Medical Marijuana In NC
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Hey yall, just poppin' in to see what's up. 
Greendude
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Bro I can part with a little bud to help someone back to health. That's what the project is about , helping those that cant help themselves . It would really help the cause for me to help her . Just another testimony of the healing power of Marijuana . The more ppl that know this works the better the chance of the bill passing . A pound of weed is a small price to pay to help someone that needs it . Question is can you get her to take it. A lot of ppl have strong beliefs when it comes to the Devil weed .
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For those of you who have watched the documentary "Run from the Cure", this should answer any questions about producing your own oil. I recommend that people grow their own hemp either in a small indoor grow system or outdoors. Growing it yourself will eliminate the high cost associated with buying hemp from drug dealers. The cost of hemp can vary greatly from dealer to dealer and so can the quality of the hemp. For anyone new to growing hemp a good book or video on the subject is a necessity. If you go to Cannabis Culture, the good people there should be able to point you in the right direction.
Caution: Oils that drug dealers sell can have many contaminants and often little or no THC. From my experience, most hemp oil available on the street should be avoided for medicinal use. Make your own oil or have someone you trust produce the oil to assure a very pure, high quality oil is produced.
How much to make and take? One pound (500g) of bone-dry hemp buds will usually produce about 2 ounces (55 - 60 mL) of high-grade oil. This amount of oil will cure most serious cancers; the average person can ingest this amount in about three months. This oil is very potent so one must begin treatment with small doses. A drop of oil about half the size of a grain of rice, two to four times a day is a good beginning. After four or five days, start increasing your daily dosage very gradually. As time goes on the body builds a tolerance to the oil and more and more can be taken. In cases where people are in a great deal of pain, I recommend that their dosage be quickly increased until it kills the pain. High quality hemp oil will stop pain even when morphine is not effective. The oil can be applied to external injuries for pain relief in minutes.
Will I get high? Following the dosage previously described, many people can take the full treatment and never get high. In regards to hemp, getting "high" is a joke, even if a person does take too much oil the effect wears off quickly and no harm is done. No one has ever died from the use of hemp medicine.
Will I become addicted? Hemp oil does not cause your body to crave more. It is non-addictive, harmless and effective for practically any medical condition.
Is this the same as hemp seed oil? No! This is hemp oil, made from the bud and small leaves of the hemp plant. It is the essential oil of the hemp plant. Health food store sells oil made from hemp seed that is often mislabeled as hemp oil. Although seed oil is very beneficial, it does not contain enough THC to have any effect on cancer and other serious illnesses.
Are hemp and marijuana the same? The word marijuana is one of over four hundred slang terms used worldwide to describe the cannabis and/or hemp plant.
Are all hemp plants the same? When buying or growing hemp, procure a strain that has the highest possible THC content. To energize someone suffering from depression, I recommend a good Sativa strain. For most other medical conditions, I strongly suggest that Indica strains be used. Indicas relax a person and provide them with more rest and sleep.
How do I use it? High quality hemp oil can be vapourized, ingested or used topically. Add the oil to creams and salves for external use.
Where can I get information about making the oil? For someone new to making the oil I suggest that you go to "Run From The Cure". There you can watch our documentary in seven segments. Segment #4 shows how the oil can be produced at home or one can go to Phoenix Tears Movie and download the full documentary. You will need a high-speed internet connection and there is no charge. The process in the video could only be described as crude at best, but the oil that is produced will cure cancer. In reality, this medicine should be produced in a controlled environment, using distilling equipment, etc. to reclaim the solvent and to purify the oil. Most people do not understand distilling and do not have access to the required equipment. This is the reason such a simple method is descried in the documentary, so if need be just about anyone can produce the oil. As in the video, again we stress that this process, if not done properly can be dangerous and we bear no responsibility if this educational information is misused.
My process:
Starting material: I generally work with a pound or more of good grade hemp starting material. You can use just one ounce. An ounce will usually produce 3 or 4 grams of oil. The amount of oil produced per ounce of hemp will vary from strain to strain, but it all has that wonderful healing power.
1 - Place the completely dry starting material in a plastic bucket. 2 - Dampen the material with the solvent you are using. Many solvents can be used. I like to use pure naphtha but it costs $500 for a 45-gallon drum. You can use 99% isopropyl alcohol, which you can find in your local drug stores. Alcohol absorbs more chlorophyll from the plant material than naphtha does. This gives oils made with alcohol a darker colour but does not diminish the potency of the oil to any noticeable degree. Ether, naphtha or butane and many other solvents can produce oils that are amber and transparent. Granted these clear oils do look better but dark oil can be just as potent. If the process is done properly, little or no solvent residue is left in the oil. I have been consuming oils produced using different solvents for eight years with no harmful effects. You will require about two gallons of solvent to strip the THC off one pound of dry starting material. 500 milliliters of solvent should be more than enough to strip the THC from one ounce of hemp starting material. 3 - Crush the plant material using a stick of clean untreated (chemical free) wood or some such device. Even though the starting material has been dampened with the solvent, you will find that the material can be readily crushed. 4 - Add solvent until the starting material is completely covered. Use the stick to work the plant material. As you are doing this, the THC dissolves off the plant material into the solvent. 5 - Continue this process for about 3 minutes. 6 - Pour the solvent-oil mix off the plant material into another bucket. You have just stripped the plant material of about 80% of its THC. 7 - Second wash - again add solvent to the plant material and work it for another 3 minutes to get the other 20%. 8 - Pour this solvent-oil mix into the bucket containing the first mix that was poured off previously. 9 - Discard the twice-washed plant material. 10- Pour the solvent-oil mix through a coffee filter into a clean container. 11- Boil the solvent off. I have found that a rice cooker will do this boil off very nicely. The one I have has two heat settings - high and low - and will hold over a half gallon (2.5 liters) of solvent-oil mix. 12- Add solvent-oil mix to the rice cooker until it is about ¾ full.
