Hello Folks – I’ve been quiet for a little while and appreciate that you’re still interested in his blog. In this post I want to share my very recent personal experience with the healing power of Coca Leaf Tea combined with vaporized CBD flower. If you’re in a hurry and don’t want to read this whole post here’s the bottom line – I think that a combination of Coca Tea and CBD vapor may be an effective treatment for the killer consequences of COVID-19 infection – the lung-clogging mucous of pneumonia that shuts down breathing.
Here’s the story.
I have just recovered from what began two weeks ago as a 911-level flu experience. In 24 hours I went from healthy and strong to chills, fever, cramps and heavy congestion that quickly turned into a slimy mess clogging my lungs and making breathing very difficult. My wife was insisting that we call 911, but the last place for anyone with the flu to be is in a hospital bed so I decided to practice what I’ve been preaching and so I started on Coca Leaf tea – a cup every waking hour.
That made a noticeable difference in the inflammatory symptoms, but the mucous was getting worse – turning into cement in my lungs and sinuses.
I was recently gifted a sample of beautiful purple CBD Hemp buds by my friends at Sovereign Fields, a CBD Hemp genetics company on Southern Oregon that produces, among other beauties, a strain named “Bubba Kush”. I use an old Pax 2 dry flower vaporizer for my THC buds and so, in the spirit of both science and salvation, I packed the chamber with a select tip of a beautiful “Bubba Kush” bud, fired up the Pax and then sucked in just a tiny amount of the vapor. Of course I immediately descended into racks of coughing, but I had already been coughing for days so I wasn’t surprised.
What did surprise me was that after a couple of more tiny little vapor tokes my coughing began to produce giant oysters of mucous flying up out of my lungs. I could hardly spit it out fast enough to keep up. The miracle was that all the previous days of coughing, which is how the body tries to get rid of mucous in the lungs, had produced no such results. My chest had just gotten heavier and heavier, and coughing had become more and more painful. I was getting to the place that goes into pneumonia, where you become too weak to keep coughing vigorously, and too weak to stay vertical, which is the point where people get into bed, lie on their backs, and let the unexpelled mucous pool in their lungs until they die. Suctioning it out, which seems to be the main solution doctors can offer, doesn’t work for too many victims.
This wasn’t a treatment for the flu – I stayed sick for the normal two weeks. But the Coca Tea kept me from feeling swollen and hot, and the CBD vapor a couple of times a day – and I emphasize that it was just tiny little tokes, not deep inhales – kept the mucous coming up and out. I went through a roll of paper towels a day as my sinuses drained and I flushed the toilet maybe 50 times a day to get rid of the oysters I kept spitting up.
I was still sick with the flu, but my lungs kept themselves clear because the mucous kept coming up every time I coughed, which was often, and I didn’t get an ear infection or any of the other consequences on sinus congestion (compaction) because my nose kept running like a two-year old with a head cold. In other words, it was my experience that Coca Leaf Tea and CBD flower vapor are an effective treatment for the mucous congestion that seems to be the main killer with flu, and I am willing to bet that if medical authorities were abe to get past their governments and their own prejudices a lot of people who are dying today, and who will die in the near future, could be saved with this simple approach. It might not work for everyone – the coughing that brings up the mucous is pretty racking – but its a lot better than dry-coughing while your lungs fill up with mucous that hardens into cement and then shuts down your breathing.
It would be easy enough to do CBD vapor infusions and even Coca Tea stomach feeding with people too sick to treat themselves, but my feeling is that if a person coming down with the flu, whether it’s COVID-19 or your everyday killer flu, would be able to keep from descending into death with as many cups of Coca Leaf tea a day as they can stand, plus regular TINY tokes of CBD Hemp flower from a vaporizer. I would NOT want to see people smoking the CBD – the particulate matter in the smoke wouldn’t be good. It’s the vapor that does the trick.
I hope that this can help you or someone you care for. It comes under the heading “Can’t hurt; might just help.”
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After you have a chance to read it, I hope that you’ll add your voice to those demanding investigation and full accountability including corporate dissolution and RICO charges for the Tobacco Cartel.
I’ve written this book because “smoking-related disease” continues to destroy millions of smokers and families worldwide every year with no accountability.
I believe that many if not most of those deaths are preventable with a new, evidence-based approach – regulating pesticides in Tobacco Cartel products using existing consumer product pesticide residue limits as the standard.
Ludicrously, Tobacco Cartel products are exempt from pesticide regulation.
