Marijuana and Suicide
Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia
To think these propagandists are doing this following orders of a few making profits on prohibition. I recall one Quack shrink on MTV making this bogus claim. An alternative to the Ritilan and other "ziner" drugs they're pushing. Others climbed on, passing on the lies, spewing gossip and not even having the sense to see the many "coincidences".
The "victims" supposedly die 6 months or so after quitting Ganja. By force or stigmatized abstinence. Thinking they could solve the problems Ganja lessened, by stopping them. The problems were not addressed to begin with, therefore the reason for escaping. Ganja is known to relieve some of the stress the catastrophic situation (in a teens mind) caused. Booze would have done the same escape, but maybe that wasn't an option or maybe Ganja didn't just make them forget while drunk, but helped them deal with it. As Ganja aids Israeli soldiers with PTSD and other trauma. Ganja aids the brain in not retaining to memory everything you see. More than likely those good intenders forcing the victims to stop, killed them. Then the buzzards pick up the DEAth and sell it as another statistic of using Ganja. Nazi's could learn a lot from the Fascists today...
DdC
One well known effect of THC is to lift the spirit, or make you "high."
Jack Herer
Israel To Soothe Trauma With Marijuana
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/19/thread19585.shtml
Cannabis and Depression Jay R. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.
http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/cmu/de...d_cannabis.htm
Patients who use cannabis to "relax" may be treating
the anxiousness sometimes associated with depression.
Ganja Acts as an Antidepressant
http://www.yahooka.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93958
Study Turns Pot Wisdom on Head
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21191.shtml
Therapeutic Use of Cannabis
Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html
Medical evidence indicates, that cannabis is the best overall treatment for dementia, senility, and maybe Alzheimer's disease, for long-term memory "gain" and hundreds of other benefits.
Only The PotHeads Will Survive
http://tinyurl.com/5bk5v
Virtues' of Ganja
http://tinyurl.com/c5d56
Ganja/hemp lnfolinx
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Thousands of products to harvest into jobs,
housing and crude oil free clothing and food...
Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13601.shtml
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Scientists have known for years that the brain makes substances almost identical to the active ingredient in marijuana, but the function of these cannabinoids remained mysterious. Researchers now say they help to extinguish traumatic memories. In certain situations, being able to forget is very important for emotional survival, said George Kunos, a neurobiologist at the National Institutes of Health.
Pot Blocks Painful Memories, Study Says
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13600.shtml
Dr. Lutz's study will only add to the argument in favour of decriminalization. But it is also a landmark in medical terms because it deals with one of the central survival mechanisms of the vertebrate brain: the ability to spot danger and flee from it. Scientists have long understood that the brain can reprogram itself not to flee if the danger goes away. That is called extinction of a memory. But scientists have not understood how it happens. Dr. Lutz's research shows that the answer lies in the body's store of cannabinoids, or cannabis-like natural chemicals, produced whenever the body needs them. The brain has a receptor for these cannabis-like chemicals and can use them to help reprogram the response to a fear. A problem is that the fear reaction can stick around when no longer needed. That can lead to panic attacks or paralyzing irrational fear. Dr. Lutz said his finding could mean that a person in the grip of trauma might be able to summon up the terrible memory, with the help of a psychotherapist, then smoke marijuana to enhance the ability of the brain to extinguish the memory. He said that smoking is by far the most efficient way of getting the substance to the brain, although researchers are looking at an aerosol to administer it straight to the lungs.
Nature
http://www.nature.com
Pot-Like Chemical Helps Beat Fear
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13596.shtml
'Natural' Cannabis Manages Memory
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13598.shtml
Natural High Extinguishes Bad Memories in Brain
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13593.shtml
Innate Cannabis Chemical Erases Fears
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020729/020729-6.html
Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting by Michael Pollan
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MASHAction/message/400
He said that smoking is by far the most efficient way of getting the substance to the brain,
although researchers are looking at an aerosol to administer it straight to the lungs.
GW Pharmaceuticals
http://www.gwpharm.com
GW Hits High as Bayer Snaps Up Cannabis Drug Sativex
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16348.shtml
Cannabis Medicine 'On Sale This Year '
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15773.shtml
Trials Show Cannabis Spray Helps MS Patients
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14667.shtml
Cannabis-Hemp / Dr Andrew Weil Links
GW Bush Gang: IG Farben 2001
http://www.Baltech.org/lederman/bush-farben-1-5-01.html
Seeking Rest From the Terrors, New York Pops Pills
Friday September 28 2001 By Jonathan Landreth (Excerpted)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers are increasingly turning to sedation to help them escape the nightmares created by the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
According to doctors and pharmacists in the city, New York's denizens--many grieving for lost friends and family--are looking to medicine more than ever before to help fall asleep.
``The week of the 11th, there were very few calls because patients assumed we were tied up taking care of the disaster and probably thought their problems seemed small,'' said Charles Bardes, associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and a New York Hospital doctor.
``Now, in the third week since the attack, the floodgates have opened and I'm getting dozens and dozens of calls for sleeping pills and other drugs,'' Bardes said.
The two most commonly prescribed sleeping pills, those for which Bardes said he has seen a ``huge swell'' of requests, are Ambien from Pharmacia Corp., and Sonata from American Home Products Corp.
Some pharmacists said the spike in demand for these drugs was immediate.
``Right after the incident, sale of Ambien went up about 50%,'' said Rajan Kohli of independent Falk Drug & Surgical Supply near New York Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
A great number of elderly patients who are prescribed the drugs on an ``as needed'' basis were getting prescriptions filled for the first time, Kohli added. ``With all the added stress, they needed their sleep.''
VICIOUS CIRCLE
Consumption of sleeping pills and antidepressants is common in dealing with stress and anxiety resulting from trauma, but need not be continued after patients restabilize, experts say.
``People take the drugs to make them feel as if this had not happened at all. Many people are reporting sleep disturbance and anxiety, which is normal, but they may want to allow themselves to get to the feelings that the drugs are suppressing,'' said psychotherapist Susan Lukas, a New York Certified Social Worker.
Therapeutic Use of Cannabis jackherer.com
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter07.html
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