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When it is released I will get some pics posted.
GLTUA
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spshond, there is only 93.2M float the rest of O/S is locked up for now. It is in their fillings.
Mci& has 245.1M in float and look at their revenues, they can't even hold a candle to Vapors.. LOL This stock should be trading around $1.1834 plus EPS X. This is my opinion and math only.
Hang tight, just a matter of time.
ST 1.3M long
paydirt, is there a address for new location of restaurant that has been released yet, that you know of? I looked a few week ago and did not see it. I live 15 min from CC Beach and will go take pics if I had one.
Thanks
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I did not listen to it but apparently they are on schedule with merger.
Where is the NEWS? Some one knows something.....
They should also retire the shares used in that financing agreement. Tanking the A/S down while building shareholder value up long term.
This way they can start the reduction of A/S with out doing it by a R/S or spend capital/revenues on a share buy back.
This would be a perfect scenario IMO only.
ST 1.3 long
bears3434, each county and municipality in the county has there own restriction and permit application proses to register for signage. This is a response I received via email in June directly from Vapor.
Re: grand opening....
Michelle LaBarbera
Jun 26
to me
Hi Xxxx,
I can let you know via email when we make the announcement of the grand opening.The new stores should be open in the next couple of weeks. We are securing the permits for the signage as we speak.
Best Regards….....Michelle
Michelle LaBarbera
Director of Marketing
Vapor Group, Inc
3901 SW 47th Ave., Ste. 415
Davie, FL 33314
O: 800.779.3315
L: 954-792-8450
C: 954-288-4361
F: 954-916-7548
Skype: mich03102
www.vaporgroup.com
Have a gread day,
ST 1.3 long
This whole sector was crushed today by blatant manipulation, MM did not even try to hide it.... sad....
http://marijuanaindex.org/
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Congress Just Made a Huge Decision That Will Benefit the Legal Marijuana Industry
Abdullah Saeed's avatar image By Abdullah Saeed 14 hours ago
The news: On Wednesday, Congress approved two amendments that will allow marijuana businesses to operate more like any ordinary business. This is a huge step for the legal marijuana movement, opening the door for current and future weed businesses to get financial services in the form of capital, loans, and safe deposits from large national banks. Legal marijuana businesses have battled to be recognized by these financial services. Now they'll be recognized like any other business.
The first of the two amendments says the federal government can't penalize banks handling marijuana money in legalized states. The second gives the go-ahead on a Treasury Department plan that allows for banks that store revenues from legal marijuana businesses.
This has been a huge issue for legal marijuana: Now banks in weed-legal states can accept money from weed businesses without the threat of the feds swooping in and seizing the money. Since pot is still federally illegal, banks feared that if they accepted money from marijuana businesses, they would be in breach of federal laws and thereby subject to prosecution.
As for the marijuana businesses themselves, they can finally operate like normal businesses and drop their revenues into a business account at the bank. Colorado previously attempted to remedy this problem within the state, but the measures were not enough to mollify banks fearing reprimand from the federal government. As a result, legal marijuana businesses that have been stacking their profits as actual, physical cash, can finally put all that loot in the bank, just like any normal business.
The problem of where to put legal weed money, and how to deal with banks that are accepting it, arose as a problem soon after legal sales in Colorado commenced. All this money started rolling in, but banks didn't want to touch it for fear that the federal government would hold them responsible. The Justice Department tried to implement a solution, as did the state, but neither was effective.
With these new measures, that can't happen. Legal weed businesses can go on selling, and states considering legalization have one less potential issue to worry about. Now that marijuana businesses can operate normally, they can focus on sales and become the massive economic boon that the state has projected them to be.
Congress Just Made a Huge Decision That Will Benefit the Legal Marijuana Industry
Abdullah Saeed's avatar image By Abdullah Saeed 5 hours ago
http://mic.com/articles/93810/congress-just-made-a-huge-decision-that-will-benefit-the-legal-marijuana-industry
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The news: On Wednesday, Congress approved two amendments that will allow marijuana businesses to operate more like any ordinary business. This is a huge step for the legal marijuana movement, opening the door for current and future weed businesses to get financial services in the form of capital, loans, and safe deposits from large national banks. Legal marijuana businesses have battled to be recognized by these financial services. Now they'll be recognized like any other business.
The first of the two amendments says the federal government can't penalize banks handling marijuana money in legalized states. The second gives the go-ahead on a Treasury Department plan that allows for banks that store revenues from legal marijuana businesses.
This has been a huge issue for legal marijuana: Now banks in weed-legal states can accept money from weed businesses without the threat of the feds swooping in and seizing the money. Since pot is still federally illegal, banks feared that if they accepted money from marijuana businesses, they would be in breach of federal laws and thereby subject to prosecution.
As for the marijuana businesses themselves, they can finally operate like normal businesses and drop their revenues into a business account at the bank. Colorado previously attempted to remedy this problem within the state, but the measures were not enough to mollify banks fearing reprimand from the federal government. As a result, legal marijuana businesses that have been stacking their profits as actual, physical cash, can finally put all that loot in the bank, just like any normal business.
The problem of where to put legal weed money, and how to deal with banks that are accepting it, arose as a problem soon after legal sales in Colorado commenced. All this money started rolling in, but banks didn't want to touch it for fear that the federal government would hold them responsible. The Justice Department tried to implement a solution, as did the state, but neither was effective.
With these new measures, that can't happen. Legal weed businesses can go on selling, and states considering legalization have one less potential issue to worry about. Now that marijuana businesses can operate normally, they can focus on sales and become the massive economic boon that the state has projected them to be.
House Votes To Allow Banking Access For Marijuana Businesses
Posted: 07/16/2014 5:15 pm EDT Updated: 5 hours ago
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/house-marijuana-banking_n_5592620.html
Signaling growing acceptance of cannabis legalization nationally, the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to allow banks to provide traditional banking services to marijuana businesses that are legal under state law.
Sponsored by Reps. Denny Heck (D-Wash.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the amendment to the Financial Services appropriations bill prevents the Treasury Department from spending funds to penalize financial institutions that provide services to state-legal marijuana businesses. The amendment passed with bipartisan support, 231 to 192.
The House also rejected an amendment, sponsored by Rep. John Fleming (R-La.), that would have blocked Department of Treasury guidelines issued back in February that are intended to increase banking access for pot shops.
“Congress is yet again rejecting the failed war on marijuana,” Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, said in a statement. “They have read the poll numbers and are doing both what is right and what is politically smart.”
Due to banks' fears of being implicated as money launderers, marijuana-related businesses are often forced into cash-only transactions, putting retailers' safety at risk and creating issues involving taxes and employee payroll. Despite the Treasury Department's guidance, most banks are still extremely wary of working with marijuana businesses since the plant remains illegal under federal law.
“While we appreciate the efforts by the Department of Justice and FinCEN, guidance or regulation doesn’t alter the underlying challenge for banks," Frank Keating, the president and CEO of the American Bankers Association, told HuffPost regarding Treasury's earlier guidance. "As it stands, possession or distribution of marijuana violates federal law, and banks that provide support for those activities face the risk of prosecution and assorted sanctions.”
Perlmutter, who thinks it shouldn't be optional for banks to work with marijuana businesses, said in February that safety should be a top concern of federal officials and banking regulators.
"The crime potential for an all-cash businesses, whether that’s robbery, burglary or assault -- a violent crime -- or tax evasion, fraud and skimming -- a white collar crime -- is pretty substantial," he said. “At the heart of the banking and tax issue is we want these businesses to be safe."
Wednesday's vote follows a House vote in May to block the Drug Enforcement Administration from using funds to target medical marijuana operations that are legal under state laws. The same day, the House passed two additional amendments prohibiting the DEA from interfering with state hemp laws.
"It's clear that cannabis reform is having a very good year in Congress," said Marijuana Majority's Tom Angell.
While the banking measure passed easily in the House, it must now pass the Senate, where the medical marijuana protections measure still languishes.
In 2012, Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana for recreational use, while medical marijuana is legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia. About a dozen more states are expected to legalize marijuana in some form in the coming years. And for the first time ever, a majority of Americans nationwide support the legalization of marijuana, according to a recent poll.
The legal marijuana industry is expected to grow to $2.3 billion in the U.S. in 2014. One study suggests that figure could balloon to over $10 billion by 2019.
Read the text of the amendment that passed:
None of the funds made available in this Act may be used, with respect to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington or Wisconsin or the District of Columbia, to penalize a financial institution solely because the institution provides financial services to an entity that is a manufacturer, producer, or a person that participates in any business or organized activity that involves handling marijuana or marijuana products and engages in such activity pursuant to a law established by a State or a unit of local government.
House Votes To Allow Banking Access For Marijuana Businesses
Posted: 07/16/2014 5:15 pm EDT Updated: 5 hours ago
Print Article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/house-marijuana-banking_n_5592620.html
Signaling growing acceptance of cannabis legalization nationally, the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to allow banks to provide traditional banking services to marijuana businesses that are legal under state law.
Sponsored by Reps. Denny Heck (D-Wash.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the amendment to the Financial Services appropriations bill prevents the Treasury Department from spending funds to penalize financial institutions that provide services to state-legal marijuana businesses. The amendment passed with bipartisan support, 231 to 192.
The House also rejected an amendment, sponsored by Rep. John Fleming (R-La.), that would have blocked Department of Treasury guidelines issued back in February that are intended to increase banking access for pot shops.
“Congress is yet again rejecting the failed war on marijuana,” Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance, said in a statement. “They have read the poll numbers and are doing both what is right and what is politically smart.”
Due to banks' fears of being implicated as money launderers, marijuana-related businesses are often forced into cash-only transactions, putting retailers' safety at risk and creating issues involving taxes and employee payroll. Despite the Treasury Department's guidance, most banks are still extremely wary of working with marijuana businesses since the plant remains illegal under federal law.
“While we appreciate the efforts by the Department of Justice and FinCEN, guidance or regulation doesn’t alter the underlying challenge for banks," Frank Keating, the president and CEO of the American Bankers Association, told HuffPost regarding Treasury's earlier guidance. "As it stands, possession or distribution of marijuana violates federal law, and banks that provide support for those activities face the risk of prosecution and assorted sanctions.”
Perlmutter, who thinks it shouldn't be optional for banks to work with marijuana businesses, said in February that safety should be a top concern of federal officials and banking regulators.
"The crime potential for an all-cash businesses, whether that’s robbery, burglary or assault -- a violent crime -- or tax evasion, fraud and skimming -- a white collar crime -- is pretty substantial," he said. “At the heart of the banking and tax issue is we want these businesses to be safe."
Wednesday's vote follows a House vote in May to block the Drug Enforcement Administration from using funds to target medical marijuana operations that are legal under state laws. The same day, the House passed two additional amendments prohibiting the DEA from interfering with state hemp laws.
"It's clear that cannabis reform is having a very good year in Congress," said Marijuana Majority's Tom Angell.
While the banking measure passed easily in the House, it must now pass the Senate, where the medical marijuana protections measure still languishes.
In 2012, Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana for recreational use, while medical marijuana is legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia. About a dozen more states are expected to legalize marijuana in some form in the coming years. And for the first time ever, a majority of Americans nationwide support the legalization of marijuana, according to a recent poll.
The legal marijuana industry is expected to grow to $2.3 billion in the U.S. in 2014. One study suggests that figure could balloon to over $10 billion by 2019.
Read the text of the amendment that passed:
None of the funds made available in this Act may be used, with respect to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington or Wisconsin or the District of Columbia, to penalize a financial institution solely because the institution provides financial services to an entity that is a manufacturer, producer, or a person that participates in any business or organized activity that involves handling marijuana or marijuana products and engages in such activity pursuant to a law established by a State or a unit of local government.
Gregory dong Great DD/find.... much more to be done, but the train is moving....
Thank you... Spread the word.....
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Hemp oil has enjoyed a long history of use for culinary applications and even cosmetic ones, such as the production of lotions, soaps, and balms. The ingredient is derived from the crushing of hemp seeds. Hemp CBD, on the other hand, is a whole different animal. While also available in oil format, the HIA says that hemp CBD extracts should not be confused with the former ingredient, which consumers around the world already know commonly as ‘hemp oil.’
CBD is one of dozens of cannabinoids found in both hemp and its close relative marijuana. The compound is similar in chemical structure to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), for which there exists the medicinal marijuana market, but it does not have THC’s psychotropic effects. A health supplement market is, thus, opening up for CBD-rich extracts and their potential health benefits.
The differences between ‘hemp oil’ and CBD oil are quite clear. While hemp oil is obtained from crushed hemp seeds, CBD-rich oil extracts are best obtained from hemp flowers, leaves, and stalks. The HIA notes that hemp seeds typically contain less than 25 parts per million of CBD, whereas these other parts of the hemp plant may be rife with as much as 150,000 parts per million of CBD. Fortunately, both CBD oil and conventional hemp oil can be made without a real presence of THC. Manufacturers can go on safely making hemp oil, and they can also venture into CBD oil, an ingredient for which there is great market potential.
