You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Welcome our First Freelance #KushSmokers Author! - Why I left academia to teach people about cannabis - By Emily Earlenbaugh, PhD (My First Steem Article!)
Thanks for posting @kushsmokers! And thank you to the steem community for being so welcoming! I am excited to learn more and share more with you all.
You're doing great work! I was able to visit some legal states last year, and the patient resources are amazing. There are a lot of brilliant minds looking at the science behind therapeutic cannabis use, and I'm glad we have one on Steemit!
Aw thanks @mtgmisfit ! It has been really amazing seeing the transformation in culture as more states legalize - even in california, where it has been legal for years there has been so much change in the last few years for the better. Thanks for reading!
Dr. Emily great job & KushSmokers thank you for posting this. Dr. Emily I'm not sure if you know but there are tons of studies done right out of Israel which our medical community never talks about, or aren't allowed to. They actually lead the research on it. Kudos to you for taking this journey!
Thanks @mrdeerants ! you are totally right! Israel is way ahead of us in medical research, and their amazing insights are mostly ignored by the mainstream over here. They are even so far that they are looking at the effects of different strains of cannabis separately. I'm actually working on a piece about the research challenges for cannabis researchers over here. Maybe I will post something about it here too!
Oh you definitely should post it here! I'm sure the Steemit community will eat that up like an edible cannabis cookie!
I want to talk about industrial cannabis. This plant is amazing. More food than corn and more fiber than cotton in the same acre. This plant is the true solar panel, which is exactly why TPTB do not want us to have it. I think pointing out the complete irrationality of the prohibition of industrial cannabis might be the key to getting folks who don't smoke to understand how much human effort is being wasted trying to stop people from allegedly abusing Marijuana. It makes as much sense as saying doctors can't sterilize instruments with alcohol because some people might drink too much.
Thank you for bringing this up. Industrial hemp is the reason cannabis was made illegal. You can get more oil out a acre of hemp, than a whole lifetime of an oil well.
I was a friend of the late, great Jack Herer. For more interesting facts about industrial hemp read his book , The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Here is a little known fact.
The first cannabis law in the United States was in the 1619. This was in the colony of Jamestown Virginia. The law was that every household MUST grow hemp!!!
Also had to do with the racist Attorney General Harry J. Anslinger who demonized marijuana as an evil drug that would cause POC to attack white women. This created a new class of criminals to feed into the prison-industrial complex where the last bastion of legal slavery still exists.
Thank you for sharing your story with us! I thought it was very interesting. Followed @emilyearlenbaugh and @kushsmokers. Keep it up!