We can save billions of health dollars while improving health outcomes for the aged, diabetic, obese and more – if we are wise to the facts – and that’s why we are running for ADHB.
1. GPs know almost nothing about cannabis.
2. Once they understand it, they want it fully legalised.
Their reasons are ethical, medical, scientific and simple. Cannabis is full of biosimilar molecules our body naturally makes to protect us from illness and injury. That’s why prohibition is a breach of our human rights, and why cannabis has never killed a human. Ever. It is less toxic than coffee and sugar.
Instead, when used properly, you can use it to enhance healing, maintenance and protection.
Which is why nearly three quarters of GPs educated and surveyed this year thought cannabis could potentially replace more than 30% of all medicines.
If true, that means we could potentially save billions of dollars on foreign pharmaceuticals.
This is important, because:
1. Prescription medicines are our third biggest killer, after heart disease and cancer.
2. Treasury says our chronic health conditions ensure a ‘debt based future’ for New Zealand.
3. In contrast, cannabis is safe, cheap and broadly useful.
Nearly 90% of medical professionals agreed it was ‘safer than most foods we eat daily’, and 81.9% thought it should be in the shops.
Until we taught them, more than three-quarters of GPs had not known the critical importance of the human ‘endo-cannabinoid system’ for health.
The ‘endo-cannabinoid system’ is a major physiological system.
It is a nutrition-dependent regulator of human health. It runs on certain foods.
That medical schools don’t teach it to medical students is a blind spot of great significance from a public health perspective.
Neither hemp nor ‘marijuana’ are miracle drugs.
But our body contains ‘miraculous molecules’ and, hallelujah, our body’s own ‘miracle drugs’ are hidden in these plants. Clearly, this has potential, but we must bridge the knowledge gap if we are to realise this potential, and that’s why we are asking you to Vote Stopford to Start Change in the Local Body Elections. We need to improve our failing and expensive healthcare, it will benefit us all.
Fun facts about cancer and tax
• The Ministry of Health consumes over 16 billion dollars a year.
• According to the World Health Organisation, about a third of that goes on medicine.
• Treasury forecasts a ‘debt based future’ due to the cost of chronic health conditions.
• One in two Kiwis are expected to develop cancer in the near future.
• Cancer is expected to be a $120 billion dollar industry by 2020.
• One of our body’s main ‘cancer killing compounds’ is a cannabinoid.
• It’s called ‘anandamide’.
• It has a plant-based twin called THC.
Taking concentrated cannabis oil theoretically supports anandamide’s cancer-killing power, and could explain all those patient self reports of ‘home cures’. If you would like to see cannabis medicine used properly, please vote Stopford for ADHB. (Tadhg Stopford & Dr Ben Jansen FRNZCGP FRACGP FRNZCUCP)
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