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Rico Suave is basically a man who is for all intended purposes the following: Good Looking, muscular, "macho"-being totally cool toward everyone and everything, very clean and neat in appearance, a man who is 100% man: almost every lady is attracted to him because of his great charismatic ability, and when need be, he can be a real bad guy to mess with. Rico Suave is more of a definitive personality type, go to the beach in the summer and you will see several who fit the above, in addition to wearing sunglasses and jewelry, he is a ladies man, enjoying fast cars, hot woman, and good at hustling people in pool. Rico Suave is what every man wants to be, but 99.7% of men never live up to.
"Man, that guy has it going on, he's (Drinking Lol) a Rico Suave"....
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I'll try it this way,
July 14, 2014, 8:20 a.m. ET
Vapor Group, Inc., VPOR, Announces Grand Opening of "Total Vapor" Retail Store on Biscayne Blvd., North Miami Beach
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140714-904423.html
DAVIE, FL--(Marketwired - Jul 14, 2014) - Vapor Group, Inc. (OTCQB: VPOR), (the "Company", "Vapor Group"), announced today it has opened its first retail store at 14490 Biscayne Blvd., North Miami Beach, FL 33181, under the "Total Vapor" brand name. The new store, which will serve as the Company's "flagship" store, is located on a high traffic main commercial highway in an upscale suburban of Miami. It is the first of five (5) stores planned to open by early August under the "Total Vapor" brand. This opening is part of the rollout of its previously announced expanded "brick-and-mortar" and online retail strategy for the Company's several brands. Store hours will be Mon. - Sat. 10am-7pm, and Sun. 11-6pm.
Vapor Group's President and CEO, Dror Svorai said, "We are delighted to have opened our first store to sell our full line of products. Moreover, in the coming weeks, we will open three more stores in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area and one around Orlando for a total of five new stores."
He added, "As I have said before, by year-end we plan to have opened ten retail locations in metropolitan Florida. And based on the stores' performance by year-end, we may decide to further invest in retail expansion in or out of our home State, either by direct ownership, or the offering of a 'business opportunity' or 'franchise' for our products. We are confident that this retail expansion will increase our 2014 revenues and profits."
About the Vapor Group
Vapor Group, Inc., www.vaporgroup.com, is in the business of designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing high quality, vaporizers and e-cigarette brands which use state-of-the-art electronic technology and specially formulated, "Made in the USA" e-liquids, which may or may not contain nicotine. It offers a range of products with unique e-liquid flavors that is unmatched in our industry. Its products are marketed under the Vapor Group, Total Vapor, Vapor 123, American Smoke and Vapor Products brands. It sells nationwide through distributors, wholesalers and directly to consumers through its own websites and direct response advertising.
All of its E-cigarettes consist of a long-life battery, a heating element, a cartridge filled with an "e-liquid" and an atomizer which when heated, vaporizes the e-liquid. Because E-cigarettes are not "lit" like regular cigarettes, they don't create flame, smoke from burning, ash, tar, noxious fumes or leftover "cigarette butts". As a result, they may be used virtually anywhere.
Vapor Group is committed to providing E-cigarettes that are convenient and economical to use, safer and healthier than traditional smoking, and which provide a flavorful, enjoyable smoking experience.
Vapor Group, Inc. is managed by a highly experienced team of executives committed to responsible business policies and practices, including the marketing of our products only to those eighteen years of age or older, not making or avoiding claims about our product health benefits, and fulfilling the requirements of all applicable laws and regulations.
Safe Harbor Statement:
This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Certain statements set forth in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate, or imply future results, performance or achievements, and may contain the words "estimate", "project", "intend", "forecast", "anticipate", "plan", "planning", "expect", "believe", "will likely", "should", "could", "would", "may" or words or expressions of similar meaning. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results and financial position to differ materially from those included within the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including those relating to the Company's ability to grow its business. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the Company's limited operating history, the limited financial resources, domestic or global economic conditions -- activities of competitors and the presence of new or additional competition and conditions of equity markets.
CONTACT:
Vapor Group, Inc.
954-792-8450
US Lawmakers Support For DEA On Marijuana Fading Fast
Posted on: July 13, 2014
http://www.livetradingnews.com/us-lawmakers-support-for-dea-on-marijuana-fading-fast-59724.htm#.U8Lk-KGm20x
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is under attack in Congress as it tries to stem the tide against Marijuana legalization, its political support the Obama White House and Justice Department to which it reports is fading fast.
This year, the DEA’s role in the seizure of industrial hemp seeds bound for research facilities in Kentucky drew angry rebukes from the Senate’s most powerful Republican.
The GOP-controlled House recently voted to prohibit federal agents from busting Medical Marijuana operations that are legal under state laws. And that measure brought one of the Senate’s most conservative members together with 1 of its most liberal in a bipartisan alliance.
How much the DEA’s influence has declined was readily apparent in the US House debate, when Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) denounced the agency’s boss.
“She is a terrible agency head,” Mr. Polis said of Administrator Michele Leonhart. “She has repeatedly embarrassed her agency before this body,” Mr. Polis said.
Ms. Leonhart is not getting much backup from the Obama White House.
This year, she complained that US President Barack Hussein Obama seemed alarmingly blase about what she sees as a Marijana epidemic. Her remarks to Sheriffs gathered at a conference in Washington, DC came soon after Mr. Obama noted that Marijuana seemed no more dangerous to him than alcohol.
“She said, ‘I am so angry the president said what he said and completely ignored the science.”
Ms. Leonhart, a holdover from the George W. Bush (43) administration, where she served as acting DEA chief, remains in her post even as more than 42,400 people have signed a petition demanding her resignation.
The DEA is operating on a tightrope.
Many US lawmakers believe that Marijuana should no longer be classified among the most dangerous drugs, but are reluctant to vote to change federal narcotics law. And despite cautious acceptance of state legalization laws by the Obama White House, its enforcement strategy is ambiguous. The statutes that guide narcotics agents at the height of the war on drugs to aggressively go after Marijuana remain on the books.
In May US AG Eric H. Holder called Ms. Leonhart in for a private talk, and told her to stop contradicting the administration on the state legalization of Marijuana.
Stay tuned…
Interesting DD web site, look at some of the project # and date at end..
http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/marijuana/nida-research-therapeutic-benefits-cannabis-cannabinoids
Interesting DD web site, look at some of the project # and date at end..
http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/marijuana/nida-research-therapeutic-benefits-cannabis-cannabinoids
Interesting DD web site, look at some of the project # and date at end..
http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/marijuana/nida-research-therapeutic-benefits-cannabis-cannabinoids
Interesting DD web site, look at some of the project # and date at end..
http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/marijuana/nida-research-therapeutic-benefits-cannabis-cannabinoids
vapor testing...
http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8327725
Should the Federal Government and FDA Be Sued for Murder?
June 3, 2014 unitedpatientsgroup
Note: Today July 12,2014 we put to rest another life long friend age 49 unfortunately another statistic, He will be missed..
http://www.unitedpatientsgroup.com/blog/2014/06/03/should-the-federal-government-and-fda-be-sued-for-murder/
The federal government is allowing sick people to die when it knows that cannabis could save them.
The DEA still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance—meaning it supposedly has “no currently accepted medical use in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision, and a high potential for abuse.”
But all the way back in 2001, the US Department of Health and Human Services filed a patent (awarded as #6630507 in 2003) for cannabinoids, the chemicals in cannabis that make it such an effective medicine.
The abstract of the patent says:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA Care For Elderly In Wheelchairreceptor 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. Non-psychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol, 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.”
So the federal government says that cannabis has no medicinal value, but then quietly patents cannabinoids for their medicinal value? It’s an outrage!
superpillEven worse, while the government drags its feet on rescheduling cannabis, it’s approving dangerous, addiction-causing drugs. A new form of super-Vicodin that contains up to five times the amount of hydrocodone as previous pills was recently approved by the FDA over the objections of addiction specialists and watchdog groups. The new drug—sold under the name Zohydro— does not have time-release protection, so it can easily be crushed up and snorted or injected. Zohydro was approved after only one twelve-week trial that left many observers skeptical about its effectiveness in treating chronic pain.
“When you talk to pain specialists in our field, they will all tell you one indisputable fact—opiates are lousy drugs to treat chronic pain,” said one FDA committee member who voted against approval.
Even worse, five of the 300 people in the clinical trial died.Religion, death and dolor - funeral and cemetery; funeral with
So the federal government is approving a drug that contains five times as much of a highly addictive chemical that is known to kill people, but it refuses to allow the use of medical cannabis, even though it clearly knows the benefits of this natural, non-lethal medicine? The government has blood on its hands, and it must be held accountable.
Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN, the co-founder of Patients Out of Time, says, “It is ridiculous that the DEA gets away with practicing medicine without a license! People are SqLogo300suffering and people are dying because our government is playing games. Scientists have discovered a complex molecular signaling system throughout our bodies that keeps us in balance and protects us from stressors. It is called the endocannabinoid system and to put it very simply, cannabis can feed this system to help us get healthy and stay healthy.”
It’s high time we told the federal government that we know about its criminal behavior. Stop pretending you don’t know that cannabis is a life-saving medicine. Stop caving to Big Pharma and approving unsafe, unhelpful drugs. Stop letting Americans die by denying them the help they need. What you’re doing is tantamount to murder, and you must be accountable for your actions.
Please Note: This is Part 1 of a Three Part blog series.
17 thoughts on “Should the Federal Government and FDA Be Sued for Murder?”
Barbara Rutner on June 4, 2014 at 11:01 am said:
No one could be more dismayed than I that the Federal Government continues to scare patients away from this valuable medicine. My husband is alive today because of a tiny 1/3 of a capsule of Cannabis that he started taking once a day when he was weeks from death with stage 3B lung cancer with metastasis to his brain. That was 3 years ago and he’s still healthy today!
We run into people daily, here in our retirement community, with health issues that could very likely be deminished with the use of cannabis in an oil or a capsule if only it were as simple as going to their doctor and getting a prescription!
Barbara Rutner
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Linda Rocco on June 5, 2014 at 5:06 am said:
Barbara, what state do you live in? Can you send me resources at yogainlet@verizon.net? Thank you. My friend, who is newly diagnosed with brian cancer (lymphoma in her brain) is wanting to do this… please send info if you can. Thank you.
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BARBARA RUTNER on June 6, 2014 at 8:43 am said:
Linda, We live in California. Our daughter and son-in-law are the owners of United Patients Group. You can access my husband’s story by Googling Stan Rutner YouTube.
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Fred Delmer on June 11, 2014 at 8:09 am said:
I too am a survivor of ocular lymphoma and cns lymphoma. Misdiagnosed, I got eye injections with steroids and a trial drug from Santen. After catarac surgery and vitrectomy my vision improved a bit but I lost all energy. Was taken to emergency and diagnosed with eye and brain cancer. Luckily I had grown my own medicine and watched Rick Simpson on how to extract and a freind processed it in capsules. I dosed pretty much as instructed and continue daily use. This month, I am six months cancer free and my vision is as good as ever. I credit my recovery to a skilled oncologist, chemo and cannabis. Yes, we should rally a team of lawyers and sue them to give us our medicine withou making us criminals.
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UnitedPatientsGroup.com on June 11, 2014 at 12:13 pm said:
Congratulations Fred! It is always rewarding to hear the successes. Thank you for that!
All the best,
~Corinne
consuelo donato on June 5, 2014 at 11:51 am said:
YES, THEY SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, THIRTEEN YEARS AGO THEY FILED THAT PATENT AND 13 YEARS IS TOO LONG, THEY SHOULD BE HELD LIABLE FOR THE DEATHS THEY HAVE CAUSED NOT ONLY BY DISALLOWING KNOWN HEALING CANNABIS TO BE USED. BUT BY REFUSING TO RECLASSIFY THE DRUG. THEY SHOULD ALSO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL THE DEATHS DUE TO CHEMO OVERDOSES AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. OVERDOSES.
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Alexis on June 5, 2014 at 3:57 pm said:
Good point!
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BARBARA RUTNER on June 6, 2014 at 9:00 am said:
It’s unconscionable that our government passed The Affordable (NOT) Care Act on us, professing to care about our health and welfare, while erroneously classifying this health-giving medicine as a Schedule One drug, along with Heroine, for God’s sake!! TO SERVE JUSTICE THERE MUST BE CONSEQUENCES!!
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Stan on June 9, 2014 at 12:45 pm said:
There are soooo many anecdotal stories of cures, improvements, and success with cannabis, one would think the government would get a clue and pass a MEDICAL MARIJUANA law that would prevent smoking by kids, but allow grown ups to get help for a wide variety of problems.
