"Charlotte's Web"

1morethan8 · Dec 5, 2013

Another door is starting to open...
the parents voted against legalizing marijuana... they have a much different view now!

Their daughter Charlotte had lost the ability to walk, talk and eat. She was having 300 grand seizures a week.
Her heart had stopped a number of times. When it happened at home, Paige did cardiopulmonary resuscitation until an ambulance arrived. When it happened in the hospital, where they'd already signed a do-not-resuscitate order, they said their goodbyes. Doctors had even suggested putting Charlotte in a medically induced coma to give her small, battered body a rest.
She was 5 when the Figis learned there was nothing more the hospital could do.

A strain of cannabis has been developed that is low in THC, but high in cannabidiol, or CBD...
it's named after this little girl.. it's called "Charlotte's Web".

When it helps little kids.. it is truly a gift from God!!

You really need to watch this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiShwotFJR8

All the best to ya!
-Wayne

brucev · Dec 5, 2013

Thank you for this post.

rwsmith · Dec 6, 2013

great video

I have some reservations about MJ use, but if it works, especially in a hopeless case like this.....

But it's not the 'high' that helps her. It's that one agent in the plant.

My bro has a form of leukemia. When he was undergoing chemotherapy with all the nausea and side effects, he smoked it, and I would have fought anybody that said he couldn't.

I don't use it and I'm trying to keep my teenager off of it. I believe it does have detrimental effects on a person's mindset. I think it's something like alcohol. Some people can drink in moderation while others only want to get sloppy drunk (being in the latter category, I don't drink anymore).

BTW - I think 'Reefer Madness' is a blast to watch.... and 'Up in Smoke'

Robotech · Dec 6, 2013

Back in the early 60's, my grandfather's doctor prescribed a glass of wine with every evening meal, I think for his heart condition. This ticked-off my teetotaler grandmother, but she accepted it as 'medicine', and grandpa was more than a little pleased that he could finally enjoy a glass of wine again after all those 'dry' years.

Many years later I took a summer job as a liquor stock clerk at a drugstore that was also said to be the biggest seller of alcohol in this fairly large city. Every two weeks I had to prepare an order consisting of several cases of whisky and a few other spirits for pickup for a homebound customer. The receipt and billing was handled through the pharmacy. The customer was a terminally ill cancer patient, and her doctor had given her the option of using alcohol for pain control. I was told that when the pharmacy had checked to confirm that this was a legitimate prescription, they'd found that the alcohol worked better and had fewer objectionable side effects than the other 'traditional' pain medications.

Marijuana certainly has legitimate uses in medicine, and it's only relatively recently that Government got into the act to try to restrict it for whatever reason. But as with alcohol, prohibition has had far worse societal effects, and more people are coming to realize this.

My attitude toward any of the stronger drugs is that I want them to work when I need them, not for recreation.

OK, yes, I do have the occasional beer, wine cooler, or glass of wine in social gatherings.

The only problem I have with others occasionally using marijuana for recreation in much the same way many enjoy going to a bar, is that I'm actively and severely allergic to it. I'm told that this is fairly rare, but may go back to when I developed an allergy to hemp rope as a kid. I couldn't hold or touch it without breaking out in a rash.

I nearly died when I was 'trapped' in an elevator for several minutes with someone who reeked of marijuana smoke, as my throat closed down so I couldn't breath. I guess that if all restrictions are taken off it, I may have to start carrying an EpiPen, just in case.

1morethan8 · Dec 6, 2013

I have to wonder what new drugs we might of had if the restrictions hadn't been put in place?

Many don't know that hemp and marijuana are not the same,
but they are both cannabis. Industrial hemp contains only about 0.3% - 1.5% THC (Tetrahydrocannabinoids, the intoxicating ingredients that make you high) while marijuana contains about 5% - 10% or more THC.
The cannabis that was given to Charlotte would not have a level of THC to give a high. It was high in CBD, but low in THC.

Cannabis is also used with MS patients with good results. A company in the UK has a drug that is used called "Sativex".
GWPharma - Sativex

brucev · Dec 6, 2013

1morethan8 said:
I have to wonder what new drugs we might of had if the restrictions hadn't been put in place?

Many don't know that hemp and marijuana are not the same,
but they are both cannabis. Industrial hemp contains only about 0.3% - 1.5% THC (Tetrahydrocannabinoids, the intoxicating ingredients that make you high) while marijuana contains about 5% - 10% or more THC.
The cannabis that was given to Charlotte would not have a level of THC to give a high. It was high in CBD, but low in THC.

Cannabis is also used with MS patients with good results. A company in the UK has a drug that is used called "Sativex".
GWPharma - Sativex

Drugs... restrictions. These are the sort of results that come of when legislation is written with a view to getting re-elected rather than dealing with a reality that for some is to much an inconvenient truth.

1morethan8 · Dec 8, 2013

Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States and results in one death every 19 minutes, federal health officials say.

Prescription drugs now cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.

Prescription drugs exceeded motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death, killing at least 37,485 people nationwide. Vicodin is the most prescribed opioid, scheduled as a class 3 drug.

Cannabis is a scheduled class 1 drug.
Schedule 1 drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules.

Can someone overdose on marijuana?

If you mean can they overdose and die from marijuana--the answer is no. -
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Can marijuana be used as a medicine?

There is some new and exciting research looking at the biology of cannabinoids, the general class of molecules related to THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. -
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

I think we have a problem?

"Charlotte's Web"

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