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Rosemary McDonald

Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:37:24 +1200

Helen Kelly: 'My back is broken and I only have months to live but I'm pain free'

Interesting comments about Big Pharma's influence on this issue.

Go well Helen.

Bill Smith

Sun, 05 Jun 2016 00:28:15 +1200

I believe this ones right on topic and a bit of a, 'WHO DUNNE IT'..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmYq5yBfsDY

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 13:04:43 +1200

Earliest civilisation ended by climate change...
It may be time to rewrite history textbooks. Scientists from IIT-Kharagpur and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have uncovered evidence that the Indus Valley Civilization is at least 8,000 years old, and not 5,500 years old, taking root well before the Egyptian (7000BC to…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 08:33:23 +1200

This guy looks like an interesting read as well...
From fresh food to magic mushrooms
At Radcliffe, Michael Pollan probes the medicinal uses of psychedelic drugs.
Pollan’s books about food, diet, and industrial agriculture — he is perhaps best known for 2006’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four…

Joe Wylie

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 01:19:11 +1200

Hey-Joe, cool video they love their GREENS.

Somewhere I recall someone of a botanical persuasion describing cannabis as a "camp follower", in terms of how it extends its range as a kind of opportunistic domesticate. In a curious coincidence, years later I found the same term used in describing the…

Bill Smith

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 01:05:31 +1200

Hey-Joe, cool video they love their GREENS.

Something else you may be interested in with all the talk of Cannabis and its tenuous links to schizophrenia and this involves diet as well. It's very interesting to find that there's believed to be a link, between gluten and schizophrenia.

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/60-years-research-links-gluten-grains-schizophrenia

Bill Smith

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 00:31:31 +1200

The Human body produces its own cannabinoids, endocannabinoids. When a baby is born the first breast milk contains endocannabinoids as a kick starter.

In fact the only reason Cannabis works for us is that our bodies are regulated by cannabinoids. Its just a quirk of nature that a plant produces…

Joe Wylie

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 19:23:58 +1200

Cannabis is an ancient food and I think that when we use the term eat your greens, it shouldn't just mean cabbages.
[[http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/cp-hhm031408.php|"...humans, along with other higher primates, guinea pigs and fruit bats, get by with what some have called an "inborn metabolic error": an inability to produce vitamin C…

Bill Smith

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 18:52:48 +1200

Yes Ian, interbreeding has spread gene mutations like Hemochromatosis around the globe with little consequence for offspring, when a carrier of the Gene mates outside of its ancestral gene pool. This however is not the case, when two carriers get together.So the progression of humans around the globe has caused…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:59:08 +1200

Nature throws out many anomalies...
Indeed, there are many factors involved...
Many modern health problems, ranging from depression to nicotine addiction, could have their origins in the limited interbreeding between early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals more than 40,000 years ago, scientists said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/mental-health-problems-could-have-origins-in-neanderthal-interbreeding-a6868286.html
and I recently read there were three…

Bill Smith

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 14:46:26 +1200

One can only speculate this was an evolutionary process, due to an abundance of mineral and vitamin rich foods in the diet of this subset. As like Humans and other animals like bats, we would have foraged on many fruit bearing trees and plants containing ample levels, possibly making this…

Joe Wylie

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 13:56:05 +1200

...Vitamin C.... from a balanced diet the way nature intended...
Considering that we're one of the tiny minority of mammal species that have lost the ability to synthesize our own vitamin C, it seems fair to wonder what nature's intention might have been in letting that happen.

Bill Smith

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 13:53:23 +1200

Yes I agree Shane, I think many people underestimate what a dark tunnel many find themselves in, when a twist of fate deals a blow to their health or that of a loved one.

There's often very long waits and depending on the situation little or no funding available for…

Bill Smith

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 12:48:51 +1200

"That's one hell of an analogy. If you don't use vitamin C, you'll get scurvy. I don't smoke dope but I still managed to get an art degree".

There's two ways to get Vitamin C, one from a balanced diet the way nature intended, or secondly by purchasing a supplement…

Shane Le Brun

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 10:03:40 +1200

If you do a search, into the makeup of the Government approved medicine Sativex, you will find that this approval is for a whole Cannabis plant extract. This fact alone proves that the safety of whole Cannabis plant extracts has been established and only leaves to question, healthy growing practices…

Bill Smith

Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:48:55 +1200

Shane Le Brun

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 06:19:22 +1200

Surprisingly methadone is great for chronic pain, no tolerance increaseS, long half life etc mean it's the best one when facing years of pain, however the side effects aren't instant, and creep in over time, my wife is trying to finish her pre injury study and the opioids and Benzos…

Ana Simkiss

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 22:16:33 +1200

Fuck me, methadone for pain? Instead of cannabis? Now that is a dangerous drug. I have chronic pain but helpfully opioids make me sick so that's not on the menu!

Very positive initiative this. Just getting stories out like this and keeping it in the media helps.

andin

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 19:51:40 +1200

the risk of diversion in the New Zealand setting
Sorry the what? in the where?
Or is this just the made up bullshit these fuckers pull out of their "jobsworths" arses.

Russell Brown

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:08:23 +1200

And the response from Warren’s neurologist.

Russell Brown

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:06:42 +1200

Pharmac’s letter declining funding for Warren (used here with permission).

Public Address

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:06:41 +1200

Discussion from blog post.