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John P. Miller, MD on June 9, 2014 at 12:48 pm said:
I am a 76 7.0. doctor who specialized in pain syndromes, E.R. physician also. I was drafted i the Vietnam war in DEc 1966, served my full tour of 13 months. I BECAME SEVERELY DEPRESSED, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM Triaging the wounded and dying marines and south Vietnamese which I wasn’tsupposed to treat. I was threatened with reprimands, threats of court martial for “my bad attitude about our search and destroy policy, allying ourselves with a crooked so. Vietnamese govt!! my flashbacks, nightmares, depression was noticeable to the Navy corpsmen and one suggested oral marijuana which I drank as tea. my insomnia, flashbacks, nightmares ceased. the saddest part of all for the Vietnam, Iraqi, and afghan vets is the therapy for PTSD is next to worthless. Psychotherapist help, but to cure the insomnia, the various sleeping pills, antidepressants sure don’t help my suicidal ideation. I just decided to try my Vietnam therapy and now I don’t have the insomnia which can cause a serious toxic psychosis!!
since the VA has outlawed the use of marijuana, the daily suicide rate is 22 vets per day!! yes, I can relate to the head of the DEA being anti-marijuana, that big PHarma, doesn’t want any compettion for its drugs. I predict that some one will combine the current drugs with CBD which will lower the amount of currents drugs and be more beneficial for neurological diseases. right now I am using 50/50 hemp oil and virgin olive oil to treat an autoimmune skin disease. before that I was using 40 mgm prednisone tapered dose after 3 days to obtain relief. Prednisone over long treatment regimens causes muscle wasting and other damage to the body. by the way you can buy hemp oil at Sprouts.
I don’t think the head of theDEA should be tried for murder; but she should be sued by patients who are dying from lack of care.It really amazes that when you go to a VA hospital, you see these signs that say”we honor your service”—well show us by introducing the use of Marijuana to help the Vets suffering from PTSD who have turned to alcohol, other street drugs. by the way any group who advocates for this usuage, I will be glad to come and tell my story of the use of marjiana.
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Anne Goebel on June 12, 2014 at 7:13 am said:
Dear John Milller,
Are you taking Hemp oil/ Olive oil internally for Psoriasis? I’ve been using hemp oil on my scalp every few days with help itching and flaking.
Please clarify how you use it and for what skin problem.
Anne G
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Barbara Rutner on June 9, 2014 at 8:02 pm said:
What a valuable story! I’m excited to share it with a friend here in our retirement community who’s suffered for years from PTSD. I’ve suggested he try cannabis, but he’s skeptical and I didn’t have much information to support it. Thanks you so much! His quality of life may greatly improve because you shared your story.
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mad and sad in cali on June 10, 2014 at 8:06 am said:
Absolutely, they should be tried for murder and held accountable along with the so called “hospice groups”, I would like to see a class action brought against them all. I just watched as I tried to save my dear sweet Mom’s life from brain tumor, after her brain surgery in 2011, and then 1 1/2 years of bi-weekly avastin “experimental” intravaneous blood blocking cancer treatment and then she had a small stroke in Nov. 2013. I tried giving her cbd oil after her rehab and she was doing just fine, and then her husband brought “hospice” in and they drugged her to death all the while leaving it in the hands of her 89 yr old husband to dose her 4 times a day, pain or not, for 1 month with “controlled substances” Morphine for pain and Temazepam for “anxiety”. She didn’t have anxiety or hardly any pain and had never had anything stronger at her rehab after her stroke than Tylenol and ibuprofen. They KILLED her and DRUGGED her to death. She went from being fine, walking and talking January- February 2014 to completely bedridden with catheter in a matter of days after hospice came and started dosing her in March 2014. They murdered her with morphine and temazepam and insisted it was the “disease”. THEY are the DISEASE and need to be stopped!!! I didn’t have power of attorney so my family and I just watched as the “medical community” killed her. She died April 11, 2014 after 1 month of massive drugging and complete starvation. I know if she had cbd oil alone she would be healed and still here today. I would like to be involved, please add me to your campaign. Thank you for standing UP! ~ MAD and SAD in CALI
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UnitedPatientsGroup.com on June 10, 2014 at 9:47 am said:
Dear Mad and Sad,
We are SO sorry for your loss. Unfortunately there is a lot of educating to be done. What researchers have found is that CBD arrests the spread of cancer but it is the THC that acually kills the cancer cells. From what we have learned through this process with my father, it is the WHOLE plant that needs to be utilized. See my father’s story of 2 weeks to live to “No Evidence of Recurrent Disease”. We hope that you have found peace in your heart that your sweet mother is now healthy and happy!
All the best,
~Corinne
My Dad’s Story:
http://www.unitedpatientsgroup.com/blog/?p=3156&preview=true
Update 2 Years later:
http://www.unitedpatientsgroup.com/blog/2014/03/20/dads-update-stan-rutner-a-cancer-survivor/
How THC kills cancer:
http://www.hightimes.com/read/biologist-explains-how-thc-kills-cancer-cells
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Cynthia on June 12, 2014 at 5:00 pm said:
We should be allowed to treat ourselves with natural resources ..this is a plant a flower NOT man made, I’m trying to understand how they can patent it and keep it from people when the plant was here before mankind…what if they start patenting roses or basil or water oh ya they have…YES they should be held accountable and they should be ashamed…May God Bless them
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Kathy Rose on June 20, 2014 at 1:24 pm said:
My husband was diagnosed with stage 1 pancreatic cancer last September (2013)
We were told that Pancreatic cancer is a fast and deadly killer and that there is no cure.
We have small children. This news was completely devastating.
But the doctors told us we were lucky because we caught it early and it hadn’t spread yet.
In November he had the surgery to remove the tumor. They found it had spread, so they sewed him back up again – and charged us for the full operation they didn’t perform.
Once the cancer spread, the doctors told us his cancer was in stage 4 and that there was no hope.
He went downhill very quickly after that. One thing they dont tell you when you have surgery is that if the operation fails, once the air hits it, cancer often spreads much more rapidly. In December of 2013 he was given three weeks to live.
My husband had heard about something called Phoenix tears, an oil taken orally made from cannabis.
We live in NV, a medical marijuana state, and to make a long story short, we jumped through hoop after hoop to finally attain it. I didnt really believe it would work, and he didnt either, but when your life is on the line you’ll try anything.
My husband began taking Phoenix tears in late December 2013.
At first he actually got sicker – a common phenomenon that scares people into stopping taking the oil – but it was just the oil doing its work.
Slowly he began to get better.
His color and vitality returned. He started getting dressed in the morning again, rejoining family activities, driving, and even working again.
Over time his cancer fell counts in his blood dropped from 5000+ to under 32. This took about five months.
On June 5th he was declared cancer free. CANCER FREE.
THANK GOD!!!
His oncologist is speechless. All other doctors he shows his medical records to are astounded.
We’ve tried to tell the media but no one so far will cover the story despite the fact that he has his medical records and myriad witnesses to prove it.
Everyone else who was in the same study as my husband (none of whom took the cannabis oil aka Phoenix tears) made it. They are all dead.
We did a lot of digging and found that cannabis oil is a cure for many different cancers including but not limited to breast, kidney, brain, stomach, prostate, skin cancer, leukemia, and of course pancreatic cancer.
In the US cannabis is classified as a class 1 narcotic so it cant even be studied in this country, cancer patients are arrested left and right for even possessing it if their lives depend
on it – which it does.
Many other countries admit its a cure. But if a doctor in this country even suggests it to a patient and the word gets out, they can lose their license and their livelihood.
Why? Perhaps because your typical chemo treatment costs $4800 per week. Cannabis oil costs $80 per week and can be grown in your own backyard.
if this is all happening, which i assure you it is, what does that tell you about the media, the FDA, and the government in general?
I have no agenda. I only want to help people. I think marijuana is bad for people if smoked. Cannabis oil must be taken orally or it wont work.
So what could possibly be my motive except to give people hope and wake people up?
WAKE UP.
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UnitedPatientsGroup.com on June 20, 2014 at 3:35 pm said:
Kathy,
Thank you so much for your amazing story! My father was given 2 weeks to live and was sent home to die. He was cancer free in 9 months! I share your joy and your frustration. Congratulations to you both! If you would like to get your story out there we can help you do that. Feel free to call us at 415-524-8099.
Wishing you all the peace and joy you so deserve!
~Corinne
Our Story:
http://www.unitedpatientsgroup.com/about
Should the Federal Government and FDA Be Sued for Murder?
June 3, 2014 unitedpatientsgroup
Note: Today July 12,2014 we put to rest another life long friend age 49 unfortunately another statistic, He will be missed..
http://www.unitedpatientsgroup.com/blog/2014/06/03/should-the-federal-government-and-fda-be-sued-for-murder/
The federal government is allowing sick people to die when it knows that cannabis could save them.
The DEA still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance—meaning it supposedly has “no currently accepted medical use in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision, and a high potential for abuse.”
But all the way back in 2001, the US Department of Health and Human Services filed a patent (awarded as #6630507 in 2003) for cannabinoids, the chemicals in cannabis that make it such an effective medicine.
The abstract of the patent says:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA Care For Elderly In Wheelchairreceptor 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. Non-psychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol, 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.”
So the federal government says that cannabis has no medicinal value, but then quietly patents cannabinoids for their medicinal value? It’s an outrage!
superpillEven worse, while the government drags its feet on rescheduling cannabis, it’s approving dangerous, addiction-causing drugs. A new form of super-Vicodin that contains up to five times the amount of hydrocodone as previous pills was recently approved by the FDA over the objections of addiction specialists and watchdog groups. The new drug—sold under the name Zohydro— does not have time-release protection, so it can easily be crushed up and snorted or injected. Zohydro was approved after only one twelve-week trial that left many observers skeptical about its effectiveness in treating chronic pain.
“When you talk to pain specialists in our field, they will all tell you one indisputable fact—opiates are lousy drugs to treat chronic pain,” said one FDA committee member who voted against approval.
Even worse, five of the 300 people in the clinical trial died.Religion, death and dolor - funeral and cemetery; funeral with
So the federal government is approving a drug that contains five times as much of a highly addictive chemical that is known to kill people, but it refuses to allow the use of medical cannabis, even though it clearly knows the benefits of this natural, non-lethal medicine? The government has blood on its hands, and it must be held accountable.
Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN, the co-founder of Patients Out of Time, says, “It is ridiculous that the DEA gets away with practicing medicine without a license! People are SqLogo300suffering and people are dying because our government is playing games. Scientists have discovered a complex molecular signaling system throughout our bodies that keeps us in balance and protects us from stressors. It is called the endocannabinoid system and to put it very simply, cannabis can feed this system to help us get healthy and stay healthy.”
It’s high time we told the federal government that we know about its criminal behavior. Stop pretending you don’t know that cannabis is a life-saving medicine. Stop caving to Big Pharma and approving unsafe, unhelpful drugs. Stop letting Americans die by denying them the help they need. What you’re doing is tantamount to murder, and you must be accountable for your actions.
Please Note: This is Part 1 of a Three Part blog series.
17 thoughts on “Should the Federal Government and FDA Be Sued for Murder?”
Barbara Rutner on June 4, 2014 at 11:01 am said:
No one could be more dismayed than I that the Federal Government continues to scare patients away from this valuable medicine. My husband is alive today because of a tiny 1/3 of a capsule of Cannabis that he started taking once a day when he was weeks from death with stage 3B lung cancer with metastasis to his brain. That was 3 years ago and he’s still healthy today!
We run into people daily, here in our retirement community, with health issues that could very likely be deminished with the use of cannabis in an oil or a capsule if only it were as simple as going to their doctor and getting a prescription!
Barbara Rutner
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Linda Rocco on June 5, 2014 at 5:06 am said:
Barbara, what state do you live in? Can you send me resources at yogainlet@verizon.net? Thank you. My friend, who is newly diagnosed with brian cancer (lymphoma in her brain) is wanting to do this… please send info if you can. Thank you.
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BARBARA RUTNER on June 6, 2014 at 8:43 am said:
Linda, We live in California. Our daughter and son-in-law are the owners of United Patients Group. You can access my husband’s story by Googling Stan Rutner YouTube.
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Fred Delmer on June 11, 2014 at 8:09 am said:
I too am a survivor of ocular lymphoma and cns lymphoma. Misdiagnosed, I got eye injections with steroids and a trial drug from Santen. After catarac surgery and vitrectomy my vision improved a bit but I lost all energy. Was taken to emergency and diagnosed with eye and brain cancer. Luckily I had grown my own medicine and watched Rick Simpson on how to extract and a freind processed it in capsules. I dosed pretty much as instructed and continue daily use. This month, I am six months cancer free and my vision is as good as ever. I credit my recovery to a skilled oncologist, chemo and cannabis. Yes, we should rally a team of lawyers and sue them to give us our medicine withou making us criminals.
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UnitedPatientsGroup.com on June 11, 2014 at 12:13 pm said:
Congratulations Fred! It is always rewarding to hear the successes. Thank you for that!
All the best,
~Corinne
consuelo donato on June 5, 2014 at 11:51 am said:
YES, THEY SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, THIRTEEN YEARS AGO THEY FILED THAT PATENT AND 13 YEARS IS TOO LONG, THEY SHOULD BE HELD LIABLE FOR THE DEATHS THEY HAVE CAUSED NOT ONLY BY DISALLOWING KNOWN HEALING CANNABIS TO BE USED. BUT BY REFUSING TO RECLASSIFY THE DRUG. THEY SHOULD ALSO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL THE DEATHS DUE TO CHEMO OVERDOSES AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. OVERDOSES.
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Alexis on June 5, 2014 at 3:57 pm said:
Good point!