This book documents what the Cartel has known and kept secret for generations: that smoking-related disease and death may be caused not as much by Tobacco as by exempted & concealed super-toxic xenobiotics used by Cartel companies purely to boost profits, free of any effective regulation.
I don’t claim that smoking Tobacco, even organic Tobacco is safe; I do say that inhaling a proven carcinogenic/neurotoxic/genotoxic fungicide/insecticide cocktail a hundred times or more a day, from whatever source, combusted or vaporized, will surely and certainly destroy human energy, health & life.
This book offers hard evidence, new facts, and numerous peer-reviewed research citations to raise awareness that the Tobacco Cartel has, in plain view, engaged in a trans-generational conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity on a scale beyond imagination.
I hope that you’ll consider the evidence on its merits.
Here’s the Table of Contents
Introduction: Let Hard Data Speak
Links To Individual Xenobiotics In The Data
More Background On This New Data
Xenobiotics – Substances That Destroy Life Itself
Kentucky Reference Cigarettes – Invalidating 50 years of Research
About Those Dangerous Mint Flavors …
The Practical Reason For Pesticides In Tobacco – Pure Profit
This is particularly true of Zyklon B, the gas used to murder millions of people. That same gas, and the technology for it, has been passed down by clandestine ownership transfers to a company now operating in America and using the chemical technology of Zyklon B to fumigate American Tobacco warehouses. If there’s just a tiny error in application, residues of the Nazi nerve gas remain on the tobacco and American smokers receive little whiffs of Auschwitz with every puff. The fix is in with the US government, which stays out of the way while the Nazis do their work.
German nerve gas experiments on humans began long before the concentration camps of WWII. Since the 1920’s, German chemical companies had been experimenting on people snared by the hunter squads they sent out to find suitable subjects. These people, usually but not always the homeless and lost, were swept away, classified as “defective” by corrupt magistrates, and taken beyond civil surveillance to be used and disposed of anonymously.
The Nazi “doctors” of the extermination camps were only part of a long line that began many years before, powered by the mad Teutonic vision of a “Thousand Year Reich”. The Auschwitz concentration camp was purpose-built right next to the huge IG Farben chemical plant making Zyklon B. So convenient. So efficient. So Nazi.
And now, the same master race chemical companies that enthusiastically invented and tested lethal gasses on those they conveniently called sub-humans are supplying the world with pesticides designed to kill everything that moves, flies and crawls. Aside from a few Japanese companies with similar human experimentation as the basis for their agrichemical expertise, German chemical companies and their disguised descendants dominate world agriculture.
Here’s an example of how deeply the Nazis have penetrated the tobacco industry.
The agrichemical company Detia Degesch is a direct descendent of IG Farben and inheritor of the IG Farben killing gas Zyklon B which it marketed for years as “Cyanosil” for use as a fumigant on warehoused agricultural crops. As of 2019 Cyanosil had been updated a little but the killing technology first invented by the Nazis is still in full use. In fact, it’s the most heavily used tobacco fumigant in America. It’s just so good at killing everything.
This company, directly descended from the Nazi empire, is operating in the US using the exact gas technology used to exterminate millions of people to kill bugs on tobacco stored in warehouses. Of course the company also has other specialized, newer gasses that it markets, but the chemicals used for tobacco fumigation are solidly grounded on the Nazi nerve gasses from WWII.
As professional as the Germans are, not everyone can keep their mouths shut. Here is one German pesticide company executive bragging about how their updated version of Zyklon B performs while conforming to published tobacco industry (CORESTA) safety guidelines:
“Adhering to the dosages, concentrations, and exposure times recommended in the relevant CORESTA Guide No. 2 will ensure that all four life cycles of an insect (that is, egg, larvae, pupae, and adult) are reliably exterminated. Almost needless to say that rodents also perish during treatment.”
You did read that right. All the so-called vermin died too. The representative of Zyklon B is very pleased. Everything that should be dead is dead, with some bonus points for rats. Nazi science at its best.
So the big unasked question is – after they gas the bugs and rats, does any of the Nazi nerve gas remain on the tobacco products? Since nobody in the US government tests these products for nerve gas residues or any other pesticide residues, we just have trust the manufacturers.
An aptly-named executive Baldur Grunt brags:
“Detia Degesch product solutions are considered the ‘golden standard’ in fumigation treatment in any part of the world where tobacco is grown, processed, stored or transported, both for export and import.”