Make sure you are in a very well ventilated area and set up a fan to carry the solvent fumes away. The fumes are very flammable. Be sure to stay away from red-hot elements, sparks, cigarettes etc. that could ignite the fumes.
13- Plug the rice cooker in and set it on high heat. 14- Continue adding solvent-oil mix as the level in the rice cooker decreases until it is all in the cooker. 15- Add a few drops of water to the solvent-oil mix as the level comes down for the last time. The amount of water added depends on how much starting material you had in the beginning. If I am producing oil from a pound of good bud, I usually add about ten drops of water. 16- When there is about one inch of solvent-oil-water mix left in the cooker, put on your oven mitts, pick the unit up and gently swirl the contents 17- Continue swirling until the solvent has been evaporated off. The few drops of water help release the solvent residue and protect the oil somewhat from too much heat. When the solvent has been boiled off, the cooker that I use automatically goes to low heat. This avoids any danger of overheating the oil. At no time should the temperature of the oil go over 290F degrees (140 C). 18- Put on your oven mitts and remove the pot containing the oil from the rice cooker. 19- Gently pour the oil into a small stainless steel container. 20- Place this container in a dehydrator or put in on a gentle heating device such as a coffee warmer. It may take a few hours but the water and volatile turpines will be evaporated from the oil. When there is no longer any activity on the surface of the oil the medicine is ready for use. 21- Pour the hot oil into a bottle; or as in the video suck it up into a plastic syringe. Putting the oil in a plastic syringe makes it very easy to dispense the medicine.
When the oil cools off it has the consistency of thick grease. Some strains will produce very thick oil and you may have trouble squeezing it out of the syringe. If this happens, place the syringe in warm water a few minutes prior to use.
To anyone starting to use hemp oil as a medication, here are some simple facts. Hemp oil will lower blood pressure and if you are on blood pressure medication, you may find that this medication is no longer needed. The same is true for diabetics. I have seen hemp oil control blood sugar to the extent that insulin was no longer needed.
I am not a doctor and I do not have the right to tell people what they should do. Personally, I would not consider taking any cancer treatments currently in use by our medical system, I do not recommend that hemp oil be taken along with chemotherapy. What would be the sense of making your own cure and then allowing the medical system to give you massive doses of poison?
From my experience with hemp medicine, I have found that most pharmaceutical medications are no longer needed once a person starts using hemp oil. Hemp oil seems to mix well with most natural medications but I have had a few reports from people trying to take hemp oil and pharmaceuticals who experienced stomach pain etc. All problems ceased when they stopped taking the prescription drugs.
To anyone who is going to act on this information to help a loved one, I welcome you to the world of real medicine. Again, I caution you to be very careful when boiling the solvent off. The fumes are very flammable. Be sure to stay away from red-hot elements, sparks, cigarettes etc. that could ignite the fumes.
I wish you the best luck and health. Warmest regards, Rick Simpson.
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Caution: Oils that drug dealers sell can have many contaminants and often little or no THC. From my experience, most hemp oil available on the street should be avoided for medicinal use. Make your own oil or have someone you trust produce the oil to assure a very pure, high quality oil is produced.
How much to make and take? One pound (500g) of bone-dry hemp buds will usually produce about 2 ounces (55 - 60 mL) of high-grade oil. This amount of oil will cure most serious cancers; the average person can ingest this amount in about three months. This oil is very potent so one must begin treatment with small doses. A drop of oil about half the size of a grain of rice, two to four times a day is a good beginning. After four or five days, start increasing your daily dosage very gradually. As time goes on the body builds a tolerance to the oil and more and more can be taken. In cases where people are in a great deal of pain, I recommend that their dosage be quickly increased until it kills the pain. High quality hemp oil will stop pain even when morphine is not effective. The oil can be applied to external injuries for pain relief in minutes.
Will I get high? Following the dosage previously described, many people can take the full treatment and never get high. In regards to hemp, getting "high" is a joke, even if a person does take too much oil the effect wears off quickly and no harm is done. No one has ever died from the use of hemp medicine.
Will I become addicted? Hemp oil does not cause your body to crave more. It is non-addictive, harmless and effective for practically any medical condition.
Is this the same as hemp seed oil? No! This is hemp oil, made from the bud and small leaves of the hemp plant. It is the essential oil of the hemp plant. Health food store sells oil made from hemp seed that is often mislabeled as hemp oil. Although seed oil is very beneficial, it does not contain enough THC to have any effect on cancer and other serious illnesses.
