "war on drugs," there's no chance of any meaningful improvement.

The establishment wants to keep things just the way they are. It's up to us to change that and ironically, if you want to medicate with medicinal cannabis, nine times out of ten you have to do it illegally.

The world is a very screwed up place indeed.

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