The criminalization of using a part of your body started in the 1930's.
These Constitutionally repugnant laws have been enforced since 1937. Ever since then cancer started to spread, and has continued to progressively get worse. Coincidence ???
Every human body is equipped with something called the Endocannabinoid system. It reacts to specific chemicals called cannabinoids, and has been scientifically proven to be part of maintaining health in the human body going further back in time than we can calculate. We do know that humans have evolved with it for thousands of years.
This system helps to regulate and control nearly every system in the human body, and by a decree maybe by factions of the US government in the 1930’s, using it was actually criminalized. Yes, you are reading this correctly. The natural system within the human body that has evolved from human kinds relationship with a plant has been outlawed. The worst part about this tyrannical tragedy is how many people have suffered through horrible health problems like cancer, or even metabolic and gastric issues that otherwise never would have. A long forgotten document that was known as The Marihuana (marijuana) Tax act of 1937 started a domino effect, triggering one National Health Crisis after another. It makes you wonder if they actually had some type of plan to begin controlling the health of all the U.S. citizens.
Irony, or proof of Greed ?
In either a twist of irony, or an effect of causation, the United States F.D.A. was also founded in 1937. The Food and Drug Administration immediately began to regulate every product that hit a store, or pharmacy shelf. Since then they have approved hundreds of medications that later faced lawsuits, some for killing and causing permanent injuries or health issues in a large number of the consumers. Have the FDA ever been held accountable? No, there are laws that make them exempt from any negative consequences.
What does the Endocannabinoid system do?
Harvard, Mayo Clinic, and several other prestigious institutions of health education and study have all done the research. The hundreds of benefits to a balanced stasis of the Endocannabinoid system, all seem to counteract the negative health trends that have grown since the plants banning. There is a reason humans have had such a long and intimate relationship with the hemp and cannabis plants. We know of at least 9,000 years of it being used for it’s medicinal, and spiritual purposes, on top of multiple other uses and for it’s industrial strength fibers.
The Endocannabinoid system as stated earlier helps to control and regulate nearly every system in the human body.
In this article, I will touch on the topics of CBD, THC, and CBG including the effects of CBD on the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis, stress, and inflammation. Plus how the legalization of medical cannabis started a wave of cannabinoid science and healthcare research that is vital to the health of the world. Many studies now show that ingesting THC, CBD, and CBG have a vast number of health benefits, from normalizing the rhythm of sleep cycles, to balancing mental health, or correcting your metabolism. This is why it has exponentially grown in popularity in the last decade, with millions now using it as either a medicinal or dietary supplement. What is remarkable is the newly found correlations between certain cannabinoids and regulating diabetes. It has been found to lower A1C levels and average blood glucose numbers. In turn it has also been linked to a reduction in obesity. When you look at the spike in large scale health issues in the US from 1939 to modern day, especially diabetes and cancer there becomes a more and more obvious correlation. As the hemp and cannabis were removed from society we can see that from 1939 - 1940’s we also saw many new outbreaks of diseases like malaria and polio. There may not be direct causal correlation for those, but the Endocannabinoid system does provide stasis and regulation for the immune system also. I have linked the studies done on this by reputable sources like Harvard Med. It is my belief that adding in the scientific data, and medical terminology wouldn't help most readers to understand and would probably just complicate an otherwise very simple concept. So I added links to all of it below for those that also want to research it deeper.
Benefits of common Cannabinoids.
CBD is probably one of the most researched cannabinoids currently, other than THC. The benefits of CBD range from Chronic pain, Inflammation, Migraines, Epilepsy, Autoimmune diseases, Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD.
THC has an even longer list of health benefits, it has many of the same ones as CBD but is also known for relieving muscle spasms, gastrointestinal issues, stress, obsessive compulsive disorders, and neurological pain. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), some studies have reported that THC and other cannabinoids such as CBD slow growth and/or cause death in certain cancer cells growing in lab dishes. Some animal studies also suggest certain cannabinoids may slow growth and reduce the spread of some forms of cancer.
CBG (cannabigerol) and Cannabigerolic Acid (CBG-A) are often referred to by experts as “the mother of all cannabinoids,” CBG is the cannabinoid from which other types of cannabinoids (including CBD) are derived, CBG is the first compound in the biosynthesis (the production of chemical compounds by a living organism) of the other cannabinoids. Much like THCis known to be, CBG is also more likely to be an appetite stimulant per preliminary studies, while CBD is more likely to be an appetite suppressant, though more research is needed to confirm these findings, all of the data so far shows it to be true.
Over all it appears that cannabis has far more benefit than risk.
This has been known for decades.
I know it sounds hyperbolic, but this is quite literal. The question alone “How could making one plant illegal effect the health of an entire nation?” sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory. Just imagine that all of the sudden the government made water illegal, and people were suddenly dehydrating. Meanwhile the FDA approved some water substitutes, buy they all have side effects.
This is unfortunately where we are with humanity, holding the physical and mental health of the people hostage for a monetary gain..
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Scroll to the bottom for the Links and Sources, click on them for a more detailed scientific explanation. Or not, it’s your call.
Sources and Links.
The endocannabinoid system: Essential and mysterious - Harvard Health https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-endocannabinoid-system-essential-and-mysterious-202108112569
https://www.law.cornell.edu/topn/marihuana_tax_act_of_1937
Benefits of medical THC for neurological disorders in the U.S. https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2777&context=etd
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-marijuana/art-20364974#:~:text=The%20herb%20is%20typically%20used,chronic%20pain%20and%20muscle%20spasms.
https://csceducation.com/blog/an-endocannabinoid-system-deep-dive
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7023045/#:~:text=Cannabidiol%20(CBD)%20is%20one%20of,anti%2Dinflammatory%20and%20antioxidant%20properties.
https://www.forbes.com/health/cbd/cannabigerol-cbg/
The Accidental Poison That Founded the Modern FDA - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-accidental-poison-that-founded-the-modern-fda/550574/
https://farmerandchemist.com/blogs/news/cbda-and-cbga
What Is CBGa? | The Mother of Cannabinoids Benefits - Neurogan https://neurogan.com/blogs/news/what-is-cbga
