Scintilate's Musings

On December 21, 2014, the United Patient`s Group reported that a California court has ruled that concentrated cannabis qualifies as medical marijuana. `A state appellate court in Sacramento California has ruled that “concentrated cannabis” qualifies as marijuana for purposes of medical use. A unanimous three-justice panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal disagreed this week with an earlier ruling by El Dorado Superior Court Judge James R. Wagoner and reversed the judge’s decision that a medical marijuana patient violated probation by possessing concentrated cannabis. Sean Patrick Mulcrevy, of Cameron Park, was charged in 2013 with unlawful possession of concentrated cannabis, a misdemeanor, and was alleged to have violated his probation because of his failure “to obey all laws.” Wagoner reviewed the existing legal authority indicating that concentrated cannabis is covered by California’s Compassionate Use Act, or CUA, the 1996 voter initiative approving medical use of marijua...

An imminent and real threat has the capability of endangering cannabis as we know it. This imminent threat is Monsanto’s ability to genetically modify medicinal marijuana in a way that is harmful to our health. I discovered in horror, that Health Canada, without our knowledge, approved genetically modified food and allowed it into the mainstream of our food industry over fifteen years ago. This was somehow accomplished through the creation of a new category of food entitled “novel foods”. Most recently, Health Canada has recalled certain novel food products due to their emerging allergens. Where was the adequate testing prior to approving the products? According to Health Canada's web-site, their statement is that "in principle genetically modified food products that are demonstrated to be safe, are treated the same as non-GM food with regard to labelling requirements"! http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/gmf-agm/fs-if/faq_1-eng.php#p3 The Industrial Hemp Regulations, whi...

In February 2000, Cannabis Culture (CC) met with a whistle blower from the Ministry of Health, whom wished to remain anonymous. Cannabis Culture reported that their source provided them with leaked information including documents that described how Health Canada was in the process of testing genetically modified cannabis seed - for the purpose of choosing a prime contractor to become the possible supplier of GE pot seeds. The documents showed that Health Canada was obtaining seeds for their trials from the University of Mississippi - which is where Monsanto produces their "standardized GE cannabis seeds". Cannabis Culture did point out that it is in Monsanto's best interest to patent the seeds to ensure continued profits year after year. http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1322.html  The UN grouped Industrial Hemp and Cannabis Sativa/Indica under the same classification- which then allowed the criminalization and control of these plants for almost 100 ...

Cannabis Timeline in Medicine 2900 BC - first recorded evidence of cannabis use in medicine 1500 BC - Chinese Pharmacopoeia recording of cannabis use in medicine 1621 - First recorded use of cannabis in treating depression 1850 - Cannabis indica added to US Pharmacopeia 1889 - Lancet article outlines use of cannabis for narcotic withdrawal 1937 - Marijuana Tax Act 1941 - Removal of cannabis from the Pharmacopeias 

I've been spending a great many hours researching natural medicine.  Within this quest, whenever I type a subject into my favorite search engine (google, for example), NCBI appears as an authoritative source, or so it seems.  Who is NCBI? NCBI - The National Center for Biotechnology Information - according to wikipedia  " is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health . The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by Senator Claude Pepper ". A publicly funded organization, therefore, information to be taken with a grain of salt. We are told that autoimmune diseases (of which the list continues to grow) arise from unknown sources and they have no known cures.  Over and over again, we hear this from our "health care professional". With the above in mind, how is it that they can replicate a disease (of no known origin or cure) in mi...