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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Drug War Attacking Another Beneficial Plant: Kratom

mitragyna speciosa (kratom) tree
(photo by Gringobonk, courtesy Erowid.org)
Phillip Smith
Stop The Drug War

The prohibitionist impulse is strong. When confronted with a newly encountered psychoactive substance, there are always special pleaders to sound the alarm and politicians willing to reflexively resort to the power of the ban. Whether it is something with serious potential dangers, like the "bath salts" drugs, or something much more innocuous, like khat, the mild stimulant from the Horn of Africa, doesn't seem to matter; the prohibitionist impulse is strong.

Kratom is a substance that falls on the more innocuous side of the psychoactive spectrum. It is the leaves of the kratom tree,mitragyna speciosa, which is native to Thailand and Indonesia, where the leaves have been chewed or brewed into a tea and used for therapeutic and social purposes for years. According to the online repository of psychoactive knowledge, the Vaults of Erowid, kratom acts as both a mild stimulant and a mild sedative, creates feelings of empathy and euphoria, is useful for labor, and is relatively short-acting. 

Monday, June 27, 2011

Medical Marijuana Saves Baby's Life

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Dr. Mark Sircus, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
ABC News reported:


There is no surprise in the above clinical picture. Doctors, medical officials and the American federal government have got to be kidding themselves and everyone else with their negative and closed-minded attitudes toward medical marijuana. Though medical marijuana laws are being passed in state after state, oncologists prefer to remain stupid about how it can be used for cancer patients.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Fighting Radiation Damage the Natural Way with Cannabis

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Dr. Mark Sircus, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Dr. Ben Whalley, middle, with Dr. Gary Stephens and Dr. Claire Williams at their secret cannabis farm near London. These researchers have discovered that three compounds found in cannabis leaves can help to reduce and control seizures in epilepsy. Dr. Whalley, who is leading the research at the department of pharmacy at the University of Reading, said tests in animals had shown the marijuana compounds effective at preventing seizures and convulsions while also having fewer side effects than existing epilepsy drugs.

Cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals and also kill cancer cells. Their use in the case of childhood cancer is compassionate.
And lucky for us, cannabis is also an excellent treatment for radiation sickness and exposure.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Herbal medicines banned as EU directive comes into force

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Daily Mail

Patients have lost access to hundreds of herbal medicines today, after European regulations came into force.

Sales of all herbal remedies, except for a small number of popular products for 'mild' illness such as echinacea for colds and St John's Wort for depression have been banned.

For the first time traditional products must be licensed or prescribed by a registered herbal practitioner.

Both herbal remedy practitioners and manufacturers fear they could be forced out of business as a result.

Some of the most  commonly used products were saved after the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley approved a plan for the Health Professions Council to establish a register of practitioners supplying unlicensed herbal medicines.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Armed agents invade Maxam Nutraceutics and steal natural health products in shocking FDA raid

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Ethan A. Huff
Natural News

Amidst all the destructive activities taking place in our world today that deserve attention, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided instead to make it a personal mission to destroy the businesses and livelihoods of those trying to help people through natural medicine.

On Thursday, April 14, 2011, dozens of agents from the FDA, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted an unprovoked, full-scale raid on Hood River, Ore.-based Maxam Nutraceutics, a company that produces and sells nutritional supplements primarily for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and Alzheimer's disease.

Back in October 12, 2010, the FDA sent a warning letter to Jim Cole, Founder and CEO of Maxam, notifying him that several of his company's products were not labeled in accordance with the US Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The letter also stated that Maxam had fifteen days from the receipt of the letter to notify the FDA compliance officer of the specific steps it planned to take in order to correct the violations.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Vermont Considers Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

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Terri Hallenbeck
Burlington Free Press

MONTPELIER — Here’s what Shayne Lynn envisions somewhere in Chittenden County: an office as non-descript as a doctor’s office or a pharmacy from which he would sell marijuana to those with qualifying medical conditions.

There’d be a waiting room. Clients would be seen by appointment only. There’d be security. He might also offer clients yoga, acupuncture and Reiki. He’d probably grow the marijuana somewhere else, at an indoor facility.

Lynn could become one of the first people to run such an operation in Vermont if proposed legislation the Senate is expected to consider this week passes.

