Monday, April 20, 2009

Further Exploring Cannabis: The Panacea

Outside of Halifax in one of the more rural areas lives a man named Rick Simpson. This man grew and cultivated hemp into a highly concentrated oil form for several years, which he gave to people with pain or disease. The following will be a brief summary of the events which transpired leading up to and during the conference he gave at Dalhousie University this past Sunday.

The main thing to keep in mind about hemp is that this is a 100% natural substance. The science behind cannabis in recent years has become quite interesting. It has breached the scientific field with its complexity and explanatory superiority in biology. It is losing its taboo, seemingly, as this new generation take on more and more research positions.

The first time I looked at Rick the first thought I had was 'radiant.' He explains why: "It's pretty straightforward" he says, a small grin on his face. "You take 60g of oil over a thee month period (You need about a pound for this, which is quite a bit) and whatever is ailing you will go away. This isn't like smoking; 90% of the medicinal properties of cannabis literally go up in smoke when you chose that method."

He recounts the thousands of people of varying diseases like aids, cancer, MS, and some other ones which have no known cures that he's seen cured from people's bodies, sometimes in as little as three weeks using his method. He explains his own arthritis which used to plague him is nothing more than a nostalgic comedy as he dances about the room.

I am looking around the room to see what everyone else thinks -- alright, question period time. Skeptics go nuts, let him have it. "This man saved my life" one man recounts in tears, explaining how he had two months to live before he saw Rick. Another man just smiles as he explains his chronic back spasms affect him no longer. Really the only thing that the students could really muster up as a skeptical defense was the suggestion that he needs to get some proper data on the books. I mean surely this man is wrong somehow, and he hasn't discovered some cure all? Surely there is some clerical mistake... This seemed to be the logic in the student camp.

So is this a mistake? I mean if he had discovered such a cure, surely you would have heard about it, right....? Well, maybe. What has Rick been doing all this time besides allegedly curing people? If not legitimate research, then what? Well Rick's been in court. You see, this is all illegal. I don't mean in the conventional sense. It's perfectly legal for people to, with a government approved medical exemption, grow or license someone else to grow cannabis in Canada. It has medicinal value, after all. You can smoke it out in the cold, partially chastised, to get rid of your chemotherapy sickness.

What is illegal is the oil. Which is unfortunate. It would seem that the government law preempted this apparent medical aid. Rick claims, while promoting anti-weed propaganda externally, the pharmaceutical companies may have learned about this on the inside a long time ago. Seems plausible, but either way the oil is legally forbidden for now.

So what came out of Rick's eventual arrest? Thankfully fate afforded us a judge with a conscience. Rick was fined $2000, probably just to cover court fees. "This man is guilty, but a healer" the official ruling.

So what is Rick Simpson up to these days? He will be touring in Europe with the most well known cannabis icon on the planet, Jack Herer, who is among the list of people that he has cured. Yes, it seems like the cat has been definitively let out of the bag with this one. This process is starting to catch on all over the world.

In closing: Some things are not too good to be true. The blessings of nature are available as always; now in the modern age health and happiness should be the watermark.



Resources:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cSg5CW6PQ -- Dr. Robert Malamede, University of Colorado.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsK21EJDAPc -- Rick Simpson's 'The Run from the Cure' Documentary