The Latest Cannabis Science The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You to Know

[madokie]

Five new cannabis-centric studies that warrant major attention.

Scientific revelations are published almost daily in regard to the healing properties of the cannabis. But most of these findings appear solely in obscure, peer-reviewed journals and go largely unnoticed by the major media. Here are five new cannabis-centric studies that warrant mainstream attention.

Marijuana Use Is Associated With Decreased Mortality In TBI Patients

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients with a history of cannabis use possess increased survival rates compared to non-users, according data published this month in the journal American Surgeon. UCLA Medical Center investigators conducted a three-year retrospective review of brain trauma patients. Data from 446 separate cases of similarly injured patients was assessed. Of those patients who tested positive for the presence of marijuana, 97.6 percent survived surgery. By contrast, patients who tested negative for the presence of pot prior to surgery possessed only an 88.5 percent survival rate.

"Previous studies conducted by other researchers had found certain compounds in marijuana helped protect the brain in animals after a trauma," the study’s lead author said in a press release. "This study [is] one of the first in a clinical setting to specifically associate THC use as an independent predictor of survival after traumatic brain injury."

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/latest-cannabis-science-mainstream-media-doesnt-want-you-know?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark

[Scuba]

1. Big pharma, alcohol and private prison lobbies are keeping cannabis illegal.

[madokie]

2. Paper industry

would benefit from hemp, a member of the cannabis family. Hemp makes an excellent cloth and ropes both of which we'd all benefit from. The oil from the seeds make an excellent base stock for a lot of plastics and resins as well as fuel. But because of the pot laws we have none of this can be taken advantage of. I have a couple pairs of shorts that were made overseas and the label said from hemp cloth and I'm here to say that they are my favorites. Tough as nails and soft as cotton. I've been wearing them for 7 or 8 summers now and they'll go a few more looks like.
there is no logical reason to not be taking advantage of this family of plants. Hell I smoked the weed for 50 years and I really don't think it hurt me at all. Now that I've quit I think I notice that I hurt more. It may be because I'm getting older but I'm inclined to believe it has something to do with not toking any more.

[geardaddy]

14. William Randolph Hearst

was instrumental in seeing the criminalizing of cannabis to limit the plant use as a paper source. He had an interest as an owner of forest products to keep hemp out as an alternative.

[madokie]

16. Yes he did

Nylon played a part in the criminalization also

[geardaddy]

21. I didn't know that about nylon.

Thanks!

[madokie]

23. I can't remember the guys name who invented nylon

but I'm sure google has the story. He wanted to get rid of hemp rope as it was in competition with nylon best I remember

Henry Ford made a hemp car back in the 30s but reclassifying the plant change those plans. I've seen a video of Henry taking a sledge hammer to the trunk lid of the car and the sledge hammer just bounced off, didn't hurt the hemp at all. Made a resin from the oil and used the fibers like they use fiberglass now. Much stronger than fiberglass is though

[geardaddy]

24. Wow!

That is cool about using hemp oil to make a car. Think of how things would be different now!

[madokie]

25. make the fuel out of hemp oil too

Pretty much everything but the running gear and the window glass

I have to get to work but when I get finished I'll see if I can come up with some links to give you about what I've said. I've read all this information and watched the video of henry bashing the trunk lid on the internet so I'm sure it can all still be found.

[geardaddy]

27. Thanks!

Yeah, I figured you can make the fuel out the oil.

[iscooterliberally]

26. Wallace Carothers - DuPont

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Carothers

[madokie]

30. thanks

a very interesting man, very smart too but a troubled soul, sad

[MindPilot]

3. Of course the media won't touch this--you have to know stuff to understand it.

Something else I've been curious about for several years, is every male on my father's side is dead from diabetes. Except me. I'll be 60 next week and my blood labs are normal as could be. The primary difference is that I--unlike them--have smoked weed damn near every day since I was 16. Coincidence?

[madokie]

4. If my blood work comes back as I'm nearing diabetes

or am diabetic here in a couple weeks when I go for my annual I'll think long and hard at resuming my pot consumption.

I get a sweet taste in my mouth more often lately. I don't know if that is a symptom or not but seems like I read it was somewhere. My blood work always came back good in fact my doctor has commented on the fact according to my blood work I'm healthy as a horse. Its been two and a half years since I quit smoking so I'll see if my blood work comes back not so good this time.

[MindPilot]

6. And if smoking hurts your lungs or throat

there's always vaping & edibles. Heck, there is even a patch now.

Good luck!

[madokie]

7. A patch?

I live in Oklahoma so I have no options 'cept for illegal whatever it is so I don't think I can score a patch but I like the idea. I've eaten pot a few times and you have to be careful and not eat too much because when I did I didn't like what it did to me. Anxious and paranoid city. Vaping kind of did that to me too.

