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when most of us hear the words weed or
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cannabis we imagine happy hungry stoners
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unwashed and lazing about in the sofa
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playing computer games or watching TV
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not a care in the world as they waste
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their life and brain into oblivion sadly
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this has become the popular image and
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stigma surrounding the plant
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even though research has shown that
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cannabis has hundreds of active
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compounds is relatively safe to consume
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and can treat or even cure thousands of
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medical ailments including cancer
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cannabis remains illegal or controlled
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all over the world the media playas with
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stories about the harm cannabis causes
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and how it induces psychosis and even
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suicide but neglect to highlight the
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full details to this day not one person
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has died from an overdose of cannabis it
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has been theorized that it would take
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over a thousand pounds of cannabis being
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consumed within an hour to have a fatal
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effect since this is impossible
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we will not be seeing any deaths
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difficult with the cause of death marked
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as cannabis overdose any time in the
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future cannabis or as non psychoactive
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form hemp has been used by humans for
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thousands of years and until not so long
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ago was a plant prized amongst all
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others so why in this day and age does
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such a useful plan cause such
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controversy why in the UK and so many
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other countries around the world is it
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illegal in this documentary we will
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delve into the past and discover the
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evolution of the cannabis plant and the
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endocannabinoid system that evolved
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within mammals eventually becoming
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perfect partners we will explain how our
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ancestors used the plant and her empires
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were forged with hemp as the main
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driving force
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most importantly of all we will look
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into the medical benefits of cannabis
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and how one plant has and can again
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change the world
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you
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our story begins well at the beginning
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13.7 billion years ago a phenomenon we
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now call the Big Bang began this single
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event was the genesis of all matter and
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life in the universe within 10 to the
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minus 34 of a second that's a hundredth
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of a billionth of a trillionth of a
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second in age a singularity that seemed
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to pop out from nowhere had expanded by
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90 times its size and created all the
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elementary particles needed to build a
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universe during the first three minutes
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of the universe the light elements were
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born in a process known as Big Bang
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nucleosynthesis temperatures cooled from
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103 - Kelvin to 109 Kelvin and protons
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and neutrons collided to make deuterium
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an isotope of hydrogen
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fast forwarding through thirteen point
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two billion years and we observed the
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formation of the stars and then the
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galaxies the Milky Way is formed and
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roughly 4.3 billion years ago on a
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far-flung spiral our home planet Earth
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starts to form a fiery ball that will
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soon host and take part in all of human
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history millions and billions of years
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past the planets cool and the oceans
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form at an estimated 3 billion years BC
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single-cell structures formed in the
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oceans then multi-cell then small
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creatures we will stop at 600 million
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years BC this is where our particular
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story begins the creature you're looking
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at here is the humble sea squirt the sea
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squirt has evolved within itself the
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endocannabinoid receptor system to
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control how much water goes in and out
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of its siphon the endocannabinoid system
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was only recently discovered in mammals
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in 1992 by dr. rafael michelin as well
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as researchers will and yvonne and dr.
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liu Mahan's
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they discovered the first naturally
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occurring endogenous cannabinoid or
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endocannabinoid an and amide an and
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amide is a fatty acid neurotransmitter
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and was named from the sanskrit word an
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adder meaning joy or bliss previously in
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1963 dr. raphael michelin discovered the
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structure of Delta 9 THC and in 1980 a
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dr. William Devon discovered the protein
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receptor sites cb1 and cb2 in the brain
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and throughout the body although I was
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surprised that the amount of work that's
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currently being done and has been done
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on what's called the human in the
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cannabinoid system and it may not be
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known that all humans produce cannabis
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if you like in their brain it's a
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natural
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ducked called the endocannabinoid system
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we produce cannabis like compounds which
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have a profound effect on many aspects
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of our behavior on pain on motor control
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movement control on a growth and
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adaptability of the brain potentially on
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cancer or mood on memory it's a
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fascinating system and this is the the
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largest neurotransmitter network in our
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body that was only discovered in 1988 so
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it's a it's a relatively speaking a very
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recent knowledge and the endocannabinoid
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system consists of receptors there are
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two types of receptors identified so far
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except is in the brain in the immune
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system in our gut and any most organs in
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the body the receptors is the first
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thing the second elements are ligands or
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microscopic amounts of chemicals or fats
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oils or fats which are called
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endocannabinoids and the third element
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is the endocannabinoid system there are
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enzymes the enzymes are responsible for
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manufacturing the endocannabinoids in
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the first place we'll all help him with
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them to break down so these three
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components working together are the
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endocannabinoid system and the reason
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it's called the endocannabinoid system
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is because these cantonese cannabinoids
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these endocannabinoids are remarkably
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simply not exactly the same but they're
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remarkably similar to the cannabinoids
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defined in the cannabis plant an and
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amide fits the cb1 and cb2 receptor
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sites like a key in a lock as well as
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being a mood enhancer an and amide helps
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control height weight and reproduction
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amongst other things in the body leaving
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the sea squirt behind we move forward
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566 million years and time 234 million
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years bc here in the mountains of
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kazakhstan the cannabis plant has
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evolved from humilis lupulus
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are more commonly known as the hops
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plant the flower of which is still used
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to this day in the brewing process for
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beer evolving at such high elevation
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present the plant with many unique
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environmental pressures to better
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survive the high UV radiation levels
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low-oxygen and increased predators
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cannabinoids such as THC were used to
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retain water reflect sunlight and ward
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off predators tetrahydrocannabinol or
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THC is the most famous cannabinoid and
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the one responsible for the plants
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psychoactive effect
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THC was discovered by dr. Raphael
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Missoula in the 1960s by separating the
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compounds of the plant and testing each
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individually on animals and then humans
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noticing that only one gave a sedative
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effect shulam discovered the
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psychoactive compound responsible for
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the marijuana hi the naturally occurring
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chemical compound THC found in the
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cannabis plant has a different chemical
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makeup but fits the cb1 and cb2 receptor
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sites perfectly magnifying the mood
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enhancing effect normally caused by
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indigenous cannabinoids such as an and
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amide it is not just an and amide and
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THC that act on these receptors there
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are many other cannabinoids and
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endocannabinoids that act directly or
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indirectly such as 2 AG CBD CNB and THC
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a amongst others and each has a
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different effect on the body so the
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cannabis plant and the reason the
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cannabis plant has a therapeutic
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response and living organisms has a
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physiological impact on users creates an
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emotional response has to do with the
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fact that it has multiple unique
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biologically and physiologically active
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compounds in the plant the two most
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prevalent compounds that we find in the
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cannabis plant are tetrahydrocannabinol
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or THC the other being CBD cannabidiol
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now they are far from the only active
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constituents in the marijuana plant but
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again they're the most they're the ones
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that we find most prevalent in the plant
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over the next thirty four million years
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man will evolved from primates and
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nearly 99% of all species that ever
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existed have been wiped out
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8,000 years BC the plant has gone
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through many changes and a relatively
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new species roughly 250,000 years old
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has become the top predator and the
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first to drastically manipulate its
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environment through thought desire and
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determination a major leap forward will
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be their agriculture of crops this will
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lead to an explosion in technology the
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ability for humans to live in groups
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larger than 150 and is the basis of
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modern civilization for now we are in an
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ancient village located in an area of
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modern-day Taiwan from this village
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archaeologists have found hemp cord used
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in pottery hemp refers to strains of
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cannabis sativa that have been bred
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specifically for its fibres and not for
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its psychoactive effect this is the
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oldest known use for the plant and marks
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the beginning of human agricultural
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crops in 1977 Carl Sagan stated that
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marijuana may actually have been the
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world's first agricultural crop leading
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to the development of civilization
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itself 6000 BC China cannabis is
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recorded for its seeds and oil used in
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food 5000 BC India stems were used for
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fiber to make cloth it's fruit for food
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and oil and its resin for medicine
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2737 BC Emperor Shang yang of China is
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recorded for prescribing marijuana tea
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for the treatment of malaria rheumatism
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gout to help with the sharpening of
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memory increased eloquence and the
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stimulation of appetite the plant's
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popularity as a medicine spreads
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throughout Asia the Middle East and down
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the eastern coast of Africa ancient
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physicians prescribe marijuana for
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everything from pain relief to earache
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to childbirth throughout the world
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cannabis is quickly becoming a wonder
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treatment for hundreds of ailments and
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disorders its popularity seems
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unstoppable 1550 BC Egypt by 1550 BC
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ancient Egyptians were very aware of the
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medical properties of cannabis in some
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ways way surpassing our modern knowledge
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the APUs papyrus was written around this
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time period and is one of the oldest
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complete medical tax discovered so far
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the book mentions medical compounds
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containing hemp for many medical
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problems including inflammation glaucoma
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hemorrhoids epilepsy - wave of
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depression and other psychological
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problems and even in the treatment of
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cancer it was noted the cannabis was not
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a cure but treatment to help with the
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symptoms of the ailments the mummy of
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ramasees ii that was excavated in 1881
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was found to have traces of cannabis in
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its remains since then many mummies that
