The Power of RAW Cannabis.

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CBD & Marijuana

by Administrator 12 Mar, 2012

CBD, three letters you’ve probably seen thrown around when reading about medical marijuana. What is CBD and what does it stand for? CBD, or Cannabidiol is a chemical compound found in the Cannabis plant. Unlike THC, CBD does not produce any psychoactive effects. Instead, it is part of the Cannabis plant that holds the highest medicinal value. Research has found it to be effective for treating inflammation, pain, anxiety and spasms associated with multiple sclerosis. As the research on Marijuana’s medicinal properties develop, CBD is becoming a major focus of scientists, researchers and doctors alike.

The research of CBD did not get much attention until the late 90s. Even so, CBD rich strains were used for medicinal purposes dating back to the 1800′s. It was reported that Queen Victoria used CBD-rich cannabis to relieve pain from menstrual cramps. Over the years, research has found that breeding for maximum THC has all but eliminated CBD in the cannabis plant. This makes sense as consumers were more interested in the psychoactive effects versus medicinal value. As medical marijuana becomes more mainstream, the need for strains rich in CBD properties has grown. Through careful genetic selection and selective breeding practices, researches are now able to grow CBD rich cannabis strains that hold extremely high medicinal value.

CBD and Cancer
Search the internet for “marijuana cures cancer” and you’ll find numerous studies and articles on the positive correlation on cannabis and the reduction of cancer cells among users. Is it true? Can cannabis cure or stop cancer cells? It seems the answer is yes. According to projectcbd.org, doctors at the California Pacific Medical Center Research institute have discovered that CBD is a very potent inhibitor of cancer. Documented, medical research has proven that CBD inhibits the ID-1 protein gene which is a major conductor of cancer cells. (Article – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18025276). CBD has been proven to slow and/or stop the metastasis in patients suffering from other forms of cancer.
Strains with high levels of CBD
Harlequin (10-11% CBD)
Sour Tsunami (9% CBD)
Omrita Rx3 (9-12% CBD)
Cannatonic (13% CBD)
Providers of CBD Specific Strains
http://thegreencross.org/ - San Francisco, CA
http://www.the-farmacy.com/ – Hollywood, CA
http://www.harborsidehealthcenter.com/ – Oakland, CA
http://www.elementalwellnesscenter.com/ - San Jose, CA
http://www.greenergymeds.com/ - Boulder, CO
Other Medicinal Uses for High CBD Strains

• Insomnia
• Eating disorders
• Anxiety/Depression
• Nausea
• Pain associated with Multiple Sclerosis
• Post traumatic stress disorder

YES! we are STILL Juicing!

So, we finished our 40 day raw juice challenge. And, some people have asked me if we have gone past the 40 days and continued juicing?

YES! We both have continued juicing EVERYDAY!
I find that 60 + days into continual raw cannabis juicing, WE DON'T MISS A DAY.
Remember, it only takes 21 days to change a bad habit, or get use to a new one!
When I start to feel sick, I drink extra juice.
I feel my body aching from inflammations and or pain, I drink more juice to relief  those symptoms.

Does it take a lot of time and energy to make everyday?

Yes, it can take some extra time, and making sure you have fresh vegetables and fruits to juice is also important. But when FIVE minutes after drinking a glass, you can start to feel its warming and calming benefits. Not 30-40 minutes after taking a pill!

What is the biggest challenge to juice raw cannabis everyday?

Keeping a fresh and available stock of leaves. I have so many people who would love to start this raw cannabis juicing program. BUT!! they don't have any, let alone a steady access to the raw leaves. And no, most California medicinal marijuana dispensaries, are not HIP enough to carry and sell the raw materials that patients are desperately looking for.  Now, there is hope that soon in our future there will be access to these vitals leaves for juicing purposes. Some dispensaries in Northern California have joined a raw cannabis juice study with over 1000 patients to date. Each patient is given a Free juicer, as well as the leaves needed for their own personal juicing program.

