
* I am not a Doctor, I am.not a scientist. I am a well educated cannaseur and cannabis communicator who wants to reveal the truth about cannabis and its benefits. I do not condone the use of any substance against Gederal Regulatoon save states where State governments have Determined Cannabis is legal or decriminalized.
* K2 Spice is a Horrible Derivation of Substances made to mimic synthetic cannabinoids created for intense experimentation most recently initially by the FDA. I do not condone its use and it is not cannabis or have any benefits thereof.
-I am not using spice as comparable to cannabis for legalization or its recreational or medicinal use. I am saying it is a perfect example of over reaction of federal agencies in a prohibition mindset leading to the inherent extremification that derives from illegality of a scoietally desired substance.
*** 21+ / 18+ content depending on your state, 21+ in my state. Below are articles from federal agencies & Research institutes to validate the claims I make herein.
The United States has a number of Federally Regulated Agencies that have actively battled against the research of cannabis, imo to prevent disvovery of its true Medicinal Viability. The FDA has actively told Untruths and manipulated the reality of cannabis & prevented its legalization. The FDA spent 20 years alongside the DEA fighting Dr Lyle Cracker & Collegues refusing to give them allowance to study the cannabis they were seeing used across the country.
I refer to the tactics of these federal agencies and the resulting societal trauma as the extremefication of compounds on the illicit market. By this I mean that there is an inherent process when a substance is desired by a portion of society and is banned by government whereby the substance in question becomes exceedingly more potent and dangerous. The need to hide illicit activity, the need for maximum potency & ease of delivery all add to this inherent process of extremefication.
We seen this very clearly in the early twentieth century (1900s) with the prohibition ot alcohol leading to the production of illicit alcohol still produced today in the back woods.of Appalachia, Moonshine. Moonshine is comparable to the Fetynyl moved from Vhina where it was produced in Lab quality enviroments vs the production of it in the Mexican wilds using precursors to make precursors because those precursors can't be shipped to Mexico. Again this has led to the Fetynyl acting more like methamphetamine in the users than the sedating effect of fentynyl. This extemification of substances, fentynyl in this case
Unfortunately, the FDA contracted Growers are the University of Mississippi Amhurst to grow and store cannabis for research purposes regarding peer reviewed study. The problem is that it was obviously sib par cannabis that didn't even compare to the levels of THC in Mexican brick Pack. Researchers were unable to uncover any therapeutic value, giving the DEA and FDA the leeway to use Federally backed semantics claiming cannabis has absolutely no therapeutic value.
They were not even able to Discern placebo from control, meaning nobody knew or could tell if they smoked cannabis or some random spice. This means that the there was obviously no way to proove anything at all about the plant when it was intentionally grown at a sub par level seemingly with the express intent to block the valid research of cannabis regarding therapeutic viability.
But Why? Why is because the only way for the people of the US to change the categorization of a scheduled substance is through the accepted scientific back and forth of peer reviewed research. Without peer reviewed research there is no way to make this change. Cannabis is scheduled as a schedule 1 substance alongside Heroin, methamphetamine, lsd, psilocybin, & mdma & a few others I may be missing.
A schedule 1 substance is one that supposedly has no medical therapeutic viability and also leads to dependency through the heightened risk of diversion from prescribed use & abuse.
While the FDA can't actively not allow for researchers to study the products that are proven to effect people in the US, they can underhandedly manipulate the market by only letting researchers study a certain cannabis from a particular place, and claim it's just like what's used on the market. This is exactly what they've done.
The cannabis available from the University of Mississippi is what Dr Lyle Cracker was told to study when asked for approval to study cannabis in 1999. He and collegues battled the FDA and DEA, both agencies whom neglected to answer researchers for 2 decades & actively battled against the approval to study the cannabis being used on the actual market in federal legislation. Approval was not given until 2020 shortly prior to the passing of Dr Lyle Cracker, a truely disheartening circumstance.
During this time, the 2 decades during which h these agencies acti epy fought a war against progression of understanding Cannabis. in 2007, officially marked as 2008 the Stanley Brotgers of Colorado were Growers of various types of plants & saw opportunity and an opening iin cannabis, CBD (cannabidiol) dominant cannabis.
This discovery was then overheard across the country by a small girl, the daughter if a little family, who suffered severe seizures from a brain disorder. Her parents knew that cannabis was helping their little girl. They also knew that they didn't want their child absolutely stoned all day, which led them to seek out weaker potency cannabis, & eventualy this line of thinking stopped at CBD Dominant.
When this family sought out the brothers, they took on developing a CBD dominant strain of cannabis that came to be known world wide, as Charolettes Web. The tincture made from this plant quelled the seizure activity of children as young as babies, & there was no reason for concern that exissts with chemically constituted pharmaceuticals, this was as natural as seizure treatment had ever been.
The U.S. governmentthrough the FDA in combination with THE drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) had to pursue this with all out intensity, & they did. To this day, Charolettes Web tinctures are not legal to be sold, despite the thousands of convenience stores, Gas stations, & Head shops around the country selling CBD products. At this point, in 2023 head shops selling Delta 8 THC cannabis, also known as PGR weed, which also can be connected back to the FDA are breaking federal regulation. ALL of it.
