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"I don't know, but our government actually maintains that marijuana is the most commonly used illegitimate drug." "What about underage drinking," she replied. "That's just as illegitimate and far more dangerous." She was right, of course. Claiming that marijuana is more dangerous for kids than drinking is symptomatic of public health shortsightedness and stupid public policy. At any rate, following marijuana in danger is the so-called nonmedical prescription use of natural (e.g., codeine) and semisynthetic narcotic pain relievers." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In order to intercept that raciness, they take methionine; that will block the histamine. Many marijuana users tend to be imbalanced in histamine. The marijuana mellows them out, as it does block histamine. It blocks it so well that a person who has used marijuana for a long time can lose his or her zest for life; histamine levels get extremely low. Histamine fires all the neurotransmitters in the brain, so loading them up is one thing but getting them to fire is another. To reload histamine, to raise those levels, you use B3, B12, folic acid, and histidine." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"This campaign was so fierce and effective that the word "hemp" became synonymous with the slang word "marijuana," and resulted in the U.S. government prohibition of 1937. The confusion over hemp versus marijuana remains to this day, especially in North America, but it is beginning to change. While the development of a hemp industry is severely restricted in the United States, today industrial hemp is cultivated in many countries, among them Canada, China, Russia, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, England, and Poland. "So what are the benefits of hemp?" you may ask." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Claiming that marijuana is more dangerous for kids than drinking is symptomatic of public health shortsightedness and stupid public policy. At any rate, following marijuana in danger is the so-called nonmedical prescription use of natural (e.g., codeine) and semisynthetic narcotic pain relievers. About 30 million persons aged 12 or older (13% of the population) have used prescription pain relievers "nonmedically" in their lifetime. The number of drug abusers is increasing—rapidly." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"It contains minute (less than 1%) amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (thc), the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. The story of how this confusion came about is interesting, and in retrospect, sad and infuriating for the health of people and for the economy of North America. Prior to the U.S. marijuana Tax Act of 1937, hemp was widely grown and used mainly for making rope, cloth, and paper. Hemp is the world's strongest and most durable soft natural fiber." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"I have seen patients who have spent years smoking marijuana. They often come to us slightly paranoid. They smoke themselves into a partial lobotomy because right-side feelings are activated by marijuana, while the left-side control mechanisms are diminished. This unleashes feelings, which rise to the prefrontal cortex to be twisted into strange, highly suspicious ideas. These ideas are an attempt to deal with surging internal forces. What are those forces? For example, if one feels unloved early on, marijuana will unlock those feelings. They rise, but not directly; rather, they are filtered." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"Many use alcohol or marijuana to self-medicate for anxiety.These too act like GABA in the brain. But using alcohol, marijuana, or tranquilizers backfires because they are all addictive and produce diminishing returns over time so you need more and more to "relax." Why not just take GABA supplements? Well, thankfully, you can. And you can use other natural substances to boost GABA levels to overcome the anxiety that millions of you experience every day. One study showed that within sixty minutes of taking GABA, alpha brain waves (a sign of relaxation) were increased on EEG tests." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Proponents of legalizing marijuana rarely address the well-demonstrated fact that tetrahyrocannibol in the marijuana leaf is very genotoxic; that is, it causes the DNA to break in multiple areas. This means that because you have chosen to smoke marijuana, your children's DNA may be permanently damaged. Other such drugs may also endanger the sperm's genetic integrity. Even smoking is genotoxic because of the large number of free radicals generated by chemicals in cigarette smoke." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"The alkaloids in the marijuana smoke neutralize the acid condition, relax the body and tune one into a resonant consciousness. But smoking marijuana actually perpetuates the same biochemistry that created the desire for alkalinity (alkaloids), Because smoking marijuana interferes with the ability of the blood to carry sugar. The more one smokes, the more sugar the body desires, Also, the higher one goes the more acid-forming foods the body asks for (dehydrated crackers, nuts, seeds, olives, avocados) to come down." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Cannabis, which is used to produce Hashish and marijuana, is a close relative of hops. The relaxing effect that beer has on the consumer comes from the hops ingredient hopein, among other substances. Hopein is a form of morphine. With the exception of Muslim countries, beer consumption is legal, yet taking morphine, marijuana, or other hallucinogenic drugs is treated as a criminal act. If a person regularly gets drunk by drinking large quantities of beer, he is not less "out of himself or physically and mentally incompetent than he would be under drug-induced hallucination." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"At any rate, following marijuana in danger is the so-called nonmedical prescription use of natural (e.g., codeine) and semisynthetic narcotic pain relievers. About 30 million persons aged 12 or older (13% of the population) have used prescription pain relievers "nonmedically" in their lifetime. The number of drug abusers is increasing—rapidly. Those using prescription pain relievers nonmedically for the first time surged from 600,000 in 1990 to more than two million in 2001. Finally, about 1.5 million persons aged 12 or older were dependent on or abused prescription drug pain relievers in 2002." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Not To Be Confused With: Prior to being used as a narcotic, marijuana was often combined with Nicotiana tabacum, Lavandula officinalis, Nepeta catarina or Origanum vulgare. It is possible to confuse marijuana with varieties of Urtica, Moraceae, Ulmaceae and Boraginaceae." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"A very popular asthma remedy then, this powder contained a variety of herbs (including marijuana and belladonna) plus creosote, and could be readily purchased in pharmacies. My father would light the powder, bend over and inhale the fumes given off. He did this every morning. 'When I was twenty-one he was prescribed different medication, but remained faithful to the powder. He eventually found relief by natural means when he was introduced late in life to a particular breathing technique. 'I remember my first asthma attack vividly. I was eight. Suddenly I could not get my breath." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"The confusion over hemp versus marijuana remains to this day, especially in North America, but it is beginning to change. While the development of a hemp industry is severely restricted in the United States, today industrial hemp is cultivated in many countries, among them Canada, China, Russia, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, England, and Poland. "So what are the benefits of hemp?" you may ask. Hemp Seed When we speak of hemp as a food source, we are referring to its seed." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Prior to the U.S. marijuana Tax Act of 1937, hemp was widely grown and used mainly for making rope, cloth, and paper. Hemp is the world's strongest and most durable soft natural fiber. As an example, a typical large frigate from earlier times required over sixty tons of rope for rigging and anchor cable, plus sails, all made from hemp. There is abundant information to be found on the Internet on the history and present uses of hemp products. Hemp had been cultivated for thousands of years, and by 1937, it was being used to produce over 25,000 products." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"He had learned from his subjects, he told the readers of the NEJM, that, prior to beginning their practice of TM, many had indulged in recreational drug use: marijuana, LSD, and in several cases, heroin. Now, however, all of them "reported that they no longer took those drugs because drug-induced feelings had become exceedingly distasteful as compared to those experiences during the practice of transcendental meditation."27 Here, then, was a first cautious suggestion that TM might have serious medical benefits. Bolder claims were still to come." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Between those years, abuse of prescription drugs grew at a rate that was twice that involving marijuana, five times that involving cocaine, and sixty times the abuse involving heroin. The researchers found in their surveys that more Americans admitted they had abused prescription drugs than the combined numbers of those admitting to using cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, or heroin. Most alarming was the 212 percent rise of prescription drug abuse found among teenagers during those years." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"By the late 1980s, mainstream America had had enough of cocaine in the bathroom at yuppie parties, of LSD in college, of marijuana in the suburbs, and certainly, of heroin and crack in the streets. There was a particular revulsion against intravenous street drugs, and the new plague, HIV and AIDS, associated with them. Crack became particularly notorious, as tales of its addictiveness and human devastation—"crack babies" and sunken-eyed, spindly "crack whores"—spread." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"They also found that among the deceased drivers testing positive for drugs, more had been taking prescription drugs than illegal drugs like marijuana or cocaine. A national study of crashes involving semitrailers and other large trucks also found evidence that prescriptions may be causing far more accidents than the public knows. In a report to Congress, researchers said they had found that prescription drugs were a possible factor in an estimated 26 percent of the truck crashes that caused death or injury between 2001 and 2003." