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123 Studies Show Cannabis Prohibition Is Killing Cancer Patients

With alcohol showing essentially no medical properties beyond application as an anti-septic, cannabis (and in particular a molecules known as cannabinol -CBD- and its more famous brother THC), has numerous medical, industrial, and evenecological benefits (due to its fast growth and ability to protect itself from many pests without genetic modification or pesticides). There are a lot of reasons that cannabis prohibition cannot be rationally maintained.

Now, 123 is a lot of studies, and I can understand that not everyone wants to read through all of the summaries/abstracts (listed along with the title, publication date, and a link to the article). In some cases I shortened the abstract, in others cases I left it to provide a greater understanding of the context.

Taken together, these studies show cannabis as being more effective and less physically detrimental than chemotherapy for treating cancer. We must not forget that there are numerous other studies showing the medical properties of cannabis in regard to other conditions as well, and everyone is encouraged to do further research on their own.

For those with shorter attention spans: at least check out this 6 minute video from South California Labs about CBD: it covers several important studies and is well done, but if you want in-depth coverage and links to peer-reviewed science then I suggest continuing farther down the text.

This library is seperated into 4 parts to make navigation a little easier. The sections are largely based on the type of cancer being treated or investigated, and year of publishing. If you are looking for something specific -with a total of approximately 16,000 words in this document-, I suggest using ctrl+f (or similar on-page search method).

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123 Studies Show Cannabis Prohibition Is Killing Cancer Patients

NASA Warns California Drought Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply: “There will be some definite changes”

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has sounded a stark warning over California’s sustained drought, publishing its latest findings where satellite surveys show a rapidly depleting groundwater supply.

And with California as the United States’ most valuable agricultural state, and thus key to America’s food supply (and much of the world’s as well) that could mean drastic consequences for food commodity prices and potential shortages.

The Nature Climate Change journal carried the report, which Think Progress summarized:

A new Nature Climate Change piece, “The global groundwater crisis,” by James Famiglietti, a leading hydrologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, warns that “most of the major aquifers in the world’s arid and semi-arid zones, that is, in the dry parts of the world that rely most heavily on groundwater, are experiencing rapid rates of groundwater depletion.”

The groundwater at some of the world’s largest aquifers — in the U.S. High Plains, California’s Central Valley, China, India, and elsewhere — is being pumped out “at far greater rates than it can be naturally replenished.”

The most worrisome fact: “nearly all of these underlie the word’s great agricultural regions and are primarily responsible for their high productivity.”

NASA’s sattelite map shows the loss of weight height just in the past three years:

According to NASA:

“California’s Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins have lost roughly 15 km3 of total water per year since 2011 — more water than all 38 million Californians use for domestic and municipal supplies annually — over half of which is due to groundwater pumping in the Central Valley.”

Yes, of course, California is a desert. So, that isn’t helping things. But it was reformed into a thriving economy bycontroversial and historically corrupt irrigation scheme, and is now vital to U.S. food security.

The result of these dangerous conditions is, not surprisingly, higher commodity prices – including food and water – creating higher profits for the companies that provide these services. Privatized water could drive prices even higher.

There are storm clouds gathering, so to speak, but they aren’t bringing rain.

In July, California’s state government economic report was already warning of losses in the billions for farmers feeling the weight of drought conditions, though it claimed the national food system would be little impacted.

However, time has made that claim ring hollow. In August, Bloomberg reported on the “global reverberations” occurring because of the drought in California:

“It’s a really big deal,” Sumner said. “Some crops simply grow better here than anyplace else, and our location gives us access to markets you don’t have elsewhere.”

[…]

The success of California agriculture was built in large part on advances in irrigation that allowed the state to expand beyond wheat, which flourishes in dry climates. It’s now the U.S.’s top dairy producer and grows half the country’s fruits, vegetables and nuts.

“Water has allowed us to grow more valuable crops,” Sumner said. “Now, we have fruits and vegetables and North Dakota grows our wheat. Without irrigation, we’d be North Dakota.”

[…]

“There will be some definite changes, probably structural changes, to the entire industry” as drought persists, said American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman. “Farmers have made changes. They’ve shifted. This is what farmers do.”

Locals in California are now reporting everything from reduced availability of produce, to higher prices in restaurants and reduced hours and activity at farmer’s markets and local stores.

Most farmers have cutback on what they are growing. In many cases, that means chopping down trees, orchards and not planting as many fields:

“I was just talking to a farmer today who grows olives and almonds. Expect prices of almonds to skyrocket because they’re cutting the trees down because they don’t have enough water to keep them alive,” said Helstrom.

California is by no means the only place facing life threatening shortages. There are similarly alarming trends having all across the globe, particularly in arid and semi-arid places.

Texas ranchers and farmers have been dealing with returning dust bowl conditions in the panhandle and surrounding regions, with very difficult drought conditions and conflicting urban competition for water which strain supply.