The FDA has created multiple pharmaceuticals based on synthetic cannabinoids far more dangerous than the naturally occurring Delta 8 as well as Delta 10, HHC THC, THCP, THCO all exist naturally in cannabis but in lowlevels. They're classified as "synthetics" bc they can be found in cannabis but not in levels hugh enough to be extracted. ergo they are created in a lab synthetically.
The true synthetic cannabinoids that started this process were developed by the FDA as far back as 1987. The FDA is absolute that the synthetic cannabinoid action of spice products is not the same as synthetic cannabinoids. However, all we have is the reactions of a number of people, which initially began with an outbreak of "bad spice" in Mississippi in 2015.
The small area of containment should make people wonder, not to mention that the product became excessively more susceptible to inducing delirium in users, peaking with the Florida Man incident when a man was so amped on supposedly k2 Spice that multiple bang stick rounds didn't stop him eating the face of his victim. True story.
While i don't condone K2 Spice use, or agree with it, I do believe that if our country didn't approach every substance not pushed by the Feds as A danger then it could have been controlled. Further, that there IS something beneficial in Synthetics like aforementioned synthetics, the government caused worsening of the product, as chemist's continue 2 change it making it exactly what FDA claims it was. My argument is that no matter the substance, when u make something illicit & people wnt it, the only outcome is a more extreme version of that original substance.
I want to make it clear here I am not saying Spice is comparable to cannabis in any way aside from the FAct that the making illegal of the substances in their original formulations led to worse versions with worse symptoms in users. Maybe the Mississippi incident was a bad batch, because not until shortly thereafter when they were made illicit did the real outbreak of "zombie ppl" begin, again culminating with the Florida zombie man.
It is a recent example that popped up, was manipulated and turned into a monster that didn't exsist. As I said, what if Mississippi was an anomaly? After all, the bad zombie outbreak came with the illegality which perpetuated the making of various derivations.
The FDA Has it in their utmost interest to overtake the creation of ANY new Medicdical fin, especially of cannabis. Cannabis is the only Herbal, non Man made Schedule 1 substance which has literally only a single study of therapeutic validity performed on it. This study was, ofcourse the study for production of Epidiolex where 200 patients participated. That's 200 people for production of a pharmaceutical, which they claim has absolutely no therapeutic application. Seems like quite a small sample size for using the product of what at the time of its creation, was the product of an illicit market. To the Federal government it has always maintained its illicit categorization, so the FDA stole an illicit entrepreneurs discovery, studied it on 200 people and made an anti seizure medication based on a product they send cease and desist letter to yearly.
While a person can enter any number of convenience stores, head shops, etc. And purchase CBD products, no cbd product is allowed to be sold for therapeutic purposes. I make Hemp derived terpene infused Bath bombs and I can not even claim aromatic therapeutic benefit of my bath bo bs, because they're from cannabis. Even though Hemp is supposedly made legal, I is next to impossible to use the them in any therapeutic aapplication. Or your breaking federal law, so big platforms for ex. won't work w/ you
The 2014 Hemp act was pushed through for one reason, to supply the FDA with CBD dominant cannabis on the dime of Farmers in the United States. My argument is that it is absolutely not financially viable for an agency of this size to regulate and institute the isolation and extraction of CBD from THC rich or even THC depleted cannabis, like that intentionally grown at the University of Mississippi to prevent discovery of the true benefits of CBD and THC, to no avail. Therefor, they opted to steal the idea of the Stanley Brothers, once again a group that developed this on am illicit market, according to the FDA. While it was in the process of legalization on Colorado, as Colorado pushed Ammendment 20 in 2000, decriminalizing medicinal use and ammendment 68 legalizing cannabis recreationally a few years thereafter. The FDA locked down the 2018 Farm Bill, In 2018.
Now let's look at some dates. It takes around 3 years in every instance of legalization. For states to move through the paperwork, jump through the hoops, and get cannabis from legislation to people's bowls it took 3 years on average. In my state of Maryland, cannabis decriminalization legislation was passed in 2016 and cannabis wasn't able to be purchased for medical use from Dispensaries until 2019, 3 years. The Hemp act, which decriminalized Hemp with less than 0.3% THCA in 2014 was meant specifically to allow the FDA access to Cannabinol so they could corner a natural market with a pharmaceutical. 3 years later, they pushed Epidiolex to market. Seems quite fast for a supposedly non therapeutic substance.
Especially when we look at all the claims linked below of the FDA & other Federal agencies like the compilations of research of the National Institute of Health that claim CBD is nothing but a nuisance. It causes liver damage if we listen to the FDA, & they evidence that with a study on lab rats. However, they neglect to reveal until deep in the paper that they essentially flooded the mice with cannabidiol to attain the toxic level. Much like THC, it is not possible for a human to encounter these levels within the time frame required to achieve liver damage, or overdose in the case of THC. One must consume 2X your body weight in under 60 minutes, approximately to overdose on cannabis' active psychedelic psychoactive compound, Tetrahydracannabinol (THC).
All of these studies that speak against the benefits of cannabis, yet only one study on 200 patients to verify this supposedly non therapeutic compounds medicinal viability in anti seizure activity in children as young as 1 year of age, that is the age stipulation listed by the FDA for the target group of Epidiolex. My point is, why is there such a small sample size for such a majorly important, possibly detrimental, orders of magnitude more given application to youth amd babies, if indeed the compound is truely believed to be absolutely non therapeutic. And if there is therapeutic viability believed to be present...
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