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have been exhumed have shown similar
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traces of the plant in their system
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indicating that cannabis was part of the
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culture and everyday life in ancient
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Egypt
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say hat the goddess of wisdom is
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depicted here with a colorful cannabis
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leaf above her head these depictions
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date back from thousands of years ago
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207 BC China the hyung dynasty periods
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hemp was being mixed with mulberry tree
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bark to make a low-cost durable paper
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used by the masses the Old Testament
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mentions cannabis in the recipe for the
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holy anointing oil Exodus 30 verses 22
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to 23 the healer of a local renown will
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infuse 9 pans of a plant known in
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Aramaic is Kiana blossom the fragrant
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came in to about six quarts of olive oil
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along with essential extracts of myrrh
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cinnamon and kasaya
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Kiana bottom has been translated to mean
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cannabis rendered from the traditional
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Hebrew word cannabis interestingly the
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first time the word cannabis 'm is
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mentioned in the bible is in relation to
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Moses and the burning bush when God
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gives him the recipe for the holy
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anointing oil the Roman Empire traded in
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hemp they imported it from the far-flung
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corners of the Empire and distributed it
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around the world they used it for rope
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sells clothes paper food and medicine
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amongst others the demand was such that
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the whole Empire was in constant
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production and could never produce
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enough
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the power of the Roman Empire made the
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plant commonplace across the globe ad a
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hundred and sixty Greek physician
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Claudius ghilane writes for the first
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time in Europe about the plants
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psychoactive effect : noted that ham
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cakes if eaten in moderation produced a
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feeling of well-being but taken to
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excess they led to intoxication and
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dehydration
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8400 hemp is cultivated in the UK with
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the fading of the Roman Empire Europe
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begins to grow its own hemp to replace
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the Roman imports the Vikings used hemp
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in nearly all aspects of life from
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clothes to cells and their ships 900 AD
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Arabs learned techniques for making
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paper using the same techniques that the
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Chinese used thousands of years before
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them by the 12th century this paper
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making knowledge was taken to Europe as
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early as the 10th century the Persian
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medical writer Alam Misaka recommended
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that the juice of the hemp leaves be
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poured into the nose to prevent seizures
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in the 15th century the polymath Ali
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Berardi claimed that the Epilepsy of the
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Sun of the caliphates Chamberlain was
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successfully treated with cannabis resin
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1533 England King Henry the eighth
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issues a royal proclamation that farmers
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must put land aside for the growth of
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hemp countries such as India China and
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the African colonies are chosen for the
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hemp growing potential as the British
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Empire grows and the demand for ropes
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sails fishing line oil paper medicine
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and clothes increases 1753 the Swedish
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botanist Carlos Linnaeus names the plant
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cannabis for the first time more
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specifically cannabis sativa
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from the Latin meaning cultivated
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he based the word on cannabis an old
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Greek word for hemp in 1764 medical
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marijuana appears in the New England
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dispensary in 1840 Britain sir jr.
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Reynolds chief physician to Queen
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Victoria prescribes medical marijuana to
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the Queen to aid with her menstrual
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cramps in Victorian Britain medical
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cannabis was being used for ailments
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such as muscle spasms rheumatism and
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epilepsy studies in 1840 by French
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doctor jacquees Joseph Marui found that
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marijuana suppresses headaches increases
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appetite and aided people to sleep by
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1850 in America cannabis based medicines
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are available the u.s. pharmacy pedia
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lists its use for over hundred separate
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illnesses and diseases including pain
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management as a cold treatment neuralgia
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tetanus typhus cholera rabies dysentery
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alcoholism opiate addiction anthrax
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leprosy incontinence gout compulsive
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disorders tonsillitis insanity excessive
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menstrual bleeding and utrom bleeding
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amongst others
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Cannabis a simple plant classified as a
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weed a plant that has an almost
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symbiotic relationship with humans we
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dispersed it around the planet and it
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repays us with medicine food oil and
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strong natural fibers a plant that has
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shaped the modern world like no other
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before it is about to be systematically
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made illegal around the Western world
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thousands of years of cultivation
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medicine paper and clothing is about to
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come to an end along with a safe
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powerful medicine by 1914 in America in
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response to the influx of Mexican
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immigrants who use cannabis for its
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psychoactive properties rather than the
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medical use the Harrison Act in the u.s.
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defined the use of marijuana as a crime
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by 1915 cannabis begins to be prohibited
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for non-medical use all across the
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United States by 1927 the prohibition is
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complete
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if we look at the origins of cannabis
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prohibition in this country they really
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begin with the stigmatization of certain
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races that were believed to be using
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cannabis and even today those
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stereotypes continue to exist they
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continue to be perpetuated this is
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really part of a larger cultural and
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class warfare in our society and
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actually has very little to do with
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marijuana itself in 1928 recreational
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use of cannabis is banned in Britain
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cannabis was made illegal in the United
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Kingdom on the 20th of September 1928 as
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an addition to the dangerous drugs act
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1920 however doctors were able to
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prescribe cannabis for medical use until
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exactly 43 years later when on September
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28th 1971 the misuse of Drugs Act was
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introduced in 1936 the American
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propaganda film reefer madness was
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produced to scare the American youth
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away from cannabis the film incited that
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cannabis causes madness and turns men
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into rapists
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[Applause]
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here's a word of warning to both old and
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young pay heed to me before it is too
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late there's a vicious plan that looks
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so innocent but it stem comes from the
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words of hey marijuana the devil's
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flower if you're using marijuana and
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made them 1937 US Congress passes the
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marihuana Tax Act which criminalizes the
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drug in response William C warwood
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testifying on behalf of the AMA told
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Congress that quoting the American
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Medical Association knows of no evidence
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that marijuana is a dangerous drug and
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warned that a prohibition loses sight of
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the fact that future investigations may
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show that there are substantial medical
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uses for cannabis his comments were
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ignored by Congress as part of the
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testimony for Congress to pass the 1937
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Act derived from articles and newspapers
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owned by William Randolph Hearst who had
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a significant final interest in the
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timber industry that manufactured his
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newspaper in 1941 cannabis is removed
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from the u.s. farmer Superior and its
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medical use is no longer recognized in
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America
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so where are we now present day the
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plant is still illegal across most of
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the world
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pharmaceutical companies fill the
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medical gap with synthetic and toxic
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drugs oil is being pumped from the
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oceans our paper is inferior and hemp
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can produce four times the yield in a
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comparable time frame the worst of these
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is the removal of a safe medicine 600
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years ago the Arabs were treating
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childhood epilepsy successfully with
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cannabis today in a world of
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overwhelming technological advancements
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our children and adults are placed on a
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plethora of toxic drugs that have little
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to no effect and in most cases are
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highly addictive
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my name is Charlotte Caldwell and I have
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a little boy called ballet who has a
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condition called intractable epilepsy
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and he also in the highest spectrum of
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autism Billie intractable epilepsy is
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just that his seizures cannot be
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controlled by epilepsy medications or or
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by diet he's also a starless epileptic
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which means that when belly goes on to a
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seizure he can't come back out in his
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own any type of seizure and the child is
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a very very dangerous but in Belize case
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the the status epilepticus bail is then
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required a rescue med each time that
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human done to establish seizure and he
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also goes below and requires oxygen he
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also the an advanced stage was just
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developed this where he would only take
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a seizures at night which again is a
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real dangerous form he was taking him in
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asleep
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I tried to access the an evaluation or
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an urgent medical evaluation here in our
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own country but to no avail was told it
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would be six nine months witnessed in
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September in March 2006 when Valley was
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sent home to die the first time with his
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condition epilepsy I had found at that
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stage what's called as a pediatric
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hematologist in Chicago called Professor
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nordley and he had saved Billy's life
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after numerous tests when we arrived in
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California and there was numerous tests
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on valet they discovered a lesion on his
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left temporal lobe they looked at the
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lesion and through many different scans
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the lesion the the left temporal lobe
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actually controls your speech and memory
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and in Belize case it would have been
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most likely if they were to proceed with
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surgery that bully would the would have
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had to have removed all of his left
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temporal lobe which would have meant
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that Billy would have lost his speech
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and his memory and his ability to walk
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pack up his toys drunk from Moscow
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cetera so after a long discussion was a
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police a pathologist and could we
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considered the fact that belly had been
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through many antiepileptic medications
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we discussed medicinal cannabis and and
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I said yes that let's give it a go
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what have we got to lose so belly
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started forced on CBD the was the
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doctor's advice he had a establish at
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whether belly was the CBD responder or
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not we tried a couple of different forms
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of CBD oils till we eventually find one
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that was looking like it was working for
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ballet it was micro dosed very small
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doses slowly over a period of time and
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the first I think probably the first
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time I actually realized that the CBD
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was actually working for ballet was when
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he was still having the same amount of
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seizures but the the length of the
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seizure was actually reducing which was
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amazing for me even to get him to that
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stage where he had a reduction in the
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length of his seizures was just
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absolutely amazing because that meant
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that Billy didn't need a rescue meant
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which was just fantastic for me because
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a lot of the time he suffered quite
553
00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:35,169
badly from the side effects of the
554
00:28:35,169 --> 00:28:40,119
rescue medication he then started to I
555
00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:43,889