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BARBARA RUTNER on June 6, 2014 at 9:00 am said:
It’s unconscionable that our government passed The Affordable (NOT) Care Act on us, professing to care about our health and welfare, while erroneously classifying this health-giving medicine as a Schedule One drug, along with Heroine, for God’s sake!! TO SERVE JUSTICE THERE MUST BE CONSEQUENCES!!
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Stan on June 9, 2014 at 12:45 pm said:
There are soooo many anecdotal stories of cures, improvements, and success with cannabis, one would think the government would get a clue and pass a MEDICAL MARIJUANA law that would prevent smoking by kids, but allow grown ups to get help for a wide variety of problems.
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John P. Miller, MD on June 9, 2014 at 12:48 pm said:
I am a 76 7.0. doctor who specialized in pain syndromes, E.R. physician also. I was drafted i the Vietnam war in DEc 1966, served my full tour of 13 months. I BECAME SEVERELY DEPRESSED, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM Triaging the wounded and dying marines and south Vietnamese which I wasn’tsupposed to treat. I was threatened with reprimands, threats of court martial for “my bad attitude about our search and destroy policy, allying ourselves with a crooked so. Vietnamese govt!! my flashbacks, nightmares, depression was noticeable to the Navy corpsmen and one suggested oral marijuana which I drank as tea. my insomnia, flashbacks, nightmares ceased. the saddest part of all for the Vietnam, Iraqi, and afghan vets is the therapy for PTSD is next to worthless. Psychotherapist help, but to cure the insomnia, the various sleeping pills, antidepressants sure don’t help my suicidal ideation. I just decided to try my Vietnam therapy and now I don’t have the insomnia which can cause a serious toxic psychosis!!
since the VA has outlawed the use of marijuana, the daily suicide rate is 22 vets per day!! yes, I can relate to the head of the DEA being anti-marijuana, that big PHarma, doesn’t want any compettion for its drugs. I predict that some one will combine the current drugs with CBD which will lower the amount of currents drugs and be more beneficial for neurological diseases. right now I am using 50/50 hemp oil and virgin olive oil to treat an autoimmune skin disease. before that I was using 40 mgm prednisone tapered dose after 3 days to obtain relief. Prednisone over long treatment regimens causes muscle wasting and other damage to the body. by the way you can buy hemp oil at Sprouts.
I don’t think the head of theDEA should be tried for murder; but she should be sued by patients who are dying from lack of care.It really amazes that when you go to a VA hospital, you see these signs that say”we honor your service”—well show us by introducing the use of Marijuana to help the Vets suffering from PTSD who have turned to alcohol, other street drugs. by the way any group who advocates for this usuage, I will be glad to come and tell my story of the use of marjiana.
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Anne Goebel on June 12, 2014 at 7:13 am said:
Dear John Milller,
Are you taking Hemp oil/ Olive oil internally for Psoriasis? I’ve been using hemp oil on my scalp every few days with help itching and flaking.
Please clarify how you use it and for what skin problem.
Anne G
Reply ?
Barbara Rutner on June 9, 2014 at 8:02 pm said:
What a valuable story! I’m excited to share it with a friend here in our retirement community who’s suffered for years from PTSD. I’ve suggested he try cannabis, but he’s skeptical and I didn’t have much information to support it. Thanks you so much! His quality of life may greatly improve because you shared your story.
Reply ?
mad and sad in cali on June 10, 2014 at 8:06 am said:
Absolutely, they should be tried for murder and held accountable along with the so called “hospice groups”, I would like to see a class action brought against them all. I just watched as I tried to save my dear sweet Mom’s life from brain tumor, after her brain surgery in 2011, and then 1 1/2 years of bi-weekly avastin “experimental” intravaneous blood blocking cancer treatment and then she had a small stroke in Nov. 2013. I tried giving her cbd oil after her rehab and she was doing just fine, and then her husband brought “hospice” in and they drugged her to death all the while leaving it in the hands of her 89 yr old husband to dose her 4 times a day, pain or not, for 1 month with “controlled substances” Morphine for pain and Temazepam for “anxiety”. She didn’t have anxiety or hardly any pain and had never had anything stronger at her rehab after her stroke than Tylenol and ibuprofen. They KILLED her and DRUGGED her to death. She went from being fine, walking and talking January- February 2014 to completely bedridden with catheter in a matter of days after hospice came and started dosing her in March 2014. They murdered her with morphine and temazepam and insisted it was the “disease”. THEY are the DISEASE and need to be stopped!!! I didn’t have power of attorney so my family and I just watched as the “medical community” killed her. She died April 11, 2014 after 1 month of massive drugging and complete starvation. I know if she had cbd oil alone she would be healed and still here today. I would like to be involved, please add me to your campaign. Thank you for standing UP! ~ MAD and SAD in CALI
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UnitedPatientsGroup.com on June 10, 2014 at 9:47 am said:
Dear Mad and Sad,
We are SO sorry for your loss. Unfortunately there is a lot of educating to be done. What researchers have found is that CBD arrests the spread of cancer but it is the THC that acually kills the cancer cells. From what we have learned through this process with my father, it is the WHOLE plant that needs to be utilized. See my father’s story of 2 weeks to live to “No Evidence of Recurrent Disease”. We hope that you have found peace in your heart that your sweet mother is now healthy and happy!
All the best,
~Corinne
My Dad’s Story:
http://www.unitedpatientsgroup.com/blog/?p=3156&preview=true
Update 2 Years later:
http://www.unitedpatientsgroup.com/blog/2014/03/20/dads-update-stan-rutner-a-cancer-survivor/
How THC kills cancer:
http://www.hightimes.com/read/biologist-explains-how-thc-kills-cancer-cells
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Cynthia on June 12, 2014 at 5:00 pm said:
We should be allowed to treat ourselves with natural resources ..this is a plant a flower NOT man made, I’m trying to understand how they can patent it and keep it from people when the plant was here before mankind…what if they start patenting roses or basil or water oh ya they have…YES they should be held accountable and they should be ashamed…May God Bless them
Reply ?
Kathy Rose on June 20, 2014 at 1:24 pm said:
My husband was diagnosed with stage 1 pancreatic cancer last September (2013)
We were told that Pancreatic cancer is a fast and deadly killer and that there is no cure.
We have small children. This news was completely devastating.
But the doctors told us we were lucky because we caught it early and it hadn’t spread yet.
In November he had the surgery to remove the tumor. They found it had spread, so they sewed him back up again – and charged us for the full operation they didn’t perform.
Once the cancer spread, the doctors told us his cancer was in stage 4 and that there was no hope.
He went downhill very quickly after that. One thing they dont tell you when you have surgery is that if the operation fails, once the air hits it, cancer often spreads much more rapidly. In December of 2013 he was given three weeks to live.
My husband had heard about something called Phoenix tears, an oil taken orally made from cannabis.
We live in NV, a medical marijuana state, and to make a long story short, we jumped through hoop after hoop to finally attain it. I didnt really believe it would work, and he didnt either, but when your life is on the line you’ll try anything.
My husband began taking Phoenix tears in late December 2013.
At first he actually got sicker – a common phenomenon that scares people into stopping taking the oil – but it was just the oil doing its work.
Slowly he began to get better.
His color and vitality returned. He started getting dressed in the morning again, rejoining family activities, driving, and even working again.
Over time his cancer fell counts in his blood dropped from 5000+ to under 32. This took about five months.
On June 5th he was declared cancer free. CANCER FREE.
THANK GOD!!!
His oncologist is speechless. All other doctors he shows his medical records to are astounded.
We’ve tried to tell the media but no one so far will cover the story despite the fact that he has his medical records and myriad witnesses to prove it.
Everyone else who was in the same study as my husband (none of whom took the cannabis oil aka Phoenix tears) made it. They are all dead.
We did a lot of digging and found that cannabis oil is a cure for many different cancers including but not limited to breast, kidney, brain, stomach, prostate, skin cancer, leukemia, and of course pancreatic cancer.
In the US cannabis is classified as a class 1 narcotic so it cant even be studied in this country, cancer patients are arrested left and right for even possessing it if their lives depend
on it – which it does.
Many other countries admit its a cure. But if a doctor in this country even suggests it to a patient and the word gets out, they can lose their license and their livelihood.
Why? Perhaps because your typical chemo treatment costs $4800 per week. Cannabis oil costs $80 per week and can be grown in your own backyard.
if this is all happening, which i assure you it is, what does that tell you about the media, the FDA, and the government in general?
I have no agenda. I only want to help people. I think marijuana is bad for people if smoked. Cannabis oil must be taken orally or it wont work.
So what could possibly be my motive except to give people hope and wake people up?
WAKE UP.
Reply ?
UnitedPatientsGroup.com on June 20, 2014 at 3:35 pm said:
Kathy,
Thank you so much for your amazing story! My father was given 2 weeks to live and was sent home to die. He was cancer free in 9 months! I share your joy and your frustration. Congratulations to you both! If you would like to get your story out there we can help you do that. Feel free to call us at 415-524-8099.
Wishing you all the peace and joy you so deserve!
~Corinne
Our Story:
http://www.unitedpatientsgroup.com/about
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dpride20, The Wall Street Journal July 9, 2014, 4:25 p.m. ET
Vapor Group, Inc., VPOR, Announces Immediate Availability of "Vapor Box THB," the Revolutionary New Vaporizer
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140709-910895.html
Vapor Group, Inc., VPOR, Announces Immediate Availability of "Vapor Box THB," the Revolutionary New Vaporizer
DAVIE, FL--(Marketwired - Jul 9, 2014) - Vapor Group, Inc., (OTCQB: VPOR), (the "Company", "Vapor Group"), announced today the immediate availability for purchase of the new revolutionary vaporizer, the "Vapor Box THB". The product may now be purchased from the "The Vapor" website at http://www.thevapor.com/the-vapor-box-thb.html.
Yaniv Nahon, Chief Operating Officer, said, "As we had said before, the 'Vapor Box THB' dry herb vaporizer resets the benchmark for all herb vaporizers. What is extraordinarily unique about it is that it vaporizes dry herbs and oil-wax by gently heating them with pure, heated air inside the heating chamber at a controlled temperature set to optimally vaporize the contents without burning them. Other vaporizers use heating coils that just quickly burn the contents creating harsh and potentially unhealthy chemicals in the inhalant. Moreover, because of its sophisticated vaporizing technique, the Vapor Box THB delivers consistent vapor puff after puff, without any burnt taste. It is a 'state-of-the-art' highly sophisticated breakthrough, designed to work reliably for up to 10,000 hours of use!"
About the Vapor Group
Vapor Group, Inc., www.vaporgroup.com, is in the business of designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing high quality, vaporizers and e-cigarette brands which use state-of-the-art electronic technology and specially formulated, "Made in the USA" e-liquids, which may or may not contain nicotine. It offers a range of products with unique e-liquid flavors that is unmatched in our industry. Its products are marketed under the Vapor Group, Total Vapor, Vapor 123, American Smoke and Vapor Products brands. It sells nationwide through distributors, wholesalers and directly to consumers through its own websites and direct response advertising.
All of its E-cigarettes consist of a long-life battery, a heating element, a cartridge filled with an "e-liquid" and an atomizer which when heated, vaporizes the e-liquid. Because E-cigarettes are not "lit" like regular cigarettes, they don't create flame, smoke from burning, ash, tar, noxious fumes or leftover "cigarette butts". As a result, they may be used virtually anywhere. Vapor Group is committed to providing E-cigarettes that are convenient and economical to use, safer and healthier than traditional smoking, and which provide a flavorful, enjoyable smoking experience.
Vapor Group, Inc. is managed by a highly experienced team of executives committed to responsible business policies and practices, including the marketing of our products only to those eighteen years of age or older, not making or avoiding claims about our product health benefits, and fulfilling the requirements of all applicable laws and regulations.
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Today's News, July 9, 2014 @ 4:20p TD Ameritrade
Vapor Group, Inc., VPOR, Announces Immediate Availability of "Vapor Box THB," the Revolutionary New Vaporizer (Market Wire)
ST Hell ya...............
Would be nice to have a company update/PR. Having one of those old porky days...
ST still w/1.3 and holding
OK, so let me get this straight
The United States federal government holds a "medical patent" for all cannabinoids -- a patent which it has held since 2003, but it is still a schedule 1 drug. Some one needs to be FIRED....
Sorce:
CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAFu-Ihwyzg
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/06/worth_repeating_govt_holds_patent_for_cannabinoids.php
Let's take a look at the rationale behind this patent, and highlight the good news it actually contains for disease prevention, medical treatment and for cannabis legalization.
This patent was the outcome from research conducted by:
• Dr. Aiden J. Hampson, a neuropharmacologist at the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland
• Dr. Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), Professor Emeritus, National Institutes of Health, pharmacologist and neuroscientist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
• Dr. Maurizio Grimaldi, professor of neurology/neuropsychopharmacology and toxicology, NIMH
Here's how it all went down in 1998.
Patent No. U.S. 6,630,507 B1 (Source [PDF]) http://www.rm3.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/US6630507-Hampson-USDHHS-Antioxidants.pdf
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, D.C.)