Are hemp and marijuana the same? The word marijuana is one of over four hundred slang terms used worldwide to describe the cannabis and/or hemp plant.
Are all hemp plants the same? When buying or growing hemp, procure a strain that has the highest possible THC content. To energize someone suffering from depression, I recommend a good Sativa strain. For most other medical conditions, I strongly suggest that Indica strains be used. Indicas relax a person and provide them with more rest and sleep.
How do I use it? High quality hemp oil can be vapourized, ingested or used topically. Add the oil to creams and salves for external use.
Where can I get information about making the oil? For someone new to making the oil I suggest that you go to "Run From The Cure". There you can watch our documentary in seven segments. Segment #4 shows how the oil can be produced at home or one can go to Phoenix Tears Movie and download the full documentary. You will need a high-speed internet connection and there is no charge. The process in the video could only be described as crude at best, but the oil that is produced will cure cancer. In reality, this medicine should be produced in a controlled environment, using distilling equipment, etc. to reclaim the solvent and to purify the oil. Most people do not understand distilling and do not have access to the required equipment. This is the reason such a simple method is descried in the documentary, so if need be just about anyone can produce the oil. As in the video, again we stress that this process, if not done properly can be dangerous and we bear no responsibility if this educational information is misused.
My process:
Starting material: I generally work with a pound or more of good grade hemp starting material. You can use just one ounce. An ounce will usually produce 3 or 4 grams of oil. The amount of oil produced per ounce of hemp will vary from strain to strain, but it all has that wonderful healing power.
1 - Place the completely dry starting material in a plastic bucket. 2 - Dampen the material with the solvent you are using. Many solvents can be used. I like to use pure naphtha but it costs $500 for a 45-gallon drum. You can use 99% isopropyl alcohol, which you can find in your local drug stores. Alcohol absorbs more chlorophyll from the plant material than naphtha does. This gives oils made with alcohol a darker colour but does not diminish the potency of the oil to any noticeable degree. Ether, naphtha or butane and many other solvents can produce oils that are amber and transparent. Granted these clear oils do look better but dark oil can be just as potent. If the process is done properly, little or no solvent residue is left in the oil. I have been consuming oils produced using different solvents for eight years with no harmful effects. You will require about two gallons of solvent to strip the THC off one pound of dry starting material. 500 milliliters of solvent should be more than enough to strip the THC from one ounce of hemp starting material. 3 - Crush the plant material using a stick of clean untreated (chemical free) wood or some such device. Even though the starting material has been dampened with the solvent, you will find that the material can be readily crushed. 4 - Add solvent until the starting material is completely covered. Use the stick to work the plant material. As you are doing this, the THC dissolves off the plant material into the solvent. 5 - Continue this process for about 3 minutes. 6 - Pour the solvent-oil mix off the plant material into another bucket. You have just stripped the plant material of about 80% of its THC. 7 - Second wash - again add solvent to the plant material and work it for another 3 minutes to get the other 20%. 8 - Pour this solvent-oil mix into the bucket containing the first mix that was poured off previously. 9 - Discard the twice-washed plant material. 10- Pour the solvent-oil mix through a coffee filter into a clean container. 11- Boil the solvent off. I have found that a rice cooker will do this boil off very nicely. The one I have has two heat settings - high and low - and will hold over a half gallon (2.5 liters) of solvent-oil mix. 12- Add solvent-oil mix to the rice cooker until it is about ¾ full.
Make sure you are in a very well ventilated area and set up a fan to carry the solvent fumes away. The fumes are very flammable. Be sure to stay away from red-hot elements, sparks, cigarettes etc. that could ignite the fumes.
13- Plug the rice cooker in and set it on high heat. 14- Continue adding solvent-oil mix as the level in the rice cooker decreases until it is all in the cooker. 15- Add a few drops of water to the solvent-oil mix as the level comes down for the last time. The amount of water added depends on how much starting material you had in the beginning. If I am producing oil from a pound of good bud, I usually add about ten drops of water. 16- When there is about one inch of solvent-oil-water mix left in the cooker, put on your oven mitts, pick the unit up and gently swirl the contents 17- Continue swirling until the solvent has been evaporated off. The few drops of water help release the solvent residue and protect the oil somewhat from too much heat. When the solvent has been boiled off, the cooker that I use automatically goes to low heat. This avoids any danger of overheating the oil. At no time should the temperature of the oil go over 290F degrees (140 C). 18- Put on your oven mitts and remove the pot containing the oil from the rice cooker. 19- Gently pour the oil into a small stainless steel container. 20- Place this container in a dehydrator or put in on a gentle heating device such as a coffee warmer. It may take a few hours but the water and volatile turpines will be evaporated from the oil. When there is no longer any activity on the surface of the oil the medicine is ready for use. 21- Pour the hot oil into a bottle; or as in the video suck it up into a plastic syringe. Putting the oil in a plastic syringe makes it very easy to dispense the medicine.
When the oil cools off it has the consistency of thick grease. Some strains will produce very thick oil and you may have trouble squeezing it out of the syringe. If this happens, place the syringe in warm water a few minutes prior to use.