noticed was some as well has eye contact
556
00:28:43,889 --> 00:28:46,080
getting a lot better
557
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,639
becoming more aware of her surroundings
558
00:28:50,909 --> 00:28:53,259
noticing things more paying more
559
00:28:53,259 --> 00:28:56,139
attention to me more attention to his
560
00:28:56,139 --> 00:28:57,399
books his toys
561
00:28:57,399 --> 00:29:01,599
jigsaws etc he was it was like his brain
562
00:29:01,599 --> 00:29:03,820
was making connections that I had never
563
00:29:03,820 --> 00:29:05,760
seen before
564
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,950
and the but the really really great part
565
00:29:10,950 --> 00:29:12,750
about it for me as well as Polly's mommy
566
00:29:12,750 --> 00:29:18,330
was that I was sayin it was almost like
567
00:29:18,330 --> 00:29:23,700
I was making my new song it was like
568
00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:25,860
Billy had loved with me and I had been
569
00:29:25,860 --> 00:29:29,070
his mommy for 11 years but I was
570
00:29:29,070 --> 00:29:30,690
starting to see a different belly it was
571
00:29:30,690 --> 00:29:32,490
like meeting a new song it was just an
572
00:29:32,490 --> 00:29:34,950
amazing feeling and every week they went
573
00:29:34,950 --> 00:29:38,550
past the seizures then started to reduce
574
00:29:38,550 --> 00:29:45,120
in quantity and he started to improve in
575
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:49,410
all aspects of his physical ability and
576
00:29:49,410 --> 00:29:53,730
and and his mental ability to finally we
577
00:29:53,730 --> 00:29:56,430
got him where we couldn't go any higher
578
00:29:56,430 --> 00:29:59,940
on the CBD but we had got ballet to 98%
579
00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:01,860
seizure free which was absolutely
580
00:30:01,860 --> 00:30:05,520
incredible we found good evidence not
581
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,020
quite as overwhelming but good evidence
582
00:30:07,020 --> 00:30:10,200
for a variety of other indications one
583
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,590
was epilepsy and particularly children
584
00:30:13,590 --> 00:30:14,970
with various forms of childhood
585
00:30:14,970 --> 00:30:16,950
resistant epilepsy that can you can work
586
00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:18,540
wonders for them it can actually stop
587
00:30:18,540 --> 00:30:21,090
people having several tens of seizures
588
00:30:21,090 --> 00:30:24,210
each day so that's so remarkable effect
589
00:30:24,210 --> 00:30:26,190
in some people but not in everybody but
590
00:30:26,190 --> 00:30:27,540
more studies need to be done on that
591
00:30:27,540 --> 00:30:30,330
indication yeah kids were epilepsy yeah
592
00:30:30,330 --> 00:30:31,770
I think we probably have about three
593
00:30:31,770 --> 00:30:35,550
four kids that parents come in and they
594
00:30:35,550 --> 00:30:38,850
buy tinctures and and you know the
595
00:30:38,850 --> 00:30:40,890
doctor told them hey star with a low
596
00:30:40,890 --> 00:30:42,870
doses and they come in and buy him and
597
00:30:42,870 --> 00:30:44,910
they literally you see them like every
598
00:30:44,910 --> 00:30:47,340
week and they're like it's so much
599
00:30:47,340 --> 00:30:49,320
better than giving them like 10 pills a
600
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,220
day and
601
00:30:50,220 --> 00:30:53,790
you know her in their stomach and you
602
00:30:53,790 --> 00:30:55,770
know and not only that is the price
603
00:30:55,770 --> 00:30:59,550
itself the other indication was for
604
00:30:59,550 --> 00:31:01,130
Parkinson's disease
605
00:31:01,130 --> 00:31:03,810
surprisingly there's been some very good
606
00:31:03,810 --> 00:31:06,600
individual examples of cannabis really
607
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,550
stopping profound movements in
608
00:31:08,550 --> 00:31:10,800
Parkinson's disease and can be
609
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,710
dramatically helpful for some people but
610
00:31:13,710 --> 00:31:15,660
the evidence that it is across the cross
611
00:31:15,660 --> 00:31:17,430
the spectrum is still rather lacking and
612
00:31:17,430 --> 00:31:18,870
again it simply means those studies
613
00:31:18,870 --> 00:31:21,930
haven't been done to confirm what helps
614
00:31:21,930 --> 00:31:24,780
what dosage what type of cannabis how
615
00:31:24,780 --> 00:31:26,460
often you have to take it what form you
616
00:31:26,460 --> 00:31:27,780
have to take it in its those studies
617
00:31:27,780 --> 00:31:29,640
that are lacking it clearly helps many
618
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,380
people with Parkinson's but the evidence
619
00:31:31,380 --> 00:31:33,150
is still a little bit thin on the ground
620
00:31:33,150 --> 00:31:37,890
to sort of formally recommend it my name
621
00:31:37,890 --> 00:31:39,390
is Ian Frisell I have early onset
622
00:31:39,390 --> 00:31:41,610
Parkinson's disease I was formerly
623
00:31:41,610 --> 00:31:43,860
diagnosed in 2011 but I've been
624
00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:46,980
suffering symptoms since about 1995 the
625
00:31:46,980 --> 00:31:48,240
main symptom that I suffer due to
626
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,430
Parkinson's is tremor which affects all
627
00:31:50,430 --> 00:31:54,060
four limbs my neck my jaw amytal sacrum
628
00:31:54,060 --> 00:31:55,680
tremor I have dystonia in my feet which
629
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,380
causes my toes to curl under my foot and
630
00:31:58,380 --> 00:32:00,810
muscular stiffness and weakness those
631
00:32:00,810 --> 00:32:02,880
are all motor symptoms of the non-motor
632
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,010
symptoms lack of motivation is the worst
633
00:32:05,010 --> 00:32:07,020
and most debilitating assistant symptom
634
00:32:07,020 --> 00:32:08,970
that I have there are many other minor
635
00:32:08,970 --> 00:32:10,830
symptoms such as loss of sense of smell
636
00:32:10,830 --> 00:32:13,470
but those are my major symptoms my life
637
00:32:13,470 --> 00:32:14,850
has changed quite dramatically since
638
00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:17,070
diagnosis I hadn't decided to retire
639
00:32:17,070 --> 00:32:19,440
from being a computer consultant and do
640
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:20,910
little property developments keep me
641
00:32:20,910 --> 00:32:23,310
busy and to earn a crust I've just
642
00:32:23,310 --> 00:32:24,450
bought this cottage as a renovation
643
00:32:24,450 --> 00:32:26,790
project I've completely gutted it I
644
00:32:26,790 --> 00:32:28,920
don't have symptoms I didn't relate to
645
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,120
my tremor which I've suffered with
646
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,690
mildly for many years I liked energy was
647
00:32:33,690 --> 00:32:35,400
falling asleep during the day I had no
648
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,620
motivation and all of these things
649
00:32:37,620 --> 00:32:40,040
turned out to be due to my Parkinson's
650
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,450
my symptoms have become more pronounced
651
00:32:42,450 --> 00:32:44,250
following some dental work which led to
652
00:32:44,250 --> 00:32:47,430
my diagnosis repeating these days I do
653
00:32:47,430 --> 00:32:48,930
not work I simply don't have the energy
654
00:32:48,930 --> 00:32:51,000
and I'm constantly battling like a
655
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,070
motivation it's one of the non-motor
656
00:32:53,070 --> 00:32:54,500
symptoms of Parkinson's
657
00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:58,100
I came to use cannabis through
658
00:32:58,100 --> 00:32:59,929
researching natural tremor control on
659
00:32:59,929 --> 00:33:00,860
the Internet
660
00:33:00,860 --> 00:33:02,960
there are various foods that sits behind
661
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,450
dopamine but I tried them and got no
662
00:33:05,450 --> 00:33:07,789
benefit I came across a number of
663
00:33:07,789 --> 00:33:08,780
accounts of people with Parkinson's
664
00:33:08,780 --> 00:33:11,990
using cannabis to calm tremor I was
665
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:13,340
getting desperate at this stage so I
666
00:33:13,340 --> 00:33:14,809
asked a friend who I knew used cannabis
667
00:33:14,809 --> 00:33:17,210
recreationally who'd get me something to
668
00:33:17,210 --> 00:33:20,179
try I smoked a little and the effects
669
00:33:20,179 --> 00:33:21,950
were almost instant it gave me a 90 to
670
00:33:21,950 --> 00:33:24,860
95 percent reduction in trauma as a
671
00:33:24,860 --> 00:33:26,659
bonus it also received my dystonia and
672
00:33:26,659 --> 00:33:28,820
helping my speech I've used it ever
673
00:33:28,820 --> 00:33:29,240
since
674
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,409
yeah as soon as you vape the cannabis
675
00:33:33,409 --> 00:33:38,510
you do get the hit so immediately it
676
00:33:38,510 --> 00:33:43,070
feels like Rush and then sort of five or
677
00:33:43,070 --> 00:33:45,200
ten minutes later the relaxation kicks
678
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,470
in and I just feel the tremor melt away
679
00:33:48,470 --> 00:33:49,419
really
680
00:33:49,419 --> 00:33:51,530
yes I've personally seen cannabis
681
00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:53,900
working the most dramatic I've seen is
682
00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:55,900
in the context of Parkinson's disease
683
00:33:55,900 --> 00:33:58,970
where people can have as a as a side
684
00:33:58,970 --> 00:34:00,440
effect of medication or as part of the
685
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,000
Parkinson disease itself they're gonna
686
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,960
have quite profound tremors and
687
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,340
sometimes even wild movements of the
688
00:34:07,340 --> 00:34:09,139
arms and you can give cannabis and it
689
00:34:09,139 --> 00:34:11,599
can stop those movements so that's the
690
00:34:11,599 --> 00:34:13,489
most dramatic and short-term immediate
691
00:34:13,489 --> 00:34:21,379
impact so what's the science here the
692
00:34:21,379 --> 00:34:23,540
endocannabinoid system is the largest
693
00:34:23,540 --> 00:34:26,530
neurotransmitter network in our bodies
694
00:34:26,530 --> 00:34:29,389
the main function of the endocannabinoid
695
00:34:29,389 --> 00:34:33,560
system is homeostasis homeostasis is a
696
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,810
concept that most biological systems are
697
00:34:35,810 --> 00:34:38,179
actively regulated to maintain
698
00:34:38,179 --> 00:34:40,270
conditions within a narrow range
699
00:34:40,270 --> 00:34:43,099
homeostasis is the regulations of the
700
00:34:43,099 --> 00:34:45,530
body's functions and has been compared
701
00:34:45,530 --> 00:34:47,770
to the concept of the Goldilocks zone
702
00:34:47,770 --> 00:34:50,149
deriving from the story of Goldilocks
703
00:34:50,149 --> 00:34:51,440
and the three bears
704
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,899
where Goldilocks prefers the just right
705
00:34:53,899 --> 00:34:56,599
porridge not too hot and not too cold
706
00:34:56,599 --> 00:35:00,200
just the right balance of both this
707
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,210
expression is used mainly to show a
708
00:35:02,210 --> 00:35:05,359
planet like Earth that is just the right
709
00:35:05,359 --> 00:35:08,060
distance from the Sun to sustain life
710
00:35:08,060 --> 00:35:12,500
a position that is just right our bodies
711
00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:14,540
conditions need to be just right for
712
00:35:14,540 --> 00:35:16,430
ourselves to maintain an optimum
713
00:35:16,430 --> 00:35:19,370
performance the body's endocannabinoid
714
00:35:19,370 --> 00:35:21,950
system is a vital system for helping to
715
00:35:21,950 --> 00:35:24,860
maintain homeostasis it helps the cells
716
00:35:24,860 --> 00:35:27,710
stay in their Goldilocks and often
717
00:35:27,710 --> 00:35:29,960
referred to as the modulation effect
718
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,540
this gives us a very good insight as to
719
00:35:32,540 --> 00:35:36,640
how cannabis CBD and THC stop or calm
720
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,260
epileptic or Parkinson's fits and
721
00:35:39,260 --> 00:35:42,200
tremors in one example under
722
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,330
cannabinoids are created when an
723
00:35:44,330 --> 00:35:47,300
overactive neuron fires excessively such
724
00:35:47,300 --> 00:35:50,420
as in the case with epilepsy the neurons
725
00:35:50,420 --> 00:35:52,880
connected that are not affected will
726
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,190
send endocannabinoids to lower the
727
00:35:55,190 --> 00:35:57,890
activity and bring the cell back to the
728
00:35:57,890 --> 00:36:00,590
Goldilocks zone in cases of severe
729
00:36:00,590 --> 00:36:03,290
epilepsy the endocannabinoids are too
730
00:36:03,290 --> 00:36:05,720
weak and too few to overcome this
731
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:08,900
imbalance coupled with a fact that
732
00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:14,060
metabolic enzymes such as F aah and ma
733
00:36:14,060 --> 00:36:16,880
GL quickly break down and and amide and
734
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:21,650
to AG shortening their effects CBD and
735
00:36:21,650 --> 00:36:24,410
THC are like a steroid shot to the
736
00:36:24,410 --> 00:36:26,420
endocannabinoid system having a much
737
00:36:26,420 --> 00:36:27,710
stronger effect than the
738
00:36:27,710 --> 00:36:31,390
endocannabinoids themselves CBD and THC
739
00:36:31,390 --> 00:36:36,740
RF aah and M AGL resistant meaning that
740
00:36:36,740 --> 00:36:38,780
the effects last longer and are more
741
00:36:38,780 --> 00:36:42,590
pronounced CBD also prolongs the effects
742
00:36:42,590 --> 00:36:45,410
of endocannabinoids such as an and amide
743
00:36:45,410 --> 00:36:47,380
this is why the flavor of foods
744
00:36:47,380 --> 00:36:50,000
especially those containing milk such as
745
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,700
chocolate and cakes etc are hyper
746
00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:55,640
exaggerated whilst on cannabis the
747
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,070
Ananda might breakdown is delayed by the
748
00:36:58,070 --> 00:37:01,280
CBD and the THC meaning its blissful
749
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,890
effects last longer in turn the
750
00:37:03,890 --> 00:37:06,050
modulation effects last longer and
751
00:37:06,050 --> 00:37:08,300
afflictions such as fits and tremors
752
00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:10,850
reach a point of homeostasis quicker and
753
00:37:10,850 --> 00:37:12,620
are maintained for longer
754
00:37:12,620 --> 00:37:14,720
although cannabis is not a cure for
755
00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:16,970
epilepsy or Parkinson's it is an
756
00:37:16,970 --> 00:37:19,070
effective treatment and it is so safe it
757
00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:20,849
can be used by children without
758
00:37:20,849 --> 00:37:23,489
any known negative side effects the
759
00:37:23,489 --> 00:37:25,920
endocannabinoid system is often only
760
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,619
activated where and when it is needed
761
00:37:28,619 --> 00:37:32,960
so when CBD is taken it goes in a sense
762
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:37,279
straight to where the problem is located
763
00:37:37,549 --> 00:37:41,339
the cannabis oil again it was a very
764
00:37:41,339 --> 00:37:45,869
slow process has I contacted Billy would
765
00:37:45,869 --> 00:37:48,539
have never ever given you follow on eye
766
00:37:48,539 --> 00:37:50,249
contact in fact it's just completely
767
00:37:50,249 --> 00:37:52,079
avoid would have boiled G at all course
768
00:37:52,079 --> 00:37:55,650
he is more interested in his
769
00:37:55,650 --> 00:37:59,729
surroundings more interested in me
770
00:37:59,729 --> 00:38:03,539
looking at me and a big thing for me was
771
00:38:03,539 --> 00:38:05,880
he wants TM to react with me now he
772
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,309
didn't know how I tend to react but now
773
00:38:08,309 --> 00:38:10,289
he was sort of beside you comment sat
774
00:38:10,289 --> 00:38:12,239
down in the seat beside you set up at
775
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,819
the table beside you he will Hong Ki he
776
00:38:14,819 --> 00:38:17,819
wants two to two and three accuracy he
777
00:38:17,819 --> 00:38:19,710
he started this thing as well in Italy
778
00:38:19,710 --> 00:38:23,339
of common and looking student your face
779
00:38:23,339 --> 00:38:25,229
and staring into your face which I find
780
00:38:25,229 --> 00:38:26,969
hilarious I remember the first time we
781
00:38:26,969 --> 00:38:29,640
did it which was absolutely an amazing
782
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,759
the most amazing thing in the world and
783
00:38:32,759 --> 00:38:36,599
and it made me also realize that there
784
00:38:36,599 --> 00:38:39,869
was a little boy in there and he was
785
00:38:39,869 --> 00:38:42,299
wanting to come out and he was going to
786
00:38:42,299 --> 00:38:45,269
come out I just had to keep doing what I
787
00:38:45,269 --> 00:38:47,339
was doing was I'm the medicinal cannabis
788
00:38:47,339 --> 00:38:52,920
because it was just making him start to
789
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,339
express himself and it was just such an
790
00:38:56,339 --> 00:38:58,499
amazing feeling as a mum wait for after
791
00:38:58,499 --> 00:39:01,469
11 years not having any of that and then
792
00:39:01,469 --> 00:39:04,410
all of a sudden he's he's he wants to do
793
00:39:04,410 --> 00:39:06,690
got lost my so it was an amazing
794
00:39:06,690 --> 00:39:09,089
positive moment I think the current
795
00:39:09,089 --> 00:39:10,559
legislation in regards to kind of miss
796
00:39:10,559 --> 00:39:12,839
Burgess on the criminal although there
797
00:39:12,839 --> 00:39:14,279
aren't to my knowledge any studies which
798
00:39:14,279 --> 00:39:16,200
prove the case from its medicinal use of
799
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,630
cannabis for Parkinson's and health care
800
00:39:18,630 --> 00:39:19,829
professionals will tell you that it is
801
00:39:19,829 --> 00:39:22,380
unproven those same help health care
802
00:39:22,380 --> 00:39:24,329
professionals do know and some have
803
00:39:24,329 --> 00:39:25,979
admitted that it can be useful in some
804
00:39:25,979 --> 00:39:28,380
cases I'm one of those cases
805
00:39:28,380 --> 00:39:30,630
I've asked repeatedly over the last two
806
00:39:30,630 --> 00:39:32,279
or three years to be prescribed cannabis
807
00:39:32,279 --> 00:39:35,640
and if you told that unable to do so yet
808
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,109
those same health care professionals are
809
00:39:37,109 --> 00:39:38,339
quite happy to prescribe
810
00:39:38,339 --> 00:39:40,380
powerful drugs with unpleasant known
811
00:39:40,380 --> 00:39:42,630
side-effects which they know do not help
812
00:39:42,630 --> 00:39:46,579
my symptoms that's just got to be wrong
813
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:50,069
when we think about the medical benefits
814
00:39:50,069 --> 00:39:52,349
of cannabis we really need to understand
815
00:39:52,349 --> 00:39:54,599
what what they are based on and it turns
816
00:39:54,599 --> 00:39:57,779
out that the human body endogenous li
817
00:39:57,779 --> 00:40:00,839
our own body produces identical or
818
00:40:00,839 --> 00:40:03,299
virtually identical compounds to what
819
00:40:03,299 --> 00:40:05,640
you find in the cannabis plant and the
820
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,829
neurotransmitter system that produces
821
00:40:07,829 --> 00:40:10,680
and regulates those compounds is called
822
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,349
the endocannabinoid system it's present
823
00:40:13,349 --> 00:40:17,069
in your brain it's present in your
824
00:40:17,069 --> 00:40:19,140
organs is present in your skin its
825
00:40:19,140 --> 00:40:21,660
present in upwards of 90% of your body
826
00:40:21,660 --> 00:40:24,239
and wherever the endocannabinoid system
827
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,210
is its purpose is the same which is to
828
00:40:27,210 --> 00:40:29,339
maintain or restore homeostasis your
829
00:40:29,339 --> 00:40:32,969
body's natural balance so cannabis is
830
00:40:32,969 --> 00:40:35,640
good for just about anything that ails
831
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,009
you and you know in the beginning when I
832
00:40:38,009 --> 00:40:40,349
started talking about about cannabis we
833
00:40:40,349 --> 00:40:41,339
didn't even know about the
834
00:40:41,339 --> 00:40:43,109
endocannabinoid system people would just
835
00:40:43,109 --> 00:40:44,849
say all but that hippie is crazy
836
00:40:44,849 --> 00:40:46,559
he thinks cannabis is good for
837
00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:49,289
everything right well it turns out that
838
00:40:49,289 --> 00:40:51,269
that that cannabis is because what it
839
00:40:51,269 --> 00:40:53,579
does is it has this modulating effect
840
00:40:53,579 --> 00:40:55,170
where it restores your body's natural
841
00:40:55,170 --> 00:40:57,539
balance the best example of the
842
00:40:57,539 --> 00:41:00,390
modulating effect of cannabis that I can
843
00:41:00,390 --> 00:41:02,759
get comes out of an Israeli nursing home
844
00:41:02,759 --> 00:41:04,759
study where something like a hundred
845
00:41:04,759 --> 00:41:07,289
nursing home elderly nursing home
846
00:41:07,289 --> 00:41:09,690
patients were supplied with cannabis and
847
00:41:09,690 --> 00:41:12,059
all of them reported improved sleep
848
00:41:12,059 --> 00:41:14,549
decrease in nightmares right but the
849
00:41:14,549 --> 00:41:17,249
really interesting thing was that those
850
00:41:17,249 --> 00:41:20,190
who were overweight dropped weight and
851
00:41:20,190 --> 00:41:22,859
came closer to their ideal body mass
852
00:41:22,859 --> 00:41:25,529
index and those who were underweight
853
00:41:25,529 --> 00:41:28,650
gained weight and came closer to their
854
00:41:28,650 --> 00:41:31,499
ideal body mass index this is the
855
00:41:31,499 --> 00:41:33,799
modulating effect of cannabis the
856
00:41:33,799 --> 00:41:36,059
endocannabinoid system is the
857
00:41:36,059 --> 00:41:39,089
explanation for why cannabis is good for
858
00:41:39,089 --> 00:41:42,869
reducing cancer tumors easing epileptic
859
00:41:42,869 --> 00:41:46,350
seizures a quelling
860
00:41:46,350 --> 00:41:50,280
depression alleviating anxiety and
861
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:55,410
insomnia mitigating chronic pain there's
862
00:41:55,410 --> 00:41:57,840
there are just an incredibly wide range
863
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,400
of medical uses for cannabis so 20 years
864
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,480
from now my prediction is that the
865
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,160
rediscovery and the Renaissance of
866
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,680
medical cannabis will be looked upon as
867
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,870
the most important medical development
868
00:42:12,870 --> 00:42:16,550
since the discovery of germ theory
869
00:42:22,620 --> 00:42:27,490
so there has long been interest in the
870
00:42:27,490 --> 00:42:30,090
relationship between cannabis and cancer
871
00:42:30,090 --> 00:42:34,570