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Patent Title: Cannabinoids act as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
Cannabinoids Patent Abstract.jpg
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Field of the Invention (what it's going to do)
The present invention concerns pharmaceutical compounds and compositions that are useful as tissue protectants, such as neuroprotectants and cardioprotectants. The compounds and compositions may be used, for example, in the treatment of acute ischemic neurological insults or chronic neurodegenerative diseases.
Definitions in this patent: Cannabinoid
"As used herein, a 'cannabinoid' is a chemical compound (such as cannabinol, THC or cannabidiol) that is found in the plant species Cannabis sativa (marijuana), and metabolites and synthetic analogues thereof that may or may not have psychoactive properties."
Claims Found In Patent:
Claim #1: A method of treating diseases caused by oxidative stress, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid to a subject who has a disease caused by oxidative stress.
Claim #15: A method of treating an ischemic or neurodegenerative disease in the central nervous system of a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid.
Claim #24: (A method of treating) wherein the ischemic or neurodegenerative disease is an ischemic infarct, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and human immunodeficiency virus dementia, Down's syndrome, or heard disease.
If you read my last past, "Cannabis May Help Combat Aging of the Brain," you'll remember I presented current (2005-2009) evidence for cannabis and neuroprotection.
Well, apparently the U.S. government was way ahead of the curve on this one. Thank you, President Clinton, for filing this patent (April 29, 1999). Yo!
Maybe you didn't inhale, but you may have legalized cannabis as a medicine through a back door during your presidency!
The "Assignee" on the patent is the United States of America. This means the people who are its citizens, who fund the government with their taxes, and are represented by it, and who in effect employ it to act as our agent protecting our welfare. The government works for us, and exists to serve us. We, the American people, are the ultimate owners of this patent that it holds for us.
In order to produce the maximum benefit for the most people, in the shortest time, we would like our patent to produce "fast tracked" cannabis-based medicines to treat the following medical conditions.
If you look at the chart below at the 10 o'clock position , "neuroprotection" is just the first benefit of this wonderful plant. We just scratched the surface of its full potential.
And again, thank you for standing up for the people of this country first, not corporations. Thank you so much for looking out for our interests and securing the rights to this medicine so that it may be used by us, the American people.
That was eight years ago.
It makes one wonder what the U.?S. government was thinking when, this past March, it made the National Cancer Institute scrub its newly created cannabis web section to delete the phrase:
"In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medical cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct anti-tumor effect."
This, mind you, is after receiving a patent specifically on the point that cannabinoids are powerful anti-oxidative medicines that fight oxidative stress diseases. One of the main causes of cancer is oxidative stress disease.
"Many forms of cancer are thought to be the result of reactions between free radicals and DNA, resulting in mutations that can adversely affect the cell cycle and potentially lead to malignancy."
Cancer patients need unrestricted access to cannabis products. The drug is self-regulating; if you use "too much," you fall asleep.
This patent makes the case that cannabinoids should definitely be part of an integrative medical treatment plan for cancer and a multitude of other conditions as per the above statement.
All cannabinoids act as potent free-radical scavengers. Interesting fact: the patent claims that THC is equal to cannabidiol as an anti-oxidant in strength.
Only problem: it is "psychotoxic," to use the patent's terminology.
Translation: it gets you high.
Example of an Oxidative Disease
skin immediately after hydrogen peroxide.jpg
Skin immediately after exposure to 30 percent hydrogen peroxide
?Hydrogen peroxide's actions come from the fact that it oxidizes tissue.
This is how hydrogen peroxide gets that bloodstain out of your white shirt; it dissolves the cells by stealing electrons from proteins. Oxidation is to human DNA as rust is to an iron bridge, and as paint protects it from oxygen, cannabinoids are the "paint" that protect your DNA from destruction.
The cannabis plant originated in the mountains at high altitudes in Kurdistan. To protect itself from harmful ultraviolet radiation at in the thin air, the plant developed a chemical defense to protect itself. It evolutionarily selected for cannabinoids, antioxidants which counter this high intensity, less filtered form of sunlight radiation.
Now imagine this chemical reaction happening in your brain, just ripping apart neurons which are your individual brain cells. That is what neuroinflammation is. The good news is that cannabinoids shut down this reaction in the human body.
free radical damage to motor neurons.jpg
?Who would benefit from U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1?
"Oxidative associated diseases include, without limitation, free radical associated diseases, such as ischemia, ischemic reperfusion injury, inflammatory diseases, systemic lupus erythematosis, myocardial ischemia or infarction, cerebrovascular accidents (such as thromboembolic or hermorrhagic stroke) that can lead to ischemia or an infarct in the brain, operative ischemia, traumatic hemorrhage (for example a hypovolemic stroke that can lead to CNS hypoxia or anoxia), spinal cord trauma, Down's syndrome, Crohn's disease, autoimmune diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis or diabetes), cataract formation, uveitis, emphysema, gastric ulcers, oxygen toxicity, and neoplasia (cancer tumors)."
And radiation sickness, which I'm sure we will find in the Japanese population for years to come.
The government's public mantra has always been that marijuana is not a medicine in any form, as in Schedule I, which means (a) the drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse; (b) it has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States (Remember U.S. Patent 6,630,507 B1?); and (c) there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
While spending billions of dollars to promote its anti-drug meme behind the scenes, it was simultaneously trying to prove to the Patent Office that cannabinoids are powerful anti-oxidative medicines that fight oxidative stress diseases in everyone.
So the crazy Catch 22 is that the U.S. government is now claiming cannabis is medicine, but is also saying it isn't medicine and that it needs to be against the law.
How can any sane person explain this cognitive dissonance -- this bipolar reefer insanity on the part of the government?
This patent contradicts the very definition of "Schedule I."
And does the government's patent also hold the cure for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, and many other oxidative stress-related disorders?
Point to remember: this patent is making medical claims for cannabidiol only. THC is cannabidiol's therapeutic partner, and they work together best in a synergistic fashion, which can be described as "cannabinergic."
The patent acknowledges that all cannabinoids are therapeutic, but claims very high doses are needed to get the effect. This is an untested negative assumption about marijuana's ability to change consciousness that has been an ideologically driven bias against cannabis since 1937.
This therapeutic dose would produce unwanted side effects if THC was used in this amount. The high from THC is described as "psychotoxic" in the patent. This is true if THC is not used with cannabidiol, as it is found in the whole plant.
axelrod mug.jpg
Dr. Julius Axelrod
?From U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1:
"As referred to herein, the term 'psychoactivity' means 'cannabinoid receptor mediated psychoactivity.' Such effects include euphoria, lightheadedness, reduced motor coordination, and memory impairment. Psychoactivity is not meant to include non-cannabinoid receptor mediated effects such as the anxiolytic effect of CBD."
Translation: Euphoria, literally, to "bear well," is medically recognized as a positive mental, emotional state defined as a profound sense of well-being or wellness.
Lightheadedness, reduced motor coordination, and memory impairment, of course, can be bad. These last three apply to alcohol, high blood pressure meds, and many psychiatric meds in general.
Anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) is good.
Question: How does one separate "anxiety-free" from "experiencing joy and happiness"?
Why do we live in a Buzz-Kill Nation?
I have discovered that suffering and pain and very overrated, and don't build character.
Did your last root canal surgery make you a better person? It only works if others in your peer group witness it and reward it within the group.
Pain and suffering damage the immune system.
Joy and happiness and giggling and laughing boost the immune response. When you laugh, your immune system laughs with you, and a laughing immune system is a good thing to have when you are fighting cancer or any serious illness.
Reduction of laughter frequency is a symptom of a diseased state.
Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem a bit paranoid?
Mirthful laughter has a positive effect on stress and natural killer cell activity.
From U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1:
"THC is another of the cannabinoids that has been shown to be neuroprotective in cell cultures, but this protection was believed to be mediated by interaction at the cannabinoid receptor, and so would be accompanied by undesired psychotropic side effects."
Here's what happens when THC is used without its partner, cannabidiol.
Intravenous THC and Cannabidiol Experiment
What anti-marijuana researchers do is isolate and give pure THC only to test subjects, which in large amounts can cause psychosis-like symptoms. Then they claim marijuana causes psychotic behavior.
Both THC and cannabidiol are both equal in strength as antioxidants. But THC gets you high, which disqualifies it as medicine.
A medicine that makes you laugh is bad?
The patent made it sound like getting high -- or should I say having a marijuana-induced "peak experience," which leads in time to varying degrees of self-actualization -- is a bad thing.
The "high" is therapeutic in its own right, being that cannabis is an entheogen drug and not an intoxicant. It can't be included in the intoxicant category due to the fact that it is not toxic, and has never caused a recorded death directly from its use.
The change in consciousness induced by the THC/cannabidiol combo is anxiolytic, anti-depressive, and antipsychotic in nature. A cancer diagnosis with harsh chemo and radiation produces intense periods of anxiety and depression through the long course of treatment.
So let me get this part straight: the serious untoward side effects of cannabis are red eyes, lightheadedness, intense bouts of uncontrollable enlightened laughter, intense hunger followed by periods of deep mystical introspection, followed by deep sound sleep.
In short, happy, hungry and sleepy.
Cannabis is not an intoxicant. It is an entheogenic substance. Think altruism, group bonding and cooperation, nonviolence and sharing. Think Woodstock!
"Splendid by Law! Declaring Law, truth speaking, truthful in thy works, enouncing faith, King Soma! ... O [Soma] Pavamana, place me in that deathless, undecaying world wherein the light of heaven is set, and everlasting lustre shines ... Make me immortal in that realm where happiness and transports, where joy and felicities combine." ~ from the Rig Veda, the "Creator of the Gods."
Cannabis is like yoga for your mind. But only different -- and oh, the places you'll go!
I believe if you live long enough, through many decades, absorbing the tragedies of the human condition, you have a high probability of developing a type of "generalized life PTSD." It's part of the psychological profile of aging, and it can't be helped.
Life wears you down over time.
Cannabis is just a milder, non-toxic form of MDMA, which is helping some of our combat vets who return home with PTSD.
Many who are lucky enough to survive cancer go on to develop a "cancer PTSD" syndrome that will always be there.
So what are free radicals?
"Radicals (often referred to as free radicals) are atoms, molecules, or ions with unpaired electrons on an open shell configuration. Free radicals may have positive, negative, or zero charge. With some exceptions, the unpaired electrons cause radicals to be highly chemically reactive. Radicals, if allowed to run free in the body, are believed to be involved in degenerative diseases and cancers.
The antioxidants give an electron to the free radical so its outer shell is complete. If not, the free radicals degrade your DNA by plucking electrons from its structure. This damages the correct code for making new proteins that cells use to rebuild; this process is called "oxidation stress," which means your cellular DNA is under attack by highly reactive chemicals.
What causes this oxidation?
• X-rays and all forms of radiation, even sunlight.
• Cancer treatment: chemotherapy, radiation treatment. From the patent: "The invention includes methods for using cannabinoids in subjects who have been exposed to oxidant inducing agents such as cancer chemotherapy, radiation, and other sources of oxidative stress."
• Chemicals in our water and air that are toxic to cells. We live in a close bio-system; anything we dump down the drain winds up in the food chain, in the water we drink, and in the air we breathe.
It's the sum total of every chemical and radiation assault against your DNA at the cellular level, inside the nucleus of your cells, that you don't see. This damage causes mutations in cells that lead to abnormal cell growth and cancer.
normal oxygen atom.jpg
?This is why cannabinoids may slow the aging process.
This may be why cannabis smokers have a lower rate of lung cancer and head and neck cancer than the non-smoking population.
Cannabinoids protect the cells from oxidation. Marijuana saves lives!
Think of cannabis as a super free-radical-fighting vegetable. Get at least one serving of this green phytochemical per day to maintain good health!
Perhaps the FDA should consider adding cannabis to its new Food Pyramid. ?
Thank you, Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), for all your hard work. Perhaps someone will name a medicine strain of cannabis for you.
OK, so let me get this straight
The United States federal government holds a "medical patent" for all cannabinoids -- a patent which it has held since 2003, but it is still a schedule 1 drug. Some one needs to be FIRED....
Sorce:
CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAFu-Ihwyzg
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/06/worth_repeating_govt_holds_patent_for_cannabinoids.php
Let's take a look at the rationale behind this patent, and highlight the good news it actually contains for disease prevention, medical treatment and for cannabis legalization.
This patent was the outcome from research conducted by:
• Dr. Aiden J. Hampson, a neuropharmacologist at the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland
• Dr. Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), Professor Emeritus, National Institutes of Health, pharmacologist and neuroscientist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
• Dr. Maurizio Grimaldi, professor of neurology/neuropsychopharmacology and toxicology, NIMH
Here's how it all went down in 1998.
Patent No. U.S. 6,630,507 B1 (Source [PDF]) http://www.rm3.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/US6630507-Hampson-USDHHS-Antioxidants.pdf
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, D.C.)
?
Patent Title: Cannabinoids act as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
Cannabinoids Patent Abstract.jpg
?
