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CANNABIS IS NOT JUST FOR SMOKING
By Hempology | July 6, 2004
Through researching materials for this article, I may have had a revelation. I was reading some modem research that described myself 28 years earlier when I was bearing my first child. It led me to wonder, (like the chicken and the egg), which comes first – the need for research, or peoples illnesses. I believe our illnesses create the need in this case, so why would people’s personal experiences not count as research? I didn’t even know I had an illness, I just knew I didn’t feel well, and cannabis was the only medicine that made life tolerable and food palatable. Instinct told me what the doctors did not know: cannabis can help soften the pains of life and illness. As for myself, it is 34 years since I smoked my first bowl of hash. I used to joke that I was donating my life to science – a lifetime of cannabis use. A lifetime later and the help I have received from this wonderful plant has turned that joke into a reality. I have no intentions of turning back now.
The needs of the CBC members are varied and complex, with symptoms generally ranging from chronic pain to nausea, sleep disturbances to muscle stiffness and spasms. The CBC offers a wide range of medicinal products as well as the raw herb. These include several varieties of dietary products, as well as topically applied ointments and oils.
The club offers five kinds of cookies (a sixth is in the works), Budda Balls, which is, in its own right, a meal replacement, and Ryanol, which is infused grape seed oil for those with severally compromised digestive systems. We also supply a salve, massage oil, and a lip balm, all containing the marvelous benefits of cannabis.
Because the CBC is dedicated to the health and well being of our members, our line of ingestible products will continue to expand. One of the reasons for this is that for some conditions – muscle spasms and intestinal disorders- eating cannabis is much more effective than smoking.
The medicinal cookies the club supplies are in great demand, keeping our baker busy 4 days a week. He makes ginger cookies (good for soothing the digestive system), chocolate chip, double chocolate, peanut butter (least amount of sugar and high in protein), oatmeal (with chunks of dehydrated apricots that are high in iron). The recently reintroduced old favourite, peanut butter and chocolate chip, has yet to last a whole day on the shelf.
Budda Balls are carefully designed to be easy on compromised digestive systems such as those with Crohn’s disease and diabetics, and are a complete meal replacement. They contain oats, hemp protein, soy protein, coconut, sunflower seeds, almond powder, honey, and cannabis infused olive oil. Another secret ingredient will be revealed in the upcoming issue of the Cannabis Digest.
Ryanol capsules are grape seed oil (good for dissolving bad cholesterol) infused with cannabis and put into Veggie capsules (not gelatin caps which are derived from animal hoofs and skins). A new trend in technology is putting great strains on the leaf supply, which is needed for baking and salves. This would be the introduction of bubble and water screen hash. Cannabis edibles are far superior medicinally, and so the club is in constant need for growers to (please) supply us with good quality leaf, instead of turning it all into combustible products. Besides edibles, leaves are also necessary for the production of salves and oils. The salve may be used anywhere you would use a first-aide ointment and then some. The base oil is olive oil, and is.solidified with bees wax, both of which have healing properties of their own. You can use it for cuts and scrapes, bums and new tattoos, fungus infections and dermatitis, to eczema and bruises too. Other properties include antibiotic, anti-fungal, and anti-toxicant. The massage oil is not only good for a fabulous body rub, but has taken pain and swelling away from arthritic joints, and is enabling surgeries to be postponed and some have even been cancelled. Cannabis can be used to replace many types of allopathic medicine; from diuretics to anti-depressants – ear oil to throat sprays, and salves to reduce tumours. We are only beginning to learn how to make cannabis-based medicines, Con’t
Cannabis extracts have been found to be effective on everything from bacteria and fungi, to herpes virus and staphylococcus that are resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics. You can virtually make medicine from every part of the noble cannabis plant, be it male or female; kola, root, or seed. That one of the planets most precious plants is still so oppressed must be one of our societies’ greatest travesties.
The idea that there are no studies done and that more studies need to be done is simply redundant. All we have to do is interact with the rest of the world and share knowledge. There are studies and recipes from Britain from the 1600′s, Egypt in the time of Pharaohs, 4th century Jerusalem, to modern day China and Russia. India has never experienced prohibition and does not bear witness to many health problems which plague Western cultures. There are many currently published books and substantia] research available, if required, to prove to any reasonable person that the benefits of cannabis far outway the risks, especially when eaten.
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