Cannabis is full of secret, essential vitamins and essential oils.
A deficiency of cannabinoids (“a hypo-cannabinergic state” - Dr Danial Schecter, Director of Global Medical Services for Canopy Growth Corporation of Canada) can result in chronic migraine, sleep issues, IBS, Alzheimers and many other poor physiological conditions because our body’s own cannabinoids are essential for maintaining normal function. Let’s call them vitamin M.
We are lucky hemp/cannabis is full of these vitamins, and lucky that raw hemp/cannabis can only keep you healthy and not get you high.
But we are unlucky that this vegetable is a ‘prohibited plant’, and that our Government’s Medicinal Cannabis scheme promises to make “Cannabis-based dietary supplements and natural health products prescription only.” This is unscientific, unethical and anti competitive. It is bad for our farmers and bad for our citizens.
The Emperor, be it MoH, Labour, NZF, National or Peter Dunne, has no clothes. But whoever is in charge wants us to believe that they are dressed in beautiful garments. Even as they seem prepared to swindle us again. Is the long con of cannabis rolling on?
Catch-22: Can’t legally claim health benefits for hemp, but evidence says we should.
Captain Cook saved his men from scurvy by giving them limes for vitamin C, but if you advertised limes or vitamin C in New Zealand to protect yourself from scurvy, you would be breaking the law.
That’s because ‘therapeutic claims make medicines’. Similarly, if your product contains controlled/prescription drugs.
Dietary supplements cannot contain ingredients scheduled as controlled drugs or prescription medicines. Even if they are essential vitamins for life and health.
Where are our human rights to essential vitamins? Even in a country with a chronic health crisis. Even as we struggle with decades of infrastructure underinvestment.
Even though Treasury says that our chronic health crisis suggests a ‘debt-based future’, vegetable-based vitamins that you can buy in European supermarkets must be prescription medicines here. Why? It makes no scientific sense. Who benefits?
The status quo. Basta. Enough. (Tadhg Stopford)
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11/2019