Misuse of prescription drugs means taking a medication in a manner or dose other than prescribed which is totally illegal. The most common is ”opioids” which usually treat for pain. When these are used long-term, opioids may lead to drug abuse with physical dependence and addiction and overdoes can lead to a human death.   [End]
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Homeopathy is truly a unique way to treat illnesses. It can be utilized even on travels. https://medicaltravelling.com/2018/03/30/homeopathy-for-vaccine-injury-autism-cfs-me-and-travels/   [End]
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Men account for 80% of opiate deaths.   [End]
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Ebook Conversion Services Ebook Conversion Services- Print2eforms is a Publishing Services and GIS mapping and Epub conversion services company where we work with industries like health, education, BFSI, Governments, Telecom, Data etc http://www.print2eforms.com/   [End]
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ozone injections and C60. not necessarily in that order. just sayin.   [End]
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Don’t have much hope for an answer, but were you, by chance, on nitazoxanide for the Hep C? I have schistosomes and fasciola hepatica, so my doctor is trying to get me on that. I also get those creeping sensations when I smoke, but I get the same sensations elsewhere. I do not have hep C and all my liver enzymes are textbook perfect, but I do have liver pains and occasional swelling. The increased high for me is caused by berberine, though, not blocked or damaged pathways. Testing confirmed that.   [End]
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Everybody knows that marijuana is safe, except the governments. I hope such studies will help legalize it everywhere   [End]
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Great tool, thanks. Marijuana must be legal, no questions. But I don’t agree with the statement about racial injustice. The fact that more black people are arrested for marijuana means nothing, because we don’t know the ratio between white and black users. Maybe black people are arrested more just because more of them use pot. For fair conclusion, we have to compare the proportions of the arrested people among the total numbers of black and white marijuana users.   [End]
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That’s great news, Nelson That is what this forum is all about, getting information out that can help without having to do the chemo, and radiation thing that more times than not doesn’t help, and does more harm than good. I’m happy for you, and will pass your good news to Mike Adams ”the heath Ranger” who wrote the article. Thanks for the feed back,   [End]
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  ( Natural News ) A recent study published in  International Journal of Oncology  revealed that cannabinoids, the active chemical in cannabis, can destroy leukemia cells either alone or in combination with other cancer treatments. The scientific community has long-established that cannabinoids may show potential in cancer treatment, with certain varieties known to promote cell death, curb cell growth, and inhibit tumor-inducing blood vessel development. In order to evaluate the compound’s efficacy against leukemia, a team of researchers at th ... [Image Embedded Here]
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(NaturalNews) When Big Government goes off the rails, it’s almost like they’re smoking crack. In this case, that’s not far from the truth: The Albuquerque Police Department now plans to manufacture crack cocaine so they can sell it to people who are then arrested for “possession of crack.” (See court documents below for proof.) Wait a sec… Crack cocaine is an illegal substance, right? So now the police are going to possess it, manufacture it, sell it and then arrest citizens who buy it from them? Yep. That’s how some police tell ... [Image Embedded Here]
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Idaho is having a hard time letting go of Reefer Madness. Despite being bordered by four states with legal medical cannabis, Idaho’s prohibition is so complete that it crushes the hopes of kids suffering from epileptic seizures. An investigation by Eric Boehm at Reason.com found that “cops, prosecutors, and lobbyists conspired to restrict a promising cannabis-derived seizure treatment.” In Idaho, a bill to allow people like Josh Phillips to access CBD oil was passed by the state legislature in 2015, only to be defeated by a group of powerful special i ...
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By Waking Times Media Posted on November 18, 2016 The health benefits of cannabis are vast, with multiple medical and scientific studies to confirm them. Arjun Walia, Collective-Evolution Waking Times Media Cannabis has been making a lot of noise lately. Multiple states across the United States, along with many countries around the world, have successfully legalized medical marijuana, and the Uruguay parliament recently voted to create  the world’s first legal mariju ... [Image Embedded Here]
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There is nothing quite so horrendous and heartbreaking as a baby with a malignant brain tumor, especially for parents and family. But at the same time, there is little as joyous and uplifting as seeing those tumors go away – and without the costly "assistance" of the corporate medical industry. Recently, the father of an eight-month-old baby decided he would shun traditional radiation treatment and chemotherapy and instead push for an alternative treatment using cannabis oil. The baby’s physician, Dr. William Courtner, who was initially skeptical earlier in hi ...