My suggestion to those Medicinal Marijuana patients who are interested in trying raw cannabis juicing is to ask someone you may know who helps patients with growing there medicine. More often then not, people throw away excess shade (big fan leaves) that contains the high CBD's that relieves symptoms.
With the 2012 outdoor grow season still upon us, there will be plenty of outdoor gardens that will have plenty of leaves to share, just please ask those friends first! : )
Grow your own leaves! Dr. Wm. Courtney of Mendocino Co. Ca. states that many patients use auto-flowing plants that they grow inside under one 400 watt bulb system. Growing  40 plants to start. Then taking one plant per day, for raw juicing purposes.
good luck everyone!
and
~PeaCE
   

U.S. Government owns the patent on cannabis cures...

Submitted by Geeksneek on Mon, 12/27/2010 - 23:10

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For those of you who still have any doubts as to the miraculous healing powers of cannabis and THC Oil or do not believe that there is an ongoing international effort dead set on keeping this free and 100% organic medicine, along with all organic foods, supplements, and natural medicines from a diseased and dying global population... I am about to BLOW YOUR MINDS......

On October 7, 2003 The United States Government as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services was granted a U.S. Patent (#6630507) on any and all uses and applications of: Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507

In other words, THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY OWNS THE ORGANIC THC OIL BY FORCE... and now THEY OWN THE SYNTHETIC THC OIL BY PATENT... along with any and all combinations of the beneficial compounds found in cannabinoids. As you read through this document you will discover beyond any doubt whatsoever that cannabis has a tremendous variety of medicinal values and applications specific and provable enough to be granted a U.S. Patent, yet the Judicial Branch of our government continues to classify cannabis as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act

How can they possibly say that cannabis has no medicinal qualities while at the same time they hold a patent that describes in great detail so many of the proven medicinal qualities that actually DO exist in cannabis?

There has been an ongoing effort to eliminate this ridiculous classification by a wide variety of activists and organizations for decades now but to date... the government holds all the cards and rules with a closed mind and an iron fist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_cannabis_from_Schedule_I_of_the_Controlled_Substances_Act

The Abstract of the patent reads as follows:

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=nmda+receptors&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
(The NMDA receptor is one of two kinds of receptors activated by glutimates).

This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of a wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and auto-immune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia.

Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil (mis-spelled in document - should read cannabidiol), are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannbinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (1) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH.sub3, and COCH.sub3. ##STR1##

In other words, it is useful to separate the natural components and use higher concentrations of the beneficial compounds found in cannabis (the R group) to act as antioxidants and neuroprotectants within the human body. Cannabidiol is designed and being engineered to provide all the benefits of organic cannabis without the psychoactive "high" associated with the drug. This will allow them to continue patenting their product while demonizing cannabis in the media and courts and keeping this pure and natural medicine illegal and unavailable.

Be sure to take the time to scroll down and read through this patent and you will discover what a miracle plant cannabis really is. You will be asking yourself... "What can't it do?" as application after application is described in great detail about the medicinal properties and natural treatment potentials of cannabis. Ask yourselves "Why are multinational corporations allowed to continually market dangerous and untested poisons, toxins and industrial waste products described as food additives and incorporate them into our processed food supply while you and I face arrest and incarceration for simply growing and selling organic foods and medicines?"

I have been healing people and their pets for over two years now using organic nutrients combined with THC Oil and the results are miraculous. Screw the FDA... CANNABIS CURES CANCER!

Run from the cure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJhQHk_GI

Cancer-Gate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0NMQT5Avs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NL5miN2aWY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNRv_EdNOU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvn22qe1Ioo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjPKaxFW1Mw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lWdCZAqbmk&feature=related

Vitamin Cannabis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr1Bu-8U3Uc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbIj8J2CDxk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnKq9SoW9q0&feature=related

Assorted videos (select play all)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F248D95FADBF78B6

Cannabinoid Research:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=cannabinoid+research&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

US Patent 6,630,507

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Research conducted in Bethesda Maryland led to Patent 6,630,507 held by the United States of America since 2003 that teaches that the lack of psycho-activity in CBD allows doses that are 100-200 times greater than the tolerable dose of THC. The articulated “Effective oral human dosage schedule is 20 mg / kg body weight” requires a considerable amount of cannabis. The simplest approach is to consume the trichrome laden fully mature flower along with the 80-day leaf. Patient responses have exceeded any expectations.