for many decades it was presumed or it
872
00:42:34,570 --> 00:42:37,240
was opined that cannabis might play a
873
00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:41,080
role in causing cancer cancer the lungs
874
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,210
cancer of the upper arrow digestive
875
00:42:43,210 --> 00:42:45,310
tract for instance and what we've seen
876
00:42:45,310 --> 00:42:47,680
over time is that the data has never
877
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,770
substantiated that fear what is known
878
00:42:50,770 --> 00:42:54,730
today is that the use of cannabis even
879
00:42:54,730 --> 00:42:56,980
long-term does not seem to be associated
880
00:42:56,980 --> 00:42:59,950
with the diagnosis of the sort of
881
00:42:59,950 --> 00:43:02,800
tobacco-related cancers that many people
882
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,830
expected and in fact some of those
883
00:43:05,830 --> 00:43:08,950
studies have shown that people that use
884
00:43:08,950 --> 00:43:12,370
cannabis are actually less likely to be
885
00:43:12,370 --> 00:43:14,950
diagnosed with some of these diseases
886
00:43:14,950 --> 00:43:17,230
compared to people who don't use
887
00:43:17,230 --> 00:43:19,870
marijuana at all so that's been a very
888
00:43:19,870 --> 00:43:22,030
interesting finding and it's led some
889
00:43:22,030 --> 00:43:25,000
scientists to further look into this
890
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,670
question of whether cannabis are again
891
00:43:27,670 --> 00:43:29,410
the constituents in the canvas plant
892
00:43:29,410 --> 00:43:31,870
might actually play a role in cancer
893
00:43:31,870 --> 00:43:35,140
prevention or in mitigating the spread
894
00:43:35,140 --> 00:43:38,770
of cancer now we have preliminary data
895
00:43:38,770 --> 00:43:42,370
we have cell studies we have animal
896
00:43:42,370 --> 00:43:44,700
models that show that cannabinoids
897
00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:49,600
clearly can kill cancer cells we know
898
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,870
the mechanism of action and we have seen
899
00:43:52,870 --> 00:43:55,210
these results consistently again in
900
00:43:55,210 --> 00:43:58,420
petri dishes in animal models of course
901
00:43:58,420 --> 00:44:02,320
the $64 question is whether cannabis
902
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,860
would provide those same sort of results
903
00:44:05,860 --> 00:44:08,590
and activity in humans with cancer and
904
00:44:08,590 --> 00:44:10,150
we don't know the answer to that
905
00:44:10,150 --> 00:44:13,590
question we know that cannabinoids can
906
00:44:13,590 --> 00:44:17,080
trigger apoptosis which is programmed
907
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,030
cell death and will admit cancer cells
908
00:44:19,030 --> 00:44:21,010
and animals we know that it can do that
909
00:44:21,010 --> 00:44:22,450
in a petri dish
910
00:44:22,450 --> 00:44:25,600
we don't know the dosage that would be
911
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,340
required to safely and effectively
912
00:44:27,340 --> 00:44:29,519
achieve those same sort of result
913
00:44:29,519 --> 00:44:32,099
and humans and it's unfortunate we don't
914
00:44:32,099 --> 00:44:35,119
know because absent the long-standing
915
00:44:35,119 --> 00:44:37,649
politican abyss we probably would know
916
00:44:37,649 --> 00:44:40,559
the answer to that question today my
917
00:44:40,559 --> 00:44:41,729
name's Linc oxen
918
00:44:41,729 --> 00:44:44,369
I've got breast cancer I was diagnosed
919
00:44:44,369 --> 00:44:46,649
on the 28th of June this year with a
920
00:44:46,649 --> 00:44:51,599
grade 3 aggressive tumor estrogen
921
00:44:51,599 --> 00:44:54,719
positive her2 negative with extensive
922
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,359
lymph node involvement in under my
923
00:44:57,359 --> 00:45:02,179
almond in my neck I found a lump and
924
00:45:02,179 --> 00:45:06,179
went to see my GP and she said it was a
925
00:45:06,179 --> 00:45:08,609
cause for concern and referred me to the
926
00:45:08,609 --> 00:45:12,599
breast care unit I was lucky to get an
927
00:45:12,599 --> 00:45:14,819
appointment the following morning so by
928
00:45:14,819 --> 00:45:16,859
10 o'clock the next day I knew that I
929
00:45:16,859 --> 00:45:19,319
had breast cancer because I could see it
930
00:45:19,319 --> 00:45:22,799
on the scan she showed it to me and I
931
00:45:22,799 --> 00:45:24,929
obviously said is it assist and she said
932
00:45:24,929 --> 00:45:26,880
no and I said so is it cancer
933
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:31,559
she said yes they the tumor was big it
934
00:45:31,559 --> 00:45:32,519
looked enormous
935
00:45:32,519 --> 00:45:36,029
and there was extensive lymph node
936
00:45:36,029 --> 00:45:38,369
involvement under my arms and in my neck
937
00:45:38,369 --> 00:45:42,109
I saw the consultant on the Tuesday and
938
00:45:42,109 --> 00:45:45,989
he told me that the tumor was 33
939
00:45:45,989 --> 00:45:47,849
millimeters but it hadn't spread
940
00:45:47,849 --> 00:45:50,189
anywhere else was just in my lymph nodes
941
00:45:50,189 --> 00:45:52,139
and he told me I would need 8 rounds of
942
00:45:52,139 --> 00:45:54,929
chemotherapy followed by a lumpectomy or
943
00:45:54,929 --> 00:45:58,949
a mastectomy and then radiotherapy so I
944
00:45:58,949 --> 00:46:03,119
went away and I did lots of reading and
945
00:46:03,119 --> 00:46:06,689
research because I just wanted to know
946
00:46:06,689 --> 00:46:09,749
what I could do for me because the thing
947
00:46:09,749 --> 00:46:13,349
with cancer is it takes away your
948
00:46:13,349 --> 00:46:15,929
control you're not in control anymore
949
00:46:15,929 --> 00:46:20,069
and I don't find that very easy so I did
950
00:46:20,069 --> 00:46:23,359
a lot of research and I knew about
951
00:46:23,359 --> 00:46:27,449
cannabis oil CBD oil because of someone
952
00:46:27,449 --> 00:46:29,429
that we'd helped through work and she
953
00:46:29,429 --> 00:46:31,349
got non-hodgkins lymphoma and
954
00:46:31,349 --> 00:46:33,749
chemotherapy hadn't worked it hadn't
955
00:46:33,749 --> 00:46:36,089
killed the cancer so that she could
956
00:46:36,089 --> 00:46:39,959
actually have a bone marrow transplant
957
00:46:39,959 --> 00:46:42,430
and they sent her home to die
958
00:46:42,430 --> 00:46:45,599
Claire family got her on to CBD oil and
959
00:46:45,599 --> 00:46:49,420
when she went back for her scam aid they
960
00:46:49,420 --> 00:46:52,089
weren't expecting to see her and B she
961
00:46:52,089 --> 00:46:54,039
was cancer-free and able to have that
962
00:46:54,039 --> 00:46:57,400
bone marrow transplant and everything I
963
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,640
read and online and and I got some books
964
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:04,150
as well just reinforced the fact that
965
00:47:04,150 --> 00:47:07,930
CBD cannabis all seemed to work and I
966
00:47:07,930 --> 00:47:09,940
thought I'm going to give this a go so
967
00:47:09,940 --> 00:47:13,029
on the 7th of July I started to take it
968
00:47:13,029 --> 00:47:16,839
I was seeing the consultant again on the
969
00:47:16,839 --> 00:47:20,619
24th of July and he described the lump
970
00:47:20,619 --> 00:47:22,359
then as palpable
971
00:47:22,359 --> 00:47:25,450
which meant that it was soft well it
972
00:47:25,450 --> 00:47:27,670
hadn't been soft it felt like the corner
973
00:47:27,670 --> 00:47:31,720
of a table and so and from then on I
974
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:34,770
couldn't actually feel this lump at all
975
00:47:34,770 --> 00:47:38,260
so it came to two days before I was due
976
00:47:38,260 --> 00:47:41,829
to start my chemotherapy and I rang the
977
00:47:41,829 --> 00:47:44,079
hospital and said you know I can't feel
978
00:47:44,079 --> 00:47:46,270
this lump anymore can I have another
979
00:47:46,270 --> 00:47:49,390
ultrasound scar and they said no so I
980
00:47:49,390 --> 00:47:52,119
rang my GP and she referred me to the
981
00:47:52,119 --> 00:47:55,420
local new field hospital and I had a
982
00:47:55,420 --> 00:47:57,730
private scan which I paid for what I
983
00:47:57,730 --> 00:47:59,980
didn't know was that the man who the
984
00:47:59,980 --> 00:48:02,500
radiologist who did the scan actually
985
00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:04,990
was part of the breast care team and he
986
00:48:04,990 --> 00:48:07,990
had my original scans he'd asked for
987
00:48:07,990 --> 00:48:11,559
them so he I could see in doing it I
988
00:48:11,559 --> 00:48:13,720
could see on the screen that there was
989
00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:17,380
still some tumor there and and he said
990
00:48:17,380 --> 00:48:20,470
well actually it's smaller so I said how
991
00:48:20,470 --> 00:48:23,020
much smaller and he said all in good
992
00:48:23,020 --> 00:48:25,270
time when he'd finished his eyes were
993
00:48:25,270 --> 00:48:28,029
like saucers and he said it shrunk do
994
00:48:28,029 --> 00:48:29,799
you mind if I do a mammogram and I said
995
00:48:29,799 --> 00:48:31,119
oh of course I don't
996
00:48:31,119 --> 00:48:33,339
so he did a mammogram and then took me
997
00:48:33,339 --> 00:48:35,200
in the office and showed me and the
998
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:39,010
original tumor 33 millimeters was now 11
999
00:48:39,010 --> 00:48:42,039
millimeters and the lymph nodes which
1000
00:48:42,039 --> 00:48:44,500
had been 25 millimeters so they were big
1001
00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:48,849
like grapes we're down to ten and and
1002
00:48:48,849 --> 00:48:51,520
the mammogram where us before the tumor
1003
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:53,619
was like a pebble
1004
00:48:53,619 --> 00:48:57,430
it was just hazing so the whole density
1005
00:48:57,430 --> 00:49:00,940
of it had changed completely so
1006
00:49:00,940 --> 00:49:03,250
obviously then I didn't really know what
1007
00:49:03,250 --> 00:49:05,079
to do because I was due to start chemo
1008
00:49:05,079 --> 00:49:08,950
on the Wednesday and in the end I had to
1009
00:49:08,950 --> 00:49:10,960
go down to the hospital on the Wednesday
1010
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,450
morning and see the breast care team and
1011
00:49:13,450 --> 00:49:15,790
say look what am i doing I don't know
1012
00:49:15,790 --> 00:49:17,950
what to do now
1013
00:49:17,950 --> 00:49:20,859
and so they deferred my chemotherapy and
1014
00:49:20,859 --> 00:49:23,799
I saw the consultant the following week
1015
00:49:23,799 --> 00:49:26,470
after they discussed me at their
1016
00:49:26,470 --> 00:49:30,369
management team meeting and he said
1017
00:49:30,369 --> 00:49:32,980
obviously it's amazing this is amazing
1018
00:49:32,980 --> 00:49:36,910
but as clinicians we have to tell you
1019
00:49:36,910 --> 00:49:38,109
that we recommend that you have
1020
00:49:38,109 --> 00:49:42,040
chemotherapy so I said to him okay with
1021
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,859
the grade 3 aggressive tumor left 8
1022
00:49:44,859 --> 00:49:46,569
weeks what would you have expected to
1023
00:49:46,569 --> 00:49:49,240
see on that scan and he said well it
1024
00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:53,140
wouldn't have shrunk so I said okay if
1025
00:49:53,140 --> 00:49:56,349
I'm prepared to take the risk will you
1026
00:49:56,349 --> 00:49:59,200
monitor me and they said yes we'd be
1027
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,359
delighted to and so that's what's
1028
00:50:01,359 --> 00:50:03,280
happened since so now I'm down to about
1029
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,940
5 millimeters and it's not a lump as
1030
00:50:06,940 --> 00:50:11,020
such it's it's 5 millimeters of cancer
1031
00:50:11,020 --> 00:50:13,510
cells I could show you so much history
1032
00:50:13,510 --> 00:50:15,040
when you know the one that just totally
1033
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,069
burns me up is cannabis and cancer right
1034
00:50:18,069 --> 00:50:20,619
now now we know I've seen it with my own
1035
00:50:20,619 --> 00:50:22,299
eyes and you can go talk to you know
1036
00:50:22,299 --> 00:50:24,430
professor Guzman from the University of
1037
00:50:24,430 --> 00:50:27,549
Madrid and a whole army of other
1038
00:50:27,549 --> 00:50:29,710
scientists who have established that
1039
00:50:29,710 --> 00:50:33,130
that that cancer that cannabis stops the
1040
00:50:33,130 --> 00:50:35,290
growth of cancer tumors right so this
1041
00:50:35,290 --> 00:50:37,930
isn't new information the National
1042
00:50:37,930 --> 00:50:41,490
Institute on Drug Abuse knew this in
1043
00:50:41,490 --> 00:50:44,859
1974 they ran a study in 1974 that was
1044
00:50:44,859 --> 00:50:47,109
designed to show the cannabis causes
1045
00:50:47,109 --> 00:50:50,109
cancer the results came back showing the
1046
00:50:50,109 --> 00:50:52,750
opposite cannabis actually fights cancer
1047
00:50:52,750 --> 00:50:55,780
what did they do they buried the study
1048
00:50:55,780 --> 00:50:58,000
not only did they bury the study they
1049
00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:59,770
didn't refer to anybody they didn't send
1050
00:50:59,770 --> 00:51:01,510
it to the National Cancer Institute they
1051
00:51:01,510 --> 00:51:04,690
did nothing right three years later they
1052
00:51:04,690 --> 00:51:07,000
did it again another study design
1053
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,690
show that cannabis causes cancer same
1054
00:51:10,690 --> 00:51:14,350
exact results I same exact results in
1055
00:51:14,350 --> 00:51:17,170
both categories the scientific results
1056
00:51:17,170 --> 00:51:18,940
and what they did with it so again it
1057
00:51:18,940 --> 00:51:21,970
goes into the dustbin right and then
1058
00:51:21,970 --> 00:51:24,820
several years later they do a third
1059
00:51:24,820 --> 00:51:27,370
study this time on lung cancer and they
1060
00:51:27,370 --> 00:51:29,470
figure out lung cancer smoke smoke
1061
00:51:29,470 --> 00:51:31,660
causes cancer we've got them this time
1062
00:51:31,660 --> 00:51:32,140
right
1063
00:51:32,140 --> 00:51:34,630
they hired a doctor named dr. Donald
1064
00:51:34,630 --> 00:51:37,540
tashkin to do the taskin study tashkin
1065
00:51:37,540 --> 00:51:39,460
examined the rates of lung cancer
1066
00:51:39,460 --> 00:51:43,000
amongst cannabis smokers tobacco smokers
1067
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,600
and non-smokers he found the lowest rate
1068
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,570
of cancer incidents in cannabis smokers
1069
00:51:49,570 --> 00:51:53,020
the second lowest rate in non-smokers of
1070
00:51:53,020 --> 00:51:55,150
anything and of course the highest rate
1071
00:51:55,150 --> 00:51:57,730
in tobacco smokers and there's a very
1072
00:51:57,730 --> 00:51:58,870
simple reason for that
1073
00:51:58,870 --> 00:52:01,480
despite the tar and other carcinogenic
1074
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,450
substances that are in any smoke the
1075
00:52:04,450 --> 00:52:06,100
cannabinoids that were in the cannabis
1076
00:52:06,100 --> 00:52:08,800
smoke were so strong they fought cancer
1077
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,020
so effectively that they completely not
1078
00:52:11,020 --> 00:52:13,570
only completely out laid the smoke right
1079
00:52:13,570 --> 00:52:15,100
but what pushed it in the other
1080
00:52:15,100 --> 00:52:18,580
direction of prevention my name is
1081
00:52:18,580 --> 00:52:20,860
Jacqueline Richie and I suffer from
1082
00:52:20,860 --> 00:52:21,880
breast cancer
1083
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,480
I had the genetic crack one which
1084
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,750
usually gives you tumors or fatally or
1085
00:52:28,750 --> 00:52:30,940
cancers so I had two triple negative
1086
00:52:30,940 --> 00:52:32,740
metal plastic cancer which is a really
1087
00:52:32,740 --> 00:52:35,350
really and on the other breast I had
1088
00:52:35,350 --> 00:52:38,950
another cancer h2 I'm here to positive
1089
00:52:38,950 --> 00:52:40,660
breast cancer there's some some of the
1090
00:52:40,660 --> 00:52:42,280
cancer that I had was just a lump on my
1091
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,500
breast and then when I went to the
1092
00:52:44,500 --> 00:52:46,780
doctor's and had a mammogram they
1093
00:52:46,780 --> 00:52:48,550
discovered the lump on the other breast
1094
00:52:48,550 --> 00:52:51,580
as well because I had bilateral breast
1095
00:52:51,580 --> 00:52:53,830
cancer they realized there was a
1096
00:52:53,830 --> 00:52:55,810
possibility I would have the genetic
1097
00:52:55,810 --> 00:52:58,060
black gene so I was tested as well and
1098
00:52:58,060 --> 00:53:00,280
the treatment I've had is a radical
1099
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,740
double mastectomy and chemo regime for
1100
00:53:02,740 --> 00:53:04,500
the two different types of cancers
1101
00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:07,300
effects are chemotherapy for me the
1102
00:53:07,300 --> 00:53:09,040
first time I had chemotherapy were
1103
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,140
terrible I could hardly breathe I could
1104
00:53:11,140 --> 00:53:12,940
hardly move I what's about everywhere
1105
00:53:12,940 --> 00:53:15,310
with a plastic bag like this before I
1106
00:53:15,310 --> 00:53:17,200
started chemotherapy I already had a
1107
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,030
couple of Muenster some problems I had
1108
00:53:19,030 --> 00:53:20,420
renal syndrome
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00:53:20,420 --> 00:53:22,370
she's bad blood circulation and fingers
1110
00:53:22,370 --> 00:53:25,520
and toes and I already had the IPS I was
1111
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,220
chemical intolerant so I was identified
1112
00:53:28,220 --> 00:53:31,880
by ice floes and once chemo started that
1113
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:33,950
was all a lot worse exasperated
1114
00:53:33,950 --> 00:53:34,550
everything
1115
00:53:34,550 --> 00:53:36,950
so when constant white feet constantly
1116
00:53:36,950 --> 00:53:40,370
freezing and originally I am I used
1117
00:53:40,370 --> 00:53:42,200
cannabis when I was younger to treat
1118
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,050
anxiety and I suffered during Alexia and
1119
00:53:45,050 --> 00:53:46,970
I was younger as well so just it's
1120
00:53:46,970 --> 00:53:48,620
cheating heart when I was younger so
1121
00:53:48,620 --> 00:53:50,930
it's already a big realization about
1122
00:53:50,930 --> 00:53:52,910
your plant being used indefinitely but I
1123
00:53:52,910 --> 00:53:54,350
didn't realize about the cancer
1124
00:53:54,350 --> 00:53:56,390
it wasn't I started to start to know
1125
00:53:56,390 --> 00:53:58,070
that started realizing had done some
1126
00:53:58,070 --> 00:53:59,870
wood quite a lot research with regards
1127
00:53:59,870 --> 00:54:02,450
to the cannabis plan ants different
1128
00:54:02,450 --> 00:54:04,850
types of cancer so I started doing all
1129
00:54:04,850 --> 00:54:07,280
the research on that I actually managed
1130
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,620
to get in touch with Rick Simpson yeah I
1131
00:54:09,620 --> 00:54:11,150
managed to get in touch with him through
1132
00:54:11,150 --> 00:54:12,980
a Facebook page so there was a
1133
00:54:12,980 --> 00:54:15,140
correspondence there and he just
1134
00:54:15,140 --> 00:54:17,060
directed me weird I needed to score to
1135
00:54:17,060 --> 00:54:19,820
go watch the movie and watch strains I
1136
00:54:19,820 --> 00:54:22,430
would need to grow and how it needs to
1137
00:54:22,430 --> 00:54:25,760
be growing hi to decarboxylated and to
1138
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,980
the oil that i needs and now what all
1139
00:54:27,980 --> 00:54:30,350
the equipment I need to do he more or
1140
00:54:30,350 --> 00:54:32,540
less hunted me all the information that
1141
00:54:32,540 --> 00:54:35,030
I needed the day that I was diagnosed I
1142
00:54:35,030 --> 00:54:37,160
started looking to see if I could
1143
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,490
actually get some cannabis oil and I did
1144
00:54:40,490 --> 00:54:42,020
manage to get small amounts of cannabis
1145
00:54:42,020 --> 00:54:43,910
oil and because I've managed to get
1146
00:54:43,910 --> 00:54:45,860
small amounts of cannabis oil I actually
1147
00:54:45,860 --> 00:54:48,080
put my surgery off they wanted to do
1148
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,030
surgery immediately because of the two
1149
00:54:50,030 --> 00:54:52,580
different types of cancer so I put this
1150
00:54:52,580 --> 00:54:55,220
surgery often told me and from February
1151
00:54:55,220 --> 00:54:57,260
to me I used the oil whenever I could
1152
00:54:57,260 --> 00:54:59,750
get it but it was quite sporadic so I
1153
00:54:59,750 --> 00:55:02,000
ended up running out of oil nickimja
1154
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,010
started growing up to that point I've
1155
00:55:04,010 --> 00:55:05,510
actually managed to do just the tumor
1156
00:55:05,510 --> 00:55:07,880
quite a bit and the pain from the tumor
1157
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:09,710
had it disappeared as well I wasn't
1158
00:55:09,710 --> 00:55:11,450
getting pain from the tumor because I
1159
00:55:11,450 --> 00:55:13,910
couldn't procure any more oil I ended up
1160
00:55:13,910 --> 00:55:16,670
surgery radical double mastectomy and me
1161
00:55:16,670 --> 00:55:18,320
but from the time that I heard this
1162
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,330
surgery I already had oil
1163
00:55:20,330 --> 00:55:22,340
certain wien for me by at that point
1164
00:55:22,340 --> 00:55:24,740
because from more or less just after I
1165
00:55:24,740 --> 00:55:26,390
was diagnosed I actually started brewing
1166
00:55:26,390 --> 00:55:27,210
a couple of plan
1167
00:55:27,210 --> 00:55:30,030
so I knew if I put things off a bit I
1168
00:55:30,030 --> 00:55:31,950
would have my own oil ready by the time
1169
00:55:31,950 --> 00:55:33,420
I started chemotherapy
1170
00:55:33,420 --> 00:55:36,690
so I used smart-1 oil by the time the
1171
00:55:36,690 --> 00:55:38,369
second chemotherapy treatment that
1172
00:55:38,369 --> 00:55:40,650
happens it was my own oil well I had
1173
00:55:40,650 --> 00:55:43,440
been there I had researched the stream
1174
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:45,930
so I had two surgery on me
1175
00:55:45,930 --> 00:55:49,170
and chemotherapy started in the July so
1176
00:55:49,170 --> 00:55:51,960
like I said from the second chemotherapy
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00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,030
for all the rest of the chemotherapy all
1178
00:55:54,030 --> 00:55:56,730
the way through I took oil I took oil
1179
00:55:56,730 --> 00:56:00,089
and I have the pathology from my
1180
00:56:00,089 --> 00:56:03,030
mastectomy and they're really really
1181
00:56:03,030 --> 00:56:05,099
rare cancer that I had that was nearly a
1182
00:56:05,099 --> 00:56:07,470
five centimeter tumor the majority of it
1183
00:56:07,470 --> 00:56:09,119
was actually a necrotic tissue there was
1184
00:56:09,119 --> 00:56:11,460
just a few cancer cells and on the
1185
00:56:11,460 --> 00:56:14,010
inside of that and from the prognosis
1186
00:56:14,010 --> 00:56:16,650
they gave me from the pathology they had
1187
00:56:16,650 --> 00:56:18,540
my race or recurrence within the next
1188
00:56:18,540 --> 00:56:20,400
two years that nearly a hundred percent
1189
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,890
and I'm sitting there over three years
1190
00:56:22,890 --> 00:56:25,020
now and I haven't had a recurrence as
1191
00:56:25,020 --> 00:56:27,750
