Each year, millions of people are prescribed pharmaceutical drugs for various reasons. Some reasons are psychological, while others are for physical illness. Some people use illegal drugs to treat themselves, such as cannabis which is much safer than most pharmaceutical drugs and has far less side effects to worry about.
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Treating Symptoms
Many (or most) of the pills only address the symptoms of the underlying causal illness, that is, they only target the effects and try to reduce how those effects are affecting an individual. Someone who is treated for a temporary mental instability like depression, while take pills to "correct" the effect of a negative emotional state by essentially getting high. Someone with a physical illness will alleviate the problems that the illness manifests as, but they will still have the physical illness.
Deaths
Street drugs account for less deaths than pharmaceutical drugs. But that doesn't stop big pharma from making their dangerous drugs legal.
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People are being legally offered dangerous drugs that often lead to their death, either by accident or suicide.
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This is such a problem in the USA, that drugs are now the #1 accidental killer.
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Prevention with Food
Many diseases are preventable, with proper nutrition and not putting garbage into our bodies. As the old saying goes, garbage in garbage out. What we out into our bodies becomes our bodies. If we put in junk, we become junk in a sense.
The body is pretty amazing. It's constantly at work, and fighting back problems at a biological level. But it can only fight mistreatment at a biological level for so long before it's overwhelmed.
Plants and Fungi as Treatments
Instead of taking pill that make big pharma rich, we have other solutions, like correcting our poor eating habits. We can also work with plant medicines that have potent effects on our bodies, brains and mind. Recent studies have shown how psilocybin in magic mushrooms can help people get over depression, for instance.
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One of the safest plants to consume with a great potential for healing, is cannabis. But this plant has been vilified by media and governments for decades. Their is a whole drug war in many Western nations that have criminalized cannabis for decades. This is starting to change in recent years though, thankfully.
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It many states, the use of cannabis has resulted in a 25% drop in prescription painkiller deaths.
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Safer Relief of Symptoms
The most benefits from cannabis consumption come in the form of ingestion.
Cannabis extracts and cannabis juicing has been shown to help people greatly in various ways. Some people manage to get off their multitude of pharmaceutical drugs that they have been hooked on taking to alleviate various health symptoms, but their cause never gets dealt with. And this costs them a lot to keep putting money into the pockets of big pharma. Cannabis has helped people cure their own cancers while doctors told them it couldn't be done.
Smoking it also has benefits, but smoking anything is not too great for the lungs.
Cannabis can help with many issues, and even if the causes aren't addressed, cannabis can deal with negative symptoms in a safer way because it's not going to produce great negative effects on the body or mind like pharmaceutical drugs will.
Cannabis can help do the following:
- Kill Cancer Cells
- Chronic Pain & Inflammation Reliever
- Reduces & Eliminates Nausea + Vomiting
- Appetite Stimulant
- Treats Mental-Health Conditions
- Improves Creativity
- Anti-Spasmodic
- Provides Relief for Digestive Health Problems
- Anti-oxidant
- Euphoric Effects
Cannabis can't result in an overdose. It's technically safer than peanuts!
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In the end, do your own research. Really look into what cannabis can do. Only you can decide what you really want to be putting into your body.
You have to make a choice on how to deal with a health condition if you have one. You have to do your own homework to make an informed decision, but it's your decision. Getting onto a proper nutritious diet is always the best way to try to heal yourself, but cannabis can often help you in safer ways than the medical establishment will try to "help" you with prescription drugs from big pharma.
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When you inform yourself on the dangers of legal drugs, you can see that a safer choice exists in cannabis, despite what all the fear-hysteria has been saying for decades. More and more real scientific research is showing how safe and beneficial cannabis can be for those with health issues.
I hope you will choose to learn more if you weren't aware of these issues before, and make a better informed choice the next time a doctor tries to give you a potentially harmful drug to treat the symptoms of an illness.
As I said earlier, always look try to improve your health with proper eating habits. This means to eat plants. Plants are what heal. Plants are amazing. There is a field of medicine called herbal medicine for a reason. Learn how to eat well and thrive on a plant diet to reverse many illnesses, such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and more. Go do some research and learn what is really the proper source of food for humans to eat.
If you need some relief from health issues, and want to get rid of negative symptoms that come from unaddressed underlying causes, then please consider cannabis as a potential source of short-term remedy while you figure out how to heal yourself with food and better physical fitness.
Remember, you are the authority of your body, and you get to decide what you can or can't put into your body: for better or worse. Hopefully, you choose to put only healthy things into your body. Many doctors know nothing of nutrition or how to heal with food. And most certainly don't promote the use of cannabis over their conditioning in school to prescribe drugs.
What do you think? Have your say!
- Do you consider cannabis safer than the drugs big pharma creates (in general)?
- Have you used plant substances like cannabis or psilocybin to heal from an ailment?