Lynn, a 40-year-old professional photographer who lives in Burlington, said he believes in marijuana’s medicinal value for those who suffer from chronic pain and he thinks it’s wrong that such people have nowhere legal to buy the relief.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

NC bill threatens to criminalize naturopaths, homeopaths, herbalists, midwives, aromatherapists as felons

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Ethan A. Huff
Natural News

Alternative health practitioners in North Carolina (NC) and their patients need your help to defeat a stealth bill that flew under the radar of most everyone in the natural health community. Senate Bill 31, which clarifies the penalties for the "unauthorized practice of medicine," essentially criminalizes the practice of unlicensed forms of medicine, which includes the work of many naturopaths, homeopaths, herbalists, aromatherapists, and even some midwives in the state. The bill was adopted by a judiciary committee in early March, and it recently passed the NC Senate. Now, the NC House is set to vote on the bill tonight, and unless NC governor Bev Perdue vetoes it, the practice of natural medicine for many in NC may soon become a more severe criminal offense.

SB 31 states that anyone who practices medicine or surgery without having been first "licensed and registered to do so" will be guilty of a Class I felony. Class I felonies in NC are the least severe kinds of felonies, but they do include things like burning crosses on private or public property, and sexually exploiting children. So if passed, SB 31 will essentially make those who practice alternative medicine without an official, state-sanctioned license and permit, criminals of the likes of sexual predators and cross burners.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Medical Debasing of Humanity

The human race is being deliberately poisoned for profit and now the heavy medical boots of repression are going to make it much more difficult for people to do anything about it.


Natural Remedies Under Attack from Big Pharma
Dr. Mark Sircus
IMVA

While man’s aggressiveness against his fellow man gets expressed financially these days (with the end result it’s going to be every country and trading block for themselves) this same river of darkness plays out in the medical world. It’s a world whose foundation sits on the ugliest cornerstone possible, that of greed. The full heart of that was born in the alliance between the Rockefeller group and the IG Farben Group almost 100 years ago.

There were Nazis on both sides of the Atlantic. We like to forget that; and after the war the most elite Nazis in science and industry were invited to the United States to live and work. The Nazi fascist spirit still exists. And what is that spirit? It’s the spirit of death. And it’s the tools and instruments of death that captivate such spirits as well as the money that can be made from them.


The Food and Drug Administration has finally concluded that manufacturers of CT scanners should do a better job of warning operators that a dangerously high radiation dose is about to be administered becausedangerously high levels of radiation spells eventual DEATH. All of those who deal in radiation, toxic chemical drugs and heavy metal poisons in medicine are part of this club of death that exists in the belly of contemporary orthodox medicine.

In April 2011, European legislation, which has already been passed, will come into force. This will effectively mean that all herbal medicines will disappear from the UK. No Ayurvedic (Indian) herbs, no Chinese herbs, no Western herbs, no Tibetan herbs, no herbs whatsoever. We will have access only to treatments that are totally based on pharmaceutical drugs for treating our ailments. With no access to the full range of herbal treatments, all herbalists, Ayurvedic doctors, and TCM or holistic practitioners will overnight be handicapped in their attempt to help their patients.

Meanwhile Big Pharma is bringing out the big guns to label toddlers as depressed and then convince parents that their child’s normal behavior needs to be controlled with drugs. Does your toddler cry? Is he bored? Why then, he must be depressed—and there’s a drug for that. If the drug companies get their way, this is what will happen when you take your toddler to the routine well-child visit. What toddler isn’t defiant? What toddler doesn’t cry or get fussy? Those are normal behaviors, literally necessary if they’re to grow into healthy functioning humans. What could be a better target for a drug company than every normal child?

At medical and pharmaceutical headquarters in New York, the FDA is holding its own inquisition and is now is cutting off the legs of the oral chelation industry, warning everyone not to trust or use anything from anyone that claims to remove heavy metals from their bodies and bloodstreams. [1] All over-the-counter sales of “chelation” treatments are illegal, the FDA says. “These are in fact unapproved drugs,” Michael Levy, director of the FDA’s division of new drugs and labeling compliance, said at a news conference. “These companies falsely claimed that these drugs treat a variety of ailments, including autism and heart disease.” The FDA is of course projecting its own falsity here. They do not have drugs to treat autism and their drugs for heart disease are so badly off the mark it’s pathetic.

I have been friends for a long time with people in the natural chelation arena. Now no one is going to be able to tell the truth about what their products do and that will cut the public off from valuable information and essential treatments. Medical cruelty is reaching new heights at the FDA and that’s why I consider them to be appropriately labeled as the medical Gestapo. The human race is being deliberately poisoned for profit and now the heavy medical boots of repression are going to make it much more difficult for people to do anything about it. Everyone’s bodies are loaded with toxic chemicals and heavy metals and people desperately need to chelate the metals out and detoxify for the rest of the chemicals present.

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