Web Link

http://cannabisinternational.org/about.php

Dr. Courtney is Vice President of the Association Luxembourgeoise des Methodes Preventives, an ambulatory care facility in Luxembourg utilizing dietary unheated cannabis. He is working with dispensaries interested in providing high dose raw / juiced cannabis to seriously ill medical marijuana patients, and is also working to establish analytic / medical laboratories in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties, California.
While 10,000 year old cultural practices involve drying then heating cannabis to effect a nearly complete decarboxylation of THC-Acid into THC. The creation of massive amounts of THC is compounded by the introduction of a psychoactive side effect that has a 10 mg dose limitation secondary to CB1 receptor stimulation. Research conducted in Bethesda Maryland led to Patent 6,630,507 held by the United States of America since 2003 that teaches that the lack of psycho-activity in CBD allows doses that are 100-200 times greater than the tolerable dose of THC. The articulated “Effective oral human dosage schedule is 20 mg / kg body weight” requires a considerable amount of cannabis. The simplest approach is to consume the trichrome laden fully mature flower along with the 80-day leaf. Patient responses have exceeded any expectations.
Historically, dietary use of the entire raw cannabis plant brings us back in line with 34 million years of cannabis evolution. Lipid messenger molecules preceded cannabis by billions of years. The 4 billion year old development of lipid messenger molecules not only regulated resource management in the most primitive life forms, but were central in the earliest autocrine and paracrine modulation of cellular function. I believe autocrine cross talk was the necessary precedent to symbiotic, then multi-cellular life forms. Tissue specific or paracrine cluster regulation is the domain of the lipid messenger molecules and is the path to comprehending the incredible diversity of function that are only now beginning to be understood. While our perception / publication of these physiologic properties are new, the phenomenal beneficial affects were there yesterday, last year, if not hundreds of millions to billions of years ago.
I seek to consolidate the science regarding the essential nature of the phyto- cannabinoid contributions to health maintenance and restoration. That akin to Essential Fatty Acids and Essential Amino Acids, there needs to be Minimum Daily Requirements established to guide worldwide adoption of raw cannabis as the single most important dietary element.

JUICING THAT CUTS THE TASTE!

people have asked, "Is it as bad tasting as wheatgrass juice?"
The answer is NO!
It does have alittle green taste too it, but it actually can be cut by using the right things to cut it with.
Remember, the ratio of raw cannabis juice is 1:10, so there is alot of room for cutting the green taste.
My favorite is Orange juice. And ginger Beer (non alcoholic) can even cut the taste even more.
Doctor Courtney, suggests using carrot juice. Yes, carrots are sweet and do cut the taste.
I like to make juice cocktails:
slice of ginger
4 carrots
3 oranges
3-4 apples
and 2-3 stalks of celery.

I even have found that when I don't have the time to cut up and use fresh fruits and veggi's in my mixes, I will add juice that I buy from the store. No it isn't as fresh, But Yes! it cuts the taste and sometimes convience is alot more important than going without my juice.

Lastly, is I recently got my hands on some leaves that come from a high CBD strain (harlequin) last lab tested at 11% CBD's.  The theory is, the shade leaves, stems and roots should have an even highter CBD level then. What we noticed was the leaves juice was alittle more bitter tasting than what we had been using. But we also noticed that it worked faster to relieve our inflamation and pain. I again have been trying to fight off a cold, and with adding extra juicing to my normal routine is seeming to keep me off of antibiotics so far!!
Here is to RAW CANNABIS JUICING!!
May it someday make its way into your hands,
and provide you just as much benefits as I have had!
~peace  

More info on raw juicing

Juicing Raw Cannabis: Part I
Posted on 06/23/2011 in Medical Marijuana

Health conscious Americans have long since known the health benefits of juicing raw vegetables. And now, physicians and patients across the country are beginning to apply the same principles to medical marijuana by juicing raw cannabis leaves.

