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Berto Jongman: Monsanto Doubles Cancer Death Rates in Argentina

01 Agriculture, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime

berto smallCancer Death Rates Now Doubled In Argentina’s GMO Agribusiness Areas

Data linking GMOs and pesticides to human health ailments continues to emerge, as a new report put together by the Ministry of Health in Cordoba, Argentina has found that increased levels of crop spraying in Argentina’s most extensively farmed areas has resulted in a large increase of cancer rates for those that live in the vicinity. According to the report, deaths from cancerous tumors have as much as doubled in areas where genetically modified (GM) crops are grown and agro-chemicals are used. That’s not really surprising, given the fact that numerous studies have linked them to cancer, and other detrimental health ailments.

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JZ Liszkiewicz: Cannabis Science History

07 Health
JZ Liszkiewicz
JZ Liszkiewicz

This 1 hr documentary profiles the highly decorated Israeli scientist who discovered THC decades ago and who collaborated with people who discovered the THC receptors in the human brain. Treatment of epilepsy with cannabis has been known in the Middle East for a huge number of years and scientifically for nearly 40 years, but all that until recently has been completely ignored by medical establishments.

YouTube (1:02:15) The Scientist

 

Also See:
+ Documentary (highly recommended): Prescribed Grass (won acclaim in Israel) – free
 + TEDxTalk on the successes of medical Cannabis for treating kids with Epilepsy (19min) – link
+ Mini-doc (15min) on the success of medical Cannabis for a woman who was on 40 medications – link
+ Video talk: Doug Fine, author of Hemp Bound  discusses his numerous findings from traveling all over the world  visiting hemp farms and talking with people dealing with industrial hemp.
+ Documentary: Bring It Home: Industrial Hemp and a Greener Future (pay)
+ Documentary: The Union – free
+ Nature.com study: Cannabis 114 times safer than alcohol and nearly 10x safer than nicotine
+ The American Academy of Family Physicians calls for cannabis to be reclassified under federal law and decriminalized
+ International Centre for Science in Drug Policy reports (Sept. 2015)
+ Interview with a doctor/author of Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
+ DEA employees fail drug test without major consequences
+ Chemists use hemp composite to create efficient battery
+ American Chemical Society paper on carbon nano-sheets derived from hemp for super-capacitors
+ Uses of hemp
+ VoteHemp.com
+ Industrial Hemp Farm Act 2015
+ The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States (CARERS) Act – link
+ Timeline of Cannabis
+ Cannabis Wikipad (in-development)

 

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Mongoose: One Million Pending Veteran Applications for Health Care — One Third of Them Dead?

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military
Mongoose
Mongoose

Nearly 1 million veterans have pending applications for health care at VA — and a third may already be dead

34,000 men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are losing their guaranteed five-year eligibility for VA service due to “systematic obstacles.”

Tip of the Hat to Mark Patrick at LinkedIn.

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JZ Liszkiewicz: True Cost Accounting for Food — Survey with Links

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 06 Family, 07 Health, 11 Society, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence
JZ Liszkiewicz
JZ Liszkiewicz

There is No Such Thing as Cheap Food

Taking these costs into account is essential; the economic cost of global environmental degradation from industry is estimated at US$2 to US$5 trillion per year. TCA has the potential to make industrial food production seem unreasonably harmful and expensive and make sustainable food production seem not only necessary, but affordable.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Cannabis Oil Cures Cancer

07 Health
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Rick Simpson – the Canadian who cures cancer with cannabis extract…

Rick Simpson Cured 5000 People from Cancer: This is the Recipe Which Kills all Types of Cancer for 90 Days-Video

“Few people know that cannabis had been used for hundreds of years before Jesus Christ as one of the most healing compounds ever. Furthermore, in ancient Persian religious writings, in which, among other things, other most healing plants are written, the first place belongs to cannabis.” –Rick ends his story and says that the biggest reward for him will be to see the world without cancer.

Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: Cannabis Oil Cures Cancer”

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Sepp Hasslberger: Farm-Based Medical Practice

07 Health
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Let food be thy medicine – are doctors finally getting it?

Weiss has officially started the state of New Jersey’s first farm-based medical practice 55 miles away from his New York office, where owns a 348-acre, 18th century-style farm in Long Valley.

“Plant-based whole foods are the most powerful disease-modifying tools available to practitioners — more powerful than any drugs or surgeries.” he told NJ.com.

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