Herr Grunt is very proud that the same chemical used so effectively to exterminate millions of people by his company’s predecessors is now the “Gold Standard” for exterminating bugs (and incidentally rats) in tobacco warehouses.
He is also apparently confident that, when used as directed by illiterate warehouse workers in Zimbabwe and Bangaladesh and South Carolina, there will be no residues on the tobacco.
He says so right here:
“The primary chemical method used today for infestation control is through thorough fumigation with an agent releasing phosphine (PH3), a gas resulting from a chemical reaction of phosphide compounds with air humidity. Despite the phosphine agent’s ability to permeate packaging materials, including cellophane wrapping, and to penetrate deeply into even highly compressed tobacco, treatment will not leave behind chemical residues if the procedure is executed correctly and in line with established protocols.”
Notice that little CYA “if the procedure is executed correctly …”?
However, the bugs appear to have other ideas. Lo and behold, tobacco warehouses around the world are having to use more and more Nazi nerve gas because the bugs are all becoming resistant. But not to worry – the manufacturer knows that you can exceed the limits all you want because nobody is looking. They’ve made sure of that – the fix is in, and they have people in high places.
Look, this is the most effective gas on the market. If it isn’t killing everything you’re either doing it wrong or not using enough.
You’re urged by the manufacturer to be careful to follow the guidelines, which of course you will be as long as all the bugs and rats are killed. You’re also told that due to bug resistance, if any are still alive after treatment, all you have to do is shut the doors and increase the gas. Remember – nobody is watching. Nobody cares.
“CORESTA in its Guideline No. 2 (“Phosphine Fumigation Parameters for the Control of Cigarette Beetle and Tobacco Moth”, revised version of October 2013) to advise that “…all possible efforts must be made to enforce good fumigation practices to control infestation and minimize the development and spread of phosphine resistance.”
“The newest study of this phenomena was conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS). During this as of yet unpublished study on highly-tolerant insects, it was determined that control can still be achieved when phosphine gas concentrations are maintained between 500 and 1,000ppm.”
Well, it sure looks like the USDA is helping the Nazis test their new nerve gas based on Zyklon B technology. We avoided bombing their nerve gas factories during the war, then after the war we helped them rebuild the factories and hide their ownership, and now we’re helping them gas American smokers. Could there be some secret Eugenics-loving Nazis in key positions in the US government? Look at who the Tobacco industry is killing – aren’t most American smokers, the vast majority, people who the Nazis would consider disposable? Particularly if it can be done quietly, efficiently and at a very nice profit.
Does anyone really think the most powerful of the Nazis just folded up and went away, simply because they were defeated by an upstart industrial power with crude but endless machinery and manpower?
If this is news, here it is – they were not really defeated, and they have not gone away. Many of them were never even German – many of America’s wealthy were and are Nazis. They fancy themselves knights of the Thousand Year Reich, and they are all here, now, whole families and secret clans of them, and among their most successful businesses has been selling poisoned cigarettes to American children.
How sweet for these latter-day Nazis, with ancestral memories of American GI’s buying their Frauleins for a Lucky Strike or pair of nylons. To be able to put tobacco secretly sweetened with nerve gas in the hands of the children and grandchildren of those GI’s who humiliated them? How lovely.
And American smokers die just like the bugs and rats in a tobacco warehouse, only more in slow motion so nobody really notices.. The Nazis notice, and smile approvingly, but everyone else just says “Oh, they were smokers. Well, what did they expect?” More importantly, those smokers keep buying cigarettes all the way to the grave.
The profits to the tobacco industry and the revenues to government from a pack of cigarettes are almost exactly equal. Everybody’s in this as partners, and it’s in everybody’s interest to keep the game going.
It doesn’t stop with agriculture. While their pesticide companies are busy polluting the world food chain and tobacco products with nerve agents their pharmaceutical companies, also evolved directly from Nazi roots and applying intellectual property derived directly from concentration camp experiments, keep creating “new” versions of old Nazi chemicals to “treat” all those mysterious diseases that seem arise from endocrine system disorders caused by … who knows? Modern life sure is mysterious.
The science for some inexplicable reason is slow in coming, but it will ultimately be seen that it’s the pesticides and other agricultural chemicals, in the tobacco and the diet, that are the root cause of most modern diseases.
In the diet their effect is very hard to see – not so in the tobacco, which is why the industry has tried so desperately to keep the pesticide secret for so long. You can see the results of pesticide contamination in tobacco – you just have to penetrate the carefully erected screens of disinformation and illusion.