Juicing fruits and vegetables is a great way to infuse concentrated vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients into your diet. Fresh juice is key to delivering these nutrients because vitamins decompose quickly. For example, fresh, non-pasteurized juice that is stored for more than 12 hours will begin to oxidize and lose its nutritional value. Since the nutrients are in liquid form, the juice requires hardly any digestion, allowing its nutritional goodness to be rapidly absorbed into your system. Apply these same concepts to medical marijuana, and juicing could be the quickest, most efficient way to harness the medicinal plant’s benefits. This is especially true when you consider that cannabis loses important enzymes when it’s heated, just like raw food.

Not only does juicing cannabis leaves have significant health benefits, it is widely appealing to patients because it does come with the typical high associated with smoking. That’s because the leaves are high in CBD (Cannabidiol), a non-psychoactive component of marijuana that has been shown in studies to moderate the euphoric effects of THC – the most psychotropic of the marijuana plant’s 80 known cannabinoids. THC must be heated in order to be activated, which is another contributing factor to cannabis juice’s non-psychoactive effects.

By juicing the leaves of the cannabis plant, patients are able to drink CBD in its pure, natural form, which has been proven to treat countless medical conditions. CBD has anti-inflammatory, anti-biotic, anti-depressant, anti-psychotic, anti-oxidant, sedative, and immunomodulatory properties, and has been shown to relieve convulsions, inflammation, anxiety, and nausea. It’s perhaps the most medicinal of all of the marijuana plant’s components, and it’s even been shown to inhibit cancer cell growth.

Dr. William Courtney of Mendocino, CA, a “pot doc” who was profiled in the Washington Post last year because of his work with cannabis juice, recommends that patients juice 15-20 leaves per day. Cannabis leaves have the highest CBD levels, and are therefore best for juicing, when the plants are between 70-85 days old. Unfortunately, for patients who aren’t allowed to grow their own medicine, accessing so many leaves could be unrealistic for a full 30 days of juicing. But perhaps the state run dispensaries in AZ and NJ will catch on and create this healing juice? Only time will tell.
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Juicing Raw Cannabis Part II: How to Juice Raw Cannabis
Posted on 06/26/2011 in Medical Marijuana
Continued from Juicing Cannabis Part I…
There is not much research yet into the benefits of juicing raw cannabis. However, much anecdotal evidence has been circling the Web and well-known publications. High Times Magazine reported on a woman who used juiced cannabis to treat her lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, hypoglycemia, anemia, chronic sinusitis, chronic bacterial infections, and other serious ailments, claiming that drinking raw cannabis juice saved her life. And the Washington Post reported that a sufferer of Crohn's disease credits raw cannabis juice with helping reverse the painful intestinal disorder.

As most people know, marijuana’s medical quality has been recognized by a wide range of medical and public health organizations, including the American Academy of HIV Medicine, American College of Physicians, American Nurses Association, American Public Health Association, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and many others. Yet opponents of medical marijuana have long since argued that cannabis is not a medicine, simply because they say medicine should not be smoked. However, juiced raw cannabis may be the antidote to their arguments.

HOW TO JUICE RAW CANNABIS
Supplies needed:
- Juicer
- 15-20 cannabis leaves
- Optional: 2-4 inches of cannabis buds
- Fresh carrots

Directions: First, juice the cannabis leaves through the juicer. Second, juice the buds through the juicer (optional). Finally, juice carrots through the juicer until you have one-part cannabis juice and 10-parts carrot juice. Doing so will counteract the bitterness of the raw cannabis. Divide into three portions and drink throughout the day. Juice will keep for up to 3 days in the refrigerator.