We are all yin and yang, a mix of masculine and feminine. We are also full of local hormones called cannabinoids. These balance ‘who’ and ‘how’ we are.
These vital molecules maintain our chi, our balance, our life force, our ‘well being’. They do this by providing cellular feedback, and regulating neurotransmission.
This allows our cells to self-correct and self-regulate things like pain, reproduction, skin health, weight, emotion, stress, anxiety, cramps/spasms, and much more. This fact, and thousands of years of evidence from many cultures (ancient and modern/scientific) suggests that cannabis is more a mild kind of ‘universal medicine’, than a tool of Satan.
It also suggests that this vegetable should be more widely available than it is. The fact that even whole hemp is prohibited to the public, (despite over 69 percent of Kiwis wanting THC cannabis to be decriminalised) strikes to the heart of the ‘cannabis paradox’. “Why is hemp hard, when half the country wants cannabis?”
It’s brazen. The biggest lies are the lies of omission though, where they just avoid talk of nutrition or cannabinoid deficiency, or the human cannabinoid system and talk instead about ‘safety’ and ‘equity’ while creating inequitable and ineffective systems.
China has long been a learned culture, and the Emperor Shen Nung (father of Chinese medicine) cited cannabis for use in menstrual pain, rheumatism, gout, and more, in 2750 BC. China still grows more than half the world’s supply of hemp today, and is planting more all the time. Traditional Chinese medicine, unlike its Western counterpart, draws from the wisdom of food herbs.
Queen Victoria herself used cannabis for her menstrual pain, and throughout the British Empire it was a common and popular herb until its unethical prohibition.
In New Zealand it was freely available and affordable to all at chemists. From 1895 it was even exempt from customs duty, and, funnily enough, New Zealand’s first Catholic Saint is likely to be a trained nurse (Mother Suzanne Aubert) who used “cannabis as a tea for the nun’s menstrual cramps at her mission in Jerusalem on the Whanganui River.”
It’s obviously corrupt in the USA, where it’s a Schedule 1 drug (‘of no medical value and a high risk of abuse’), even though it’s medically legal to over two hundred million Americans, in 34 States, due largely to citizen action and protest.
But here in New Zealand people are slow to demand that politicians serve the public. Women should be able to grow plants for monthly teas and edibles. Patients should be able to grow their own too. Why can’t we?
Twice as many people voted for legal cannabis as voted for the National Party. What right do Jacinda Ardern and Andrew Little have to say ‘reform is off the table’? It’s not kind. It’s not decent. It’s not honest.
Even the Jesuits agree that cannabis is a case of “medical necessity verus political agenda’. But the ‘Public Service’ agenda seems to be this instead; prohibit access to consumers, unless through gatekeepers who can monetise it and control it.
Thanks to massive misinformation, cannabis in New Zealand is still at the fringes of healthcare; instead of in a home garden, as a good home remedy should be.
Now, ...why might that be? And what will you do about it today? Why not Grow Your Own? (Tadhg Stopford)
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