far as I know and just before my last
1192
00:56:27,750 --> 00:56:29,700
chemo I had an appointment with the
1193
00:56:29,700 --> 00:56:31,829
oncologist and at that point an
1194
00:56:31,829 --> 00:56:33,390
ecologist had said to me that they'd
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00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:36,660
find a skull and a liver lesion and at
1196
00:56:36,660 --> 00:56:37,890
that point I was certain things in
1197
00:56:37,890 --> 00:56:38,339
myself
1198
00:56:38,339 --> 00:56:40,260
mm-hmm chemotherapy obviously hasn't
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00:56:40,260 --> 00:56:42,359
worked and I need to up my oil and tea
1200
00:56:42,359 --> 00:56:44,910
because I need to sort this out and I
1201
00:56:44,910 --> 00:56:46,650
said to my oncologist thing I'm just
1202
00:56:46,650 --> 00:56:48,660
going to do one more chemotherapy and
1203
00:56:48,660 --> 00:56:50,849
that's my chemotherapy regime finished I
1204
00:56:50,849 --> 00:56:53,160
don't want any more I don't want any
1205
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:54,990
more allopathic treatment I'm going to
1206
00:56:54,990 --> 00:56:56,940
reach treat my skull of liver lesion
1207
00:56:56,940 --> 00:57:00,569
with diet supplements and oil and when I
1208
00:57:00,569 --> 00:57:03,540
finished chemotherapy I still had a
1209
00:57:03,540 --> 00:57:04,829
skull and liver lesion
1210
00:57:04,829 --> 00:57:06,690
a month later when I went down to
1211
00:57:06,690 --> 00:57:08,670
England after doing my diet and more oil
1212
00:57:08,670 --> 00:57:10,230
and a person for the full month and
1213
00:57:10,230 --> 00:57:13,109
being really really good and I went are
1214
00:57:13,109 --> 00:57:14,490
we going to in go and seek a full-body
1215
00:57:14,490 --> 00:57:17,520
thermographic scan and thanks to Rosa
1216
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:19,200
I've got results back from a team of
1217
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:20,819
doctors and the sets which are clear
1218
00:57:20,819 --> 00:57:22,349
you've got no evidence of disease
1219
00:57:22,349 --> 00:57:24,210
there's no office colon liver lesion or
1220
00:57:24,210 --> 00:57:26,220
anything there so I use a very very
1221
00:57:26,220 --> 00:57:28,770
happy woman a very happy woman I've been
1222
00:57:28,770 --> 00:57:30,240
made since those on and off ever since
1223
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,010
then so yeah
1224
00:57:32,010 --> 00:57:36,030
you and I all know well so let me strike
1225
00:57:36,030 --> 00:57:37,680
a little closer to home
1226
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:41,160
Sir John Reynolds who you may know
1227
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,410
the personal physician to Queen
1228
00:57:43,410 --> 00:57:46,260
Victoria's household not only prescribed
1229
00:57:46,260 --> 00:57:48,450
for the Queen's menstrual cramps right
1230
00:57:48,450 --> 00:57:51,680
but also hailed it as the most effective
1231
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,420
preventative and remedy for what we now
1232
00:57:54,420 --> 00:57:57,839
call Alzheimer's disease for which we
1233
00:57:57,839 --> 00:58:00,030
have excellent scientific evidence now
1234
00:58:00,030 --> 00:58:02,940
because cannabis helps prevent the
1235
00:58:02,940 --> 00:58:05,930
accumulation of plaque in your brain and
1236
00:58:05,930 --> 00:58:08,940
there's good hard science on on this now
1237
00:58:08,940 --> 00:58:12,900
so you can you can find a similar trail
1238
00:58:12,900 --> 00:58:16,470
through medical history for literally
1239
00:58:16,470 --> 00:58:20,609
dozens of ailments I think the most
1240
00:58:20,609 --> 00:58:21,990
surprising thing I've learned about
1241
00:58:21,990 --> 00:58:24,480
cannabis is the immense amount of good
1242
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:26,849
it does for people working as a medical
1243
00:58:26,849 --> 00:58:28,859
journalist I began to become aware of
1244
00:58:28,859 --> 00:58:30,089
the fact that there was more and more
1245
00:58:30,089 --> 00:58:32,579
evidence emerging but it was only when I
1246
00:58:32,579 --> 00:58:35,190
actually got involved in the campaign
1247
00:58:35,190 --> 00:58:38,250
that I started to meet people who have
1248
00:58:38,250 --> 00:58:41,280
some of the most terrible medical
1249
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,579
conditions are either diseases often
1250
00:58:44,579 --> 00:58:47,789
neurodegenerative diseases things like
1251
00:58:47,789 --> 00:58:51,839
Parkinson's or MS but also people who
1252
00:58:51,839 --> 00:58:54,480
suffer from things like spinal injury or
1253
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:57,809
injuries or deformities or things like
1254
00:58:57,809 --> 00:59:02,700
um stenosis or scoliosis and you see
1255
00:59:02,700 --> 00:59:04,589
these people who have intense chronic
1256
00:59:04,589 --> 00:59:07,559
neuropathic pain which conventional and
1257
00:59:07,559 --> 00:59:09,059
very dangerous pain killers usually
1258
00:59:09,059 --> 00:59:12,029
opioids barely touch and you see how
1259
00:59:12,029 --> 00:59:13,859
their life is literally completely
1260
00:59:13,859 --> 00:59:16,950
transformed by the use of cannabis in
1261
00:59:16,950 --> 00:59:20,069
the United Kingdom cannabis is a Class B
1262
00:59:20,069 --> 00:59:21,359
drug
1263
00:59:21,359 --> 00:59:24,089
meaning that a person in possession of
1264
00:59:24,089 --> 00:59:26,339
cannabis could face up to five years in
1265
00:59:26,339 --> 00:59:29,339
prison and up to fourteen years in
1266
00:59:29,339 --> 00:59:32,910
prison for supplying this makes it
1267
00:59:32,910 --> 00:59:35,369
extremely difficult for anyone that
1268
00:59:35,369 --> 00:59:39,480
wants to use cannabis as a treatment the
1269
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:42,180
United patients Alliance has been set up
1270
00:59:42,180 --> 00:59:45,329
to campaign on behalf for legal access
1271
00:59:45,329 --> 00:59:47,339
to medical cannabis to treat chronic
1272
00:59:47,339 --> 00:59:53,700
conditions every year the UPA puts on
1273
00:59:53,700 --> 00:59:56,160
events to raise awareness of medical
1274
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:58,380
cannabis and to keep the conversation in
1275
00:59:58,380 --> 01:00:03,210
the public consciousness hi I'm John le
1276
01:00:03,210 --> 01:00:04,950
bling I'm political director of United
1277
01:00:04,950 --> 01:00:06,509
patients Alliance we are a medical
1278
01:00:06,509 --> 01:00:08,940
cannabis organization there are around
1279
01:00:08,940 --> 01:00:10,410
about 1 million medical cannabis
1280
01:00:10,410 --> 01:00:12,749
patients currently in the UK consuming
1281
01:00:12,749 --> 01:00:15,119
cannabis because they find that better
1282
01:00:15,119 --> 01:00:17,549
for them than prescription medications
1283
01:00:17,549 --> 01:00:20,190
and we support them we've got about
1284
01:00:20,190 --> 01:00:22,289
10,000 people who who we directly
1285
01:00:22,289 --> 01:00:25,559
support and we also lobby for change so
1286
01:00:25,559 --> 01:00:26,970
that we can get legal access to cannabis
1287
01:00:26,970 --> 01:00:29,009
therapeutics but they hundreds of
1288
01:00:29,009 --> 01:00:31,410
thousands of people that need it every
1289
01:00:31,410 --> 01:00:32,549
single one of us it United patients
1290
01:00:32,549 --> 01:00:34,319
Alliance is a medical cannabis patient
1291
01:00:34,319 --> 01:00:36,390
every single one of us and so I'm
1292
01:00:36,390 --> 01:00:37,890
someone who's suffered from anxiety and
1293
01:00:37,890 --> 01:00:39,630
depression for most of my life and I've
1294
01:00:39,630 --> 01:00:42,299
managed that adequately with cannabis I
1295
01:00:42,299 --> 01:00:45,180
mean some years ago unfortunately I got
1296
01:00:45,180 --> 01:00:46,410
into the wrong side of the law for
1297
01:00:46,410 --> 01:00:47,489
growing my own medicine
1298
01:00:47,489 --> 01:00:49,109
and that's kind of how I got involved
1299
01:00:49,109 --> 01:00:52,259
and United patients Alliance formed a
1300
01:00:52,259 --> 01:00:55,049
couple of years ago in 2014 and we're
1301
01:00:55,049 --> 01:00:56,880
all patients so I found a clock French
1302
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,460
he's a multiple sclerosis sufferer he
1303
01:00:59,460 --> 01:01:01,710
was diagnosed when he was 24 and when he
1304
01:01:01,710 --> 01:01:04,559
came across cannabis he could reduce the
1305
01:01:04,559 --> 01:01:06,059
amount of opiate medications he was on
1306
01:01:06,059 --> 01:01:09,809
the tramadol and and and he was able to
1307
01:01:09,809 --> 01:01:11,489
replace that with cannabis and he was
1308
01:01:11,489 --> 01:01:13,589
able to start working today he was
1309
01:01:13,589 --> 01:01:15,180
actually more mote mile and in fact he
1310
01:01:15,180 --> 01:01:17,369
got so well he helped create United
1311
01:01:17,369 --> 01:01:19,499
patients Alliance and so we're here at
1312
01:01:19,499 --> 01:01:20,880
raising awareness the United patients
1313
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:22,769
Alliance started is just a small group
1314
01:01:22,769 --> 01:01:24,180
of patients who use cannabis as a
1315
01:01:24,180 --> 01:01:25,859
medicine and we wanted to change the law
1316
01:01:25,859 --> 01:01:27,300
around that because we were fed
1317
01:01:27,300 --> 01:01:30,600
being persecuted and made to feel like
1318
01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:32,760
criminals for our choice medicine what
1319
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:34,680
we actually did when we started tryna
1320
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:36,840
lobby and change law by accident we grew
1321
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:38,790
up this really lovely community of
1322
01:01:38,790 --> 01:01:40,410
people who are already using cannabis as
1323
01:01:40,410 --> 01:01:42,240
a medicine in the UK so now what we have
1324
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,760
is a really good online community where
1325
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,290
patients who are just starting out and
1326
01:01:46,290 --> 01:01:48,090
they kind of this charity journey they
1327
01:01:48,090 --> 01:01:50,570
can come and learn from other patients
1328
01:01:50,570 --> 01:01:54,450
about what strains work best for certain
1329
01:01:54,450 --> 01:01:57,210
things oil making methods and all the
1330
01:01:57,210 --> 01:01:58,290
sort of things that go along with that
1331
01:01:58,290 --> 01:01:59,820
it's a really good reliable source of
1332
01:01:59,820 --> 01:02:01,080
information because it's patients
1333
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,510
learning from other patients and we're
1334
01:02:03,510 --> 01:02:05,070
creating a best practice within our
1335
01:02:05,070 --> 01:02:06,840
community so that when the law changes
1336
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:08,280
we will have the knowledge they're ready
1337
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:10,290
to enact and help as many people as we
1338
01:02:10,290 --> 01:02:11,650
can
1339
01:02:11,650 --> 01:02:47,260
[Music]
1340
01:02:50,910 --> 01:02:59,689
[Music]
1341
01:03:03,970 --> 01:03:09,989
[Music]
1342
01:03:10,820 --> 01:03:13,680
quote about five minutes ago it's just
1343
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:16,050
that it has passed absolutely all the
1344
01:03:16,050 --> 01:03:33,839
eyes have it you would use this Robbie
1345
01:03:33,839 --> 01:03:36,570
our politicians you must speak to your
1346
01:03:36,570 --> 01:03:40,020
MP today get your phone out email them
1347
01:03:40,020 --> 01:03:42,780
now let your elected representative know
1348
01:03:42,780 --> 01:03:45,390
that you came here today in support of
1349
01:03:45,390 --> 01:03:46,950
mission and that you believe that
1350
01:03:46,950 --> 01:03:50,550
cannabis needs to be regulated doesn't
1351
01:03:50,550 --> 01:03:51,810
matter who you work for it doesn't
1352
01:03:51,810 --> 01:03:53,400
matter or family want a raise what
1353
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,650
matters is that we're all on the same
1354
01:03:55,650 --> 01:04:00,120
page for cannabis as medicine
1355
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:02,360
[Applause]
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01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:02,500
[Music]
1357
01:04:02,500 --> 01:04:05,550
[Applause]
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01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:11,460
[Music]
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01:04:11,460 --> 01:04:14,040
my name's Kelly Blackwell and my son is
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Darren Blackwell and in 2010 he was
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diagnosed with leukemia two years later
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01:04:18,030 --> 01:04:20,220
he had a second cancer called Langerhans
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01:04:20,220 --> 01:04:22,950
cell sarcoma subsequently he had four
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01:04:22,950 --> 01:04:24,690
bone-marrow transplants in ten months to
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01:04:24,690 --> 01:04:26,490
try and prevent either cancer coming
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01:04:26,490 --> 01:04:28,500
back and unfortunately on his fourth and
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01:04:28,500 --> 01:04:30,720
final chance grin he developed three
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01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:32,010
catastrophic infections
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01:04:32,010 --> 01:04:34,200
he had no functioning bone marrow and
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01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:35,880
they told us of nobody'd ever engrafted
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01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,700
after 50 days so we got to say 46 there
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01:04:38,700 --> 01:04:40,260
was nothing there at all so we were sent
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01:04:40,260 --> 01:04:41,490
to hospice and my son was given
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01:04:41,490 --> 01:04:43,350
approximately three days to a week to
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01:04:43,350 --> 01:04:45,180
live Darrin start to get very anxious
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01:04:45,180 --> 01:04:47,070
because seriously facing his death
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01:04:47,070 --> 01:04:49,200
planned his funeral plans everything
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01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,470
about it and I decided to start
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01:04:52,470 --> 01:04:54,090
administering there a teacher that we
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01:04:54,090 --> 01:04:57,270
made out of cannabis mainly to alleviate
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01:04:57,270 --> 01:04:58,770
his anxiety that he was suffering from
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01:04:58,770 --> 01:05:00,330
and they were also trying to give him a
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01:05:00,330 --> 01:05:01,800
lot of morphine and he made it very
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01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:03,330
clear that he didn't want to die on
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01:05:03,330 --> 01:05:05,030
morphine he wanted to be compos mentis
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01:05:05,030 --> 01:05:08,220
so we started giving a cannabis tincture
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01:05:08,220 --> 01:05:10,380
and five days later and he's Bo Murray
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01:05:10,380 --> 01:05:12,780
kicked in at least 75 and he officially
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01:05:12,780 --> 01:05:16,800
engrafted it's a 104 they called him a
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01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:18,360
miracle because they had never seen it
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01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:19,860
before he was on no other medications
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01:05:19,860 --> 01:05:21,750
other than what I was giving you which I
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01:05:21,750 --> 01:05:23,940
have to keep secret because back then
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01:05:23,940 --> 01:05:26,190
then I was scared of social services and
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01:05:26,190 --> 01:05:28,470
losing my children and now losing the
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01:05:28,470 --> 01:05:29,790
one thing that you know what's helping
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01:05:29,790 --> 01:05:31,710
Darrin I had this published in April of
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01:05:31,710 --> 01:05:34,320
this year and it's a full complete story
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01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:36,180
of the whole journey it's not just about
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01:05:36,180 --> 01:05:39,420
cannabis so cannabis is no tiny 25 and I
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01:05:39,420 --> 01:05:41,040
wrote it hopefully because I want to
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01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:42,470
give people hope I want to give people
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01:05:42,470 --> 01:05:44,580
the chance to understand that there are
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01:05:44,580 --> 01:05:46,500
other other opportunities there you know
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01:05:46,500 --> 01:05:48,210
there are other options we don't have to
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01:05:48,210 --> 01:05:49,830
just go with what they tell us there are
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01:05:49,830 --> 01:05:51,099
other ways
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01:05:51,099 --> 01:05:52,660
you know Darrin is proof of that living
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01:05:52,660 --> 01:05:54,549
proof of us as our hundreds of people
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01:05:54,549 --> 01:05:55,050
here today
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01:05:55,050 --> 01:06:02,519
[Music]
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the bill is to reverse an error in a
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01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:10,250
previous bill that said that cannabis
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01:06:10,250 --> 01:06:13,700
has no medical value the legislation on
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01:06:13,700 --> 01:06:16,250
cannabis at the moment is an ass it's
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01:06:16,250 --> 01:06:18,830
actually states that cannabis has no
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01:06:18,830 --> 01:06:20,930
medicinal value and this is contrary the
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01:06:20,930 --> 01:06:23,720
experience of 5000 years of the use of
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01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:26,240
cannabis in all the civilizations in the
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01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:29,300
world but if we get through that and
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01:06:29,300 --> 01:06:31,550
decide it has some release menus then
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01:06:31,550 --> 01:06:33,470
throwing from that is the possibility of
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01:06:33,470 --> 01:06:36,440
the sale of various products that are
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01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:38,960
already available but the world's tide
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01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,990
is turning against prohibition and we've
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01:06:41,990 --> 01:06:44,090
already seen the majority of states in
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01:06:44,090 --> 01:06:46,490
America 29 of them have a legalized
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01:06:46,490 --> 01:06:49,730
medicinal cannabis Canada is leading the
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01:06:49,730 --> 01:06:52,910
way Uruguay a whole range of countries
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01:06:52,910 --> 01:06:55,070
throughout the world are realizing that
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01:06:55,070 --> 01:06:58,040
we need a new policy the UK has one of
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01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:02,750
the toughest drug policies across the
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01:07:02,750 --> 01:07:04,790
Western world and we differ in
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01:07:04,790 --> 01:07:08,210
particular from the USA and many
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01:07:08,210 --> 01:07:10,130
countries in Europe as we know the
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01:07:10,130 --> 01:07:14,390
majority now of US states now legal have
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01:07:14,390 --> 01:07:17,180
legalized cannabis for medical use many
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01:07:17,180 --> 01:07:19,220
have also legalized it for social use
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01:07:19,220 --> 01:07:21,680
but we're not discussing that here a
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01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:25,790
dozen countries in Europe now have
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01:07:25,790 --> 01:07:28,400
legalized one way or another the use of
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01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:31,160
cannabis for medical purposes it's
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01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:34,280
interesting that Denmark passed their
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01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:36,280
law actually in November last year
1445
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:40,030
legalizing medical cannabis Germany
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01:07:40,030 --> 01:07:42,530
passed their law through their lower
1447
01:07:42,530 --> 01:07:45,980
house in January this year we have
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01:07:45,980 --> 01:07:49,580
Ireland with their law going through
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01:07:49,580 --> 01:07:52,790
Parliament as we speak so the the move
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01:07:52,790 --> 01:07:55,850
towards recognizing the incredible
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01:07:55,850 --> 01:08:00,140
