The LEAF March/April 2016 | Page 4

Medicinal Cannabis = better quality of life for all Australians. The sick, suffering and their loved ones... By Karen Burge There is so much to learn about cannabis... A medicine that has been used for thousands of years... A plant that was prohibited in 1937 because it was a threat to the plastic and chemical companies because they could not make money from people growing and making their own food/medicine... The health of man and the rapid growth of disease has continued to escalate since then into the epidemic that it now is... It's time these companies became accountable for the damage their synthetics products are causing to man's health... *It's time that we take back our power and grow and make our own food... * Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food, Hypocrites Cannabis as food and medicine activates our endocannabinoid system, bringing your body into homeostasis, which basically means it supports your body's natural ability to maintain itself and function in the right environment... It's critical that doctors of the future learn and understand this control mechanism... The discovery of the endocannabinoid system is the single most important scientific discovery ever and will save more lives then the introduction and application of the sterile surgical technique... Dr David Allen... Retired Cardiac surgeon, and a member of the international cannabinoid research scientist... *If cannabis were discovered now in an Amazon rain forest today it would prove itself as the worlds most nutritionally rich, versatile super food on the planet. Cannabis is a medicine that is an anti-inflammatory, an antioxidant, and probably has some direct activity against cancerous cells. Donald Abrams, Chief of oncology at San Francisco general hospital and professor of Medicine at the university of California, San Francisco... *Cannabis is a vegetable; it does not become psychoactive until humans alter it chemically... It contains molecules that assist our body's regulatory systems function making it a dietary essential that helps all 210-cell types function more effectively... Raw cannabis is the best preventative medicine for diabetes... preventing diabetes is a lot better then trying to treat it, preventing cancer is a lot easier then trying to treat it... Dr William Courtney 5)]