To anyone starting to use hemp oil as a medication, here are some simple facts. Hemp oil will lower blood pressure and if you are on blood pressure medication, you may find that this medication is no longer needed. The same is true for diabetics. I have seen hemp oil control blood sugar to the extent that insulin was no longer needed.
I am not a doctor and I do not have the right to tell people what they should do. Personally, I would not consider taking any cancer treatments currently in use by our medical system, I do not recommend that hemp oil be taken along with chemotherapy. What would be the sense of making your own cure and then allowing the medical system to give you massive doses of poison?
From my experience with hemp medicine, I have found that most pharmaceutical medications are no longer needed once a person starts using hemp oil. Hemp oil seems to mix well with most natural medications but I have had a few reports from people trying to take hemp oil and pharmaceuticals who experienced stomach pain etc. All problems ceased when they stopped taking the prescription drugs.
To anyone who is going to act on this information to help a loved one, I welcome you to the world of real medicine. Again, I caution you to be very careful when boiling the solvent off. The fumes are very flammable. Be sure to stay away from red-hot elements, sparks, cigarettes etc. that could ignite the fumes.
I wish you the best luck and health. Warmest regards, Rick Simpson.
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BiG PuFFer
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Good Man! im around eastern NC, let me know if you need a employee
Bongsaway
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So I was reading up on this thread about these phoenix tears and how it could cure hep C and things of that sort, well my moms boyfriend who I deem to be a pretty good man got sent to prison for 18 months a couple years ago for a car accident that was not even his fault. He had many health problems beforehand because of working in mining for about 30 years. well while in prison he had to have a blood transfusion and after he got out he got a letter in the mail from the red cross that he may have gotten blood tainted with Hep C well upon checking he did which I think is the worst thing that could happen to a person get blood and be given blood that's tainted. I live in Western NC and I was just wondering if there was anything I could do to get him some of the hemp oil you speak of or if there was anything you could do to help.
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"What would you do if you found the cure for cancer?" Rick Simpson, a resident of Nova Scotia, Canada, was just a regular, middle-aged, engineer when he first realized the immense healing benefits of cannabis oil. He was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma in 2002. He cured his skin cancer simply by applying high-grade cannabis oil directly onto the infected areas. Now, six years later he has shared the cure with over one-thousand others.
We all have the right to heal ourselves," he said.
The first time Simpson learned anything about the effects THC has on cancer cells, it was from a very sarcastic radio host in 1975. The radio announcer, laughing hysterically, said, "This report just in: THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, has been found to kill cancer." The announcement had an impact on Simpson because just two years earlier, Simpson's 25 year old cousin died from cancer. As time went on, Simpson didn't hear anything more about THC related cancer studies, so he figured it was a hoax.
Almost 30 years later, Simpson was diagnosed with skin cancer. He had three separate sites where the cancer plagued his skin: one next to his right eye, one on his left cheek and one on his chest. His doctor surgically removed one of the cancerous spots, or "barnacles" (as Simpson refers to them) and scheduled him to have the others removed at a later time.
At the time, Simpson had already been taking cannabis oil for insomnia due to a head injury, so according to Simpson, he had so much THC in his body that the cancer couldn't get in; it just stayed on the surface. About a week after Simpson's surgery, the operated spot next to Simpson's eye became infected. While he studied it in the mirror, he remembered the radio announcement about THC and decided to put some cannabis oil directly on the two remaining cancer-infected areas, then covered each with a bandage.
When the operated spot fully returned into an infected cancerous sore, Simpson covered it in same fashion as the others, and miraculously it disappeared in just four days. Simpson was ecstatic about his success and rushed to his family doctor to share the news. The doctor's wife was working at the front desk when Simpson arrived with his shocking discovery. He told her that the operated cancer spot had returned and that he had cured all three of the infected areas with cannabis oil. Simpson said the receptionist instantly went rigid, and began yelling at him, "The doctor will not go there. The doctor will not prescribe this!"
After this unsuccessful first encounter, Simpson went to many other health organizations and government officials with his discovery, and finally concluded that "they don't want a cure." Simpson then took it into his own hands to get the word out and supply as many people with this medicine as he possibly could. Now, people from all over the world call him every day for help. Simpson grew, produced, and taught others how to produce, what he calls "the mother of all miracle drugs." Since then, he has had many people come to him who are taking 20-30 pills a day, and after just one month of taking cannabis oil, no longer need to take any of their prescription drugs.
"I have people coming to me for all reasons," Simpson said. He's had patients come to him with chronic pain, scoliosis, arthritis, and even AIDS. Simpson said 4 out of 5 people can be saved if they take the medicine right.
"Miracles are a common thing around here," He said. Simpson also claims to have been able to treat every type of cancer he has come across.
Simpson has seen Alzheimer's patients "reconnect" after their minds have been gone for years from being "pilled to death".
There was even a woman from England who emailed Simpson and told him that after watching his instructional video on YouTube about making cannabis oil, the rheumatoid arthritis she had been suffering from for 11 years was cured in just 9 weeks.