[TheSarcastinator]

8. we have transdermal cannabinoid patches in CO!

I can't imagine these would be a challenge to get across the border:
http://www.marysmedicinals.com/products/

"Transdermal Patch

Mary’s flagship product is the transdermal patch. Born out of the commitment for accurate dosing and the application of pharmaceutical grade delivery methods within the cannabis industry, Mary’s created the safest, most effective way to consume cannabis to date – transdermally. As the anchor to our regime, our patches are the primary source of relief with our other products used as an accompaniment.

Our patches are 2×2 squares, easy to use, and adhere simply to any part of the skin. Offered in single dose packaging, we currently have six formulations; CBD, CBD:THC, THC Acid & CBN in 10mg dosage and THC Sativa & THC Indica in 20mg dosage."

[MindPilot]

9. I think the patch is only available in Colorado right now.

There have been a couple mentions here on DU about it.

Funny thing; once you are in a situation where it is more or less legal, that "paranoia" seems to just wash away. And when you can select from different strains and potent, you can find what works best for you.

I use it for PTSD and once I found the therapeutic level, I feel good, focused, and I'm not a whirlwind of uncontrolled rage.

[pipoman]

10. Paranoia is strain specific

Something else legalization fixes..having a choice of effects. Take a short vacation to Denver and ask the clerks advice. .

oh, and keep in mind that "Rocky Mountain high" isn't just a John Denver song. ...

[madokie]

13. The vacation idea sounds good

my problem is I take hydrocodone for Peripheral Neuropathy and am drug tested. The VA seems to have maybe slacked off on the UA's so I might could squeeze a vacation in to see what I think. I know that pot does more for the pain than the pills do but the pot is illegal here where the pills aren't and I'm getting too old to take a chance on loosing everything my wife and I have been working for these last 25 years.
I go in soon for another ABI to see how the disease is progressing and they may be thinking of taking me off the hydrocodone and if they do I'll welcome it in that I'm getting tired of taking them anyway and am about ready to live with the pain instead. If that is the case then the UA will not a problem anymore just the illegal part would be left for me. We've tried all the other meds for Neuropathy and I won't take them as they have some serious side effects I'm unwilling to live with and they know this so I have no idea as to why the ABI again. I'll live in pain before I live in a fog or more anxious or gripey. When I tried one of the other meds my then 6 year old grand daughter asked me one day why I was so gripey where I never was before. I told her I knew why and I'd make sure it didn't happen again. She said good Papa, I love you. I won't let it happen again pain or no pain.

[pipoman]

19. There last weekend

They have capsules now at Wellspring on So. Broadway. They are strain specific and look almost like Tylenol caps. I took a sativa 25mg never felt high but wasn't tired and no back pain. Take a Tylenol bottle with you, leave your tiedyed tshirt at home and you can discretely take your medicine home.

[madokie]

22. Good idea

I'm just now starting to grow my hair out again though. Oh well I can start again after I get back home
Off to get a hair cut now

[sorefeet]

36. I take hydrocodone too madokie

it sucks but I have no choice. I can't even walk, between the pain and the no balance I'm just screwed. I do use marijuana, lots of it and it helps tremendously. The VA test me too but don't care about the marijuana because it is legal here. Ingesting is actually works better than smoking it for my neuropathy. I am starting to harvest my outdoor plants today and they will go in the freezer. I will have free medicine for a solid year or until next years crop. I stay within the law because I consider it a privilege to be allowed to grow my own. Even though it should be a right, I still don't want to make waves. I'm too old for trouble.

[madokie]

37. I used to grow my own

some years between the thieves and grasshoppers I wouldn't get much but some years I'd have more than enough to last a while. It wasn't legal here then or now.
I've grown enough and long enough that I can tell the difference between a male and a female from shortly after they come up. At first I would tag the ones I thought would be male just in case but after a few years of them always being the ones I started pulling them up and getting them out of way. You still have to keep a close eye cause I've had a limb from one plant turn male on me and ruin a whole summers work. Like everything else they want to re produce.
The male will always be lankier and not as full as the females and this goes back to when they first come up. I can really see it after a few weeks of growth, long before the flowering season gets here.
I ought to have some growning right now but I haven't put a seed in the ground for 20 some odd years.

[sorefeet]

38. Damn madokie you sound like an old pro

I have been growing for about 10 years now I got one of the first cards in Montana. The problem here is the growing season. If it is going to frost you must cover them or it can get real ugly. About 30 years ago I was working in Arkansas and we hopped over to Oklahoma for some bar time. I bought a sack of some really good homegrown. I really like to grow the stuff, I'm starting to get a green thumb.

