Meet Amber
At two
years old, she was diagnosed with terminal brain tumours. Her mother was told
that with treatment, Amber had a 10 percentchance of survival. After surgery,
radiation, and chemotherapy, the tumours were still spreading. Her parents were
advised to take their child home, make her comfortable, and prepare for the
inevitable. A month later, her parents reported a startling change. The tumours
had decreased in size and number. The family had been juicing cannabis leaves
and feeding their baby a few ounces of the juice each day.
Up in smoke
A typical
first reaction is to associate marijuana consumption with its psychoactive
effects. However, THC only becomes psychoactive when heated, like when
traditionally smoked or cooked. When used raw, cannabis isn't psychoactive. The
marijuana's abilities as a painkiller are generally perceived to be the result
of its psychoactivity - so much so that the intensity of a plant's psychoactive
effects is often used as a gauge of its medical potency. Contrary to intuition,
this isn't true! The medical properties of marijuana are actually destroyed
when heated or aged, as it becomes psychoactive. Heating converts 600mg of
non-psychoactive THC acid into 10mg of psychoactive THC. Here's where the
exchange for medical effects occurs. While the 10mg retain some medicinal
effects, there is only a fraction of the THC left. In simplified terms, in the
raw plant, THC acid isn't psychoactive, but acts as a very powerful medicine,
up to 400 times more powerful than when smoked.
Healthful
communication
Scientific
American, in 2004, published an article called "The Brain's Own
Marijuana", in which they asserted that the brain releases chemicals that
are structurally and functionally similar to cannabinoids - the reactive
property in marijuana. THC is the cannabinoid that people are most familiar
with, but this is only one of 80. In normal synaptic nerve function, the
signals are uni-directional, and the receiver forwards the signal, but never
notifies the sender that the message has been received. Cannabinoids maintain
communication with the original transmitter so that it is aware that the
message has been received and is being worked on. For example, if a neuron
sends a pain signal, normally it would just keep sending the message until the
message becomes false. The cannabinoids turn every cell into a manager with
increased oversight.
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