A 17 year old girl from Ontario, who was dying from leukemia, contacted Simpson in hopes of cure. He explained the treatment over the phone and sent a shipment of 60 grams, (one full treatment) of high grade oil to her immediately. Amazingly, within two days her white blood cell count had gone down by fifty percent. She ingested a total of 54 grams of oil, and in just 31 days, she was cured.
Unfortunately Simpson said some patients still die because although their cancer is cured, the immense damage from chemotherapy and radiation has become irreversible. However, Simpson has treated hundreds of cases of skin cancer and every single patient has been cured. All skin cancer patients have to do, is apply cannabis oil to the infected areas and bandage them. They must keep treating each spot every three days until they are completely healed. Simpson suggests continued treatment for an additional two weeks to ensure any residual cancer cells are killed.
Most other patients, regardless of their ailments, ingest the oil. One treatment consists of 60 grams of high grade cannabis oil that can be produced from just one pound of marijuana. The oil is thick and black and "looks like axel [sic] grease," Simpson said. He recommends flooding the body with as much THC possible as quickly as possible, although it takes most people 3 months to go through the entire treatment. Some patients who are severely damaged by the chemotherapy and radiation treatments their doctors recommend, have to take even more oil to undo the damage.
Although ingesting the oil is the most common treatment, some patients with lung cancer often use a vaporizer, which heats the THC to such a high temperature that it creates a vapor instead of smoke. This nearly eliminates the carcinogens associated with smoking marijuana as smoking is the least medicinal way to use cannabis. When the cannabis oil is ingested it doesn't cause nearly as many psychoactive effects (head high), promoting relaxation and sleep, which are excellent for healing. Simpson said that with the amount he prescribes, patients generally don't have to worry about getting "high". Motor skills are not impaired and many patients have found that they function much better on the cannabis oil than their previous prescription medications.
"When you make the essential oil of the most medicinal plant in the world, why should it surprise anyone that it's a miracle drug?" asked Simpson.
So how does this miracle drug work?
According to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, "Cannabinoid action induces autophagy - mediated cell death through stimulation of ER [endoplasmic reticulum] stress in human glioma cells." To put simply, the cancer cells basically self destruct. The THC doesn't directly cause the cell death, but rather starts a chain reaction leading to their ultimate termination. To read the detailed process, and view pictures of the experiment, visit http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37948 . Several other medical journals printed similar results; from performing similar studies done on mire that were injected with human cancer cells, then with pure THC. ( www.pubmed.gov for related studies)
Amazingly, the amount of THC that is needed to kill off the cancer cells is completely nontoxic to normal, healthy cells. To watch a time-lapsed video contrasting the effect of THC on normal brain cells versus cancerous brain cells, go to www.sethgroup.org [link defunct] and click on 'featured experiment'.
According to Simpson, the cannabis oil resets body functions and rejuvenates vital organs. He said he's had many overweight patients lose 60-80 pounds just by changing their medicine. "Put it on, and where it goes, it heals you," Simpson said. "Yet the system tells us there is no cure for cancer."
Simpson discovered some horrifying truths he's discovered during his six year campaign. "You get smashed up in a car accident, they take you in there, and put you back together; in many cases, work miracles, but when it comes to curing simple diseases, they're a dismal failure." According to Simpson, this is partly due to the society we've grown up in. With the taboo that surrounds marijuana, from propaganda such as the cult film "Reefer Madness," even people on their death bed, are scared to take cannabis oil for fear of getting high. However, they still allow themselves to be subject to deadly treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.
"We're told from the time we were kids, 'stay away from poison, stay away from radiation;' I mean, who but the medical system would tell us that these things could be good for us?" asked Simpson.
Simpson has known dozens of doctors in Nova Scotia who have seen their own cancer patients cured right before their eyes. The doctors know what cured their patients, but the next one who walks in their office with cancer won't be told about cannabis oil, they will be sent for chemotherapy.
"You're taking a treatment that can burn down a tumor today, but in the end, winds up giving you cancer tomorrow," Simpson said.
Simpson has also had many patients come to him with glaucoma. It's been known for centuries that the most effective treatment for glaucoma is cannabis, yet eye doctors rarely prescribe it. Instead, they use a laser to burn a hole in their patients' eye to release pressure, and/or give them medicated eye drops.
"The doctor will watch the patient loose [sic] his license, and watch the patient go blind," Simpson said. Simpson explained that because the cure is a plant, it cannot be patented. Also, since it can be used for so many ailments, the pharmaceutical companies stand to lose a lot of money if the masses start turning to the oil for their treatments.
"While they're filling their pockets, we're dying," said Simpson.
Doctors often give the excuse that the plant is, "still under study," as a reason for not prescribing it. "How long does it take to study?" Simpson wants to know. "If it works, it works. Nobody should die because they don't have enough money in their wallet."
This has been Simpson's philosophy from the start. As soon as he realized that he had cured his own cancer, he did his best to get the word out. He began growing marijuana on his own property so he could produce it and help those who needed it most. He gave it away for free as much as he possibly could. Occasionally a professional grower would donate a little extra medicine which Simpson quickly processed and shipped out to the many patients asking him for help.
