Marijuana to treat CTE in NFL players

[Alphadawg7]

1 hour ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Lol, THC is not the "miracle cure." It's CBD, Cannabidol oil. (Totally non-psychoactive.) It's also impossible to OD on pot. But please, do carry on with your crusade.

 

You do realize that it's illegal to conduct medical research on marijuana, without government permission? And how unbiased is a study that's government approved going to be?

 

Actually you are completely wrong.  They have different affects, and THC is SIGNIFICANTLY more important in fighting cancer for instance where CBD is really effective in treating seizures and inflammation for example.  Rick Simpson oil is only effective with high levels of THC, this notion that its only CBD is 100% incorrect.  And the reason you hear so much about CBD is because of the media and industry pushing it as it's almost like a loop hole to make money in cannabis from a federal restrictions stand point.  Head of the breath cancer research program at UCLA calls weed "The Cancer Killer" and said they literally watch it attack and kill cancer cells and both THC and CBD is present.  

 

And this isn't "opinion", its 100% fact that THC is a powerful medicine and its been used for 1000's of years.  In fact, Weed has been a medicine for most of recorded human history, its only NOT been a "medicine" for about 70 years between the earlier part of the 1900s and the 90's when the federal government went after it mainly because of HEMP being a major threat to the textiles.  And our government was full of white wealth built on the back of those textiles.  This isnt even a theory, its well documented.    

 

The US Government KNOWS its a medicine and has been growing and delivering weed to patients since the 70's and to this day there are still 3 people alive from that program that get a package of weed every single month from the US Government stopped taking new patients into it a while ago.  Everyone on the program still continues to get the weed every month for as long as they live from good old Uncle Sam.  Not a rumor, these are facts and I have personally interviewed one of the patients in Washington who still to this day every month gets his weed from the US Government (and many others have interviewed them too).

 

I could write 100 paragraphs and not scratch the surface how wrong these statements are.  And no, I am not a "pot head".

Edited December 30, 2018 by Alphadawg7

[benderbender]

It’s just amazing to me that we went from Reefer Madness and believing that one puff will make you a murderer, to the complete other end of the spectrum. Now marijuana is the modern day snake oil/religion. It cures every ailment, natural, your can’t overdose, and you can’t become addicted so don’t dare blaspheme against the sacred plant or you’re indirectly judging my lifestyle choices!

[Alphadawg7]

15 hours ago, Rochesterfan said:

 

 

This is not correct - there have been numerous cases of children and teens that have died from overdose and the numbers are increasing.

 

It is becoming more common as more edibles are being produced and children are getting their hands on it.

 

Yes it is more rare than alcohol, but as it becomes more widespread- the number of cases have increased.

 

It is also been attributed to an increasing number of deaths associated with motor vehicle accidents.

 

It is not impossible to overdose, but the levels needed are quite high.

 

THC is also becoming the next Vitamin D - the most recent miracle cure.  Doctors attributed everything from mood changes to cancer to diabetes cure to Viamin D and because you produced Vitamin D from the sun - the thought was no one could overdose.  Then they started doing studies and found it was not much better than placebo.  We will see how THC fares.  We know that CBD has some positive effects, but does the added THC have any real effect.

 

 

 

You are not wrong in the sense that more and more studies and research should continue to be done, however a LOT more than you think has been done and done for decades.  Americans are narcissistic and seem to think if it's not researched here then none has been done.  It's been researched and studies for decades not only here, but in several places around the world.

 

In regards to the rest of your post, you are wrong.  You posted anti cannabis sites claiming it’s possible, yet there is still is not a medical record of a recorded death where marijuana overdose was confirmed and cited as the cause of death anywhere in the world.  

 

The first case where it was suggested to have occurred was in 2017.  Marijuana has been used throughout human history for thousands of years, and the FIRST case where cannabis overdose was suggested to be the cause was in 2017 in an 11 month old boy.  And it’s highly debated that cannabis was the direct cause.  And its medically "possible" but basically "impossible" to die from an overdose of cannabis.  The reason for that is because the AMOUNT you need to ingest in a SHORT period of time is so large that you would die from OTHER causes before ever reaching overdose levels.  For example, if you were smoking it, you would die of oxygen deprivation literally like 1% of the way towards an overdose.  

 

As of 2017, 142 million Americans had either tried cannabis, use it casually or use it regularly.  And 42 million of them are classified as regular users.  Yet no deaths throughout human history officially recorded where the cause of death was a cannabis overdose or prolonged use of cannabis.  And the numbers of users are higher now as the numbers have increased every single year for 40 years now.

 

Now...as the industry evolves to include MANUFACTURED products that contain OTHER substances in it along with cannabis, that could change things.  For instance, if you are using concentrate products where a solvent such as butane is used to make the extraction, then you risk ingesting small amounts of that solvent if not administered correctly to purge it, in this case butane, which has their own detrimental effects.  This also comes into play into edibles which are made from oils, so how that oil is created matters and why many states are putting laws into place that restrict certain process and allow clean solvent less extraction processes.

 

And to your car accident comments...American Journal of Modern Health studied it as well with this as the conclusion:

 

“Last year, a study in the American Journal of Public Health looked at traffic fatalities in Colorado and Washington to find that there was “no significant association” between pot legalization and higher fatalities.”

 

And as we sit here, car accidents and car fatalities are through the roof higher for texting (aka distracted driving) than Cannabis use.  CDC shows that an alcohol impaired driver has a 1780% higher chance of getting into a car accident than a marijuana impaired driver.  Alcohol related fatalities occur well over 10,000 times a year in this country alone, where the number serious or fatality car accidents attributed to cannabis was a 3 digit number.  

 

Also, they cant even really confirm many of the alleged "marijuana" related car accidents because Cannabis stays in your blood at high detectable levels for long periods of time.  They dont currently have tests that can give on the spot impaired results, although multiple companies have products that came out in 2018 and being deployed in certain states.  So in many of the cases where "cannabis" is listed as an impaired substance can NOT be confirmed because the blood tests can not show if that positive test was from driving under the influence or from PRIOR use earlier in the day, a previous day, or even a week ago.  So many confirmed cases are assumptions and even false positives..  

 

Teenage drivers, drunk drivers, drivers on prescription opioids, distracted drivers texting/eating/makeup/reading/etc are all SUBSTANTIALLY higher occurrences and a bigger risk to other drivers.  NOW...that does NOT mean driving under the influence of cannabis is safe or justified, it's not.  And 2 good companies finally developed on the spot test to be able to determine a drivers level of Cannabis use and those drivers can and should be prosecuted as severely as any other DUI.  We certainly NEED better enforcement and now law officials have the tools to properly do so.  But to suggest its anywhere near the levels of other major causes of accidents is a gross exaggeration.