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In the two years since recreational marijuana sales became legal in Colorado, the state has seen economic growth two times greater than the U.S. national average, according to a new in-depth analysis. "The Economic Impact of Marijuana Legalization in Colorado," released by the Marijuana Policy Group in October 2016, was created using a new "Marijuana Impact Model" designed to accurately measure the cannabis industry’s economic impact on the state. As it turns out, the positive impact has been enormous. The state saw nearly $1 billion in marijuana sale ...
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  Last week, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Edith Ramirez, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC look into some makers of prescription drugs and how they price insulin. Sanders and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) wrote that though the original insulin patent expired 75 years ago, “three drugmakers who make different versions of insulin have continuously raised prices.” In “numerous instances,” the letter continued, ...
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Absolutely... I was hospitalized recently for an infection the spiraled out of control. My pulse and blood pressure were high - from either the stress of school, taking adderall to keep up, or both. I hesitated to mention it, knowing how I’d been treated before when I was forthcoming. But after they were concerned and wanted to run more tests to determine the cause of the high vitals, I confessed. The RN said the same thing to me - ”I used to take that stuff too, but it’s basically crystal meth. It will cause all the same damage. Please try to stay away from it”. My discharge papers includ ...
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As the evidence supporting marijuana’s healing properties continues to grow, the number of businesses getting involved with the commercialization of the plant also continues to expand. And despite the DEA’s refusal to reschedule cannabis and relax federal laws surrounding marijuana, states continue to vote on and enforce their own laws surrounding the cannabis plant – particularly to acknowledge its medicinal properties. So far, a number of states have legalized marijuana for medical use, and some have even legalized recreational use. The expansion of marijuana’s ...
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At least three states legalized marijuana Tuesday, and now the Reefer Revolution has spread to the East Coast. AlterNet November 8, 2016   New England has become the first region of the country outside the West to embrace marijuana legalization, with voters in Massachusetts approving an initiative Tuesday, while as of early Friday morning, a similar measure in Maine was still too close to call. At this juncture in the vote count, with 84% of the vote counted, Maine’s  Question 1 initiative was winning with 51% of the vote, while Massachusetts’ Que ...
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Waking Times  As the U.S. government continues to fight its futile war on drugs, marijuana possession arrests have now become more common than all other crimes combined, according to a new report focused on showing the human toll of criminalizing drug use and published by Human Rights Watch ( HRW.org). The war on drugs in the U.S. is a palpable failure. Drug-possession arrests more than doubled between 1979 and 2016. The prison population now includes more than half a million Americans jailed for drug offenses, in comparison to only 41,000 in 1980. Over the las ...
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Wolf Street     The ravenous price increases that pharmaceutical companies slap on their medicines are part of the reason the US health care system is eating an ever larger slice of consumer, corporate, and government spending, and why the rest of the economy has trouble moving forward. Some of the price increases have turned into scandals with plenty of mouth-wagging by politicians. Mylan got raked over the coals in Congress for raising the price of its autoinjector EpiPen seven-fold since buying it in 2007. Last year, Turing Pharmaceuticals, ...
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Although U.S. traffic fatalities have decreased overall during the past couple of decades, there has recently been a "disquieting" upward trend which may be at least partly due to an increase in drugged driving. In fact, the percentage of fatal car crashes in which at least one driver tested drug-positive has nearly doubled over the past ten years, raising concerns among state and federal regulators. From USA Today: In 2015, 21% of the 31,166 fatal crashes in the U.S. involved at least one driver who tested positive for drugs after the incident — up from 1 ...
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It’s a topic that has sparked debate across the nation over the last few years - legalizing marijuana. In Idaho, recreational and medical marijuana is still illegal. Last month, Kelsey Osborne, a Gooding mother of two, had her children taken from her after she gave her daughter a smoothie with marijuana in it as an attempt to stop her seizures. A month later, the two children - Madyson and Ryker - are still living with their father and Osborne is still trying to get them back. "I didn’t ever think it would come down to this, but it did," Osborne told ...