medical value of cannabis is I would say
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01:08:00,140 --> 01:08:01,850
becoming more and more rapid across the
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01:08:01,850 --> 01:08:05,840
world but the UK no change no change at
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01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:07,820
all so we're really getting left behind
1455
01:08:07,820 --> 01:08:10,310
here in a way the Lib Dems took a risk
1456
01:08:10,310 --> 01:08:14,980
we went out and advocated for reform and
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01:08:14,980 --> 01:08:18,180
we sought to appeal to
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01:08:18,180 --> 01:08:21,200
all those reform-minded voters who
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01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:23,729
absolutely see the nonsense in the
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01:08:23,729 --> 01:08:28,200
current position we didn't get that case
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01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:30,029
heard well enough in the general
1462
01:08:30,029 --> 01:08:33,660
election but in time other political
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01:08:33,660 --> 01:08:36,300
parties I think we'll see that public
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01:08:36,300 --> 01:08:37,850
opinion has changed and that
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01:08:37,850 --> 01:08:39,840
increasingly the public think the
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01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:42,390
existing also a ludicrous as they are
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01:08:42,390 --> 01:08:44,490
well the most important thing about it
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01:08:44,490 --> 01:08:47,310
about regulating cannabis would be to
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01:08:47,310 --> 01:08:49,910
restrict access to church to children
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01:08:49,910 --> 01:08:52,649
and I mean I'm a great admirer and I
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01:08:52,649 --> 01:08:55,050
would completely endorse the strategy
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01:08:55,050 --> 01:08:56,880
that you Justin Trudeau's adopted in
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01:08:56,880 --> 01:09:00,990
Canada where we're almost as in the same
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01:09:00,990 --> 01:09:02,790
in the same sentence the same we're
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01:09:02,790 --> 01:09:04,649
going to legalize cannabis he says we're
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01:09:04,649 --> 01:09:06,720
going to restrict access to it and I
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01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:08,069
think that is the way forward
1478
01:09:08,069 --> 01:09:09,569
now many people would argue that you
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01:09:09,569 --> 01:09:10,950
don't need to restrict access to
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01:09:10,950 --> 01:09:12,660
cannabis and should be treated like
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01:09:12,660 --> 01:09:15,779
cauliflower or carrots or tomatoes and I
1482
01:09:15,779 --> 01:09:17,330
was to have some sort of emotional
1483
01:09:17,330 --> 01:09:19,620
sympathy with that I think you think
1484
01:09:19,620 --> 01:09:21,420
you're being pragmatic about this in the
1485
01:09:21,420 --> 01:09:22,979
real world that's not a sensible
1486
01:09:22,979 --> 01:09:24,810
attitude and there's no doubt that if
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01:09:24,810 --> 01:09:27,569
cannabis does cause harm and you know
1488
01:09:27,569 --> 01:09:29,279
look again let's be honest cannabis can
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01:09:29,279 --> 01:09:31,140
cause harm only in a very small number
1490
01:09:31,140 --> 01:09:33,060
of cases but cannabis can cause harm
1491
01:09:33,060 --> 01:09:35,399
it's the psychoactive substance just to
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01:09:35,399 --> 01:09:39,600
suggest it can't will be foolish so if
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01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:41,580
it can cause harm then children are most
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01:09:41,580 --> 01:09:45,450
vulnerable and I'm keen to give this
1495
01:09:45,450 --> 01:09:48,390
place laws that make sense at the moment
1496
01:09:48,390 --> 01:09:51,540
most laws are prejudice which and
1497
01:09:51,540 --> 01:09:54,720
evidence free and the cannabis laws are
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01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:57,810
irrational unscientific and to a great
1499
01:09:57,810 --> 01:10:00,090
deal of damage they actually increased
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01:10:00,090 --> 01:10:02,580
create crime they increase abuse of
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01:10:02,580 --> 01:10:05,700
drugs and they waste a fortune but to be
1502
01:10:05,700 --> 01:10:09,060
the cruelest aspect of always a
1503
01:10:09,060 --> 01:10:12,060
prohibition all that seriously ill
1504
01:10:12,060 --> 01:10:14,400
people are denied their medicine of
1505
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:17,280
choice and there's an abundance of
1506
01:10:17,280 --> 01:10:20,430
evidence that cannabis has a unique role
1507
01:10:20,430 --> 01:10:22,530
to play particularly in relieving the
1508
01:10:22,530 --> 01:10:23,639
symptoms of
1509
01:10:23,639 --> 01:10:26,900
a very cruel disease multiple sclerosis
1510
01:10:26,900 --> 01:10:31,800
we had a report on the medical benefits
1511
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:33,510
of cannabis undertaken by Professor
1512
01:10:33,510 --> 01:10:40,079
Barnes for our inquiry and really we
1513
01:10:40,079 --> 01:10:42,090
rely very much on his report of
1514
01:10:42,090 --> 01:10:46,199
worldwide research to talk about that is
1515
01:10:46,199 --> 01:10:49,730
the issue of the specific medical
1516
01:10:49,730 --> 01:10:52,590
conditions for which cannabis is most
1517
01:10:52,590 --> 01:10:55,050
helpful and what he found is that there
1518
01:10:55,050 --> 01:10:59,550
is good evidence for medical cannabis
1519
01:10:59,550 --> 01:11:02,670
for conditions like chronic and in
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01:11:02,670 --> 01:11:05,849
particular neuropathic pain in dealing
1521
01:11:05,849 --> 01:11:08,820
with seizures for example in the case of
1522
01:11:08,820 --> 01:11:12,079
people with multiple sclerosis for
1523
01:11:12,079 --> 01:11:16,250
epilepsy in young children for example
1524
01:11:16,250 --> 01:11:21,840
and certainly for the symptoms of nausea
1525
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:24,239
sleeplessness and so on that arise as a
1526
01:11:24,239 --> 01:11:26,639
result of people with cancer taking
1527
01:11:26,639 --> 01:11:29,239
chemotherapy so there are there are
1528
01:11:29,239 --> 01:11:32,040
those conditions anyway for which the
1529
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:33,780
evidence according to Professor Barnes
1530
01:11:33,780 --> 01:11:36,300
is good there are a number of other
1531
01:11:36,300 --> 01:11:38,460
conditions where there is some evidence
1532
01:11:38,460 --> 01:11:41,010
that cannabis can be helpful it's truly
1533
01:11:41,010 --> 01:11:43,590
remarkable actually the extent to which
1534
01:11:43,590 --> 01:11:46,079
cannabis can help people with very very
1535
01:11:46,079 --> 01:11:49,020
different kinds of conditions yes I've
1536
01:11:49,020 --> 01:11:51,300
been involved with endow pain since the
1537
01:11:51,300 --> 01:11:54,420
early days but basically that campaign
1538
01:11:54,420 --> 01:11:58,739
is designed to make cannabis legal for
1539
01:11:58,739 --> 01:12:01,619
medical use without getting too
1540
01:12:01,619 --> 01:12:04,230
technical at the moment it's a Schedule
1541
01:12:04,230 --> 01:12:05,849
one drug and the misuse of drugs act
1542
01:12:05,849 --> 01:12:09,389
that means that it has no medicinal
1543
01:12:09,389 --> 01:12:13,650
value which is complete nonsense there's
1544
01:12:13,650 --> 01:12:15,630
overwhelming evidence that it does have
1545
01:12:15,630 --> 01:12:17,250
medicinal value many countries around
1546
01:12:17,250 --> 01:12:19,050
the world over half for the American
1547
01:12:19,050 --> 01:12:21,869
states have now recognized his use and
1548
01:12:21,869 --> 01:12:24,540
made it legal so for the government to
1549
01:12:24,540 --> 01:12:25,920
maintain that it's a Schedule one drug
1550
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:29,080
of no medicinal value is it's nonsense
1551
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:32,080
it's just the inertia in this country
1552
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:35,560
and the prediction clearly in that
1553
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:39,370
article was wholly misplaced but I think
1554
01:12:39,370 --> 01:12:41,080
in a way the difference between the
1555
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:43,330
United States and the United Kingdom is
1556
01:12:43,330 --> 01:12:48,490
that they're much more devolved a style
1557
01:12:48,490 --> 01:12:50,590
of government where states have
1558
01:12:50,590 --> 01:12:54,100
considerable control over policymaking
1559
01:12:54,100 --> 01:12:58,140
in a whole range of areas facilitates
1560
01:12:58,140 --> 01:13:00,940
experimentation and innovation in
1561
01:13:00,940 --> 01:13:05,050
lawmaking and so you've had a few states
1562
01:13:05,050 --> 01:13:07,990
going out ahead I mean California went
1563
01:13:07,990 --> 01:13:10,380
out ahead on medical use of cannabis
1564
01:13:10,380 --> 01:13:13,030
some years ago now and have now voted
1565
01:13:13,030 --> 01:13:16,150
for legalization of recreational use
1566
01:13:16,150 --> 01:13:19,150
Colorado has had recreational use
1567
01:13:19,150 --> 01:13:21,910
legalized for two or three years now
1568
01:13:21,910 --> 01:13:25,900
and as people see that it's worked it
1569
01:13:25,900 --> 01:13:28,990
hasn't led to a collapse of morality or
1570
01:13:28,990 --> 01:13:31,510
law nor breaking or anything of that
1571
01:13:31,510 --> 01:13:32,770
sort
1572
01:13:32,770 --> 01:13:35,560
then it convinces other states that they
1573
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:37,600
can try it but in this country it's
1574
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:39,670
all-or-nothing you have to convince the
1575
01:13:39,670 --> 01:13:42,190
national government to do it and that's
1576
01:13:42,190 --> 01:13:45,090
much more difficult
1577
01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:52,050
in the u.s. cannabis is legal in nine
1578
01:13:52,050 --> 01:13:54,380
states for medical and recreational use
1579
01:13:54,380 --> 01:13:57,179
30 states and all have passed laws
1580
01:13:57,179 --> 01:13:59,760
allowing some degree of medical use of
1581
01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:03,960
marijuana California has a long history
1582
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:07,170
of fighting for legalization since the
1583
01:14:07,170 --> 01:14:10,739
1960s and gained huge ground in the
1584
01:14:10,739 --> 01:14:14,210
early 90s with proposition 215
1585
01:14:14,210 --> 01:14:17,910
proposition 215 was conceived by San
1586
01:14:17,910 --> 01:14:20,760
Francisco marijuana activist Dennis
1587
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:23,580
Peron in memory of his partner Jonathan
1588
01:14:23,580 --> 01:14:27,179
West who had used medical marijuana to
1589
01:14:27,179 --> 01:14:32,250
treat the symptoms of AIDS in 1991 Peron
1590
01:14:32,250 --> 01:14:34,920
organized proposition P the San
1591
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:37,290
Francisco Medical Marijuana initiative
1592
01:14:37,290 --> 01:14:39,800
which passed with 79 percent of the vote
1593
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:42,449
proposition P did not have the force of
1594
01:14:42,449 --> 01:14:44,760
law but was simply a resolution
1595
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,550
declaring the city support for medical
1596
01:14:47,550 --> 01:14:50,880
marijuana proposition 215 was enacted
1597
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:54,840
into law on November 5th 1996 by means
1598
01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:56,820
of the initiative process and passed
1599
01:14:56,820 --> 01:14:58,710
with fifty five point six percent of the
1600
01:14:58,710 --> 01:15:02,489
vote in favor since that time the
1601
01:15:02,489 --> 01:15:04,410
medical cannabis industry in California
1602
01:15:04,410 --> 01:15:07,469
has said as ups and downs but is now a
1603
01:15:07,469 --> 01:15:09,840
thriving industry adding billions to the
1604
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,630
state's economy with the passing of
1605
01:15:12,630 --> 01:15:15,650
Proposition 64 in November 2016
1606
01:15:15,650 --> 01:15:17,850
legalizing the sale of recreational
1607
01:15:17,850 --> 01:15:20,640
cannabis for adults estimates based on
1608
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:23,070
their current illegal market could mean
1609
01:15:23,070 --> 01:15:25,590
that California could see a rise in over
1610
01:15:25,590 --> 01:15:28,560
5.7 billion dollars in revenue from the
1611
01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:31,460
legalization of recreational cannabis
1612
01:15:31,460 --> 01:15:35,790
the ArcView group issues a report every
1613
01:15:35,790 --> 01:15:38,370
year on the International cannabis
1614
01:15:38,370 --> 01:15:41,130
market and we know that in the United
1615
01:15:41,130 --> 01:15:43,920
States cannabis legal cannabis is the
1616
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:46,110
fastest growing industry in the entire
1617
01:15:46,110 --> 01:15:48,440
country
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01:15:48,749 --> 01:15:52,449
my name is Joshua I'm a manager here at
1619
01:15:52,449 --> 01:15:55,179
Coachella collective we are a medical
1620
01:15:55,179 --> 01:15:57,489
dispensary in California and we are here
1621
01:15:57,489 --> 01:16:00,099
to provide great medicine for patients
1622
01:16:00,099 --> 01:16:02,619
I'm a budtender or you could because
1623
01:16:02,619 --> 01:16:04,329
I've been considered the manager here
1624
01:16:04,329 --> 01:16:06,130
it's like a bartender mixed that with
1625
01:16:06,130 --> 01:16:08,380
somebody Nick when I first started doing
1626
01:16:08,380 --> 01:16:10,389
this actually I remember walking up to
1627
01:16:10,389 --> 01:16:12,400
my mom when I was 18 and telling her hey
1628
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:14,920
mom look I'm a doctor you know I was
1629
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:17,079
like I'm a pharmacist now I was like I
1630
01:16:17,079 --> 01:16:18,880
prescribed medicine to people all day
1631
01:16:18,880 --> 01:16:19,179
long
1632
01:16:19,179 --> 01:16:21,969
in ii see definitely as a medication the
1633
01:16:21,969 --> 01:16:26,650
way i look at it is herbal medicines you
1634
01:16:26,650 --> 01:16:27,789
know there's people that do straight
1635
01:16:27,789 --> 01:16:30,190
herbal medicines that are considered you
1636
01:16:30,190 --> 01:16:32,800
know voodoo doctors witchcraft talks or
1637
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:34,239
whatever they want to be called and all
1638
01:16:34,239 --> 01:16:36,159
this other alternative medicine like you
1639
01:16:36,159 --> 01:16:37,150
know but they're still considered
1640
01:16:37,150 --> 01:16:38,860
technically a doctor because it's the
1641
01:16:38,860 --> 01:16:40,300
herbal medicine it's the same thing
1642
01:16:40,300 --> 01:16:42,460
cannabis is just an herbal medicine so I
1643
01:16:42,460 --> 01:16:44,979
definitely feel and relate that idea of
1644
01:16:44,979 --> 01:16:46,479
us being doctors that's being
1645
01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:48,039
pharmacists because that's what we do we
1646
01:16:48,039 --> 01:16:49,989
treat people i it's like a bartender you
1647
01:16:49,989 --> 01:16:51,969
know they say they have a what is it
1648
01:16:51,969 --> 01:16:54,489
bachelors in psychiatry right that's how
1649
01:16:54,489 --> 01:16:55,510
I feel sometimes when I'm here you know
1650
01:16:55,510 --> 01:16:57,760
my patients come in bad day good day
1651
01:16:57,760 --> 01:16:59,979
they come in and talk to me they tell me
1652
01:16:59,979 --> 01:17:01,090
their problem they tell me they're
1653
01:17:01,090 --> 01:17:02,860
stressing about and I recommend weed
1654
01:17:02,860 --> 01:17:04,510
that I feel would be best for them you
1655
01:17:04,510 --> 01:17:05,949
know sometimes people are having really
1656
01:17:05,949 --> 01:17:08,050
bad days and they don't they they don't
1657
01:17:08,050 --> 01:17:09,460
feel like talking as much so they want
1658
01:17:09,460 --> 01:17:11,170
something to mellow them out other times
1659
01:17:11,170 --> 01:17:12,670
some people are feeling really bad or
1660
01:17:12,670 --> 01:17:14,260
upset that they just want to have
1661
01:17:14,260 --> 01:17:16,300
something to make them have an uplifting
1662
01:17:16,300 --> 01:17:17,860
feel so you get something more of like a
1663
01:17:17,860 --> 01:17:19,840
citrus or something that has a more
1664
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:22,599
upbringing feel to it originally when it
1665
01:17:22,599 --> 01:17:24,130
first came out when it was medically
1666
01:17:24,130 --> 01:17:27,429
walk into a doctor's office and you'd go
1667
01:17:27,429 --> 01:17:29,739
into the office and you first talk to
1668
01:17:29,739 --> 01:17:31,059
one the receptionist would probably be a
1669
01:17:31,059 --> 01:17:32,739
very attractive woman depending on how
1670
01:17:32,739 --> 01:17:34,630
it is because you know in California
1671
01:17:34,630 --> 01:17:36,760
there's a lot of backward doctors that
1672
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:38,229
you know just give out wrecks like
1673
01:17:38,229 --> 01:17:39,760
nothing you know like oh you you're
1674
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:41,979
sleepy you get some cannabis but then
1675
01:17:41,979 --> 01:17:43,449
there are doctors actually ask you more
1676
01:17:43,449 --> 01:17:45,249
you know thorough questions actually ask
1677
01:17:45,249 --> 01:17:46,809
you you know what are you paying and
1678
01:17:46,809 --> 01:17:48,579
your insomnia is nothing has to see if
1679
01:17:48,579 --> 01:17:51,999
cannabis is best for you and so it
1680
01:17:51,999 --> 01:17:53,229
really just depends on where that person
1681
01:17:53,229 --> 01:17:55,690
goes to get their doctor recommendation
1682
01:17:55,690 --> 01:17:57,309
which is really determined on the
1683
01:17:57,309 --> 01:17:59,409
process the change in culture you can
1684
01:17:59,409 --> 01:18:01,719
see it's a lot less black market
1685
01:18:01,719 --> 01:18:04,269
a lot more open see a lot more cost
1686
01:18:04,269 --> 01:18:06,820
obviously just being more compliant with
1687
01:18:06,820 --> 01:18:08,829
it you know just just more in the sense
1688
01:18:08,829 --> 01:18:11,440
of kind of just being accepting of it
1689
01:18:11,440 --> 01:18:13,300
it's it's a whole culture of like you
1690
01:18:13,300 --> 01:18:15,130
see even the older generation I used to
1691
01:18:15,130 --> 01:18:16,960
call all of us drug users and drug
1692
01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:18,760
abusers you even seeing them start
1693
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:20,590
seeing and hearing about it and you know
1694
01:18:20,590 --> 01:18:22,479
it's very big with the Hispanic culture
1695
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:24,989
that like that's something that would be
1696
01:18:24,989 --> 01:18:27,489
that would be looked down upon and be
1697
01:18:27,489 --> 01:18:28,179
frowned upon
1698
01:18:28,179 --> 01:18:30,249
heard also test was just like obviously
1699
01:18:30,249 --> 01:18:32,289
this is about the naturalness of it like
1700
01:18:32,289 --> 01:18:33,820
weed is very natural but it's also if
1701
01:18:33,820 --> 01:18:35,499
you you know you feel sick sometimes you
1702
01:18:35,499 --> 01:18:37,389
feel crappy and sluggish you need to eat
1703
01:18:37,389 --> 01:18:39,369
better you know you need to put better
1704
01:18:39,369 --> 01:18:41,229
things in your body you know weed is a
1705
01:18:41,229 --> 01:18:43,300
better alternative to any kind of
1706
01:18:43,300 --> 01:18:44,619
medicine you can be taking cuz pill
1707
01:18:44,619 --> 01:18:46,539
forms all this other stuff that they add
1708
01:18:46,539 --> 01:18:48,639
and all these you know Jill's and
1709
01:18:48,639 --> 01:18:50,469
powders and stuff that that breakdown in
1710
01:18:50,469 --> 01:18:52,780
your body like what's all that extra you
1711
01:18:52,780 --> 01:18:56,940
know compared to just burning of a leaf
1712
01:18:59,489 --> 01:19:03,340
my name is Kendrick Mejia aka poly Rob
1713
01:19:03,340 --> 01:19:06,369
and I am a producer and engineer and
1714
01:19:06,369 --> 01:19:10,030
co-owner of local astronauts local
1715
01:19:10,030 --> 01:19:13,659
astronauts is a it's a company which
1716
01:19:13,659 --> 01:19:16,139
consists of a collective of creatives
1717
01:19:16,139 --> 01:19:19,090
that's coming together for you know a
1718
01:19:19,090 --> 01:19:22,510
culture rebranding music production
1719
01:19:22,510 --> 01:19:25,719
video production and we really were
1720
01:19:25,719 --> 01:19:29,079
really about advancing the culture as we
1721
01:19:29,079 --> 01:19:30,880
see it and where we want to see it
1722
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:32,559
within the next you know a couple of
1723
01:19:32,559 --> 01:19:36,909
years at 34 years old you know being I
1724
01:19:36,909 --> 01:19:41,190
consider the business prime of my time
1725
01:19:41,190 --> 01:19:44,440
you know before I never used to smoke
1726
01:19:44,440 --> 01:19:47,800
weed at all during my 20s early 20s mid
1727
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:50,320
20s I never used to smoke weed in my
1728
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:55,119
brain it was always a point of trying to
1729
01:19:55,119 --> 01:19:57,760
just stay abrupt and
1730
01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:00,610
and be just the first person moving and
1731
01:20:00,610 --> 01:20:03,760
I felt that weed was the exact opposite
1732
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:05,530
of what I was trying to accomplish you
1733
01:20:05,530 --> 01:20:06,760
know all of my friends they smoke weed
1734
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,250
which all due respect is great not a
1735
01:20:09,250 --> 01:20:12,100
problem it was just for me I didn't want
1736
01:20:12,100 --> 01:20:13,840
to feel sluggish I didn't want to feel
1737
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:19,000
like I was the person that would just
1738
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:21,400
forget things or you know just kind of a
1739
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:23,830
cliche ideas of what you thought
1740
01:20:23,830 --> 01:20:25,930
marijuana you know would do to you and
1741
01:20:25,930 --> 01:20:28,810
this is only just my natural ignorance
1742
01:20:28,810 --> 01:20:32,620
of not knowing about marijuana so you
1743
01:20:32,620 --> 01:20:36,040
know fast forward you know to about a
1744
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:39,370
