The documentary short, "Leaf," introduces Kristen Peskuski and Doctor William Courtney, who both share their exciting discovery that juicing the leaves of cannabis can dramatically improve one's health. Other professionals, doctors, and police officers, share their understanding and positions regarding the legitimacy of medical cannabis and how it should be regulated. 

Kristen has suffered from lupus, an auto-immune disorder, and a number of illnesses related to an incompetent immune system. She's had to take very strong immune-suppressing drugs, pain, and other medications. Doctors have said that she will likely never have children or go off these drugs.

She has recently taken her life into her own hands with the help of William Courtney, a doctor and cannabis clinician, who recommended that she begin a regiment of drinking juice extracted from cannabis leaves and buds. Her body began healing itself immediately, she believes, because it was suffering from a "cannabinoid deficiency," of which cannabis is the only natural supplement. Her immune-related problems, infections, and pain disintegrated as her body became replenished with this health-promoting green juice. Kristen is now a mother of two and engaged to Dr. William Courtney, who is also the father of her children. He believes this medicine saved her life and that the medication she was previously taking could have killed her. 

Enjoy this inspiring documentary and share with others.

And if you have the opportunity, juice some leaves and share your stories!

www.cannabisinternational.org

Dennis Hill, a biochemist from Austin (TX), explains how an aggressive and metastasizing prostate cancer was cured with an alternative, herbal therapy that he self-administered over a period of three months.

According to the National Cancer Institute¹, 32,050 men died of prostate cancer in 2010 with over 200,000 new cases diagnosed. Traditional chemo-therapy, radiation, and surgery comprise the clinical options for treatment, but none are very safe and all have their own risks of side effects (the worst being cancer or death).

Cannabis has been approved at the State-level for symptomatic relief of cancer (e.g. nausea, vomiting, and appetite/weight loss), but recent reports have shown its ability to directly attack cancer cells². The National Cancer Institute has once acknowledged these properties, but recently removed such information from their website (believably due to political pressure from NIDA)³.

Dennis Hill attributes this amazing discovery to Rick Simpson, a Canadian who claims the same treatment cured him and many others of cancer. Simpson's work was captured in a documentary entitled, "Run from the Cure." A simple on-line search will provide a link to freely watch this ground-breaking documentary.

Hill's website (http://web.me.com/dbhill/cure/Home.html) attempts to explain his understanding and discovery of the purported cancer-healing affects of cannabis.  There you will find a whole heap of information unbeknown to countless health care professionals.

1: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/prostate
2: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/65/5/1635.abstract
3: http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/content/2011/03/30/First-Federal-Agency-Acknowledge-Medical-Marijuana-Removes-Anti-Tumor-Information

Cannabis contains phytocannabinoids that exert both psychoactive and therapeutic effects on cannabinoid receptors, which permeate nearly every cell in our bodies.  Fundamentally, they mimic compounds our bodies make. Endocannabinoids, our internal source of cannabis that regulates various homeostatic functions including memory, hunger, and pain, have been shown in mice to affect a process called neuroinflammation, or inflammation of the nerve cells.  Neuroinflammation accelerates the progression of degenerative disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.). Cannabis, through this endocannabinoid-cannabinoid-receptor system, could potentially suppress the progression of M.S. by inhibiting neuroinflammation. Neuroimmunologist David Baker has observed this effect in mice.

In this video and in the supplemental links, the work of David Baker, Ph.D., uncovers the healing effects of cannabinoids such as symptomatic relief and suppression of acceleration of multiple sclerosis. He also discusses the ins and outs of securing a patent on cannabis-based medicines like Sativex, which is currently used for spasms and pain caused by M.S. and cancer.


Prof. Baker's profile, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry:
http://www.icms.qmul.ac.uk/Profiles/Neuroscience%20and%20Trauma/Baker%20David.htm

Cannabinoids control spasticity and tremor in a multiple sclerosis model.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10716447

Cannabinoid control of neuroinflammation related to multiple sclerosis
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190016/

Cannabinoids inhibit neurodegeneration in models of multiple sclerosis.
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/126/10/2191.full.pdf

Cannabinoids and Multiple Sclerosis.
http://www.idmu.co.uk/oldsite/pdfs/canmsreview.pdf

Favorite video ever (just watched it):http://www.ted.com/talks/dean_ornish_says_your_genes_are_not_your_fate.html

Our genes are not our fate. Changing your lifestyle can change your genes.

Your blood flow improves, your health improves.



Lifestyle choices, which effect health and brain activity. 

Good: chocolate and tea, blueberries, alcohol in moderation, stress management and canabanoids found in marijuana. 
Bad: saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and chronic stress.


Prostate Cancer and Cannabinoids: 
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/65/5/1635.full.pdf

In summary, if you feed your receptors (CB1 & CB2) with proper administration of cannabis (cannabinoids, flavones, etc...), they will effectively regulate tumors from going out of control.

"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." ~ Ray Zalinsky

Dan Aykroyd's memorable quote from Tommy Boy really crystallizes the truth in a comedic format.

The truth is that cannabis causes a lot more than short term memory loss.

A simple PubMed search involving "cannabinoids and cancer" justifies that previous statement.