Stress is Imbalance. Marijuana Therapy Balances the Autonomic Nervous System through its compatibility with the Cannabinoid Network. Science only uncovered the Human Cannabinoid Network 20 years ago - even though it is over 20 million years old. It is the balancing constant throughout the entire animal kingdom (including homo sapiens.)

The Cannabinoid System is the moderator of extreme reactions of the organism. It tones down the drama and lets us chill. Ironically, the balancing network of the entire human organism is actually named after the Cannabis Sativa plant whose compounds are known as Cannabinoids. These are the chemicals that make for the experience of feeling high or feeling hungry. The Human Cannabinoid System responds to the marijuana plant cannabinoids with more enthusiasm than it does to its own self-produced cannabinoid hormones. Scientists were actually testing the effects of marijuana, when they discovered this ancient balancing system in the human body. As soon as there is contact between the cannabinoid receptors of the body with the cannabinoid compounds of the marijuana plant (the most famous cannabinoid is the THC molecule) – the breath is deepened, slowed and regulated. This is an immediate anti-stress effect. Shallow breathing dissolves to full breathing which equals relaxation!

Modern Lifestyles Cause Imbalance.  Everyone feels the pressure. Life is too busy, too competitive and insecure. The organism is predictably stressed. Its balancing mechanism is not able to cope. It needs help. Marijuana Therapy is the rational answer. Natural disasters of plagues, epidemics, volcanoes, tsunamis, famines all pale when we see what our own civilization has generated. Physical and mental degradation is occurring faster than modern science can notice. We are out of sync, stressed and are getting sick. We need help to rebalance. We need Marijuana Therapy.

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Marijuana Therapy Dissolves the Depression:

Every year approximately 15 million people are diagnosed with Clinical Depression. Women suffer the most, then men, then the elderly, and then the teens and finally even little kids. Brain chemistry is blamed; Or past history; Or present problems; Or future worry; Or personality; Hereditary; Drugs, Isolation; Loneliness; Lack of Self-Esteem; even Spiritual Alienation. Medical Treatments suppress the symptoms via legal, prescribed, profit-producing drugs (poisons). The results are dismal. Less than half obtain relief. “Possible Side Effects” include addiction, digestive problems, permanent organ damage, mental confusion and possibly suicide? Psychological Counseling is another popular avenue for dealing with Depression. It is really just talking about yourself and paying someone who is trained to listen. Its track record for helping Chronic Depression is itself depressing. New Age Idealism claims to diminish negativity with aroma therapy and positive thoughts. Sometimes this is effective in the short term, but loses its glamour quickly. Simply put: The basic cause of Depression is not addressed because it is not known by modern Western Medicine.  Ergo: The lay population continues to be plagued with the debilitation and despair of Clinical Depression, without an effective remedy. Depression occurs when the system is sluggish, i.e. depressed!!! The organism is not in balance and not properly energized!! Depression is the description of diminished oxygenation to the organism – which of course can present as chemical imbalance, accompanied by worry, feelings of isolation, inferiority, and isolation. Clinical Depression is actually built into the character of the subject and has definite underpinnings of past unpleasantness. It presents as imbalance in the ANS. (No need to psychoanalyze. No doubt there were painful situations.) Breathing became habitually, invisibly slightly diminished which equals less than optimal functioning. In Western medicine, the nuances of the breath are not studied. In the East, the intricate subtleties of “the breath” have a profound effect on personal experience. Diminished oxygenation to the organism, especially to the brain is immediately remedied with marijuana. “Specifically, the brain receives more richly oxygenated blood and simultaneously receives a greater supply of that blood because of the dilation in all brain capillaries…”*) and so much more. Too much for a Blog. Marijuana actually helps the brain to grow new cells. When fully oxygenated through The Marijuana Response – the brain thrives and expands!! Along with appropriate exercise, diet, moderation in lifestyle, over the long term, Marijuana Therapy is a most basic and beneficial remedy for Clinical Depression. [Reference: Journal of Clinical Investigation, Nov 1, 2005 – Cannabinoids promote embryonic and adult hippocampus neurogenesis (brain cell growth) and ….anti-depressant-like effects.” ] 

*from The Benefits of Marijuana: Physical, Psychological & Spiritual

The marijuana experience intervened into my world of normal cultural goals to remind me of that state of innocence and stillness I had lost along the way of transitory distractions. Marijuana let me remember myself!