Field of the Invention (what it's going to do)
The present invention concerns pharmaceutical compounds and compositions that are useful as tissue protectants, such as neuroprotectants and cardioprotectants. The compounds and compositions may be used, for example, in the treatment of acute ischemic neurological insults or chronic neurodegenerative diseases.
Definitions in this patent: Cannabinoid
"As used herein, a 'cannabinoid' is a chemical compound (such as cannabinol, THC or cannabidiol) that is found in the plant species Cannabis sativa (marijuana), and metabolites and synthetic analogues thereof that may or may not have psychoactive properties."
Claims Found In Patent:
Claim #1: A method of treating diseases caused by oxidative stress, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid to a subject who has a disease caused by oxidative stress.
Claim #15: A method of treating an ischemic or neurodegenerative disease in the central nervous system of a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid.
Claim #24: (A method of treating) wherein the ischemic or neurodegenerative disease is an ischemic infarct, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and human immunodeficiency virus dementia, Down's syndrome, or heard disease.
If you read my last past, "Cannabis May Help Combat Aging of the Brain," you'll remember I presented current (2005-2009) evidence for cannabis and neuroprotection.
Well, apparently the U.S. government was way ahead of the curve on this one. Thank you, President Clinton, for filing this patent (April 29, 1999). Yo!
Maybe you didn't inhale, but you may have legalized cannabis as a medicine through a back door during your presidency!
The "Assignee" on the patent is the United States of America. This means the people who are its citizens, who fund the government with their taxes, and are represented by it, and who in effect employ it to act as our agent protecting our welfare. The government works for us, and exists to serve us. We, the American people, are the ultimate owners of this patent that it holds for us.
In order to produce the maximum benefit for the most people, in the shortest time, we would like our patent to produce "fast tracked" cannabis-based medicines to treat the following medical conditions.
If you look at the chart below at the 10 o'clock position , "neuroprotection" is just the first benefit of this wonderful plant. We just scratched the surface of its full potential.
And again, thank you for standing up for the people of this country first, not corporations. Thank you so much for looking out for our interests and securing the rights to this medicine so that it may be used by us, the American people.
That was eight years ago.
It makes one wonder what the U.?S. government was thinking when, this past March, it made the National Cancer Institute scrub its newly created cannabis web section to delete the phrase:
"In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medical cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct anti-tumor effect."
This, mind you, is after receiving a patent specifically on the point that cannabinoids are powerful anti-oxidative medicines that fight oxidative stress diseases. One of the main causes of cancer is oxidative stress disease.
"Many forms of cancer are thought to be the result of reactions between free radicals and DNA, resulting in mutations that can adversely affect the cell cycle and potentially lead to malignancy."
Cancer patients need unrestricted access to cannabis products. The drug is self-regulating; if you use "too much," you fall asleep.
This patent makes the case that cannabinoids should definitely be part of an integrative medical treatment plan for cancer and a multitude of other conditions as per the above statement.
All cannabinoids act as potent free-radical scavengers. Interesting fact: the patent claims that THC is equal to cannabidiol as an anti-oxidant in strength.
Only problem: it is "psychotoxic," to use the patent's terminology.
Translation: it gets you high.
Example of an Oxidative Disease
skin immediately after hydrogen peroxide.jpg
Skin immediately after exposure to 30 percent hydrogen peroxide
?Hydrogen peroxide's actions come from the fact that it oxidizes tissue.
This is how hydrogen peroxide gets that bloodstain out of your white shirt; it dissolves the cells by stealing electrons from proteins. Oxidation is to human DNA as rust is to an iron bridge, and as paint protects it from oxygen, cannabinoids are the "paint" that protect your DNA from destruction.
The cannabis plant originated in the mountains at high altitudes in Kurdistan. To protect itself from harmful ultraviolet radiation at in the thin air, the plant developed a chemical defense to protect itself. It evolutionarily selected for cannabinoids, antioxidants which counter this high intensity, less filtered form of sunlight radiation.
Now imagine this chemical reaction happening in your brain, just ripping apart neurons which are your individual brain cells. That is what neuroinflammation is. The good news is that cannabinoids shut down this reaction in the human body.
free radical damage to motor neurons.jpg
?Who would benefit from U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1?
"Oxidative associated diseases include, without limitation, free radical associated diseases, such as ischemia, ischemic reperfusion injury, inflammatory diseases, systemic lupus erythematosis, myocardial ischemia or infarction, cerebrovascular accidents (such as thromboembolic or hermorrhagic stroke) that can lead to ischemia or an infarct in the brain, operative ischemia, traumatic hemorrhage (for example a hypovolemic stroke that can lead to CNS hypoxia or anoxia), spinal cord trauma, Down's syndrome, Crohn's disease, autoimmune diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis or diabetes), cataract formation, uveitis, emphysema, gastric ulcers, oxygen toxicity, and neoplasia (cancer tumors)."
And radiation sickness, which I'm sure we will find in the Japanese population for years to come.
The government's public mantra has always been that marijuana is not a medicine in any form, as in Schedule I, which means (a) the drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse; (b) it has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States (Remember U.S. Patent 6,630,507 B1?); and (c) there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
While spending billions of dollars to promote its anti-drug meme behind the scenes, it was simultaneously trying to prove to the Patent Office that cannabinoids are powerful anti-oxidative medicines that fight oxidative stress diseases in everyone.
So the crazy Catch 22 is that the U.S. government is now claiming cannabis is medicine, but is also saying it isn't medicine and that it needs to be against the law.
How can any sane person explain this cognitive dissonance -- this bipolar reefer insanity on the part of the government?
This patent contradicts the very definition of "Schedule I."
And does the government's patent also hold the cure for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, and many other oxidative stress-related disorders?
Point to remember: this patent is making medical claims for cannabidiol only. THC is cannabidiol's therapeutic partner, and they work together best in a synergistic fashion, which can be described as "cannabinergic."
The patent acknowledges that all cannabinoids are therapeutic, but claims very high doses are needed to get the effect. This is an untested negative assumption about marijuana's ability to change consciousness that has been an ideologically driven bias against cannabis since 1937.
This therapeutic dose would produce unwanted side effects if THC was used in this amount. The high from THC is described as "psychotoxic" in the patent. This is true if THC is not used with cannabidiol, as it is found in the whole plant.
axelrod mug.jpg
Dr. Julius Axelrod
?From U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1:
"As referred to herein, the term 'psychoactivity' means 'cannabinoid receptor mediated psychoactivity.' Such effects include euphoria, lightheadedness, reduced motor coordination, and memory impairment. Psychoactivity is not meant to include non-cannabinoid receptor mediated effects such as the anxiolytic effect of CBD."
Translation: Euphoria, literally, to "bear well," is medically recognized as a positive mental, emotional state defined as a profound sense of well-being or wellness.
Lightheadedness, reduced motor coordination, and memory impairment, of course, can be bad. These last three apply to alcohol, high blood pressure meds, and many psychiatric meds in general.
Anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) is good.
Question: How does one separate "anxiety-free" from "experiencing joy and happiness"?
Why do we live in a Buzz-Kill Nation?
I have discovered that suffering and pain and very overrated, and don't build character.
Did your last root canal surgery make you a better person? It only works if others in your peer group witness it and reward it within the group.
Pain and suffering damage the immune system.
Joy and happiness and giggling and laughing boost the immune response. When you laugh, your immune system laughs with you, and a laughing immune system is a good thing to have when you are fighting cancer or any serious illness.
Reduction of laughter frequency is a symptom of a diseased state.
Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem a bit paranoid?
Mirthful laughter has a positive effect on stress and natural killer cell activity.
From U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1:
"THC is another of the cannabinoids that has been shown to be neuroprotective in cell cultures, but this protection was believed to be mediated by interaction at the cannabinoid receptor, and so would be accompanied by undesired psychotropic side effects."
Here's what happens when THC is used without its partner, cannabidiol.
Intravenous THC and Cannabidiol Experiment
What anti-marijuana researchers do is isolate and give pure THC only to test subjects, which in large amounts can cause psychosis-like symptoms. Then they claim marijuana causes psychotic behavior.
Both THC and cannabidiol are both equal in strength as antioxidants. But THC gets you high, which disqualifies it as medicine.
A medicine that makes you laugh is bad?
The patent made it sound like getting high -- or should I say having a marijuana-induced "peak experience," which leads in time to varying degrees of self-actualization -- is a bad thing.
The "high" is therapeutic in its own right, being that cannabis is an entheogen drug and not an intoxicant. It can't be included in the intoxicant category due to the fact that it is not toxic, and has never caused a recorded death directly from its use.
The change in consciousness induced by the THC/cannabidiol combo is anxiolytic, anti-depressive, and antipsychotic in nature. A cancer diagnosis with harsh chemo and radiation produces intense periods of anxiety and depression through the long course of treatment.
So let me get this part straight: the serious untoward side effects of cannabis are red eyes, lightheadedness, intense bouts of uncontrollable enlightened laughter, intense hunger followed by periods of deep mystical introspection, followed by deep sound sleep.
In short, happy, hungry and sleepy.
Cannabis is not an intoxicant. It is an entheogenic substance. Think altruism, group bonding and cooperation, nonviolence and sharing. Think Woodstock!
"Splendid by Law! Declaring Law, truth speaking, truthful in thy works, enouncing faith, King Soma! ... O [Soma] Pavamana, place me in that deathless, undecaying world wherein the light of heaven is set, and everlasting lustre shines ... Make me immortal in that realm where happiness and transports, where joy and felicities combine." ~ from the Rig Veda, the "Creator of the Gods."
Cannabis is like yoga for your mind. But only different -- and oh, the places you'll go!
I believe if you live long enough, through many decades, absorbing the tragedies of the human condition, you have a high probability of developing a type of "generalized life PTSD." It's part of the psychological profile of aging, and it can't be helped.
Life wears you down over time.
Cannabis is just a milder, non-toxic form of MDMA, which is helping some of our combat vets who return home with PTSD.
Many who are lucky enough to survive cancer go on to develop a "cancer PTSD" syndrome that will always be there.
So what are free radicals?
"Radicals (often referred to as free radicals) are atoms, molecules, or ions with unpaired electrons on an open shell configuration. Free radicals may have positive, negative, or zero charge. With some exceptions, the unpaired electrons cause radicals to be highly chemically reactive. Radicals, if allowed to run free in the body, are believed to be involved in degenerative diseases and cancers.
The antioxidants give an electron to the free radical so its outer shell is complete. If not, the free radicals degrade your DNA by plucking electrons from its structure. This damages the correct code for making new proteins that cells use to rebuild; this process is called "oxidation stress," which means your cellular DNA is under attack by highly reactive chemicals.
What causes this oxidation?
• X-rays and all forms of radiation, even sunlight.
• Cancer treatment: chemotherapy, radiation treatment. From the patent: "The invention includes methods for using cannabinoids in subjects who have been exposed to oxidant inducing agents such as cancer chemotherapy, radiation, and other sources of oxidative stress."
• Chemicals in our water and air that are toxic to cells. We live in a close bio-system; anything we dump down the drain winds up in the food chain, in the water we drink, and in the air we breathe.
It's the sum total of every chemical and radiation assault against your DNA at the cellular level, inside the nucleus of your cells, that you don't see. This damage causes mutations in cells that lead to abnormal cell growth and cancer.
normal oxygen atom.jpg
?This is why cannabinoids may slow the aging process.
This may be why cannabis smokers have a lower rate of lung cancer and head and neck cancer than the non-smoking population.
Cannabinoids protect the cells from oxidation. Marijuana saves lives!
Think of cannabis as a super free-radical-fighting vegetable. Get at least one serving of this green phytochemical per day to maintain good health!
Perhaps the FDA should consider adding cannabis to its new Food Pyramid. ?
Thank you, Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), for all your hard work. Perhaps someone will name a medicine strain of cannabis for you.
OK, so let me get this straight
The United States federal government holds a "medical patent" for all cannabinoids -- a patent which it has held since 2003, but it is still a schedule 1 drug. Some one needs to be FIRED....
Sorce:
CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAFu-Ihwyzg
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/06/worth_repeating_govt_holds_patent_for_cannabinoids.php
Let's take a look at the rationale behind this patent, and highlight the good news it actually contains for disease prevention, medical treatment and for cannabis legalization.
This patent was the outcome from research conducted by:
• Dr. Aiden J. Hampson, a neuropharmacologist at the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland
• Dr. Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), Professor Emeritus, National Institutes of Health, pharmacologist and neuroscientist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
• Dr. Maurizio Grimaldi, professor of neurology/neuropsychopharmacology and toxicology, NIMH
Here's how it all went down in 1998.
Patent No. U.S. 6,630,507 B1 (Source [PDF]) http://www.rm3.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/US6630507-Hampson-USDHHS-Antioxidants.pdf
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, D.C.)
?
Patent Title: Cannabinoids act as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
Cannabinoids Patent Abstract.jpg
?
Field of the Invention (what it's going to do)
The present invention concerns pharmaceutical compounds and compositions that are useful as tissue protectants, such as neuroprotectants and cardioprotectants. The compounds and compositions may be used, for example, in the treatment of acute ischemic neurological insults or chronic neurodegenerative diseases.
