Canadian CANNAINVESTOR Magazine September 2018 | Page 180

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By 1937, the global prohibition of cannabis was nearly complete with the USA adding itself to the growing list to enact prohibition of cannabis.

A rise in the number of medical conditions previously deemed and particularly heart attacks. This became front and centre in mainstream news when President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in 1955.

Organizations such as The American Heart Association promoted a change in diet.

The modern diet and lifestyle appear linked to some degree to conditions such as chronic inflammation. The article The Western Diet and Inflammation: We’re Eating Ourselves to an Early Grave succinctly depicts this (Click Here). But for those wanting a more scientific source, the paper Low-grade chronic inflammation perpetuated by modern diet as a promoter of obesity and osteoporosis may be for you (Click Here).

Imagination comes into play by connecting the dots above. Is it a coincidence that a rise in conditions we now know (or at least suspect) as caused or advanced by chronic inflammation appear in greater numbers and frequency not long after prohibition commenced and accelerated when our diet and lifestyle also changed to one that appears to also advance or cause chronic inflammation?

That Epilepsy can be treated with cannabis as well as the ketogenic diet anecdotally appears to support our hypothesis. Now imagine what in time all of this could mean to successful companies in the industry and to our collective well being as humans … and from there to what an investment today could become. This July 2018 article (Click Here) titled Omega-3 Derived Cannabinoid May Stop Cancer may just be last chapter.

Institutions such as the Canadian Medical Association appear at odds with this ever growing body of evidence as their position on eliminating the medical-use framework, once the recreational market is in place, demonstrates (click here).

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