Unfortunately, although Simpson was saving lives every day, production of marijuana is still illegal in Canada. In 2005 he was raided and charged for having 1620 plants in his back yard. He had made his intentions no secret amongst the community. Just a year prior to the raid, the local newspaper did a full-page article on his work. Simpson found himself in court despite his openness, and stood facing 12 years in jail.
"I consider my trial to be the greatest kangaroo court case in Canadian history," Simpson said.
During the trial, 48 sworn affidavits from patients Simpson had helped were presented in his defense. They were declined as substantial evidence, and regarded as "simply anecdotal." They refused to let Simpson put any of his witnesses on the stand even though 10 patients and 6 doctors were subpoenaed to testify. They refused and scientific evidence Simpson had gathered from THC/cancer studies, to be brought to the stand.
"The ground prosecutor was seen leaving the jury room about 3 minutes before they came in with my verdict," Simpson said. "Now that's called jury tampering. The judge was made aware of it; he did nothing."
Simpson was awestruck when the jury found him guilty. "I asked them all the same question. I said, 'What would you do, if you found the cure for cancer? Who would you go to? Would you not do exactly what I did?"
Simpson was tremendously disturbed with the outcome of his trial, "All I did was save lives and help people, and these people were trying to turn me into a criminal," he said. He felt this injustice exposed the corruption at every level of the judicial system.
Even the judge was surprised, "In my 34 years in the legal system, I've never seen a case like this; there is no criminal intent. The scientific evidence does exist to back up everything he's saying, plus he has all these patients that are saying the same thing."
The judge gave Simpson a $2000 fine, and he wasn't even put on probation.
In 2006 Simpson was raided again, shortly after he planted 1100 clones in his yard. On this visit, the "Mounties" didn't even have a search warrant; they just rode into his yard and took all the plants. They didn't even arrest him. They said they were with the Marijuana Eradication Program, who Rick had visited just months before, to show patient testimonial videos.
Since then, Simpson no longer grows medicine for other patients, but still helps many through the process of making the precious oil, free of charge and has acquired contacts in other countries throughout the world that he can send patients to.
Simpson has hopes for the future that the public will start using cannabis oil "properly" as a preventative medicine. This is a medicine that people could grow and produce themselves. Simpson is convinced that most serious medical procedures could be avoided if we would just turn to natural medicines. In the future, he would like to see "a large jar of cannabis oil in every home." Simpson says that even children should be given a small daily dose of the oil to help build up their system.
"Once people know what this plant really does, who's going to stand against it?" Simpson asked.
Simpson's mother had psoriasis, and although she was skeptical of the oil at first, it ultimately cured her ailment. Simpson says this is a similar scenario for most families; someone starts taking the oil, and before you know it, the whole family is curing their medical conditions with it.
"I just wanna see us get back to real healing; natural medicines that won't hurt people. I want to see the human race back on the right track," said Simpson. He would like to see marijuana grown as abundantly as corn so that the medicine can be produced on a grand scale, making it available to the public. Simpson said if we grew it in this fashion, 1 pound (one full cancer treatment) could be sold for as little as $2. This would make it possible to provide the medicine on a donation basis.
"People call it a gateway drug," Simpson said, "I call it a gateway drug." He proceeded to explain that marijuana is the gateway to a new way of healing people naturally, without all the detrimental side effects associated with many current medical treatments.
Not only has Simpson begun making his discoveries public, but he has inspired others around the world to follow his example.
Char Richardson is one of these inspired individuals. She has designed and began building a research center in Colorado that should be fully functioning no later than June 2009. The center aims to test and scientifically prove that cannabis does in fact cure cancer.
"The research is the most rewarding part, because you know you are helping people, not hurting them," Simpson said.
Richardson is setting up the research center in hopes that she will ultimately be able to provide medicine to any qualified Medicaid patients, absolutely free of charge.
We all have the right to heal ourselves," he said.
The first time Simpson learned anything about the effects THC has on cancer cells, it was from a very sarcastic radio host in 1975. The radio announcer, laughing hysterically, said, "This report just in: THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, has been found to kill cancer." The announcement had an impact on Simpson because just two years earlier, Simpson's 25 year old cousin died from cancer. As time went on, Simpson didn't hear anything more about THC related cancer studies, so he figured it was a hoax.
Almost 30 years later, Simpson was diagnosed with skin cancer. He had three separate sites where the cancer plagued his skin: one next to his right eye, one on his left cheek and one on his chest. His doctor surgically removed one of the cancerous spots, or "barnacles" (as Simpson refers to them) and scheduled him to have the others removed at a later time.
At the time, Simpson had already been taking cannabis oil for insomnia due to a head injury, so according to Simpson, he had so much THC in his body that the cancer couldn't get in; it just stayed on the surface. About a week after Simpson's surgery, the operated spot next to Simpson's eye became infected. While he studied it in the mirror, he remembered the radio announcement about THC and decided to put some cannabis oil directly on the two remaining cancer-infected areas, then covered each with a bandage.
When the operated spot fully returned into an infected cancerous sore, Simpson covered it in same fashion as the others, and miraculously it disappeared in just four days. Simpson was ecstatic about his success and rushed to his family doctor to share the news. The doctor's wife was working at the front desk when Simpson arrived with his shocking discovery. He told her that the operated cancer spot had returned and that he had cured all three of the infected areas with cannabis oil. Simpson said the receptionist instantly went rigid, and began yelling at him, "The doctor will not go there. The doctor will not prescribe this!"
