Three of Our Veterans Kill Themselves Every Day
We have all been hearing a lot about the really tough readjustment time many/most of our young men and women are having adjusting to coming home. I suspect that many of our soldiers who re-inlist, do so because they can’t adjust to normal life again or at the very least, they can’t find a job.
Although our recent Veterans enlist as a job, as opposed to be drafted, these young men and women have no F&^^G clue what they are getting themselves into. I realize I only see Veterans who are having problems, so I have never yet met one who didn’t have any serious issues. At the same time, I always ask this question of the Veterans: Do any of your fellow Veterans feel much better about their overall experience and our national involvement? So, far the answer is a resounding NO.
Again, there is some selection bias and I am sure there are a number of soldiers coming back from our insane wars of recent years, who feel the experience and loss was a small price to pay, but I would like to meet that soldier.
I have now seen a handful of recent war veterans. They have all been both physically and mentally injured. The PTSD patients respond very well to 3 mg of whole plant CBD/24 hrs. We are going for oral 10 mg doses more for the Veterans with severe pain.
Yes, I am stating that Veterans with PTSD seem to benefit from under 4 mg CBD/day, in whole plant form. Veterans with painful injuries, at least in very early experiences, have substantial pain relief from oral doses of 10 mg CBD in whole plant form.
I am looking for a lot more experience. Anyone out there know a Veteran in pain or with psychological stress? GreenBridge Medical will accept what they are comfortable paying and help make CBD dosable medicine available to them at very low cost – or in barter with StateWideCollective, assuming they are grower members of the collective.
TOO STONED TO WIN A ROSE BOWL?
No Cannabis Ballot Initiative for 2012!!
Well, not so surprising, but with three ballot initiatives competing against one another, there are not enough signatures or money for any of them to make the 2012 ballot. So, how in the world could this have happened?
I have found that as a gross generalization, cannabis users tend to be in the “grey” areas of life as opposed to the “Black and White”. In general, people either using cannabis or at least fully open to other people’s use, are those in the grey areas of life. As a group, we enjoy looking at life from many different views and we use cannabis to keep our views and perspectives open and perhaps even flexible based upon the facts.
So, as Proposition 19, which almost won, fades into the past, so do the ballot initiatives for 2012 – a big presidential election year. Depending how you count, there were either two or three cannabis initiatives slated for November 2012 and it appears that they are all dead.
We better all get behind an initiative next time that aims to find a middle and reasonable ground, allowing AT THE VERY LEAST, a single initiative next time. PLEASE??
Using Green Technology To Extract Cannabis
There are many different compounds and chemicals that can be used to extract the medicine from plant material. Most, generally involve using Alcohol, Butane, Hexane, Steam and in my opinion the best method being super critical CO2 Extraction.
CO2 extraction is not new. It was initially invented in the late 1800′s. The concept is based upon the fact that CO2 as well as Nitrogen and Hydrogen, when pressurized at a high pressure, 1500 psi, extraction takes place at 31 C. This is a very low temperature and does not damage the cannabinoids or terpenes. By increasing the pressure, the “super critical” state can be done at even lower temperatures….or use higher temperature and lower pressure. In the end, it is a combination of high pressure and modest temperatures that allows the CO2 gas to transform into a state where it is neither liquid or solid and it begins bubbling and extracting the oils and carbon based medicine from the rest of the green plant material.
In the end, the plant material is in one pile and the cannabis medicine is in another pile. This is very sticky at this point and almost like a form of hash. The medicine inside this “pile of goo” is entirely based upon the chemistry and genetics of the original plant material.
This “goo” is impossible to work with, so some additional sterile water is added to make it possible to test in the laboratory. Once the chemical makeup is know, the thick extract is diluted to the desired concentration in mg/ml.