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For decades, the pharmaceutical industry poured millions into the pockets of crony lawmakers as they lobbied to keep marijuana illegal. We understand if marijuana — a plant that can clothe, fuel, shelter, feed, and medicate — was readily available, it would destroy Big Pharma’s profits. For decades, the antidepressant industry poured millions into the pockets of corrupt politicians as they lobbied to classify psychedelics as Schedule I drugs with ‘no currently accepted medical use’. We understand if psychedelics — psychoactive substances th ...
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The rise and advancement of progressive thought in the modern age has led to the adoption of ever-more-baffling social experimentation, and few have been as controversial as handing out illicit drugs to addicts and then giving them a "safe place" in which to use them. The United Kingdom is one of the latest to engage in such buffoonery. As reported by the BBC, a new plan has been adopted in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, to provide drug users an area in which to inject "safely," and under supervision (good luck with ’supervising’ a bunch of people wip ...
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Ever wondered how Big Pharma has managed to tightly control so many aspects of conventional medicine’s healthcare system, even to the point of imposing limitations on our medical freedom? Before answering, first, here’s a little background. In spite of growing truth revelations in recent years from alternative media sources that just about every subject under the sun is steeped in fraud, lies and deception, the majority still blindly continue to support and act on false, limiting or even destructive paradigms. In effect, the human race is its own worst ... [Image Embedded Here]
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  ( Era of Wisdom) In 2008, a man named Michael Heston hung himself in incarceration at Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, after being forced to endure injections of psych meds involuntarily on a regular basis. He wrote to a medical freedom advocacy group called Mind Freedom begging for help, saying “I live in mortal fear,” and “The needle has me terrified, they just keep sticking me every two weeks and I feel like death.” Although the good people at Mind Freedom sent out a public request for help to assist h ...
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Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know about everything marijuana can do. More and more studies on the abilities of THC are being released recently, and the results are astonishing. Though many have suspected that the drug works wonders on the brain and central nervous system, studies on these theories have been few and far between because of marijuana’s legal status and a lack of funding for illegal drugs. That’s slowly starting to change as more states embrace the drug both medicinally and recreationally. As a result, more studies have been conducted to d ... [Image Embedded Here]
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By  Cassius Kamarampi ( Era of Wisdom) Did you know that Sigmund Freud played a strong role in popularizing cocaine? He worked with German pharmaceutical company Merck, now one of the world’s largest vaccine producers (the U.S. subsidiary which became its own company). Merck began importing thousands of kilos of “crude cocaine” to Germany for processing into cocaine hydrochloride, by the first few years of the 20th Century, after a major spike in cocaine profits 1885- 1886. According to Narconon: “In 1887, the US Surgeon Gen ... [Image Embedded Here] [Video Embedded Here]
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he billionaire mogul has turned his attention to keeping pot illegal, even as 60 percent of Americans support legalization. By Tana Ganeva / AlterNet October 19, 2016 In the past decade, billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has used his money to fund such noble ventures as Newt Gingrich’s doomed presidential run and starting a  war with Iran. Lately, he’s turned his attention to another strange (and equally doomed) campaign: stopping the legalization of marijuana in states where he doesn’t even live. Mas ... [Video Embedded Here]
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The media has ridiculed presidential candidate Donald Trump for suggesting the election is “rigged.” While his comments should always be taken with a grain of salt, a case of a missing amendment in a Florida ballot is raising some eyebrows. Anne Sallee, an Oakland Park resident and former city commissioner who lives in Broward, Florida, says she was shocked to notice her ballot had arrived in the mail without one of the most discussed amendments of the season. After spending a week trying to get the Broward elections office to listen, she decided to reach out to ... [Image Embedded Here]
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Opium production in Afghanistan has increased by 43% in the past year, United Nations officials have said. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said the area used to farm the poppy plant, the source of opium, increased by 10% to 201,000 hectares. But better farming conditions resulted in a higher yield per hectare, increasing overall production. Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of the substance, which is the main ingredient in heroin. Growing opium is a crime in the country, but it is still a major cash crop for impoverished farming communities. Th ...