After this unsuccessful first encounter, Simpson went to many other health organizations and government officials with his discovery, and finally concluded that "they don't want a cure." Simpson then took it into his own hands to get the word out and supply as many people with this medicine as he possibly could. Now, people from all over the world call him every day for help. Simpson grew, produced, and taught others how to produce, what he calls "the mother of all miracle drugs." Since then, he has had many people come to him who are taking 20-30 pills a day, and after just one month of taking cannabis oil, no longer need to take any of their prescription drugs.
"I have people coming to me for all reasons," Simpson said. He's had patients come to him with chronic pain, scoliosis, arthritis, and even AIDS. Simpson said 4 out of 5 people can be saved if they take the medicine right.
"Miracles are a common thing around here," He said. Simpson also claims to have been able to treat every type of cancer he has come across.
Simpson has seen Alzheimer's patients "reconnect" after their minds have been gone for years from being "pilled to death".
There was even a woman from England who emailed Simpson and told him that after watching his instructional video on YouTube about making cannabis oil, the rheumatoid arthritis she had been suffering from for 11 years was cured in just 9 weeks.
A 17 year old girl from Ontario, who was dying from leukemia, contacted Simpson in hopes of cure. He explained the treatment over the phone and sent a shipment of 60 grams, (one full treatment) of high grade oil to her immediately. Amazingly, within two days her white blood cell count had gone down by fifty percent. She ingested a total of 54 grams of oil, and in just 31 days, she was cured.
Unfortunately Simpson said some patients still die because although their cancer is cured, the immense damage from chemotherapy and radiation has become irreversible. However, Simpson has treated hundreds of cases of skin cancer and every single patient has been cured. All skin cancer patients have to do, is apply cannabis oil to the infected areas and bandage them. They must keep treating each spot every three days until they are completely healed. Simpson suggests continued treatment for an additional two weeks to ensure any residual cancer cells are killed.
Most other patients, regardless of their ailments, ingest the oil. One treatment consists of 60 grams of high grade cannabis oil that can be produced from just one pound of marijuana. The oil is thick and black and "looks like axel [sic] grease," Simpson said. He recommends flooding the body with as much THC possible as quickly as possible, although it takes most people 3 months to go through the entire treatment. Some patients who are severely damaged by the chemotherapy and radiation treatments their doctors recommend, have to take even more oil to undo the damage.
Although ingesting the oil is the most common treatment, some patients with lung cancer often use a vaporizer, which heats the THC to such a high temperature that it creates a vapor instead of smoke. This nearly eliminates the carcinogens associated with smoking marijuana as smoking is the least medicinal way to use cannabis. When the cannabis oil is ingested it doesn't cause nearly as many psychoactive effects (head high), promoting relaxation and sleep, which are excellent for healing. Simpson said that with the amount he prescribes, patients generally don't have to worry about getting "high". Motor skills are not impaired and many patients have found that they function much better on the cannabis oil than their previous prescription medications.
"When you make the essential oil of the most medicinal plant in the world, why should it surprise anyone that it's a miracle drug?" asked Simpson.
So how does this miracle drug work?
According to a study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, "Cannabinoid action induces autophagy - mediated cell death through stimulation of ER [endoplasmic reticulum] stress in human glioma cells." To put simply, the cancer cells basically self destruct. The THC doesn't directly cause the cell death, but rather starts a chain reaction leading to their ultimate termination. To read the detailed process, and view pictures of the experiment, visit http://www.jci.org/articles/view/37948 . Several other medical journals printed similar results; from performing similar studies done on mire that were injected with human cancer cells, then with pure THC. ( www.pubmed.gov for related studies)
Amazingly, the amount of THC that is needed to kill off the cancer cells is completely nontoxic to normal, healthy cells. To watch a time-lapsed video contrasting the effect of THC on normal brain cells versus cancerous brain cells, go to www.sethgroup.org [link defunct] and click on 'featured experiment'.
According to Simpson, the cannabis oil resets body functions and rejuvenates vital organs. He said he's had many overweight patients lose 60-80 pounds just by changing their medicine. "Put it on, and where it goes, it heals you," Simpson said. "Yet the system tells us there is no cure for cancer."
Simpson discovered some horrifying truths he's discovered during his six year campaign. "You get smashed up in a car accident, they take you in there, and put you back together; in many cases, work miracles, but when it comes to curing simple diseases, they're a dismal failure." According to Simpson, this is partly due to the society we've grown up in. With the taboo that surrounds marijuana, from propaganda such as the cult film "Reefer Madness," even people on their death bed, are scared to take cannabis oil for fear of getting high. However, they still allow themselves to be subject to deadly treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.
"We're told from the time we were kids, 'stay away from poison, stay away from radiation;' I mean, who but the medical system would tell us that these things could be good for us?" asked Simpson.
Simpson has known dozens of doctors in Nova Scotia who have seen their own cancer patients cured right before their eyes. The doctors know what cured their patients, but the next one who walks in their office with cancer won't be told about cannabis oil, they will be sent for chemotherapy.