- Would you use plants -- either 'illegal' ones or regular food plants -- to heal your body if you were ill?
- How many times have you gone to a doctor and they started to prescribe you something almost without even thinking more or seeming to care much at all?
- Have you ever been prescribed something that didn't help you at all, or even made your overall health condition worse?
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I agree completely, there are far more positives to cannabis than taking pharmaceutical drugs. Your right the drugs are used to treat 1 or 2 symptoms, but they have severe side affects, what is the worst that using cannabis can do, get you high. One day soon I would hope that cannabis can be legally used. I do see the benefits from its use!
COMPLETELY AGREE!
Recently i have been healing myself from my chronic reproductive issues i've had since i was a teen. I had a healing crisis and i was so so so tired of the doctors only wanting to give me a masking pill! no more!
so i am taking the natural path and you know what, i am healing-- not masking, but deep root healing. herbs, cannabis included, have the holistic power to get to the root of our conditions and not just mask or treat symptoms... it's truly a shame that the medical systems have become what they are today. it didn't always used to be that way, but that's another story!
long live herbs, herbalist, and the people who practice it. thank you <3
I wish you well on your road to healing :)
Awesome article! #420 as a medical cannabis user i can say that the health benefits i get from using cbd and thc in correct dosages is to me a godsend. I suffered from a house invasion in october of 2012 that left me in the hospital with 9 staples and 6 stitches in my head. Since that day ive suffered from depression, insomnia, anorexia, acute shoulder pain, nightmares and ptsd like symptoms and most notably post concussion disorder which is an inflamation in the brain that cbd specifically answers the problem of. I eat better, i sleep better, along with my ssri citalopram i can function in society like i couldnt before and again most notably im here to tell you about it. Share the family ive created since then and give back to the people who haved made my recovery possible. Thank you for spreading awareness to something with such a stigma but such powerful use. Much love. @krnel
Holy crap! I'm glad cannabis has been able to help you with that horrible experience :/ Thanks for the feedback :)
I have no regrets @krnel check my most recent blog. I am humble. Always. Ive experienced a trauma so defining i got to grow as a human substantially. It may seem aweful but im alive. Thank you for your kind thoughts. Your blogs are really smooth to read and thats why ill be coming back often to read more of what you have to say. Much love.
In a study of two patients who were diagnosed with brain cancer at a further stage, a study was conducted in which a clinical trial was carried out to show that these individuals were injected with THC for 26 to 30 days in their brains and that cancer cells were injected into the process of death by injecting THC with biopsies made before and after treatment.
Yup. It's been shown, and known by science for a while now. I forget what decade, I think the 70s, but I can't recall so I may be wrong. It's been kept illegal for a reason I think, and big pharma and the medical establishment has made big profits from treating cancer their way...
That's the only reason I hate these medicine companies and doctors,
They are selfish, they are here only to make money.
Do you consider cannabis safer than the drugs big pharma creates (in general)?
Have you used plant substances like cannabis or psilocybin to heal from an ailment?
Would you use plants -- either 'illegal' ones or regular food plants -- to heal your body if you were ill?
How many times have you gone to a doctor and they started to prescribe you something almost without even thinking more or seem to care much at all?
Have you ever been prescribed something that didn't help you at all, or even made your overall health condition worse?
Even though medical marijuana law is still a gray area, a growing number of patients in the US are turning to marijuana as an alternative to prescription pain killers.
Yup, times are a changing for the better :)
i appreciate with you
There are certainly situations where cannabis is the better option over pharmaceuticals, but I think it's important to not vilify either side of this topic. Sure, big pharma tend to be repulsive in their business practices most of the time, but this doesn't mean there aren't any cases when the prescription drugs would be the better choice than marijuana. Nothing is a silver bullet.
Indeed, some drugs are a benefit, I was more talking about in general though ;)
I see. I just think it's an important hedge to the points made in the post. I do not disagree on the whole, I just don't want the argument to be taken to an extreme (and I'm not even alleging that it has).
I don't get why it hasn't been made official yet, are there some really bad side effects that we don't know about? Because people have been taking cannabis and I have been seeing positive reviews bout it, but don't just get why its still not recognized medically.
Watch a documentary called ‘the union: bussiness behind gettin high, it explains the original reasons for the prohibition of marijuana, the biggest in my opinion was the threat of hemp to the lumber industry the fabric industry and many other extremely obsolete products that hemp would have replaced had it not been labelled as a narcotic. Its been a scam the whole time. The pharmaceutical industry has also worked hard to keep it that way.
Thanks would do just that.
Completely agree with you, afterall it is a plant so its natural drug.
Right on! :)
Thank you for sharing the very informative post.....it's absolutely correct and I totally agree.
Here, I can say one thing that.
Nature is life,Life is nature.
We can't live a couple of seconds without the help of nature.
This is great information thank you
Om some cases medicine. In some cases marihuana and in some cases both.
Depended on the person, drug and illness.
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