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Organic and Healthy   Germany-based pharmaceutical giant Bayer has finally sealed the deal with Monsanto, purchasing the seed giant for $66 billion following months of negotiations and various offers. The merger is reported to be one of the biggest of all-cash deal on record.   There are many effects of this huge merger but as usual, the consumer loses out. Firstly, it strengthens the monopolization of the world’s food supply. It also means more GMOs and chemicals to be sprayed on them.   Some are now predicting th ... [Image Embedded Here]
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It could be the hottest outgrowth of the pot-conomy — highly lucrative for both investors and cannabis companies. The industrial real estate that houses pot production is in high demand, and it is about to become the first opportunity for investors large and small to get in on marijuana. How? The biggest problem for cannabis growers and suppliers is an inability to get much-needed cash to grow both their products and their businesses. Since cannabis production and use is not legal under federal law, only state to state, most banks won’t lend to cannabi ... [Image Embedded Here]
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A strange new phenomenon is taking place in South Africa, where a group of children has somehow developed resistance to the progression of HIV into full-blown AIDS. According to reports, this rare bunch of youngsters will never develop AIDS, even without the usual antiretroviral treatments for HIV, and scientists aren’t entirely sure why this is the case. Despite harboring high amounts of HIV within their blood, these children all show a clean bill of health when tested, perplexed doctors say. Known as HIV non-progressors, it wouldn’t even be apparent that these children hav ...
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Two Chicago police officers say they have faced retaliation and suffered from PTSD since they blew the whistle on a gang of their fellow cops who were demanding bribes from drug dealers in the housing projects of Chicago. We speak with one of the whistleblowers, Shannon Spalding, and with reporter Jamie Kalven, who documented their ordeal in a major investigation for The Intercept called “Code of Silence.” TRANSCRIPT JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We begin today’s show with an explosive story of two Chicago police officers who blew the whistle ...
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http://curezone.com/upload/_O_P_Forums/Pictures/1477089663601.jpg ”Broward voter claims marijuana amendment missing on ballot, sues By Troy Kinsey, Reporter Last Updated: Friday, October 21, 2016, 6:41 PM EDT FORT LAUDERDALE -- A possible mistake on the ballot in South Florida has sparked a lawsuit and could potentially cause issues for the push for legalizing medical marijuana. South Florida voter says her mail-in ballot is missing Amendment 2 She’s filed lawsuit against Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office investigating, no indication if an isolated instance or wi ...
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Even in the reddest of red states, marijuana is becoming de facto acceptable. By Justin Gardner / The Free Thought Project October 18, 2016 When Colorado took the historic step of restoring freedom by legalizing the recreational use of cannabis, neighboring prohibitionist states became desperate. Oklahoma and Nebraska filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court against Colorado, seeking to have federal government stamp out the legalization movement. Thankfully, the court  denied the challenge, although the states can s ...
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There should never be a situation where a pharmaceutical company that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars – and sometimes billions – developing a new drug is allowed to conduct its own self-controlled clinical trials, because the financial incentives to skew the outcomes of those trials in the company’s favor are far too great. And yet it happens all the time, according to a recent report by NPR.org. The publicly funded broadcast company says that doctors often turn to specially crafted studies when they are attempting to understand what is often confu ...
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Epidemic levels of opioid addiction and overdose in the United States have gained widespread attention, and Big Pharma has rightfully been implicated in the problem. But another health crisis is sweeping not just America, but the world — and drug companies’ role in the latest crisis is equally significant. Superbugs have garnered countless headlines lately — and for good reason. As Bloomberg reported this week, superbugs, bacteria that have grown resistant to antibiotics, are estimated to claim the lives of 700,000 worldwide every year data on cases in ... [Image Embedded Here]
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Hillary Clinton wants mandatory drug tests on every teen. Coincidentally, a company that manufactures drug tests has donated to her campaign! —     Tweet   Found in E-Mail ID 9373: “schools and doctors regularly screen for all sorts of diseases, and substance abuse screening /= random drug testing.” https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9373 http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000028499 And who is going to make money out of this? Private Industry. I wond ...
