For over ten thousand years (and possibly much longer), cannabis has been one of the most useful plants for mankind.  It has provided food, medicine, industry, and even spiritual influence, and for much of its history it was the number one medicinal plant.  Science has also proven that delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the chief psychoactive ingredient of cannabis, kills cancer cells and inhibits tumor growth.  There are also sixty other therapeutic cannabinoids in cannabis, all which work within our endocannabinoid systems, the superregulatory system that maintains homeostasis in everything else (as explained by Dr. Robert Melamede).

So what does this have to do with curing disease?  A man named Rick Simpson discovered that concentrated cannabis extracts, collectively known as hemp oil, can cure anything if produced and administered properly.  Between 2003 and 2006, Rick gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars of hemp oil for free, and found that anything he came across could be easily cured.  This includes terminal cancer, MS, diabetes, arthritis, pain disorders, autoimmune disorders, mental disorders, candida symptoms, and infections.  It also greatly accelerates the healing of physical wounds, and eliminates the pain from even a third-degree burn.  Many people have replicated Rick’s results with amazing success, and this does go far beyond one man.

The science that exists supports all these results.  Disease is essentially an imbalance of some sort somewhere in the body, and being that the endocannabinoid system can restore balance, it makes sense that a natural medicine which works within this system could cure most problems.  Just smoking cannabis has been shown to alleviate all kinds of things, so it also is sensible that a more powerful and pure version of this medicine could do much more.  The proof is right in front of us; nobody has ever gotten cancer from smoking cannabis, even though the smoke does contain carcinogens.  Dr. Donald Tashkin of UCLA suggested in his famous report that there “may even be some protective effect [from smoking cannabis].”

If you want to look in to this for yourself, visit PhoenixTears, as well as Rick’s page on JackHerer.com/Rick. Also, watch the documentary Run From the Cure.

The seeds from the hemp plant are the most nutritious in the plant kingdom.  It contains all the essential amino and fatty acids in the proper ratios for the human body.  Due to this, hemp seed oil and other seed products are an ideal staple food, and the ultimate food for any health enthusiast.

Parts of the hemp plant can be converted to fuel via a method called pyrolysis.  Hemp is better than corn for fuel because you do not need to sacrifice food for fuel, as the part of hemp that is edible is only the seeds.  Also, because hemp grows in such abundance, you can get a lot of fuel from only one acre of hemp, and it is carbon neutral, since it removes CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows.

Essentially anything that can be made from a tree can be made from hemp.  This includes paper and building materials, which requires hundreds of thousands of trees to be destroyed every year.  If tree products were replaced with hemp, then forests could be saved, and trees could be greatly conserved.

The number one thing that people associate hemp with is actually one of the least important uses, although it still is critical to the functioning of industries.  The product being referred to is rope and twine, as well as a multitude of other textile products such as cloth and tarp.  Hemp is the strongest natural fiber in the world, so products made from hemp are also very durable and long lasting, a quality which is important to everyone.

If you start listing off the individual products that hemp is good for, you will come up with a list over twenty five thousand items long.  Think about how many natural resources could be saved if only hemp was used; since it is renewable, it does not matter how much of it you cut down.  We cannot say the same for trees, which are precious natural resources that must be conserved with all the power we have.