The Benefits of Marijuana was written without choice. What I learned through years of intense interest concerning this majestic plant could not be contained. As a mother, I am forever grateful, for its part in helping to cure my son of his epilepsy. Personally, my gratitude is expressed for the consciousness-raising mercy of marijuana, for its health imparting effects, for the peace it engenders, for the mega-industries that it could replace in ecological splendor, for its tenacity throughout the thousands of years of human mistreatment, for its grace, for its perfume, for its ability to inspire, to breathe more fully, to see clearly, with our eyes and with our minds.

After writing the book – more than 20 years ago – and finally putting it in print and after years of activism toward legalizing marijuana, it is finally clear that the marijuana consciousness cannot be stopped. It is here in everything, in the sick and the old who need it to eat and see and hear and walk. There is surely no stopping medical marijuana anymore as we see almost weekly the stringent testing that is proving its unparalleled value for so many diseases, disabilities, dysfunction, and distress. And for the youth and for those suffering deprivation, for those who are magnetically drawn to the spiritual awakening that can ensue from the regular and serious employment of marijuana, for all those who appreciate liberation from conditioned notions, marijuana as a recreational experience is also here to stay. In advertising, in scholastic institutions, on television, in hospitals, the marijuana-influence is here. There are those who can see and recognize this wave away from the purely material in welcoming acceptance. There are others for whom money and power are everything. For those mainstreamers, there appears no need, no desire for a higher understanding and only fear of the consciousness of the spiritual realm. Marijuana allows us access to the still point in the midst of confusion.  It is an ancient and natural yoga that is resurfacing in these times of great confusion and lost values.

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• Alzheimer’s patients feel restless, confused, often without appetite, hopeless, insomniac, agitated, angry, isolated and depressed.
•  It costs a tremendous amount of money to take care of an Alzheimer’s patient because there is no effective treatment and the patient requires constant care.
• The number of people with Alzheimer’s keeps growing and will become epidemic in just a few generations.

ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS CAN BE LESSENED WITH MARIJUANA THERAPY, BUT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT?

The brain of a person with Alzheimer’s disease is blocked with years of sediment. Its oxygen supply is reduced. It is actually losing mass and shrinking, causing messages to get lost or garbled. Believe it or not!!  Scientific experiments have PROVEN that one of the marijuana “cannabinoids”- stops the build-up of brain plaque. This knowledge is actually three years old! But no one is reporting the potential benefits. (2005, Journal of Neuroscience, research conducted in

Marijuana benefits the victim of Alzheimer’s disease through relaxation of muscular tension which allows for deeper breathing, better circulation, ease of digestion and greater brain function. Feelings of restlessness are transformed as tension in the muscles is released, leading to a restful mood. Marijuana Therapy slows down the breathing which in turn relaxes the patient – physically and mentally. The agitation and poor attitude of Alzheimer’s victims are lifted with Marijuana Therapy because the helpless and hopeless feelings that accompany poor oxygenation and tension in the body are lessened. Marijuana enhances the appetite so that the person with Alzheimer’s disease feels like eating – a complete turn-about from the non-interest in food so common with the Alzheimer’s patient. Being motivated to eat, having a positive attitude, enjoying tasting one’s food – all work toward lessening frustration.  Anger dissipates with the deep breathing that accompanies Marijuana Therapy. Of course, depression is lifted. Yes Marijuana Tea, patch, smoke, cake could help our elderly. Why are they being denied? There is no modern, safe, effective treatment for Alzheimer’s – let us give Marijuana Therapy its rightful place as a superior medicament, an uplifting and safe recreant, and even a nurturer of the spiritual realm that defines a humane civilization.

By studying 1000 students, the latest science shows that the students who employed marijuana regularly had better grades. How can this be? considering all the government propaganda to the contrary? Well propaganda is defined as distorted information that is purposely and systematically spread. The lies about marijuana are completely distorted and certainly spread to mislead the public. For five thousand years, there is undeniable documentation that the human race recognized and utilized the benefits of marijuana for the body, for the mind and for the spirit. But now, even though all modern science demonstrates unquestionably the wonders of marijuana, the propaganda keeps on going and going and going. We all know it is for the profit motive that the benefits of marijuana are kept secret. This natural, so easy to grow plant is bad for business, even though it is good for people! That students have better academics with marijuana!! many of us are not at all surprised. The more astounding news is that brain cells actually are sparked to grow with marijuana. Now that is amazing and exactly the opposite of what we have been told. But just as we suspected considering the feeling of well-being that is the marijuana experience!! Controlled scientific studies have demonstrated that marijuana causes neurogenesis within brain cells. That is – the growth of brain cells. That would mean we actually see better, think better, hear music better – as has been stated by so many who have experienced the benefits of marijuana. This is big news! It should be on the front page. Let’s get the truth about marijuana out to the world!!

