New Zealand’s first school biology unit on ‘A new physiology: your cannabis system’ launches in March.
Schools will finally be equipped to honestly educate children, and youth use of ‘weed’ will drop in response to evidence-based information they can trust.
Teacher interest is ‘high’. Will students respond more maturely than politicians to the evidence? It seems likely. After all, youth use has nearly halved since legalisation according to Statistics Canada from 19 to 10%. Education, and legalisation are the answer to our fears and the harms of prohibition.
Cannabis cures baldness – through your ‘canna system’?
Dr Edward Okai’s mother is a passionate advocate for a plant she once despised. Because now she knows that her body’s own ‘medicine’ is also made by the plant.
After pain drove her to try cannabis oils for relief, Mrs Okai discovered they also made her hair grow back. Alopecia affects a lot of men and women, and male pattern baldness is common. So it would be good if there was a ‘fix’.
While the science is not as glowing as Dr Okai’s mother is, it’s still pretty good. (Google ‘Cannabinoid Signaling in the Skin: Therapeutic Potential of the C(ut)annabinoid System, 2019’, if interested.)
That’s because our body’s ‘cannabis system’ is the guardian of our total health. Your skin (body, brain, etc) is full of canna receptors, and their job is to keep us healthy. But ‘Synnies’ are evil devils, and they mess things up. Like Peter Dunne? (Who’s now on the board of a cannabis company, after single handedly stopping Helen Clark from legalising it.)
Luckily, the cannabinoids in hemp and ‘weed’ can fuel our ‘canna system’. If we know how to use them properly. (Spoiler: it’s not by smoking.) What a shame they are prohibited plants, though! Who decided that?
3,000,000 prescriptions were written the year of hemp’s prohibition, and the American Medical Association fought to keep it legal. It seems odd that cannabis treats more conditions than any pharmaceutical and is neither legal nor a medicine. It’s worse in the US, where it has ‘no medical uses’, which is the opposite of true. But here in New Zealand, no one talks about these things.
Fun fact: 53.2% of ALL medicines target our canna system receptors, and prescription medicines are the third biggest killer after heart disease and cancer. And they are hideously expensive. Could we save billions of dollars and thousands of lives with cannabis? Probably. (Tadhg Stopford)