couple of years ago you know I'm getting
1745
01:20:39,370 --> 01:20:42,550
off the plane after 18 hours of you know
1746
01:20:42,550 --> 01:20:45,070
doing a session in Ohio I get off the
1747
01:20:45,070 --> 01:20:47,470
plane and I come back to my studio in
1748
01:20:47,470 --> 01:20:51,790
Los Angeles another set of clients calls
1749
01:20:51,790 --> 01:20:53,650
me about three in the morning which is
1750
01:20:53,650 --> 01:20:55,980
this is like my peak hours to either
1751
01:20:55,980 --> 01:21:00,100
keep working or finish the day off like
1752
01:21:00,100 --> 01:21:02,530
completely finish today so they called
1753
01:21:02,530 --> 01:21:04,690
me they say hey man we're you know we're
1754
01:21:04,690 --> 01:21:07,390
in town we got off the plane early we're
1755
01:21:07,390 --> 01:21:10,060
in town so they pull up to my studio and
1756
01:21:10,060 --> 01:21:12,820
you know we proceeded to play music you
1757
01:21:12,820 --> 01:21:15,160
know talk a little bit about business or
1758
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:16,930
whatnot and we just were enjoying each
1759
01:21:16,930 --> 01:21:19,890
other's company of course it's all about
1760
01:21:19,890 --> 01:21:22,780
five six in the morning so when they
1761
01:21:22,780 --> 01:21:24,190
leave they say okay we're going back to
1762
01:21:24,190 --> 01:21:26,680
the hotel we're gonna you know settled a
1763
01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:29,320
get some sleep wake up and let's
1764
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:31,900
continue to discuss whatever it is we
1765
01:21:31,900 --> 01:21:35,250
need to do so fine so they've gone I
1766
01:21:35,250 --> 01:21:37,660
proceeded to lay down because now I'm in
1767
01:21:37,660 --> 01:21:40,239
the studio I'm not gonna travel home I
1768
01:21:40,239 --> 01:21:43,510
was just not traveling alone so I sleep
1769
01:21:43,510 --> 01:21:46,350
in the studio and I lay on my couch and
1770
01:21:46,350 --> 01:21:50,590
when I wake up however my face was laid
1771
01:21:50,590 --> 01:21:53,730
on the couch it stayed like that
1772
01:21:53,730 --> 01:21:57,400
completely like it was my entire face
1773
01:21:57,400 --> 01:22:00,760
was just was the shut-in just to one
1774
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:03,910
facial expression and my and it was
1775
01:22:03,910 --> 01:22:06,489
drooping my face was very droopy so I'm
1776
01:22:06,489 --> 01:22:08,890
no I'm trying to wash my face with water
1777
01:22:08,890 --> 01:22:10,780
trying to figure this thing out and it
1778
01:22:10,780 --> 01:22:11,170
just
1779
01:22:11,170 --> 01:22:13,780
go so had to postpone the meeting you
1780
01:22:13,780 --> 01:22:15,610
know went to the doctor and a doctor
1781
01:22:15,610 --> 01:22:18,400
told me I had Bell's palsy and Bell's
1782
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:21,310
palsy is pretty much in a nutshell it's
1783
01:22:21,310 --> 01:22:24,790
when your when your your brain nerves
1784
01:22:24,790 --> 01:22:28,440
don't react to your face you your face
1785
01:22:28,440 --> 01:22:32,679
you know nervous so you know it's
1786
01:22:32,679 --> 01:22:35,699
terrible and it comes from lack of sleep
1787
01:22:35,699 --> 01:22:38,110
you know in a stress stress that you
1788
01:22:38,110 --> 01:22:40,210
know you don't know you have you know
1789
01:22:40,210 --> 01:22:43,300
you can be working 1820 hours if you
1790
01:22:43,300 --> 01:22:45,160
don't allow your body to relax and
1791
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:48,429
tranquilize you know you can you know
1792
01:22:48,429 --> 01:22:50,640
easily you know put your body into
1793
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:54,100
almost like a semi you know semi stroke
1794
01:22:54,100 --> 01:22:56,380
I had to take pills I took pills for
1795
01:22:56,380 --> 01:22:59,790
about four days a muscle relaxants I
1796
01:22:59,790 --> 01:23:02,290
just wasn't into it wasn't into it at
1797
01:23:02,290 --> 01:23:05,620
all so one of my colleagues suggested
1798
01:23:05,620 --> 01:23:09,100
that I smoke marijuana you know the
1799
01:23:09,100 --> 01:23:10,900
accident they said have you ever tried
1800
01:23:10,900 --> 01:23:13,030
smoking where marijuana so you know
1801
01:23:13,030 --> 01:23:15,550
relax your nerves I'm like no I don't
1802
01:23:15,550 --> 01:23:16,150
smoke
1803
01:23:16,150 --> 01:23:17,679
and they're like you should definitely
1804
01:23:17,679 --> 01:23:19,179
try it like this is this is something
1805
01:23:19,179 --> 01:23:21,910
that can eventually turn into a major
1806
01:23:21,910 --> 01:23:24,460
stroke if you don't treat it properly I
1807
01:23:24,460 --> 01:23:26,350
thought about it for a minute then you
1808
01:23:26,350 --> 01:23:30,630
know other options of cannabis lotions
1809
01:23:30,630 --> 01:23:33,850
taking edibles some things like that so
1810
01:23:33,850 --> 01:23:35,920
I started to smoke you know smoke
1811
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:39,330
marijuana and like literally immediately
1812
01:23:39,330 --> 01:23:42,699
after my face would just it would twitch
1813
01:23:42,699 --> 01:23:44,590
a little bit and then it would formulate
1814
01:23:44,590 --> 01:23:48,250
itself for me to be able to speak a lot
1815
01:23:48,250 --> 01:23:50,469
better and like even now but you can
1816
01:23:50,469 --> 01:23:55,660
still see bits of my face that are are
1817
01:23:55,660 --> 01:23:58,420
still working itself out and it really
1818
01:23:58,420 --> 01:24:00,429
it works some wonder it really puts my
1819
01:24:00,429 --> 01:24:03,340
face back in and so normal along with of
1820
01:24:03,340 --> 01:24:06,730
course proper eating and you know facial
1821
01:24:06,730 --> 01:24:09,940
exercises it allows me to kind of get
1822
01:24:09,940 --> 01:24:13,510
everything back into motion and I just
1823
01:24:13,510 --> 01:24:16,750
had a newfound respect for what
1824
01:24:16,750 --> 01:24:19,420
marijuana does I you know I have a
1825
01:24:19,420 --> 01:24:22,600
totally totally newfound respect and
1826
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:23,750
then you know after
1827
01:24:23,750 --> 01:24:26,840
a lot more homework you know
1828
01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:29,330
social media is just open so after doing
1829
01:24:29,330 --> 01:24:31,130
a lot more homework I started to figure
1830
01:24:31,130 --> 01:24:33,860
out that it's just so many health
1831
01:24:33,860 --> 01:24:38,570
benefits for cannabis you know and I'm
1832
01:24:38,570 --> 01:24:41,750
definitely appreciative of being able to
1833
01:24:41,750 --> 01:24:44,210
have the opportunity to even get myself
1834
01:24:44,210 --> 01:24:47,150
back to normal you know the average
1835
01:24:47,150 --> 01:24:50,840
person if they're not on medication and
1836
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:53,270
they have a Bell's palsy or cerebral
1837
01:24:53,270 --> 01:24:56,060
palsy or mini-strokes or you know
1838
01:24:56,060 --> 01:24:59,120
different you know different diseases or
1839
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:01,640
symptoms like you know some of them are
1840
01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:03,680
so far gone they don't have the ability
1841
01:25:03,680 --> 01:25:05,930
to get back as it's like their body is
1842
01:25:05,930 --> 01:25:07,280
at that point where it's just it's a
1843
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:10,490
breaking point so I was just I was lucky
1844
01:25:10,490 --> 01:25:13,370
to be able to have the privilege of even
1845
01:25:13,370 --> 01:25:16,070
have an opportunity to get back and you
1846
01:25:16,070 --> 01:25:18,710
know and it's changed the whole way I
1847
01:25:18,710 --> 01:25:23,210
kind of look at how I enjoy and endure
1848
01:25:23,210 --> 01:25:25,340
life as well you know I mean so it's
1849
01:25:25,340 --> 01:25:28,870
it's a beautiful thing for me now
1850
01:25:29,130 --> 01:25:33,779
[Music]
1851
01:25:34,219 --> 01:25:37,949
so I was inspired to to open Harborside
1852
01:25:37,949 --> 01:25:41,640
by the lack of a really responsible
1853
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:44,070
professional dispensary when I came to
1854
01:25:44,070 --> 01:25:46,620
California there were dispensaries that
1855
01:25:46,620 --> 01:25:48,390
had been started by activists which were
1856
01:25:48,390 --> 01:25:50,310
very amateurish and there were
1857
01:25:50,310 --> 01:25:52,080
dispensaries that were started by people
1858
01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:54,060
who really just wanted to make as much
1859
01:25:54,060 --> 01:25:55,679
money as they could as quickly as they
1860
01:25:55,679 --> 01:25:59,340
could and they were ugly and scary so I
1861
01:25:59,340 --> 01:26:01,170
wanted to create a gold standard for
1862
01:26:01,170 --> 01:26:03,780
cannabis retailing to show that when
1863
01:26:03,780 --> 01:26:05,790
this activity is done with intelligence
1864
01:26:05,790 --> 01:26:08,130
and integrity that it can bring benefits
1865
01:26:08,130 --> 01:26:10,530
to communities instead of harms the
1866
01:26:10,530 --> 01:26:12,690
whole idea of Harborside from the
1867
01:26:12,690 --> 01:26:16,310
beginning was to create a truly
1868
01:26:16,310 --> 01:26:19,350
responsible professional cannabis
1869
01:26:19,350 --> 01:26:21,480
retail environment someplace that was
1870
01:26:21,480 --> 01:26:24,750
really worthy of the plant and so we set
1871
01:26:24,750 --> 01:26:26,850
out from from the beginning to sort of
1872
01:26:26,850 --> 01:26:29,909
create a temple to cannabis Harborside
1873
01:26:29,909 --> 01:26:33,150
started as a family business as we've
1874
01:26:33,150 --> 01:26:35,670
grown it's become bigger than than my
1875
01:26:35,670 --> 01:26:37,800
family could manage and we are now you
1876
01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:39,719
know growing into a real company a real
1877
01:26:39,719 --> 01:26:43,110
corporation but we always work hard to
1878
01:26:43,110 --> 01:26:45,719
maintain the same sense of caring about
1879
01:26:45,719 --> 01:26:49,050
each other and for each other that that
1880
01:26:49,050 --> 01:26:51,270
you would see in a family that we've
1881
01:26:51,270 --> 01:26:54,030
always had here at Harbor side we we
1882
01:26:54,030 --> 01:26:55,590
don't want to just create a new business
1883
01:26:55,590 --> 01:26:58,080
or even a new industry we want to create
1884
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:00,540
a new kind of business a new kind of
1885
01:27:00,540 --> 01:27:03,300
industry that smashes the old models and
1886
01:27:03,300 --> 01:27:06,150
is really like committed to building the
1887
01:27:06,150 --> 01:27:07,800
kind of world we all want to live in a
1888
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:09,960
world that's that has sustainable
1889
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:12,060
practices in it a world that reflects
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01:27:12,060 --> 01:27:13,860
the diversity of human beings a world
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01:27:13,860 --> 01:27:15,929
that's fair to everybody and takes care
1892
01:27:15,929 --> 01:27:17,460
of everybody and so we try to do that
1893
01:27:17,460 --> 01:27:18,840
here and model that world we want to
1894
01:27:18,840 --> 01:27:23,310
live in the four-year experiment in
1895
01:27:23,310 --> 01:27:26,310
Colorado cannabis was first to
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01:27:26,310 --> 01:27:30,780
criminalized in Colorado in 1975
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01:27:30,780 --> 01:27:33,370
that was still illegal it was not a
1898
01:27:33,370 --> 01:27:36,400
criminal offense meaning that you could
1899
01:27:36,400 --> 01:27:39,130
not go to prison for possession only a
1900
01:27:39,130 --> 01:27:44,710
civil fine could be imposed in 2000 the
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01:27:44,710 --> 01:27:46,660
23rd man went to the States Constitution
1902
01:27:46,660 --> 01:27:49,980
may cannabis legal for medical purposes
1903
01:27:49,980 --> 01:27:51,699
anyone with a doctor's prescription
1904
01:27:51,699 --> 01:27:54,520
could now access cannabis as a medicine
1905
01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:58,030
in 2014
1906
01:27:58,030 --> 01:28:00,820
Colorado legalized recreational cannabis
1907
01:28:00,820 --> 01:28:02,980
in the 64th Amendment to its
1908
01:28:02,980 --> 01:28:03,960
constitution
1909
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:08,050
since that time adults over 21 can
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01:28:08,050 --> 01:28:10,239
legally smoke or ingest cannabis on
1911
01:28:10,239 --> 01:28:14,020
private premises also people can grow up
1912
01:28:14,020 --> 01:28:17,170
to six plants and travel in state with
1913
01:28:17,170 --> 01:28:20,530
up to one ounce the Colorado Department
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01:28:20,530 --> 01:28:23,620
of Revenue showed that recreational and
1915
01:28:23,620 --> 01:28:26,710
medical cannabis sales reached 1.3
1916
01:28:26,710 --> 01:28:30,820
billion in 2016 8 out of the 12 months
1917
01:28:30,820 --> 01:28:32,949
in that year reached over a hundred
1918
01:28:32,949 --> 01:28:36,040
million and revenue which yielded nearly
1919
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:41,770
200 million in tax 2017 soar rise to
1920
01:28:41,770 --> 01:28:44,540
around 1.8 billion in revenue
1921
01:28:44,540 --> 01:28:45,920
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1922
01:28:45,920 --> 01:28:48,140
as the rest of the United States is
1923
01:28:48,140 --> 01:28:49,670
seeing a rise in crime
1924
01:28:49,670 --> 01:28:52,400
Colorado is seeing a decrease in serious
1925
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:54,890
crimes such as homicide and robbery
1926
01:28:54,890 --> 01:28:59,300
since legalization cannabis use in 12 to
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01:28:59,300 --> 01:29:01,900
17 year olds has decreased significantly
1928
01:29:01,900 --> 01:29:05,600
but adult use especially those over 50
1929
01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:10,070
have skyrocketed drug-related deaths
1930
01:29:10,070 --> 01:29:12,290
have decreased due to the decline in
1931
01:29:12,290 --> 01:29:18,350
opioid use and other hard drugs in 2017
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01:29:18,350 --> 01:29:20,860
three years after legalizing cannabis
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01:29:20,860 --> 01:29:22,910
Colorado had the lowest unemployment
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01:29:22,910 --> 01:29:26,570
rate in the country at 2.3 percent the
1935
01:29:26,570 --> 01:29:31,850
lowest since 2001 in 2015 alone the
1936
01:29:31,850 --> 01:29:34,730
state's cannabis industry created 18,000
1937
01:29:34,730 --> 01:29:39,650
new full-time jobs cannabis turns out to
1938
01:29:39,650 --> 01:29:42,380
be a stronger economic driver than 90%
1939
01:29:42,380 --> 01:29:46,010
of the industry's active in Colorado my
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01:29:46,010 --> 01:29:48,200
name is Pepe Breton and I'm the owner
1941
01:29:48,200 --> 01:29:53,150
CEO you flora which is a chain of retail
1942
01:29:53,150 --> 01:29:55,730
stores in Denver Colorado at the
1943
01:29:55,730 --> 01:29:57,290
beginning you know I was in corporate
1944
01:29:57,290 --> 01:30:01,280
America and I was kind of tired and I
1945
01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:03,110
always want to do my own business and at
1946
01:30:03,110 --> 01:30:05,300
the time I was searching for you know
1947
01:30:05,300 --> 01:30:07,310
what I can do business-wise that I can
1948
01:30:07,310 --> 01:30:11,270
be my own boss and at the time this
1949
01:30:11,270 --> 01:30:13,190
whole medical marijuana movement was
1950
01:30:13,190 --> 01:30:16,760
going like crazy and I said hey like you
1951
01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:19,250
know if you know drug dealers can do it
1952
01:30:19,250 --> 01:30:21,560
and are not so smart and like I'm sure I
1953
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:24,140
can figure out how to do it so at the
1954
01:30:24,140 --> 01:30:26,230
time I partner up with a friend of mine
1955
01:30:26,230 --> 01:30:29,150
back route tomatoes and the one thing I
1956
01:30:29,150 --> 01:30:31,610
knew is that if you can grow tomatoes so
1957
01:30:31,610 --> 01:30:34,910
you can grow anything so I partner up
1958
01:30:34,910 --> 01:30:35,990
with my friend and I was like they're
1959
01:30:35,990 --> 01:30:38,630
like you know how to grow tomatoes with
1960
01:30:38,630 --> 01:30:41,900
scigirl marijuana for medicinal purposes
1961
01:30:41,900 --> 01:30:44,600
and yeah it just kind of started from
1962
01:30:44,600 --> 01:30:48,370
there I took a $30,000 investment to
1963
01:30:48,370 --> 01:30:51,730
we are now really recreational was what
1964
01:30:51,730 --> 01:30:53,770
took marijuana to the next level because
1965
01:30:53,770 --> 01:30:55,300
back then it was just about a hundred
1966
01:30:55,300 --> 01:30:57,640
thousand patients and you have you know
1967
01:30:57,640 --> 01:31:00,190
hundreds of dispensaries and once it
1968
01:31:00,190 --> 01:31:02,020
became recreational now you're talking
1969
01:31:02,020 --> 01:31:04,660
you know millions of people millions of
1970
01:31:04,660 --> 01:31:07,120
tourists so now it really has become a
1971
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:10,240
legitimate industry that you know
1972
01:31:10,240 --> 01:31:12,010
creates millions of dollars of tax
1973
01:31:12,010 --> 01:31:14,770
revenue and you know hundreds of
1974
01:31:14,770 --> 01:31:17,050
thousands of jobs now and really has
1975
01:31:17,050 --> 01:31:21,250
helped Colorado economy tremendously you
1976
01:31:21,250 --> 01:31:22,630
know I think the best statistic that
1977
01:31:22,630 --> 01:31:25,300
I've heard is as far as crime coming
1978
01:31:25,300 --> 01:31:28,180
down they used to say that April was the
1979
01:31:28,180 --> 01:31:30,490
highest month as far as crime rate goes
1980
01:31:30,490 --> 01:31:34,390
and now with you know 4/20 being April
1981
01:31:34,390 --> 01:31:35,440
20th
1982
01:31:35,440 --> 01:31:38,680
they said this last year was like you
1983
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:40,450
know the least crime and the month of
1984
01:31:40,450 --> 01:31:45,040
April definitely yes like marijuana has
1985
01:31:45,040 --> 01:31:47,530
taken some share from you know drinking
1986
01:31:47,530 --> 01:31:50,020
so maybe the people that were drinking
1987
01:31:50,020 --> 01:31:51,550
then now they're smoking and you know
1988
01:31:51,550 --> 01:31:53,260
typically when you're gonna be smoking
1989
01:31:53,260 --> 01:31:54,880
you just want to sit on your house and
1990
01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:57,190
relax you never see anybody you know
1991
01:31:57,190 --> 01:31:59,380
trying to get violent or crazy or you
1992
01:31:59,380 --> 01:32:01,510
know ballsy they're just you know cool
1993
01:32:01,510 --> 01:32:04,330
chill people I want to relax happy so
1994
01:32:04,330 --> 01:32:05,890
that's that you know that's a huge
1995
01:32:05,890 --> 01:32:07,750
positive when you think about marijuana
1996
01:32:07,750 --> 01:32:10,570
versus alcohol so yeah definitely
1997
01:32:10,570 --> 01:32:13,840
marijuana has definitely changed I'll
1998
01:32:13,840 --> 01:32:16,390
say maybe not the world now but
1999
01:32:16,390 --> 01:32:18,250
definitely has changed Colorado like
2000
01:32:18,250 --> 01:32:20,380
there's no way that without marijuana at
2001
01:32:20,380 --> 01:32:22,570
Colorado will be where it is which you
2002
01:32:22,570 --> 01:32:25,870
know we're one of the top states as far
2003
01:32:25,870 --> 01:32:29,080
as growth and real estate and I mean we
2004
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:31,240
see thousands of people moving every
2005
01:32:31,240 --> 01:32:34,090
month from different states and probably
2006
01:32:34,090 --> 01:32:35,500
have about a hundred employees that are
2007
01:32:35,500 --> 01:32:38,020
those 100 employees like 70% of them
2008
01:32:38,020 --> 01:32:40,360
they come from different states and they
2009
01:32:40,360 --> 01:32:43,620
come because it's in this range
2010
01:32:54,449 --> 01:32:59,040
the United Nations meeting last April
2011
01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:01,540
the United Nations General Assembly
2012
01:33:01,540 --> 01:33:07,719
special session on drugs turned global
2013
01:33:07,719 --> 01:33:10,090
drug policy on its head and that was an
2014
01:33:10,090 --> 01:33:13,630
incredibly important meeting what the
2015
01:33:13,630 --> 01:33:16,350
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
2016
01:33:16,350 --> 01:33:18,760
representative said was that
2017
01:33:18,760 --> 01:33:22,000
evidence-based public health policy on
2018
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:25,300
drugs is here to stay the relevance of
2019
01:33:25,300 --> 01:33:29,020
this to medical cannabis is that in our
2020
01:33:29,020 --> 01:33:32,590
view there is now adequate evidence to
2021
01:33:32,590 --> 01:33:35,650
show that patients should have access to
2022
01:33:35,650 --> 01:33:39,250
cannabis for medical purposes the UN are
2023
01:33:39,250 --> 01:33:41,969
saying let's have evidence-based policy
2024
01:33:41,969 --> 01:33:45,580
in my view they are therefore saying
2025
01:33:45,580 --> 01:33:48,520
let's have legalization of cannabis for
2026
01:33:48,520 --> 01:33:50,619
medical use they haven't actually said
2027
01:33:50,619 --> 01:33:53,199
that but the implications of what they
2028
01:33:53,199 --> 01:33:56,170
said about evidence are very clear to me
2029
01:33:56,170 --> 01:33:58,860
and I feel the UK should therefore act
2030
01:33:58,860 --> 01:34:03,610
we need to regulate all drugs not in the
2031
01:34:03,610 --> 01:34:04,960
interest of the pharmaceutical countries
2032
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:07,480
mainly the interest of the those who are
2033
01:34:07,480 --> 01:34:08,800
vulnerable we're taking them and
2034
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:12,159
certainly if when cannabis is on sale
2035
01:34:12,159 --> 01:34:14,230
here there ought to be regulations to
2036
01:34:14,230 --> 01:34:17,020
prevent their issues by children by
2037
01:34:17,020 --> 01:34:18,940
pregnant women by people with mental
2038
01:34:18,940 --> 01:34:21,460
health problems we what we need is
2039
01:34:21,460 --> 01:34:24,400
cannabis that can be used without being
2040
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:27,219
mixed with that hideous toxic killer
2041
01:34:27,219 --> 01:34:29,980
drug tobacco which is acerra be
2042
01:34:29,980 --> 01:34:31,600
responsible for so much harm in the
2043
01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:34,000
world and we can do that with a legal
2044
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:36,639
market it can be used as a food as a
2045
01:34:36,639 --> 01:34:39,340
drink as a vapor and it doesn't need to
2046
01:34:39,340 --> 01:34:40,780
give you our hide having medicinal
2047
01:34:40,780 --> 01:34:42,790
effect nobody you know that's the way
2048
01:34:42,790 --> 01:34:45,300
the progress will be made at the moment
2049
01:34:45,300 --> 01:34:48,369
scientific research is inhibited by a
2050
01:34:48,369 --> 01:34:50,860
law that restricts research and
2051
01:34:50,860 --> 01:34:53,830
restricts its use in experimental ways
2052
01:34:53,830 --> 01:34:56,889
this whole subject area is packed full
2053
01:34:56,889 --> 01:34:58,730
of hypocrisy
2054
01:34:58,730 --> 01:35:01,040
fact that probably a lot of government
2055
01:35:01,040 --> 01:35:04,130
ministers smoke cannabis at a younger
2056
01:35:04,130 --> 01:35:08,300
age and yet are happy to condemn their
2057
01:35:08,300 --> 01:35:10,760
fellow citizens to a criminal record and
2058