Never mind the hundreds of respectable medical studies that have demonstrated without question, marijuana’s ability as a superior palliative remedy for so many modern diseases, now marijuana has even been shown to be helpful to the developing young adult’s ability to socialize and excel at academic performance. Yes!!, that’s right, last week we were given the results of the longitudinal and broad-based Swiss study that demonstrated the beneficial results of marijuana for young people in all aspects of their lives. Against all the fear-mongering and all the accepted ill-promoted misinformation, that’s right – the study demonstrated that the use of regular marijuana is good for teens. Those young adults who participated in the marijuana consciousness with regularity and over the course of time, were actually better at academics, better at feeling comfortable with their peers, and even better sportsmen and women. Well what do you know!! – The kids have been ahead of the studies all along. Their knowledge has sprung from open-minded experience and connectedness to the essential intuition that is inherent in us all – but is all too often – denied or ignored by the mature adults in the society, for reasons that are too numerous to list but which are all motivated by fear. In today’s new age of everything imaginable – the elders who should have wisdom are instead imprisoned by their own old beliefs, habits and fears to the detriment of what is needed most in today’s new world – tolerance and understanding. Marijuana is the plant of peace. It is the plant of higher consciousness. The youth are not yet jaded, thankfully. They have seen the vision – bigger than what our civilization teaches. They know that the environment is threatened by the man-made technologies. Through the regular re-connection to the earth via a molecule of vegetation of the highest consciousness, the young people today have been employing the aid of the marijuana experience, despite what has been touted as science – but which has been transparent to the acute perceptions of the youth. Marijuana has benefits for all aspects of personhood that encompass the physical, psychological & even the spiritual dimensions. This latest study is just one of the particulars conducted under the auspices of stringent scientific methodology which seeks to measure the performance and health effects that occur with marijuana. And as with all the particularized studies having to do with the effects of marijuana – it is/ has been/ and will be consistently proven that marijuana is beneficial- for the body, mind and spirit of the person. Each of the modern studies imparts just one of the nearly limitless benefits to be derived from marijuana (in any number of imaginable delivery methods) for the citizens of the planet. Smoke it, vaporize it, eat it, drink it, use it in a patch, a suppository, a pill – dissect it and utilize only parts of it – copy only parts of it – regardless of what science has been able to imagine to test – every time – marijuana can be shown to have benefits for the person.

But today’s scientific method is reductionistic, time consuming, expensive and never quite gets to the bottom line- which is simply - marijuana benefits the body, mind and soul of anyone who partakes of its nourishment regularly. It is good for us – when we are sick, when we need creativity, when we feel disconnected, depressed, in pain, without breath, out of control or in turmoil. Just a few weeks ago, there was the ironic and very positive result on the effects of smoking marijuana over the long term. Lo and behold! the results suggest quite clearly that not only does marijuana not contribute in any way to impaired lung function or to any cancerous propensity whatsoever, but in fact, marijuana actually diminished the incidences of lung cancer – in the population that utilized marijuana regularly. That’s right! Smoking marijuana helps the lungs. It prevents cancer of the lungs. (It expands the lungs – which means it expands the capacity for increased oxygenation to the entire being, which is a topic in itself.) And now we have the well-deserved proof that employing marijuana as a young person helps social, academic and athletic prowess. No real surprise! – unless you bought the stacks of lies put forth by the government that swore there were those weapons of mass destruction. The young people know the truth – at that gut level of knowing that adults continuously move further away from with the passing years. Marijuana balances the autonomic nervous system!! That is why it is the experience of well-being. That is why – it helps the young adult to cope in this crooked world. And for that very amazing effect alone – marijuana has untold benefits for the health of the whole person, which can be evidenced in how well the social adjustment is, how well they perform academically and athletically. But - the truth of this majestic and easily cultivated ancient herb’s extremely compatible and most beneficial interaction with the human organism - has been hidden by purposeful lies – for money and power – which should also be No Big Surprise. But now - the truth is out. Marijuana is good for the mind, good for the body and even good for the spirit. It is the most utilized illegal substance in the whole world – so there is a huge body of the population that knows the truth. Marijuana is an aid to superior oxygenation of the organism by its expansion of the full complement of the muscular-neuronal-respiratory and circulatory axis of the living human being. So it is good for the lungs, good for social and academic excellence, and one of the more recent studies – that has not been touted – but is certainly an amazing fact – the brain actually does get bigger with marijuana. We grow new brain cells!! It’s called Neuorgenesis – and it happens with marijuana – hold that thought and what it means til next weeks talk. And we mustn’t forget the topic of Halting Cancer with marijuana and what that means for so many who share the marijuana experience.

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Just Ask Joan.