Definitions in this patent: Cannabinoid
"As used herein, a 'cannabinoid' is a chemical compound (such as cannabinol, THC or cannabidiol) that is found in the plant species Cannabis sativa (marijuana), and metabolites and synthetic analogues thereof that may or may not have psychoactive properties."
Claims Found In Patent:
Claim #1: A method of treating diseases caused by oxidative stress, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid to a subject who has a disease caused by oxidative stress.
Claim #15: A method of treating an ischemic or neurodegenerative disease in the central nervous system of a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid.
Claim #24: (A method of treating) wherein the ischemic or neurodegenerative disease is an ischemic infarct, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and human immunodeficiency virus dementia, Down's syndrome, or heard disease.
If you read my last past, "Cannabis May Help Combat Aging of the Brain," you'll remember I presented current (2005-2009) evidence for cannabis and neuroprotection.
Well, apparently the U.S. government was way ahead of the curve on this one. Thank you, President Clinton, for filing this patent (April 29, 1999). Yo!
Maybe you didn't inhale, but you may have legalized cannabis as a medicine through a back door during your presidency!
The "Assignee" on the patent is the United States of America. This means the people who are its citizens, who fund the government with their taxes, and are represented by it, and who in effect employ it to act as our agent protecting our welfare. The government works for us, and exists to serve us. We, the American people, are the ultimate owners of this patent that it holds for us.
In order to produce the maximum benefit for the most people, in the shortest time, we would like our patent to produce "fast tracked" cannabis-based medicines to treat the following medical conditions.
If you look at the chart below at the 10 o'clock position , "neuroprotection" is just the first benefit of this wonderful plant. We just scratched the surface of its full potential.
And again, thank you for standing up for the people of this country first, not corporations. Thank you so much for looking out for our interests and securing the rights to this medicine so that it may be used by us, the American people.
That was eight years ago.
It makes one wonder what the U.?S. government was thinking when, this past March, it made the National Cancer Institute scrub its newly created cannabis web section to delete the phrase:
"In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medical cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct anti-tumor effect."
This, mind you, is after receiving a patent specifically on the point that cannabinoids are powerful anti-oxidative medicines that fight oxidative stress diseases. One of the main causes of cancer is oxidative stress disease.
"Many forms of cancer are thought to be the result of reactions between free radicals and DNA, resulting in mutations that can adversely affect the cell cycle and potentially lead to malignancy."
Cancer patients need unrestricted access to cannabis products. The drug is self-regulating; if you use "too much," you fall asleep.
This patent makes the case that cannabinoids should definitely be part of an integrative medical treatment plan for cancer and a multitude of other conditions as per the above statement.
All cannabinoids act as potent free-radical scavengers. Interesting fact: the patent claims that THC is equal to cannabidiol as an anti-oxidant in strength.
Only problem: it is "psychotoxic," to use the patent's terminology.
Translation: it gets you high.
Example of an Oxidative Disease
skin immediately after hydrogen peroxide.jpg
Skin immediately after exposure to 30 percent hydrogen peroxide
?Hydrogen peroxide's actions come from the fact that it oxidizes tissue.
This is how hydrogen peroxide gets that bloodstain out of your white shirt; it dissolves the cells by stealing electrons from proteins. Oxidation is to human DNA as rust is to an iron bridge, and as paint protects it from oxygen, cannabinoids are the "paint" that protect your DNA from destruction.
The cannabis plant originated in the mountains at high altitudes in Kurdistan. To protect itself from harmful ultraviolet radiation at in the thin air, the plant developed a chemical defense to protect itself. It evolutionarily selected for cannabinoids, antioxidants which counter this high intensity, less filtered form of sunlight radiation.
Now imagine this chemical reaction happening in your brain, just ripping apart neurons which are your individual brain cells. That is what neuroinflammation is. The good news is that cannabinoids shut down this reaction in the human body.
free radical damage to motor neurons.jpg
?Who would benefit from U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1?
"Oxidative associated diseases include, without limitation, free radical associated diseases, such as ischemia, ischemic reperfusion injury, inflammatory diseases, systemic lupus erythematosis, myocardial ischemia or infarction, cerebrovascular accidents (such as thromboembolic or hermorrhagic stroke) that can lead to ischemia or an infarct in the brain, operative ischemia, traumatic hemorrhage (for example a hypovolemic stroke that can lead to CNS hypoxia or anoxia), spinal cord trauma, Down's syndrome, Crohn's disease, autoimmune diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis or diabetes), cataract formation, uveitis, emphysema, gastric ulcers, oxygen toxicity, and neoplasia (cancer tumors)."
And radiation sickness, which I'm sure we will find in the Japanese population for years to come.
The government's public mantra has always been that marijuana is not a medicine in any form, as in Schedule I, which means (a) the drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse; (b) it has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States (Remember U.S. Patent 6,630,507 B1?); and (c) there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
While spending billions of dollars to promote its anti-drug meme behind the scenes, it was simultaneously trying to prove to the Patent Office that cannabinoids are powerful anti-oxidative medicines that fight oxidative stress diseases in everyone.
So the crazy Catch 22 is that the U.S. government is now claiming cannabis is medicine, but is also saying it isn't medicine and that it needs to be against the law.
How can any sane person explain this cognitive dissonance -- this bipolar reefer insanity on the part of the government?
This patent contradicts the very definition of "Schedule I."
And does the government's patent also hold the cure for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, and many other oxidative stress-related disorders?
Point to remember: this patent is making medical claims for cannabidiol only. THC is cannabidiol's therapeutic partner, and they work together best in a synergistic fashion, which can be described as "cannabinergic."
The patent acknowledges that all cannabinoids are therapeutic, but claims very high doses are needed to get the effect. This is an untested negative assumption about marijuana's ability to change consciousness that has been an ideologically driven bias against cannabis since 1937.
This therapeutic dose would produce unwanted side effects if THC was used in this amount. The high from THC is described as "psychotoxic" in the patent. This is true if THC is not used with cannabidiol, as it is found in the whole plant.
axelrod mug.jpg
Dr. Julius Axelrod
?From U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1:
"As referred to herein, the term 'psychoactivity' means 'cannabinoid receptor mediated psychoactivity.' Such effects include euphoria, lightheadedness, reduced motor coordination, and memory impairment. Psychoactivity is not meant to include non-cannabinoid receptor mediated effects such as the anxiolytic effect of CBD."
Translation: Euphoria, literally, to "bear well," is medically recognized as a positive mental, emotional state defined as a profound sense of well-being or wellness.
Lightheadedness, reduced motor coordination, and memory impairment, of course, can be bad. These last three apply to alcohol, high blood pressure meds, and many psychiatric meds in general.
Anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) is good.
Question: How does one separate "anxiety-free" from "experiencing joy and happiness"?
Why do we live in a Buzz-Kill Nation?
I have discovered that suffering and pain and very overrated, and don't build character.
Did your last root canal surgery make you a better person? It only works if others in your peer group witness it and reward it within the group.
Pain and suffering damage the immune system.
Joy and happiness and giggling and laughing boost the immune response. When you laugh, your immune system laughs with you, and a laughing immune system is a good thing to have when you are fighting cancer or any serious illness.
Reduction of laughter frequency is a symptom of a diseased state.
Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem a bit paranoid?
Mirthful laughter has a positive effect on stress and natural killer cell activity.
From U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1:
"THC is another of the cannabinoids that has been shown to be neuroprotective in cell cultures, but this protection was believed to be mediated by interaction at the cannabinoid receptor, and so would be accompanied by undesired psychotropic side effects."
Here's what happens when THC is used without its partner, cannabidiol.
Intravenous THC and Cannabidiol Experiment
What anti-marijuana researchers do is isolate and give pure THC only to test subjects, which in large amounts can cause psychosis-like symptoms. Then they claim marijuana causes psychotic behavior.
Both THC and cannabidiol are both equal in strength as antioxidants. But THC gets you high, which disqualifies it as medicine.
A medicine that makes you laugh is bad?
The patent made it sound like getting high -- or should I say having a marijuana-induced "peak experience," which leads in time to varying degrees of self-actualization -- is a bad thing.
The "high" is therapeutic in its own right, being that cannabis is an entheogen drug and not an intoxicant. It can't be included in the intoxicant category due to the fact that it is not toxic, and has never caused a recorded death directly from its use.
The change in consciousness induced by the THC/cannabidiol combo is anxiolytic, anti-depressive, and antipsychotic in nature. A cancer diagnosis with harsh chemo and radiation produces intense periods of anxiety and depression through the long course of treatment.
So let me get this part straight: the serious untoward side effects of cannabis are red eyes, lightheadedness, intense bouts of uncontrollable enlightened laughter, intense hunger followed by periods of deep mystical introspection, followed by deep sound sleep.
In short, happy, hungry and sleepy.
Cannabis is not an intoxicant. It is an entheogenic substance. Think altruism, group bonding and cooperation, nonviolence and sharing. Think Woodstock!
"Splendid by Law! Declaring Law, truth speaking, truthful in thy works, enouncing faith, King Soma! ... O [Soma] Pavamana, place me in that deathless, undecaying world wherein the light of heaven is set, and everlasting lustre shines ... Make me immortal in that realm where happiness and transports, where joy and felicities combine." ~ from the Rig Veda, the "Creator of the Gods."
Cannabis is like yoga for your mind. But only different -- and oh, the places you'll go!
I believe if you live long enough, through many decades, absorbing the tragedies of the human condition, you have a high probability of developing a type of "generalized life PTSD." It's part of the psychological profile of aging, and it can't be helped.
Life wears you down over time.
Cannabis is just a milder, non-toxic form of MDMA, which is helping some of our combat vets who return home with PTSD.
Many who are lucky enough to survive cancer go on to develop a "cancer PTSD" syndrome that will always be there.
So what are free radicals?
"Radicals (often referred to as free radicals) are atoms, molecules, or ions with unpaired electrons on an open shell configuration. Free radicals may have positive, negative, or zero charge. With some exceptions, the unpaired electrons cause radicals to be highly chemically reactive. Radicals, if allowed to run free in the body, are believed to be involved in degenerative diseases and cancers.
The antioxidants give an electron to the free radical so its outer shell is complete. If not, the free radicals degrade your DNA by plucking electrons from its structure. This damages the correct code for making new proteins that cells use to rebuild; this process is called "oxidation stress," which means your cellular DNA is under attack by highly reactive chemicals.
What causes this oxidation?
• X-rays and all forms of radiation, even sunlight.
• Cancer treatment: chemotherapy, radiation treatment. From the patent: "The invention includes methods for using cannabinoids in subjects who have been exposed to oxidant inducing agents such as cancer chemotherapy, radiation, and other sources of oxidative stress."
• Chemicals in our water and air that are toxic to cells. We live in a close bio-system; anything we dump down the drain winds up in the food chain, in the water we drink, and in the air we breathe.
It's the sum total of every chemical and radiation assault against your DNA at the cellular level, inside the nucleus of your cells, that you don't see. This damage causes mutations in cells that lead to abnormal cell growth and cancer.
normal oxygen atom.jpg
?This is why cannabinoids may slow the aging process.
This may be why cannabis smokers have a lower rate of lung cancer and head and neck cancer than the non-smoking population.
Cannabinoids protect the cells from oxidation. Marijuana saves lives!
Think of cannabis as a super free-radical-fighting vegetable. Get at least one serving of this green phytochemical per day to maintain good health!
Perhaps the FDA should consider adding cannabis to its new Food Pyramid. ?
Thank you, Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), for all your hard work. Perhaps someone will name a medicine strain of cannabis for you.
OK, so let me get this straight
The United States federal government holds a "medical patent" for all cannabinoids -- a patent which it has held since 2003, but it is still a schedule 1 drug. Some one needs to be FIRED....
Sorce:
CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAFu-Ihwyzg
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/06/worth_repeating_govt_holds_patent_for_cannabinoids.php
Let's take a look at the rationale behind this patent, and highlight the good news it actually contains for disease prevention, medical treatment and for cannabis legalization.
This patent was the outcome from research conducted by:
• Dr. Aiden J. Hampson, a neuropharmacologist at the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland
• Dr. Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), Professor Emeritus, National Institutes of Health, pharmacologist and neuroscientist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
• Dr. Maurizio Grimaldi, professor of neurology/neuropsychopharmacology and toxicology, NIMH
Here's how it all went down in 1998.
Patent No. U.S. 6,630,507 B1 (Source [PDF]) http://www.rm3.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/US6630507-Hampson-USDHHS-Antioxidants.pdf
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, D.C.)
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Patent Title: Cannabinoids act as antioxidants and neuroprotectants
Cannabinoids Patent Abstract.jpg
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Field of the Invention (what it's going to do)
The present invention concerns pharmaceutical compounds and compositions that are useful as tissue protectants, such as neuroprotectants and cardioprotectants. The compounds and compositions may be used, for example, in the treatment of acute ischemic neurological insults or chronic neurodegenerative diseases.
Definitions in this patent: Cannabinoid
"As used herein, a 'cannabinoid' is a chemical compound (such as cannabinol, THC or cannabidiol) that is found in the plant species Cannabis sativa (marijuana), and metabolites and synthetic analogues thereof that may or may not have psychoactive properties."