[madokie]

39. It was something that I enjoyed immensely

We would spend this time of the year looking for places to put the seeds then come back in January and put the seeds in the ground so when conditions were right they come up. I've had plants that were three maybe four inches tall have a quarter inch cover of Ice on them and not be effected at all but frost ruins them like it does so many other plants. Frost in the fall ruins the taste and stops the growth so we'd look for places that were on the side of hills because if there is any air movement frost won't form and its alway either warming a tad or cooling so on the side of hills the air would be moving where in the lowlands or hilltops that might not be the case. I've seen it frost here at my home and go a few miles away and there not be any frost at all and vice versa so it was always dicie when to harvest the buds. Between grasshoppes, thieves and frost it was always a shot in the dark if we'd have anything worth a shit to harvest or not.
If the tops of little plants will get you high then when they get big they'll be even better but if when you top them the first time and it doesn't work might as well pull them up and put some new seeds in the ground because as the season goes on they won't get much better.
I'd never put seeds in the ground on my own property cause if you get busted they take your property so we'd have to drive around the country side looking for places where we thought we'd get a harvest at the end of the season. Have to watch when going to top them and maybe carry water that you take a different path each time as if not you will lead a thief right to them. Quiet a science to growing your own out in the wild and that was part of the lure for me. Trying to figure out what would work and what didn't. Never planted in the same place two years in a row and had good results. We'd look for places that had burned off during the summer or fall and then look for where a tree would have fallen and then burned and plant right where the ashes were the thickest, usually they'd be a clearing to the sun in those places too, if not then that isn't a good place to plant. Pot needs lots of sunlight, lots of it, the more the better in fact.
I'm sure you know all this and I'm only writing it down because I'm enjoying the memories of it all.
One rule of thumb for us was for every ten plants out in the wild we'd average one to harvest.

[CrispyQ]

11. I love my OpenVAPE!

http://www.openvape.com/shop/shop/o-pen/o-penvape-battery.html

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[Fred Sanders]

12. So with pot before brain surgery your survival rate is 10 % higher? So thousands of lives could be

saved?

You would think some major media folks may think that ratings worthy.

[Oilwellian]

15. Here are the five...

Marijuana Use Is Associated With Decreased Mortality In TBI Patients

CBG Administration Halts Cancer Progression

Parkinson’s Patients Respond Favorably to Cannabis Therapy

Marijuana Use Mitigates Symptoms of Opiate Withdrawal

Inhaled Cannabis Facilitates Disease Remission In Patients With Crohn’s Disease

K&R

[madokie]

17. I know a guy who got Crohns disease

he went from a 240 pounder to a 140 pounder in a matter of weeks. couldn't hardly recognize him. Its scary

[zstat]

18. Marijuana prevents death - 97.6% vs 88.5% survival or better said, 2.4% mortality vs 11.5% mortality

If the results were presented in the usual manner in clinical research studies promoting the benefits of a new drug, the conclusion would be presented very, very differently. The mortality rate in the marijuana group was 2.4%. The mortality rate in the group without marijuana is 11.5%. The patients without marijuana had an almost 5 times higher rate of mortality.

[B Calm]

20. K&R

[gvstn]

28. My Conspiracy theory

Is that Big Pharma is on the verge of synthesizing the most useful chemicals in marijuana so the media is going to be trumping up any bad aspects of legal/natural weed while touting the safer more effectively dosed pharmaceutical versions.

I'm not sure how it is going to play out but I suspect that there will be a major play to ban cultivation of natural weed once the medical need is "fulfilled" by Big Pharma. It will probably come down under the guise of anti-smoking/vaping regulations.

One would hope that hemp fuels or hemp paper industries could get a foothold before that happens. We shall see but I definitely see a hyping of ridiculous pot horror stories in various headlines.

[UglyGreed]

34. It already happened in 1992

http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000089

[Android3.14]

29. Unsurprised at the Crohn's Disease

I've been treating IBS with prescribed weed for three years. It gave me a normal life.

[RandiFan1290]

32. Patent # 6,630,507 Filed: February 2, 2001

http://patft.uspto.gov

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention.

[UglyGreed]

33. Just like the

media does not report that 96% of pain patients do not become addicted to pain medication. Goebbels would be proud.

[raven mad]

35. My daughter-in-law (and love) has TBI from Iraq.

Bad stuff; seizures without warning, really bad "seasonal" (occasional) paralysis.

She can't buy it legally. She can grow it (how?) for use in home; she can smoke it without repercussion from cops.

But how?

It does her a world of good, and my stepson (her husband) takes it onto himself to find her a supply - he's not a gardener and even if he were, where would he find/buy the seeds?