"You're taking a treatment that can burn down a tumor today, but in the end, winds up giving you cancer tomorrow," Simpson said.
Simpson has also had many patients come to him with glaucoma. It's been known for centuries that the most effective treatment for glaucoma is cannabis, yet eye doctors rarely prescribe it. Instead, they use a laser to burn a hole in their patients' eye to release pressure, and/or give them medicated eye drops.
"The doctor will watch the patient loose [sic] his license, and watch the patient go blind," Simpson said. Simpson explained that because the cure is a plant, it cannot be patented. Also, since it can be used for so many ailments, the pharmaceutical companies stand to lose a lot of money if the masses start turning to the oil for their treatments.
"While they're filling their pockets, we're dying," said Simpson.
Doctors often give the excuse that the plant is, "still under study," as a reason for not prescribing it. "How long does it take to study?" Simpson wants to know. "If it works, it works. Nobody should die because they don't have enough money in their wallet."
This has been Simpson's philosophy from the start. As soon as he realized that he had cured his own cancer, he did his best to get the word out. He began growing marijuana on his own property so he could produce it and help those who needed it most. He gave it away for free as much as he possibly could. Occasionally a professional grower would donate a little extra medicine which Simpson quickly processed and shipped out to the many patients asking him for help.
Unfortunately, although Simpson was saving lives every day, production of marijuana is still illegal in Canada. In 2005 he was raided and charged for having 1620 plants in his back yard. He had made his intentions no secret amongst the community. Just a year prior to the raid, the local newspaper did a full-page article on his work. Simpson found himself in court despite his openness, and stood facing 12 years in jail.
"I consider my trial to be the greatest kangaroo court case in Canadian history," Simpson said.
During the trial, 48 sworn affidavits from patients Simpson had helped were presented in his defense. They were declined as substantial evidence, and regarded as "simply anecdotal." They refused to let Simpson put any of his witnesses on the stand even though 10 patients and 6 doctors were subpoenaed to testify. They refused and scientific evidence Simpson had gathered from THC/cancer studies, to be brought to the stand.
"The ground prosecutor was seen leaving the jury room about 3 minutes before they came in with my verdict," Simpson said. "Now that's called jury tampering. The judge was made aware of it; he did nothing."
Simpson was awestruck when the jury found him guilty. "I asked them all the same question. I said, 'What would you do, if you found the cure for cancer? Who would you go to? Would you not do exactly what I did?"
Simpson was tremendously disturbed with the outcome of his trial, "All I did was save lives and help people, and these people were trying to turn me into a criminal," he said. He felt this injustice exposed the corruption at every level of the judicial system.
Even the judge was surprised, "In my 34 years in the legal system, I've never seen a case like this; there is no criminal intent. The scientific evidence does exist to back up everything he's saying, plus he has all these patients that are saying the same thing."
The judge gave Simpson a $2000 fine, and he wasn't even put on probation.
In 2006 Simpson was raided again, shortly after he planted 1100 clones in his yard. On this visit, the "Mounties" didn't even have a search warrant; they just rode into his yard and took all the plants. They didn't even arrest him. They said they were with the Marijuana Eradication Program, who Rick had visited just months before, to show patient testimonial videos.
Since then, Simpson no longer grows medicine for other patients, but still helps many through the process of making the precious oil, free of charge and has acquired contacts in other countries throughout the world that he can send patients to.
Simpson has hopes for the future that the public will start using cannabis oil "properly" as a preventative medicine. This is a medicine that people could grow and produce themselves. Simpson is convinced that most serious medical procedures could be avoided if we would just turn to natural medicines. In the future, he would like to see "a large jar of cannabis oil in every home." Simpson says that even children should be given a small daily dose of the oil to help build up their system.
"Once people know what this plant really does, who's going to stand against it?" Simpson asked.
Simpson's mother had psoriasis, and although she was skeptical of the oil at first, it ultimately cured her ailment. Simpson says this is a similar scenario for most families; someone starts taking the oil, and before you know it, the whole family is curing their medical conditions with it.
"I just wanna see us get back to real healing; natural medicines that won't hurt people. I want to see the human race back on the right track," said Simpson. He would like to see marijuana grown as abundantly as corn so that the medicine can be produced on a grand scale, making it available to the public. Simpson said if we grew it in this fashion, 1 pound (one full cancer treatment) could be sold for as little as $2. This would make it possible to provide the medicine on a donation basis.
"People call it a gateway drug," Simpson said, "I call it a gateway drug." He proceeded to explain that marijuana is the gateway to a new way of healing people naturally, without all the detrimental side effects associated with many current medical treatments.
Not only has Simpson begun making his discoveries public, but he has inspired others around the world to follow his example.
Char Richardson is one of these inspired individuals. She has designed and began building a research center in Colorado that should be fully functioning no later than June 2009. The center aims to test and scientifically prove that cannabis does in fact cure cancer.
"The research is the most rewarding part, because you know you are helping people, not hurting them," Simpson said.
Richardson is setting up the research center in hopes that she will ultimately be able to provide medicine to any qualified Medicaid patients, absolutely free of charge.