This technology is:
1. 100% green, as the CO2 is first taken and then released at the end, or recycled, making it a virtually zero carbon footprint
2. Safe for people and the medicine at very low temperatures
3. Efficient, extracting nearly 95% of the cannabis medicine
Does anyone else out there think that “Super Critical” would be a great name for a rapper??
How About Trying CBD On Our Veterans?
Despite the Federal government having multiple patents on CBD and other cannabinoids, it is the stated opinion or position, that Cannabis has no medical use. They did patent CBD and many other cannabinoids. There is also a pharmaceutical version of Cannabidiol, as “Sativex”, but regardless, the cannabinoids have no official endorsements; only federal patents.
Back to the point of this blog, many of our returning Veterans suffer from PTSD and many other mood disorders. These disorders are very likely to be benefitted by CBD based cannabinoid medicine.
Our government is most likely aware that CBD would help these folks, but are waiting for the right political and financial opportunity to release it. We have CBD NOW and we have Veterans with PTSD NOW. We need to find out NOW if it works.
I am proposing setting up a study to determine whether oral or oral-buccal CBD/THC dosable medications are useful for our Veterans for PTSD. The study entrants will have to be in possession of at least one year of medical records from the VA or other qualified medical source, documenting their diagnosis. Once a group of patients is assembled, a study, appropriate to the situation will be done.
There will be no fees for the patients’ evaluations or medications. If you know a veteran with at least one year of medical records, please have them write to:
veterans@greenbridgemed.com
If I Were In Charge of Our War Policy:
PHASE I:
1. Send 90% or so of our men and women home, but leave enough on carriers for drone flights and other fly overs.
2. Send notices to the Taliban and Afghanis that we are going to fire burn all the opium. Plenty of notice
3. After ashes clear, begin sending in 500 or perhaps 1000 drone and other sortes over the country
4. Begin massive air campaign WITHOUT any bombs; food, medicine and satellite phones only
5. Allow the Afghanis to call in for any additional help when they need it.
6. The Taliban should now pretty much be gone and we can drop in men and supplies as time goes by under the cover of
the support of local people.
PHASE II:
1. Now that Phase I is complete, we need to take care of the DOD, Halliburton, etc. If they lose money, they will be
certain to make certain they use them.
2. Give total immunity to all bomb makers, weapons distributors, mercenaries, etc.
3. With total immunity, go over their books and find out what their revenue and income streams are.
4. Increase this amount by 10%, UNDER THE CONDITIONS:
A. No more bombs other than a minimal amount determined by Green Peace
B. Use all resources to rebuild the US and when we are done, other countries
C. Unemployment will end
D. Our infrastructure and ability to re-introduce education and science to our people here will explode
This could catch on….
State Court Holds Up Store Fronts’ Rights
So, finally, cities cannot rule individually. So, either things will calm down, or the Feds will make a huge push; we will see?
It should be an amazing legal battle between the Ca state courts and the Feds.
Remember, that the Feds cannot come in a destroy shops without local police taking charge of crowd and patient safety, so IF the courts are serious, AND the courts are listed to, the Federal raids should cease.
I am proud that the court finally did the right thing. Bravo!
Again, HERE IS THE ARTICLE.
Sleeping Aids Cause Early Death – Try Cannabis First For Sleep!
So, sleeping aids cause a huge increase in early death – according to this article, about the same as smoking.
They admit that there can be selection bias, but apparently the increase in death rate is seemingly very real.
Take the time to read the review.
Breast Cancer Treatment With Cannabinoids
As any of my readers know, CBD and THC are both very powerfully anti-tumor medications. Here, is an article, done in mice, where very aggressive forms of Human Breast Cancer cell lines are killed with cannabinoids.
The cannabinoids make these and other types of tumors go through the following processes:
1. Cut off their own blood supply
2. Individual tumor cell “suicide” or cell apoptosis.
3. Signal other tumor cells to essentially commit suicide.
Other breast cancers are ID-1 gene positive. In these cancers, CBD has the same effect as in the related article.