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Pro Publica talks to journalist David Armstrong about the rise of fentanyl and the challenge it presents. Pro Publica October 10, 2016 The nation’s opioid epidemic shows no signs of abating—and in fact may be headed in a far more dangerous direction. That’s the conclusion of journalist David Armstrong, who has been chronicling the scourge this year for STAT, a new health and medicine website. Armstrong has written about how heroin and, increasingly, fentanyl have overtaken narcotic painkillers as  the drugs of choice for addicts &mdas ...
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The campaign aimed at preventing marijuana from being legalized this year in Arizona just received a super sleazy donation from a company that makes its living selling meals to prisons. Campaign finance  records show that  Services Group of America, one of the largest food service companies in the United States, recently contributed $80,000 to the weasels working to maintain the prohibitionary standard in the Copper State. The documents, which were initially dug up by Tom Angell over at  Marijuana.com, suggest the company could be concerned it will ...
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NFL players are three times as prone to abusing opioid pain medications due the multiple injuries typically sustained during a career in professional football. Because of this, many are now looking to cannabis as a replacement for dangerously addictive pharmaceutical painkillers. The Gridiron Cannabis Coalition (GCC), a group consisting primarily of former and current NFL athletes, is helping to fund research into the use of cannabis oil as an alternative to opioid painkillers such as OxyContin and Vicodin. The research is being conducted under the guidance of Constance ...
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In a stunning reversal, the DEA has withdrawn its proposal to ban kratom and temporarily suspended efforts to make it a Schedule 1 drug. The move comes after an impassioned Internet-based protest by a decentralized network of advocates and activists who contend the southeast Asian plant has tremendous medicinal value. While not a permanent ruling, the reversal is extremely unusual for the government agency, which is known for aggressive enforcement of its drug policies. DEA spokesperson Melvin Patterson confirmed that the intense public reaction fueled the decision. &ldquo ...
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The pharmaceuticalisation of CBD Products? Today news swept across the internet and social media that Cannabidiol (CBD), the non-psychoactive cannabinoid, is going to be scheduled as a medicine.  A number of CBD companies have received letters from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) notifying them that they will have to cease selling CBD Products on November 1st 2016. Many patients across the UK have now been struck with worry that the only legal access to cannabis products, and their only source of relief from a variety of ailments, ... [Image Embedded Here] [Video Embedded Here]
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21st Century Wire When commenting on the horrors of ISIS and all of their violent  videos promoted around the clock by CNN and other mainstream media outlets, I will often hear people say, “This is just pure evil. How could they do such horrible things?” Far from being some existential mystery, there are answers to these questions, but if you are waiting for your elected representatives or their highly paid media surrogates to provide any, you will be waiting in vain.  This week, yet another clue surfaced when Lebanon&rsqu ... [Image Embedded Here] [Video Embedded Here]
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While we all know of the occasional use of personal email addresses for business, none of my friends circle can understand how it was viewed as ok/secure/appropriate to use a private server for secure documents AND why further Hillary took it upon herself to review them and delete documents without providing anyone outside her circle a chance to weigh in. It smacks of acting above the law and it smacks of the type of thing I’ve either gotten discovery sanctions for, fired people for, etc. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4099 There seems to be mon ...
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WikiLeaks has arguably been the most important thing that has happened to elections, if not the veneer of democracy, in quite a long time. We’ve been able to see the true side of politicians and bureaucrats like never before. In Hillary Clinton, we see a figure beholden to Wall St., working diligently to advance the influence of financial corporations over government policy and taxpayer money. Her mega-donor list is a who’s who of megabanks that also happened to benefit from the TARP government bailout. In return for their money, Clinton gave speeches to Wall ...
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An accident left me in chronic pain and nothing really helped, until I found CBDs. AlterNet October 3, 2016   High-CBD cannabis is the reason I can sleep at night. It’s the reason I can dance, camp, work out, relax and enjoy sex. Because before I found it, I was living my life in chronic pain. When I fell from a ledge in 2007, I fractured my L1 vertebrae and tore up ligaments and tissues in my neck and shoulders. I knew the recovery process would be trying, but I was 18 at the time and I knew with the right therapy and main ...
