Did you know that Pfizer just paid USD$6.7 billion for a company that makes hemp-like molecules to treat pain and Crohn's disease, and that a recent study showed that raw hemp molecules also substantially reduce the ability of Covid-19 to infect cells.
Sounds like a good buy? I wonder why big pharmas have been so slow with cannabis/hemp?
Hemp/Cannabis is “one of the most valuable medicines we possess” (Reynolds, 1890). The US Dept of Health even patented it for age related, inflammatory, autoimmune, and ischemic diseases in 2003.
As a historian, I'd like you to know that these benefits (and more) have been known for tens of thousands of years, with a written medical record dating back 4,750 years across Asia, India, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Hemp/Cannabis has proven benefits in treating pain, sleep, anxiety, cancer, diabetes, movement disorders like epilepsy, and mood disorders like menopause, bi-polar, depression, and psychosis - to name only a few. The GProtein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) that regulate and protect our health are directly engaged by Cannabis/Hemp oils, which is a good thing.
As an easily grown vegetable, this should mean good health at low cost thanks to cheap sungrown, broadacre full spectrum cannabis/hemp products. However, Medsafe destroyed the 2008 hemp regulations - possibly criminally.
The human biology that regulates mind and body, is optimized by the compounds naturally made by this plant; they are mirrors of our own internal signalling systems signals.
Easily available hemp/cannabis products would eat into the market share of the products that MedSafe extracts a levy from. Their business model is unfit for a Ministry of Health.
Let’s make a difference. Let's all ‘look up’, and let’s improve things. We are running out of time. Why can’t you grow hemp? Who benefits? Let's make it a Hempy New Year for us all! (Tadhg Stopford)
Join us at www.thehempfoundation.org.nz
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Published 4 February 2022