Elsewhere, too.

The 20 million people in Brazil’s Sao Paulo are facing a stark 5 percent reserves in their municipal water reservoir,with Brazil’s Public Ministry recently acknowledging that the Sao Paulo water supply might last only another 100 days.

Further shortages in rain could easily be the makings of a disaster that could deprive its residents of the basic necessities of life, particularly the swelling poor populations. Already, rationing has crept in, and water used for cooking, bathing and cleaning has been restricted.

“Suffering from its worst drought in over 84 years, the city of Sao Paulo is in the midst of a crisis. For as of this weekend the city’s primary reservoir — the Cantareira — had dropped to just 5 percent capacity putting millions at risk of losing access to water.”

“The fall prompted the city’s governor — Geraldo Alckmin — to again ask for permission to draw emergency water supplies from below flood gates to alleviate catastrophic losses from the Cantareira and ensure water supplies to the region’s 20 million residents. The move would tap a river system that feeds two other states also facing water shortages — Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. But the draw is only a temporary stop gap and, without rain, the Cantareira will continue to fall — bottoming out sometime this November.”

Large swaths of the immense Amazon region are enduring drought, while various hotspots across South America are also drastically below average precipitation levels.

NASA has also tracked serious aquifer depletion in “the North China Plain, Australia’s Canning Basin, the Northwest Sahara Aquifer System, the Guarani Aquifer in South America … and the aquifers beneath northwestern India and the Middle East,” as Think Progress notes. Parts of Northern China are also seeing their worst drought in 60 years.

That’s pretty harsh news, and the long term impact could be pretty serious, and just one more reason to prepare a reserve food supply and prepare a plan to  deal with anything that may come.

There have been many other warning signs about the food supply and commodities markets – not the least of which include the billions in losses that corn farmers are facing due to market rejection in China and other countries as a result of GMO contamination.

NASA Warns California Drought Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply: “There will be some definite changes”

Connection Found Between Ovaries And Heart Disease (In Women, Obviously)

According to a recently published report on New Scientist, the number of eggs that a woman has in her ovaries could be an indicator of a lot more than fertility. The results of the new study were published at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Women are born with all of the eggs that they will ever have: a number that scientists say is usually around 300,000. This number declines with age as the body ages and goes through the menstrual cycle.

Those who experience menopause before they’re 45 or 46 years old – which is known as a premature menopause – are at twice the risk as women who experience menopause at the expected age (between 45 and 55).

Studies have revealed an increase in heart attacks among women about 10 years after experiencing menopause. This has previously – in a study at the University of Alabama – connected to many factors like increased blood pressure or bad cholesterol, but today, it is clear that these factors are not the only ones.

The decrease in estrogen is believed to play a role, as the hormone helps arteries maintain their flexibility and strengthens their interior walls. But Marcelle Cedars at the University of California, San Francisco, asked a question about the increased danger to women who go through early menopause. Because menopause leads to a decline in estrogen, it was believed that could be a more fundamental reason for increases in heart diseases.

Marcelle Cedars said:

“Perhaps women who go through menopause early are intrinsically aging at a different rate.”

But according to the American Heart Association, getting postmenopausal hormones does not reduce the risk of heart disease.

Cedars and her colleagues started their work by taking a small portion of blood from 1,100 women agesd between 25 and 45, who had not gone through menopause yet. The next step was calculating the amount of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) they had, which is a sign for the number of eggs a woman has in her ovaries.

To make sure the results were exact; the team used ultrasound to enumerate how many follicles (the pockets of fluid) are in the ovaries.

Also, the team looked at the length of telomeres (the end of a eukaryotic chromosome, which are made of repeating sequences and protect the actual chromosomal DNA) in their white blood cells, which is considered a measure of cellular age.

About 250 women came back after 3 – 5 years, so the scientists’ team could measure the danger of developing heart disease using factors such as cholesterol levels, body weight, and blood pressure.

The results, which is usually given in the form of the Framingham score, showed that women with lower egg counts have a higher risk of developing heart disease over the next 10 years, in addition to having shorter telomeres.

The telomeres protect the DNA from damage, but when women get older; telomeres get shorter and shorter. As a result, the DNA gets lost and the chances of age-related illnesses such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and heart disease increase.

This practically means: women with fewer eggs appear to be more at risk of age-related diseases.

JoAnn Manson, an epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts said:

“It is a very promising hypothesis that reproductive ageing could serve as a window into cardiovascular health and the cellular aging process.”

The scientists warned that women used up 90% of their ‘ovarian reserve’ by the age of 30. But according to the American Heart Association, they can have to eat healthy food and be doing daily sports in order to stay healthy during and after menopause.

Sources:

(1) Menopause and Heart Disease

(2) New Scientist

(3) Photo Credit: Flickr, Wikimedia

Connection Found Between Ovaries And Heart Disease (In Women, Obviously)

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