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Natural Blaze Homeostasis. That word is synesthetic for me. The sound of a system functioning in complete balance rings sweetly in my ears. Our bodies strive to achieve this equilibrium and, in fact, have numerous systems that function together in perfect harmony to maintain this constancy. One of those systems is the endocannabinoid system. And, yes, it pretty much means what you think it means, “the inside cannabis” system. ​ The endocannabinoid system was discovered in the mid-1990s by Israeli researcher Dr. Ralph Mechoulam who also identified THC a ...
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As increasing numbers of young people turn to so-called "smart drugs" to boost academic performance, the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a warning to students about the dangers of this practice, which include not only dependency, but also heart problems and even psychosis. One big part of the problem is that many students mistakenly view these drugs as relatively harmless, particularly given the fact that some of them are (controversially) prescribed to children. Even though these students are obtaining the drugs illegally, ...
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The city council of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is calling for mothers who are adjudged incapable of raising children to be given compulsory contraception following a court order. This month, they council has launched a voluntary contraception program for some 160 women who are deemed unfit for motherhood due to addiction, psychological problems and learning difficulties.  Ieder kind heeft recht op ouders. Nu is het te vaak andersom. Het gesprek over anticonceptie moet gevoerd worden. https://t.co/IX23xGOIzH — Hugo de Jonge (@hugodejonge) October 1, 2016 ...
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When Lisa Mastramico needed relief for her ailing tabby, Little Kitty, she turned to an unlikely source: marijuana. At 12 years old, the cat had arthritis. For a long while she spent her days hiding in a closet, where Ms. Mastramico had built her a bed of plush blankets. After trying various supplements that proved ineffectual, she went to a meeting for Women Grow, an industry group for cannabis entrepreneurs. She was not sold on the idea right away. “My concern was that it’s not my place to get my cat high,” said Ms. Mastramico, the director of a pub ...
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It turns out corporate polluters aren’t the only ones disrupting natural ecosystems. Substances excreted by the human body, including illegal drugs, are also finding their way into food chains and aquatic environments. The results are troubling. In a recent investigation published in Environmental Science and Technology, researchers found illegal drug residue in six different rivers in and around Baltimore, Maryland. MDMA, crystal meth, and amphetamine were among the illicit drugs present in collected samples. In order to measure their impact on stream ecology, the research ...
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Scores of scientists and consumers of an herbal remedy used to produce mild, opioid-like painkilling effects, are incensed that the Obama administration is set to add it to a list of Schedule I drugs that are considered by the government to be the most dangerous. As reported by the Seattle Times, the DEA is set to add kratom – a plant from Southeast Asia with large, green leaves that are dried, powered, and ingested – to the same list where much more potent opioids like heroin are listed. Marijuana – nowhere nearly as dangerous or potent as heroin – w ...
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The Drug Enforcement Administration has ordered manufacturers to cut production of opiate and opioid medication by 25 percent or more in 2017, citing falling demand. Some medicines, like hydrocodone, will be cut as much as 34 percent. The agency said demand for the opioid medicines, represented as prescriptions written by DEA-registered practitioners, had decreased, according to sales data from IMS Health, and amid growing concern over the abuse of prescription painkillers. The DEA regulates the total amount of a controlled drug that can be produced each year, necess ...
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A Chinese government investigation has revealed that more than 80 percent of the data used in clinical trials of new pharmaceutical drugs have been " fabricated". The report uncovered fraudulent behaviour at almost every level, and showed that some pharmaceutical companies had hidden or deleted records of potentially adverse side effects, and tampered with data that didn’t meet their desired outcomes. In light of the findings, 80 percent of current drug applications, which were awaiting approval for mass production, have now been cancelled. The invest ...
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The US Drug Enforcement Agency paid its sources, from couriers to TSA agents, nearly $250 million over five years, a recent review revealed. However, the secrecy surrounding the internal data makes it impossible to say whether the money was even worth it. According to a Department of Justice audit released this week, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had a network of 18,726 informants between 2010 and 2015, who the agency praised as the “bread and butter” of the organization. The DEA paid its sources awards of up to $500,000 for “original infor ...
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