01:35:10,760 --> 01:35:13,220
the consequence of lighting those
2059
01:35:13,220 --> 01:35:17,060
people's careers the fact that many of
2060
01:35:17,060 --> 01:35:19,820
those ministers will drink significant
2061
01:35:19,820 --> 01:35:23,180
quantities of alcohol which we know in
2062
01:35:23,180 --> 01:35:25,640
terms of an objective assessment of harm
2063
01:35:25,640 --> 01:35:28,850
is significantly more harmful than
2064
01:35:28,850 --> 01:35:31,280
cannabis and indeed many of them will
2065
01:35:31,280 --> 01:35:34,640
smoke as well so there's hypocrisy
2066
01:35:34,640 --> 01:35:38,450
everywhere to be seen and my plea is for
2067
01:35:38,450 --> 01:35:42,410
us to base our policymaking and our
2068
01:35:42,410 --> 01:35:45,920
lawmaking on evidence not on fear and
2069
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:53,680
anxiety and Prejudice I said to my MP a
2070
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:56,810
bureau so ago I have constant sort of
2071
01:35:56,810 --> 01:35:58,400
lobbying situation they might say to him
2072
01:35:58,400 --> 01:36:01,520
why can you not just place the
2073
01:36:01,520 --> 01:36:03,410
responsibility in the hands of doctors
2074
01:36:03,410 --> 01:36:06,260
you know doctors we trust doctors
2075
01:36:06,260 --> 01:36:09,140
they're trained they're professionals
2076
01:36:09,140 --> 01:36:11,030
you know will you rely on them at all
2077
01:36:11,030 --> 01:36:12,530
aspects of our health why can you not
2078
01:36:12,530 --> 01:36:14,720
just give it to doctors and say you can
2079
01:36:14,720 --> 01:36:15,980
decide whether or not to prescribe
2080
01:36:15,980 --> 01:36:18,110
cannabis and he said to me you put the
2081
01:36:18,110 --> 01:36:19,820
trouble is we did that they prescribed
2082
01:36:19,820 --> 01:36:23,900
it which it which is almost like
2083
01:36:23,900 --> 01:36:25,130
something it's almost like a Yes
2084
01:36:25,130 --> 01:36:26,780
Minister script you know it's just
2085
01:36:26,780 --> 01:36:28,850
ridiculous but that's the sort of
2086
01:36:28,850 --> 01:36:33,320
bigotry and an exam in transits so that
2087
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:37,250
we're up against I strongly think we
2088
01:36:37,250 --> 01:36:40,489
should decriminalize cameras use there's
2089
01:36:40,489 --> 01:36:42,320
a lot of people who would benefit from
2090
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:44,000
it if you think of all the thousands of
2091
01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:45,350
people in this country with chronic pain
2092
01:36:45,350 --> 01:36:47,750
from various causes all those people
2093
01:36:47,750 --> 01:36:50,030
with muscles spasm from endless causes
2094
01:36:50,030 --> 01:36:51,739
of stroke and brain injury multiple
2095
01:36:51,739 --> 01:36:54,860
sclerosis let alone those who anxiety or
2096
01:36:54,860 --> 01:36:57,170
epilepsy or nausea after chemotherapy
2097
01:36:57,170 --> 01:37:00,170
the numbers have tens of thousands of
2098
01:37:00,170 --> 01:37:01,970
people tens of thousands who could
2099
01:37:01,970 --> 01:37:03,950
benefit from cannabis at the moment
2100
01:37:03,950 --> 01:37:06,380
we're forcing them into the criminal
2101
01:37:06,380 --> 01:37:08,419
market we're making them criminals
2102
01:37:08,419 --> 01:37:10,340
there are one or two compounds that you
2103
01:37:10,340 --> 01:37:12,050
can legally prescribed but they're of
2104
01:37:12,050 --> 01:37:13,999
rather limited value in terms of their
2105
01:37:13,999 --> 01:37:15,679
usefulness for certain specific
2106
01:37:15,679 --> 01:37:18,050
conditions but generally speaking those
2107
01:37:18,050 --> 01:37:20,329
who use cannabis for medical reasons are
2108
01:37:20,329 --> 01:37:22,280
criminals because they have to buy it
2109
01:37:22,280 --> 01:37:25,010
illegally and I think that is appalling
2110
01:37:25,010 --> 01:37:27,260
it's really as time we change that and
2111
01:37:27,260 --> 01:37:29,269
we're behind now the rest of the world
2112
01:37:29,269 --> 01:37:31,699
in terms of the number of countries who
2113
01:37:31,699 --> 01:37:34,219
are looking at or have already legalized
2114
01:37:34,219 --> 01:37:36,949
cannabis for a whole variety of medical
2115
01:37:36,949 --> 01:37:39,079
conditions it's time the UK government
2116
01:37:39,079 --> 01:37:41,749
caught up with world opinion and world
2117
01:37:41,749 --> 01:37:43,849
evidence and may and decriminalize
2118
01:37:43,849 --> 01:37:45,349
cannabis for medical use
2119
01:37:45,349 --> 01:37:48,139
I think it's hypocritical to oppose the
2120
01:37:48,139 --> 01:37:50,329
use of cannabis even for recreational
2121
01:37:50,329 --> 01:37:52,159
use but particularly for medicinal use
2122
01:37:52,159 --> 01:37:54,289
well happily allowing the populace to
2123
01:37:54,289 --> 01:37:56,269
kill themselves with tobacco and alcohol
2124
01:37:56,269 --> 01:37:58,729
and whilst in the case of politicians
2125
01:37:58,729 --> 01:38:01,039
enjoying taxpayer subsidized alcoholic
2126
01:38:01,039 --> 01:38:02,599
beverages in the House of Commons bar
2127
01:38:02,599 --> 01:38:04,369
and pocketing profits from their
2128
01:38:04,369 --> 01:38:05,719
association with pharmaceutical
2129
01:38:05,719 --> 01:38:07,909
companies pharmaceutical companies who
2130
01:38:07,909 --> 01:38:10,579
opposed legalization because a this plot
2131
01:38:10,579 --> 01:38:12,110
is more effective from the drugs that
2132
01:38:12,110 --> 01:38:14,059
they produce and supply to the Health
2133
01:38:14,059 --> 01:38:16,789
Service exorbitant prices and be because
2134
01:38:16,789 --> 01:38:18,679
they can't patent to plan I mean the
2135
01:38:18,679 --> 01:38:25,340
world is twisted the crazy roller
2136
01:38:25,340 --> 01:38:27,530
coaster journey that that belly has
2137
01:38:27,530 --> 01:38:29,449
taken me on over the last number of
2138
01:38:29,449 --> 01:38:36,459
years has flagged up a really important
2139
01:38:37,030 --> 01:38:40,459
issue that has happened was a lower
2140
01:38:40,459 --> 01:38:42,409
country was in Ireland and was from the
2141
01:38:42,409 --> 01:38:45,949
United Kingdom for me as well and was
2142
01:38:45,949 --> 01:38:51,169
some seventeen hawlings Mme and Niemann
2143
01:38:51,169 --> 01:38:55,189
the CBD oil after belly Billy's blood we
2144
01:38:55,189 --> 01:39:02,419
are entered into a project where we want
2145
01:39:02,419 --> 01:39:07,729
to open research facilities here in in
2146
01:39:07,729 --> 01:39:10,659
Ireland and throughout the UK
2147
01:39:10,659 --> 01:39:13,639
first and foremost obviously the
2148
01:39:13,639 --> 01:39:15,409
legislation has to change it has to
2149
01:39:15,409 --> 01:39:17,840
medical cannabis has to be legalized for
2150
01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:20,929
medicinal purposes only research
2151
01:39:20,929 --> 01:39:22,100
facilities
2152
01:39:22,100 --> 01:39:24,470
have to be allowed to go and do this we
2153
01:39:24,470 --> 01:39:30,250
have to be allowed to demonstrate what
2154
01:39:30,250 --> 01:39:33,110
temperature or what what what strain of
2155
01:39:33,110 --> 01:39:34,820
the medicine is appropriate for what
2156
01:39:34,820 --> 01:39:40,250
condition was being allowed to do all
2157
01:39:40,250 --> 01:39:43,730
that within the UK and Ireland we should
2158
01:39:43,730 --> 01:39:47,480
be able to move on then and pump money
2159
01:39:47,480 --> 01:39:50,030
and the the the economy pump money money
2160
01:39:50,030 --> 01:39:51,770
into your horse but he's aunty education
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01:39:51,770 --> 01:39:56,510
and create more jobs it really as a must
2162
01:39:56,510 --> 01:40:00,740
but for me in in in my opinion belly is
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01:40:00,740 --> 01:40:02,600
knowing been on medicinal cannabis for
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01:40:02,600 --> 01:40:06,590
just over a year for me a deal is done
2165
01:40:06,590 --> 01:40:10,310
it's already legal so I I'm really not I
2166
01:40:10,310 --> 01:40:11,870
don't say you didn't be it
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01:40:11,870 --> 01:40:17,660
III don't see the discussions my world
2168
01:40:17,660 --> 01:40:20,750
and what my my message to the
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01:40:20,750 --> 01:40:22,820
politicians and to the doctors in our
2170
01:40:22,820 --> 01:40:26,570
country look let's just get on with the
2171
01:40:26,570 --> 01:40:29,780
job let's get this done belly is the
2172
01:40:29,780 --> 01:40:31,970
proof in the pudding medicinal cannabis
2173
01:40:31,970 --> 01:40:35,120
has given me back my right it's a mummy
2174
01:40:35,120 --> 01:40:38,090
to hope but the most important thing in
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01:40:38,090 --> 01:40:39,590
the midst of all of this is medicinal
2176
01:40:39,590 --> 01:40:41,990
cannabis has given bully back his right
2177
01:40:41,990 --> 01:40:49,160
to life my experience tells me I mean at
2178
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:51,710
the end of the day I'm 69 I've got 10
2179
01:40:51,710 --> 01:40:56,840
grandchildren I've never taken drugs but
2180
01:40:56,840 --> 01:40:59,890
my experience tells me that this works
2181
01:40:59,890 --> 01:41:03,320
medicinally I believe that the
2182
01:41:03,320 --> 01:41:05,380
politicians should take notice of that
2183
01:41:05,380 --> 01:41:08,630
I'm not on my own you know there are
2184
01:41:08,630 --> 01:41:10,670
lots and lots of people if you look on
2185
01:41:10,670 --> 01:41:12,560
the internet who've had the same
2186
01:41:12,560 --> 01:41:17,000
experience and I know that's only
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01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:19,880
anecdotal but what we all what we need
2188
01:41:19,880 --> 01:41:22,150
is we need everybody to get together and
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01:41:22,150 --> 01:41:25,370
so that they've got lots of us telling
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01:41:25,370 --> 01:41:27,320
them that this is worked for me
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01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:30,470
and they need to change things they need
2192
01:41:30,470 --> 01:41:34,130
to legalize it for medicinal purposes
2193
01:41:34,130 --> 01:41:37,580
it's a plan that's a plan it's I just
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01:41:37,580 --> 01:41:39,920
think it's ridiculous it is a plan
2195
01:41:39,920 --> 01:41:42,200
whoever decided that plan should be
2196
01:41:42,200 --> 01:41:45,290
illegal they should be shot and I think
2197
01:41:45,290 --> 01:41:46,460
our government are being highly
2198
01:41:46,460 --> 01:41:49,060
hypocritical because GW Pharmaceuticals
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01:41:49,060 --> 01:41:52,130
well if he are a government for growing
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01:41:52,130 --> 01:41:54,050
in this country don't name and I've
2201
01:41:54,050 --> 01:41:56,330
heard it's about two hundred ton few
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01:41:56,330 --> 01:41:58,370
hundred plus ton of medical cannabis
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01:41:58,370 --> 01:41:59,870
that they actually grow it down in
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01:41:59,870 --> 01:42:02,270
England but not one part of its left and
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01:42:02,270 --> 01:42:04,970
written for any patients it's all
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01:42:04,970 --> 01:42:06,500
shipped other countries in the world for
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01:42:06,500 --> 01:42:09,890
medicinal purposes that's what makes it
2208
01:42:09,890 --> 01:42:12,290
so highly but we need to wonder how many
2209
01:42:12,290 --> 01:42:13,940
other market shares and GW
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01:42:13,940 --> 01:42:16,430
Pharmaceuticals so one of the questions
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01:42:16,430 --> 01:42:20,060
I'm always asked is why is this
2212
01:42:20,060 --> 01:42:22,910
criminalization policy this failed
2213
01:42:22,910 --> 01:42:25,550
public policy why does it continue to be
2214
01:42:25,550 --> 01:42:27,500
perpetuated why does it continue to
2215
01:42:27,500 --> 01:42:30,740
exist in America and and quite frankly
2216
01:42:30,740 --> 01:42:34,780
around the globe and while I can't speak
2217
01:42:34,780 --> 01:42:37,610
directly to the motivations of those
2218
01:42:37,610 --> 01:42:40,400
that are advocating for the continued
2219
01:42:40,400 --> 01:42:41,990
criminalization of cannabis you'd have
2220
01:42:41,990 --> 01:42:44,330
to ask those people yourself what their
2221
01:42:44,330 --> 01:42:48,560
motivations are my suspicion having done
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01:42:48,560 --> 01:42:52,790
this work for so many years is that the
2223
01:42:52,790 --> 01:42:55,190
criminalization and stigmatization of
2224
01:42:55,190 --> 01:42:58,550
cannabis and the users of cannabis it's
2225
01:42:58,550 --> 01:43:01,280
not so much about the plant itself it's
2226
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:03,910
an outgrowth of a broader and ongoing
2227
01:43:03,910 --> 01:43:08,180
culture war where you have one segment
2228
01:43:08,180 --> 01:43:10,340
of the population typically that a
2229
01:43:10,340 --> 01:43:13,180
segment that is in political power
2230
01:43:13,180 --> 01:43:16,280
targeting another segment of this
2231
01:43:16,280 --> 01:43:19,280
population again typically those that
2232
01:43:19,280 --> 01:43:22,190
are poor those that are ethnic
2233
01:43:22,190 --> 01:43:24,650
minorities those that lack political
2234
01:43:24,650 --> 01:43:29,060
power and it's always been about one
2235
01:43:29,060 --> 01:43:32,180
segment of our population targeting the
2236
01:43:32,180 --> 01:43:37,820
other and attributing certain cultural
2237
01:43:37,820 --> 01:43:40,610
beliefs that they have negative beliefs
2238
01:43:40,610 --> 01:43:43,310
and negative stereotypes and applying
2239
01:43:43,310 --> 01:43:45,620
them to these other segments of society
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01:43:45,620 --> 01:43:46,880
and
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01:43:46,880 --> 01:43:51,020
using cannabis as a way to be able to
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01:43:51,020 --> 01:43:55,010
exert political and legal pressure upon
2243
01:43:55,010 --> 01:43:57,770
those segments of society it's not about
2244
01:43:57,770 --> 01:44:00,760
cannabis per se it's about the
2245
01:44:00,760 --> 01:44:03,770
stereotypes that revolve around those
2246
01:44:03,770 --> 01:44:06,440
who certain segments of society believe
2247
01:44:06,440 --> 01:44:09,679
use cannabis and that's really what this
2248
01:44:09,679 --> 01:44:12,320
is about today and that's what it has
2249
01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:16,280
always been about I can well understand
2250
01:44:16,280 --> 01:44:20,239
that some police forces decide that
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01:44:20,239 --> 01:44:22,750
there's a better use of their time in
2252
01:44:22,750 --> 01:44:26,150
chasing serious criminals rather than in
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01:44:26,150 --> 01:44:30,380
arresting people who are using cannabis
2254
01:44:30,380 --> 01:44:34,820
my hope is that all police forces would
2255
01:44:34,820 --> 01:44:38,239
decide that if they find someone using
2256
01:44:38,239 --> 01:44:41,239
cannabis for a medical purpose that they
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01:44:41,239 --> 01:44:46,159
would simply turn away and the more we
2258
01:44:46,159 --> 01:44:48,500
can do to persuade police forces of that
2259
01:44:48,500 --> 01:44:51,830
approach the better for these poor
2260
01:44:51,830 --> 01:44:54,489
patients who are suffering so much and
2261
01:44:54,489 --> 01:44:57,920
for ridiculous political reasons cannot
2262
01:44:57,920 --> 01:45:00,350
get hold of medical medical cannabis to
2263
01:45:00,350 --> 01:45:02,810
help them do we have five objectives I'm
2264
01:45:02,810 --> 01:45:04,100
not sure if I can remember them all off
2265
01:45:04,100 --> 01:45:05,989
facts but the first one is to end the
2266
01:45:05,989 --> 01:45:08,060
prohibition of cannabis as simple as
2267
01:45:08,060 --> 01:45:11,060
that the second one is to promote as a
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01:45:11,060 --> 01:45:13,190
matter of urgency in compassion the
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01:45:13,190 --> 01:45:15,469
prescription of medicinal cannabis by
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01:45:15,469 --> 01:45:18,440
doctors the third one is to introduce a
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01:45:18,440 --> 01:45:22,130
system of regulation and supply for
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01:45:22,130 --> 01:45:24,409
adults about cannabis to remove the
2273
01:45:24,409 --> 01:45:25,909
market filter from the control of
2274
01:45:25,909 --> 01:45:28,639
criminals the fourth one is to educate
2275
01:45:28,639 --> 01:45:31,460
about the the benefits of cannabis and
2276
01:45:31,460 --> 01:45:32,659
present and the fifth one is to
2277
01:45:32,659 --> 01:45:33,830
encourage the production of industrial
2278
01:45:33,830 --> 01:45:36,590
hemp so so really you know we're
2279
01:45:36,590 --> 01:45:39,020
interested in ending the prohibition of
2280
01:45:39,020 --> 01:45:41,060
cannabis in total but it's undoubtedly
2281
01:45:41,060 --> 01:45:43,699
the case of the most urgent necessities
2282
01:45:43,699 --> 01:45:46,639
to deal with the medical issue when you
2283
01:45:46,639 --> 01:45:48,590
look at the neuroprotection qualities of
2284
01:45:48,590 --> 01:45:51,139
cannabis and actually when you look at
2285
01:45:51,139 --> 01:45:54,380
mental health around the world two of
2286
01:45:54,380 --> 01:45:55,940
the most popular reasons for people to
2287
01:45:55,940 --> 01:45:57,350
consume cannabis is anxiety and
2288
01:45:57,350 --> 01:45:58,880
depression and we're not talking about
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01:45:58,880 --> 01:45:59,900
clinical anxiety
2290
01:45:59,900 --> 01:46:01,370
rushon we're talking about that which
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01:46:01,370 --> 01:46:03,650
gets you down every day the kind of
2292
01:46:03,650 --> 01:46:04,580
thing that you'll have a beer in the
2293
01:46:04,580 --> 01:46:05,750
evening because you want to calm down
2294
01:46:05,750 --> 01:46:07,280
before you get a bit you got your mind
2295
01:46:07,280 --> 01:46:08,960
spinning and all that it's it
2296
01:46:08,960 --> 01:46:10,730
that's vogue doubt that it's therapeutic
2297
01:46:10,730 --> 01:46:12,890
and in some ways it is medicinal to
2298
01:46:12,890 --> 01:46:14,090
everybody whether they happen to be
2299
01:46:14,090 --> 01:46:16,310
using it recreationally whether that's
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01:46:16,310 --> 01:46:17,840
what they call it or whether they
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01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:19,310
actually have a medical condition that
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01:46:19,310 --> 01:46:21,230
they're treating with it so we take the
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01:46:21,230 --> 01:46:22,460
view that all cannabis use has
2304
01:46:22,460 --> 01:46:24,620
therapeutic value as long as it's being
2305
01:46:24,620 --> 01:46:26,659
used in a safe responsible way and as
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01:46:26,659 --> 01:46:27,980
long as you know what it is that you're
2307
01:46:27,980 --> 01:46:30,199
using how you're using it what the risks
2308
01:46:30,199 --> 01:46:31,880
are and that's kind of where we're
2309
01:46:31,880 --> 01:46:33,949
coming from I mean what we're fighting
2310
01:46:33,949 --> 01:46:37,190
for is to gain access legal access for
2311
01:46:37,190 --> 01:46:40,429
our patients I mean I put my personal
2312
01:46:40,429 --> 01:46:42,230
belief is that a medical reason to
2313
01:46:42,230 --> 01:46:44,929
access this medicine is of primary
2314
01:46:44,929 --> 01:46:46,190
concern and that's why we're fighting
2315
01:46:46,190 --> 01:46:49,730
for it specifically this this cannabis
2316
01:46:49,730 --> 01:46:53,270
movement it's a global movement every
2317
01:46:53,270 --> 01:46:55,940
living creature on the planet has an
2318
01:46:55,940 --> 01:46:59,560
endocannabinoid system except insects so
2319
01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:03,409
every human being on planet Earth has an
2320
01:47:03,409 --> 01:47:06,290
endocannabinoid system every human being
2321
01:47:06,290 --> 01:47:09,260
can benefit hugely from this medicine we
2322
01:47:09,260 --> 01:47:11,090
have a natural right to this medicine
2323
01:47:11,090 --> 01:47:14,659
right mother nature made us to use it
2324
01:47:14,659 --> 01:47:17,810
our bodies produce it themselves so it
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01:47:17,810 --> 01:47:20,870
is a global movement and and we're just
2326
01:47:20,870 --> 01:47:24,710
beginning to to get the laws in the
2327
01:47:24,710 --> 01:47:26,090
shape that we want them to be in the
2328
01:47:26,090 --> 01:47:28,310
United States there's there's a whole
2329
01:47:28,310 --> 01:47:30,710
world of reform waiting and so my
2330
01:47:30,710 --> 01:47:33,050
message to to people of good conscience
2331
01:47:33,050 --> 01:47:36,170
anywhere is there's a time to deal with
2332
01:47:36,170 --> 01:47:39,010
this issue is now
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[Music]
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well the amazing things happened I'm
2335
01:48:01,739 --> 01:48:05,400
actually in remission so here I am no
2336
01:48:05,400 --> 01:48:09,360
treatment of any thought no chemo no op
2337
01:48:09,360 --> 01:48:13,590
no radio therapy just CBD oil and and
2338
01:48:13,590 --> 01:48:16,260
I'm in complete remission lymph nodes
2339
01:48:16,260 --> 01:48:20,969
are all back to normal I feel great I'm
2340
01:48:20,969 --> 01:48:22,980
the only person I know we wasn't had a
2341
01:48:22,980 --> 01:48:25,679
cold I'm convinced that that's the oil
2342
01:48:25,679 --> 01:48:28,770
that just balances my body and makes me
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01:48:28,770 --> 01:48:30,270
feel well
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01:48:30,270 --> 01:48:31,950
[Music]
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01:48:31,950 --> 01:48:36,820
today belly is is the only person was
2346
01:48:36,820 --> 01:48:39,190
suddenly United Kingdom and Ireland to
2347
01:48:39,190 --> 01:48:40,810
have a prescription on medicinal
2348
01:48:40,810 --> 01:48:44,980
cannabis police neurologist in or me and
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01:48:44,980 --> 01:48:48,870
Hospital in Belfast they agreed to
2350
01:48:48,870 --> 01:48:51,010
support belly and unrighteous
2351
01:48:51,010 --> 01:48:55,840
prescription so dr. Brent no hair has
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01:48:55,840 --> 01:49:00,160
been our family GP for many years Lily's
2353
01:49:00,160 --> 01:49:04,450
prescription and 7:10 Holdings MMA who
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01:49:04,450 --> 01:49:06,550
were supplying Billy has has has
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01:49:06,550 --> 01:49:10,150
medicine no supplier through Bally's
2356
01:49:10,150 --> 01:49:13,890
prescription via via the NHS
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[Music]
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you
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[Music]
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