Claims Found In Patent:
Claim #1: A method of treating diseases caused by oxidative stress, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid to a subject who has a disease caused by oxidative stress.
Claim #15: A method of treating an ischemic or neurodegenerative disease in the central nervous system of a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a cannabinoid.
Claim #24: (A method of treating) wherein the ischemic or neurodegenerative disease is an ischemic infarct, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and human immunodeficiency virus dementia, Down's syndrome, or heard disease.
If you read my last past, "Cannabis May Help Combat Aging of the Brain," you'll remember I presented current (2005-2009) evidence for cannabis and neuroprotection.
Well, apparently the U.S. government was way ahead of the curve on this one. Thank you, President Clinton, for filing this patent (April 29, 1999). Yo!
Maybe you didn't inhale, but you may have legalized cannabis as a medicine through a back door during your presidency!
The "Assignee" on the patent is the United States of America. This means the people who are its citizens, who fund the government with their taxes, and are represented by it, and who in effect employ it to act as our agent protecting our welfare. The government works for us, and exists to serve us. We, the American people, are the ultimate owners of this patent that it holds for us.
In order to produce the maximum benefit for the most people, in the shortest time, we would like our patent to produce "fast tracked" cannabis-based medicines to treat the following medical conditions.
If you look at the chart below at the 10 o'clock position , "neuroprotection" is just the first benefit of this wonderful plant. We just scratched the surface of its full potential.
And again, thank you for standing up for the people of this country first, not corporations. Thank you so much for looking out for our interests and securing the rights to this medicine so that it may be used by us, the American people.
That was eight years ago.
It makes one wonder what the U.?S. government was thinking when, this past March, it made the National Cancer Institute scrub its newly created cannabis web section to delete the phrase:
"In the practice of integrative oncology, the health care provider may recommend medical cannabis not only for symptom management but also for its possible direct anti-tumor effect."
This, mind you, is after receiving a patent specifically on the point that cannabinoids are powerful anti-oxidative medicines that fight oxidative stress diseases. One of the main causes of cancer is oxidative stress disease.
"Many forms of cancer are thought to be the result of reactions between free radicals and DNA, resulting in mutations that can adversely affect the cell cycle and potentially lead to malignancy."
Cancer patients need unrestricted access to cannabis products. The drug is self-regulating; if you use "too much," you fall asleep.
This patent makes the case that cannabinoids should definitely be part of an integrative medical treatment plan for cancer and a multitude of other conditions as per the above statement.
All cannabinoids act as potent free-radical scavengers. Interesting fact: the patent claims that THC is equal to cannabidiol as an anti-oxidant in strength.
Only problem: it is "psychotoxic," to use the patent's terminology.
Translation: it gets you high.
Example of an Oxidative Disease
skin immediately after hydrogen peroxide.jpg
Skin immediately after exposure to 30 percent hydrogen peroxide
?Hydrogen peroxide's actions come from the fact that it oxidizes tissue.
This is how hydrogen peroxide gets that bloodstain out of your white shirt; it dissolves the cells by stealing electrons from proteins. Oxidation is to human DNA as rust is to an iron bridge, and as paint protects it from oxygen, cannabinoids are the "paint" that protect your DNA from destruction.
The cannabis plant originated in the mountains at high altitudes in Kurdistan. To protect itself from harmful ultraviolet radiation at in the thin air, the plant developed a chemical defense to protect itself. It evolutionarily selected for cannabinoids, antioxidants which counter this high intensity, less filtered form of sunlight radiation.
Now imagine this chemical reaction happening in your brain, just ripping apart neurons which are your individual brain cells. That is what neuroinflammation is. The good news is that cannabinoids shut down this reaction in the human body.
free radical damage to motor neurons.jpg
?Who would benefit from U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1?
"Oxidative associated diseases include, without limitation, free radical associated diseases, such as ischemia, ischemic reperfusion injury, inflammatory diseases, systemic lupus erythematosis, myocardial ischemia or infarction, cerebrovascular accidents (such as thromboembolic or hermorrhagic stroke) that can lead to ischemia or an infarct in the brain, operative ischemia, traumatic hemorrhage (for example a hypovolemic stroke that can lead to CNS hypoxia or anoxia), spinal cord trauma, Down's syndrome, Crohn's disease, autoimmune diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis or diabetes), cataract formation, uveitis, emphysema, gastric ulcers, oxygen toxicity, and neoplasia (cancer tumors)."
And radiation sickness, which I'm sure we will find in the Japanese population for years to come.
The government's public mantra has always been that marijuana is not a medicine in any form, as in Schedule I, which means (a) the drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse; (b) it has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States (Remember U.S. Patent 6,630,507 B1?); and (c) there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
While spending billions of dollars to promote its anti-drug meme behind the scenes, it was simultaneously trying to prove to the Patent Office that cannabinoids are powerful anti-oxidative medicines that fight oxidative stress diseases in everyone.
So the crazy Catch 22 is that the U.S. government is now claiming cannabis is medicine, but is also saying it isn't medicine and that it needs to be against the law.
How can any sane person explain this cognitive dissonance -- this bipolar reefer insanity on the part of the government?
This patent contradicts the very definition of "Schedule I."
And does the government's patent also hold the cure for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, and many other oxidative stress-related disorders?
Point to remember: this patent is making medical claims for cannabidiol only. THC is cannabidiol's therapeutic partner, and they work together best in a synergistic fashion, which can be described as "cannabinergic."
The patent acknowledges that all cannabinoids are therapeutic, but claims very high doses are needed to get the effect. This is an untested negative assumption about marijuana's ability to change consciousness that has been an ideologically driven bias against cannabis since 1937.
This therapeutic dose would produce unwanted side effects if THC was used in this amount. The high from THC is described as "psychotoxic" in the patent. This is true if THC is not used with cannabidiol, as it is found in the whole plant.
axelrod mug.jpg
Dr. Julius Axelrod
?From U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1:
"As referred to herein, the term 'psychoactivity' means 'cannabinoid receptor mediated psychoactivity.' Such effects include euphoria, lightheadedness, reduced motor coordination, and memory impairment. Psychoactivity is not meant to include non-cannabinoid receptor mediated effects such as the anxiolytic effect of CBD."
Translation: Euphoria, literally, to "bear well," is medically recognized as a positive mental, emotional state defined as a profound sense of well-being or wellness.
Lightheadedness, reduced motor coordination, and memory impairment, of course, can be bad. These last three apply to alcohol, high blood pressure meds, and many psychiatric meds in general.
Anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) is good.
Question: How does one separate "anxiety-free" from "experiencing joy and happiness"?
Why do we live in a Buzz-Kill Nation?
I have discovered that suffering and pain and very overrated, and don't build character.
Did your last root canal surgery make you a better person? It only works if others in your peer group witness it and reward it within the group.
Pain and suffering damage the immune system.
Joy and happiness and giggling and laughing boost the immune response. When you laugh, your immune system laughs with you, and a laughing immune system is a good thing to have when you are fighting cancer or any serious illness.
Reduction of laughter frequency is a symptom of a diseased state.
Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem a bit paranoid?
Mirthful laughter has a positive effect on stress and natural killer cell activity.
From U.S. Patent #6,630,507 B1:
"THC is another of the cannabinoids that has been shown to be neuroprotective in cell cultures, but this protection was believed to be mediated by interaction at the cannabinoid receptor, and so would be accompanied by undesired psychotropic side effects."
Here's what happens when THC is used without its partner, cannabidiol.
Intravenous THC and Cannabidiol Experiment
What anti-marijuana researchers do is isolate and give pure THC only to test subjects, which in large amounts can cause psychosis-like symptoms. Then they claim marijuana causes psychotic behavior.
Both THC and cannabidiol are both equal in strength as antioxidants. But THC gets you high, which disqualifies it as medicine.
A medicine that makes you laugh is bad?
The patent made it sound like getting high -- or should I say having a marijuana-induced "peak experience," which leads in time to varying degrees of self-actualization -- is a bad thing.
The "high" is therapeutic in its own right, being that cannabis is an entheogen drug and not an intoxicant. It can't be included in the intoxicant category due to the fact that it is not toxic, and has never caused a recorded death directly from its use.
The change in consciousness induced by the THC/cannabidiol combo is anxiolytic, anti-depressive, and antipsychotic in nature. A cancer diagnosis with harsh chemo and radiation produces intense periods of anxiety and depression through the long course of treatment.
So let me get this part straight: the serious untoward side effects of cannabis are red eyes, lightheadedness, intense bouts of uncontrollable enlightened laughter, intense hunger followed by periods of deep mystical introspection, followed by deep sound sleep.
In short, happy, hungry and sleepy.
Cannabis is not an intoxicant. It is an entheogenic substance. Think altruism, group bonding and cooperation, nonviolence and sharing. Think Woodstock!
"Splendid by Law! Declaring Law, truth speaking, truthful in thy works, enouncing faith, King Soma! ... O [Soma] Pavamana, place me in that deathless, undecaying world wherein the light of heaven is set, and everlasting lustre shines ... Make me immortal in that realm where happiness and transports, where joy and felicities combine." ~ from the Rig Veda, the "Creator of the Gods."
Cannabis is like yoga for your mind. But only different -- and oh, the places you'll go!
I believe if you live long enough, through many decades, absorbing the tragedies of the human condition, you have a high probability of developing a type of "generalized life PTSD." It's part of the psychological profile of aging, and it can't be helped.
Life wears you down over time.
Cannabis is just a milder, non-toxic form of MDMA, which is helping some of our combat vets who return home with PTSD.
Many who are lucky enough to survive cancer go on to develop a "cancer PTSD" syndrome that will always be there.
So what are free radicals?
"Radicals (often referred to as free radicals) are atoms, molecules, or ions with unpaired electrons on an open shell configuration. Free radicals may have positive, negative, or zero charge. With some exceptions, the unpaired electrons cause radicals to be highly chemically reactive. Radicals, if allowed to run free in the body, are believed to be involved in degenerative diseases and cancers.
The antioxidants give an electron to the free radical so its outer shell is complete. If not, the free radicals degrade your DNA by plucking electrons from its structure. This damages the correct code for making new proteins that cells use to rebuild; this process is called "oxidation stress," which means your cellular DNA is under attack by highly reactive chemicals.
What causes this oxidation?
• X-rays and all forms of radiation, even sunlight.
• Cancer treatment: chemotherapy, radiation treatment. From the patent: "The invention includes methods for using cannabinoids in subjects who have been exposed to oxidant inducing agents such as cancer chemotherapy, radiation, and other sources of oxidative stress."
• Chemicals in our water and air that are toxic to cells. We live in a close bio-system; anything we dump down the drain winds up in the food chain, in the water we drink, and in the air we breathe.
It's the sum total of every chemical and radiation assault against your DNA at the cellular level, inside the nucleus of your cells, that you don't see. This damage causes mutations in cells that lead to abnormal cell growth and cancer.
normal oxygen atom.jpg
?This is why cannabinoids may slow the aging process.
This may be why cannabis smokers have a lower rate of lung cancer and head and neck cancer than the non-smoking population.
Cannabinoids protect the cells from oxidation. Marijuana saves lives!
Think of cannabis as a super free-radical-fighting vegetable. Get at least one serving of this green phytochemical per day to maintain good health!
Perhaps the FDA should consider adding cannabis to its new Food Pyramid. ?
Thank you, Julius Axelrod (1912-2004), for all your hard work. Perhaps someone will name a medicine strain of cannabis for you.
sduplantis, the funny thing about any one pumping is, it's not needed.. People need to look at Vapors Q's only and they speak for them self’s.... LOL 1.25 to 2M in 2nd Q 2014 will do it by it's self alone....
ST 1.3 going long.....
porky, great read. Would you do me a flavor, when you post DD articles would you please include the web link. Thank You.
By the way, the people interviews in this article live a stone throw away from me.
Any way, Thanks Again
ST 1.3
Looking good folks, have a safe 4th and will see ya all Sunday.....
ST 1.3 long and strong 1year 1day
here you go onpoint and all, great research being done.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/weed-the-people-the-movie
Thanks porky for all your DD post's the last week or so, I have read most all of them. There is a lot of momentum starting to push this whole sector. I believe the second part of this year is going to be very exciting for all of us.
Thank you again, have a great night......
ST. 1.3M
Monday, 06/16/14 01:13:40 PM
Re: porkypigg post# 29955
Post # of 30833
porky, since Jan.22, 2014 Vapor has done every thing they said they would.
I have no real concerns of them executing there business plan already publicly known, even if it is not on our timing, I truly believe it will happen. There is definitely things we don't know of future plans and that is what gets me so friken EXCITED. Both sectors (E-cig/MMJ) are new and billions have not even been taped into yet. Vapor will continue tapping into a small percentage at a time of these new markets in the next few years and make quite a few people very very wealthy financially..
Remember:
Florida votes in November (MMJ) and 4 or 5 other states too. Open as many Vapor store fronts (aka dispensaries) as possible by years end and be ready to cover both markets. $$$$$$$ I hope to see a PR like that by end of year.
All IMO only
ST 1.3
needs to break that 0052 resistance.....