The Good Banter Thread

[Big Lou]

Morning Lou. NOT talking about this particular herb, here is my take in a nut shell. Modern medicine IS a wonderful thing, but we did not become extinct because it didnt exist. Surely, people who are helped today may not have made it long ago, but they DID have "medicines" that they believed in, which also included faith/prayer, or what not. Society is getting further and further away from God, and look at the result. Do we THROW OUT all the old medicines as well? Is EVERYTHING really new and improved? Or do we look to the past to define our futures? Like all things in life, there needs to be a balance.

I meant to address that in my post to Koiguy. Natural medicines were the only choose for centuries. Thanks Capewind.

 

[capewind]

Sometimes I hate "auto correct". It's to smart for it's britches changing intended words for something completely different.

I have that option shut off on my cell phone ... dont deal with that at all on the computer. I forget to proof read most of the time, God only knows what I would inadventently send out with that on LOL.

 

[capewind]

I meant to address that in my post to Koiguy. Natural medicines were the only choose for centuries. Thanks Capewind.

They were. Now add in private agendas, politics, and scare tactics, so big business can continue to profit. Take ANY herb, how about mint? Fresh mint is fantastic for bad breath. You can even grow it in a window sill. I bet the folks at Scope or Listerine will argue it wont work as well as their chemically laced product. Obviously, they dont want to lose sales, so mint isnt as good, or may even be BAD. The govt puts money into the pharmacutical companies ... who of course are profiting on all of our health issues. It takes an educated public to fight for our RIGHTS over PROFITS. No one is suggesting weed should be legal and we should all just hand it out to our kids, only for folks to recognize the health BENEFITS. We as a general society are being programed to believe that there is a PILL for every ILL ... Look at vitamins. 30 years ago, folks ate pretty well, and as a general rule, most didnt need them. I have a bottle of vitamins in the cabinet. I know my body, and if I have been too busy and not eating right, I will take one. I can FEEL if I havent eaten enough green vegetables or am low in iron ... I dont take them often at all. Maybe once every couple of months or so. It's a bandaid for not making the time for better choices.

 

[koiguy1969]

until the 1930s over 90% of all medications contained some cannabis oil, extract, powder etc... the U.S government used to pay subsities to farmers to grow it. then along came the rich folks involving themselves in pharmacology. now they couldnt patent a natural plant. so they had it banned, and started producing chemical versions of the plants medicinal properties. until 1937 there wasnt a doctors office that didnt have cannabis derived meds in it. nor a pharmacy. never had a side effect to them. if you take too much cannabis meds, at the worse, you'll eat, and get a goodnights sleep. lol greed is the main reason why these meds were faded out. did you know one of their first claims was that it made white women promiscuous and lust after black men and other minorities? at a time when interracial relations and racial purity was a big concern...... propagation of lies, a undeserved imaginary stigma. and greed...even today.
to this day can you name one single chemical med that doesnt carry multiple warnings and side effects? how many cause organ damage? failure? and risks of things far worse than what they treat?... emergency medicine saves lives...but most of the chemicals they push on people are little more than masks for symptoms and do absolutely nothing to solve the underlying issue(s). hypocrates said it best..."let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food" most of todays maladies, ilnesses and chronic conditions are merely a symptom of our increasingly nutritionless, over processed, over preserved, garbage food supply.
*** just a note..cannabis as a food is extremely healthy and has absolutely no 'HIGH' to it. untill heated marijuana is absolutely inert... just healthy.

 

[koiguy1969]

theres a good analgy about emergency medicine in one of the videos from Dr. Furhman in the GOOD FOOD thread . he said something like.. "you can have waiting ambulances at the bottom of a cavern where cars often drive off the road. or you put up a guard rail to prevent them from driving over the edge." an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

 

[Big Lou]

It's darkly humorous to find death as a possible side effect!

 

[koiguy1969]

lou... thats just morbid....
but in the 4000 + years of known cannabis use, there is not one single documented death from use or overdose, ever! not even aspirin, iboprofen, or acetametaphen can claim this in their relatively short existence. and theyre in everybody's homes and perfectly legal.
will we ever see a commercial for lawyers filing a class action suit or commercials like .. if you or someone you know was hospitalized, with organ failure , needed blood transfusion, or suffered death from cannabis meds call 1- 800 - bad - weed?....lol

 

[callingcolleen1]

I am convinced! I take an "ounce" for prevention please! He he he.

 

[HARO]

A short aside here.... how many millions or BILLIONS of dollars have been spent on research into cancer? And where has it gotten us? Time and again we hear that a certain link or gene has been found, and a cure is only years away, yet people are still dying of cancer every day! Wouldn't you think that someone, somewhere would come up with something that worked? To my way of thinking, medical research has become nothing more than a business, and that business would be OUT OF BUSSINESS if it ever succeeded in its theoretical goal.After all, once you cure the disease, you're out of work! The same holds true for other ailments. The last breakthrough in diabetes was the discovery of insulin by Banting and Best; since then we have developped better ways to administer it, and different strains for different applications, but we still haven't found a CURE, and likely never will! Can't have all those researchers out of work, now can we?
John

 

[koiguy1969]

obesity is a major componant of type 2 diabetes.injecting insulin is merely a bandaid and can actually make the disease worse. type 2 diabetes isnt the lack of insulin. its the resistance of the cell walls to it. so its not utilized. insulin is also a fat storing hormone. so it simply converts and stores the unused glucose as fat... doctors tell you to lose weight then give you a "drug" that tells your body to make fat and store it... cinnamon, bittermelon, and several other natural items can control blood sugar without the body wanting to store fat. you like sweet? stevia will not only not raise blood sugar, it actually tends to lower it. diabetes is both controlable and curable, dispite what modern medicine says. http://www.youtube.com/user/diabetesengineer
this guy was in the hospital dying from diabetes... they wanted to amputate both legs ... he now has a lower A1C than most at 4.5 watch his videos
the videos with Dr.Joel Furhman in the GOOD FOODS thread gives examples and general info on patients cured of diabetes page 1 - post #3 has the links.

 

[capewind]

I am convinced! I take an "ounce" for prevention please! He he he.

hmmmm ... that will be $300 please;-)

 

[j.w]

Is that how much it is now? Wow, I remember back in the late 60's it was $10. an ounce! And it looked like quite a bit when shoved in a sandwich baggie! I did not like how it made one so darn hungry. It was not my friend for very long as I would have eaten everything in sight and been big as an elephant! I do wish I could get some of the hemp oil to rub on some annoying little periungual warts around my fingernails as I've heard it can help many skin problems too.

 

[Big Lou]

"I saw something nasty in the woodshed."

Great line from a great movie.

 

[Big Lou]

"Call the cops Edith! That couple is back in our garden pond again and this time they're naked! Oh geeze, you won't believe what those two are doin'. Sounds like she's screamin' for help Archie. No, you dingbat. Just call the damn cops will ya! ...... Hang up the phone Edith. But why Archie? That's Meathead and our little Gloria in the pond. Oh my Archie, I hope Gloria is okay."

 

[koiguy1969]

oops wrong thread... still a cute pic tho.