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Investigators found traces of nine prescription drugs and marijuana in Grassi's blood. She asked the judge for mercy, pointing out that a physician had prescribed the pills. She had taken high amounts of the painkillers and antidepressants, she said, because she had grown tolerant of their effects. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and a judge sent her to jail for six months. On a sunny fall day in Iowa in 2005 the parents of Staff Sergeant Bruce Pollema greeted the 2168th Transportation Company as the soldiers returned from Iraq." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Within weeks, the marijuana user may be back to feeling normal again. Alcoholics say they have been anxious since childhood. They are really enamored of alcohol because it relieves the anxiety for awhile. If their anxiety is not relieved, they will go right back to drinking again. Often there are high tryp-topyrols that are blocking the B6 and zinc, keeping them anxious. That can be totally reversed once it is identified with a urine sample and a lab test. One way to know if you might be a candidate is to look at your fingernails and to think about your dreams." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "There was, I should note, no difference in the two groups in terms of vandalism, marijuana use, alcohol use or petty crime. "There are many, many nutrients, minerals and vitamins that are useful in treatment. Recent scientific studies support use of omega-3 fatty acids, found in flaxseed oil. We know about zinc. Studies of the effect of magnesium go back to at least 1922, when McCollum at Johns Hopkins put some rats on a low magnesium diet and those who did not get enough magnesium were irritable, had convulsions and some of them died." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Cadmium sources include tap water, fungicides, marijuana, processed meat, rubber, seafood (cod, haddock, oyster, tuna), sewage, tobacco, colas (especially from vending machines), tools, welding material, evaporated milk, airborne industrial contaminants, batteries, instant coffee, incineration of tires/rubber/plastic, refined grains, soft water, galvanized pipes, dental alloys, candy, ceramics, electroplating, fertilizers, paints, motor oil, and motor exhaust." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Hemp protein powder Made from hemp seeds (a cousin of marijuana, and no, you will not feel high eating it), this powder contains the essential amino acids and has the benefits of whey protein powder without the downsides. (Many whey powders contain sugar or artificial sweeteners.) The seeds are high in fat, albeit mostly omega-3s. High-fiber pasta See page 216 for information. Mozzarella Use only fresh mozzarella, which comes in baseball-size balls (as well as smaller ones) packed in water." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Rusty's strategy to be cool and make friends was to dress in all black and sell marijuana that he grew himself. I put him on a long-acting stimulant — a drug he couldn't abuse—for ADHD, and he picked up his grades a little and did very well on the SATs the spring of his junior year. Still, whenever he felt bored or at a loss, he would take anything he could get his hands on, from cocaine to cough syrup. Home alone one afternoon his senior year, he had a panic attack from too much cocaine and called 911. An ambulance came right away—along with the police, who found drugs in his room." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"They smoke themselves into a partial lobotomy because right-side feelings are activated by marijuana, while the left-side control mechanisms are diminished. This unleashes feelings, which rise to the prefrontal cortex to be twisted into strange, highly suspicious ideas. These ideas are an attempt to deal with surging internal forces. What are those forces? For example, if one feels unloved early on, marijuana will unlock those feelings. They rise, but not directly; rather, they are filtered." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"Research into cannabinoids, hormones made from omega-6 fatty acids primarily in the liver and kidney, started when scientists wanted to know why marijuana caused the munchies (marijuana being the cannabis plant; hence the name). What they found: The cannabinoid system has receptors that can be produced and destroyed quickly. The ones in the brain make you stalk the fridge at midnight. But the more dangerous receptors are produced in omental fat—that's the fat around your belly." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Marijuana is not a drug. marijuana is, at worst, benignly ineffective; at best, it is a powerful ally.12 Caution: This herb is illegal in the United States. You could be arrested and imprisoned (and have your car and house legally taken from you) if you grow or possess marijuana. "/ never smoked until chemo. I was horribly affected by the drugs. I finally agreed to try some marijuana after a friend insisted it would help. It did! It put me in a euphoric state that held everything at bay, even the nausea, and let me relax for the first time since my ordeal began.'" - Susun S. Weed, Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (Get the book.)

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