After WWII the master Nazi chemical company, IG Farben, ironically started by brilliant Jewish scientists in the 1920’s, was forced to go through a charade of divestiture of all its properties and companies, and any inventions based on human experimentation were supposed to be discarded. I call it a charade because IG Farben was totally protected during the Nuremberg trials by American wealth that had profited from WWII and wasn’t about to let a few million inconvenient deaths interfere with business. The IG Farben empire was simply re-arranged a little by cooperative Americans and Brits in Nuremberg working for their secret masters back home, and those few IG Farben executives who did go to prison were out again and serving on the Boards of the new chemical companies within months.
It was no coincidence that IG Farben HQ had never been bombed during the war, and that wealthy Americans and Europeans intervened through Roosevelt and Churchill to stop planned attacked on key IG Farben chemical plants and headquarters. There were many among the wealthy elite on both sides of the Atlantic who saw great virtue in the mad science of eugenics and saw also that great profit lay in the proper use of all that interesting nerve gas.
Here’s how the Nazi thinking after Nuremberg must have gone:
We lost the war but we have our chemical industry, and we know how to use that industry to continue to advance our vision. We will change our names and hide our trail – we have many friends. We will take tobacco, a product that generations of people are already addicted to but that is expensive to produce because it requires intensive human labor. We know all about labor, and we know chemicals. We get rid of that labor and use chemicals instead. We will use the accumulated wealth of tobacco fortunes in America and Europe, whose families are sympathizers to our cause, and we will begin to drain the wealth and vitality out of the sub-humans of the world with tobacco products designed for that purpose. We will ensure that there is a steady supply of replacement smokers.
We’ll produce that Tobacco without inconvenient laws because the American wealthy already control their regulators. Europe will be more of a problem but we’ll manage because everything is in chaos and so we can rebuild the chemical industry our way and even have the Americans help us do it. We will spare no expense on advertising and marketing, hiring the best minds and using the most advanced techniques. We will place every possible opponent on our payroll, secretly and without their knowledge when necessary, and we will design tobacco products so that they extract the highest possible proportion of the user’s income from as early an age as possible right up until their death, at which point one or more of their children would have already stepped in to take their place using our product? Brilliant, yah?
However, in Germany we will have the strictest pesticide residue laws in the world for tobacco products, because we know exactly why smokers are dying, don’t we?
Clearly the tobacco industry was the right choice for the new Nazis. It showed highest legal profit per acre in the world. It had the highest labor cost in the world. If you bring down the labor cost, you increase the profit. Pay off everyone to ignore the chemicals – just pretend they don’t exist – but let the politicians pose against tobacco, let the prohibitionists preach against it, let the doctors and scientists follow the red herrings we lay out for them, and let the regulators make piles of paper and covering our trail for us until they retire on a nice “Good German” federal pension. We already know that nobody cared what we did to the Jews at the time, and there haven’t really been any consequences since. It will be the same with tobacco.
If you click the following link, which is to an internet tobacco industry memo on the pesticide issues I was raising in 1998, you may notice that the global tobacco industry pesticide committee meets in Frankfurt, Germany, home of I.G. Farben, located in a building complex now called “The Pentagon of Europe”. The War Room sounds like an appropriate place for the Tobacco Cartel Pesticide Committee to meet and discuss what they’re going to do about the pesticide issue in the US. That was 1997. Want to bet that the Tobacco Master Settlement was part of the strategy that came out of the “Pentagon of Europe”? Here’s the link:
It took me 20+ years after this memoto get the hard data – how’s this for “proactively applying sound science”? Does it look like the industry pesticide committee ever did anything but perhaps meet and decide they had enough regulators, scientists and politicians in their pocket that they didn’t have to worry about it “getting out of control”.
Community Tobacco Control Partners Test Results 12/18
“Mom couldn’t sleep more than a couple of hours and then she would just lie awake until I came in to get her up in the morning. She would always be exhausted. When Medical Marijuana became legal in our state I asked her doctor if she would prescribe it for Mom for sleeping. The doctor said that she could prescribe Medical Marijuana for pain but not for sleeping, so we agreed that it might help Mom’s arthritis. I filled out the paperwork and got approved and then went to the dispensary and bought the first prescription. The young woman there talked with me about dosage and recommended a Vaporizer for Mom rather than her smoking the Marijuana. She showed me how it worked and how easy it was to control the dose by the size of what I put in the Vaporizer.
Mom now inhales just once or twice from the Vaporizer at bedtime and then falls asleep reading! Before her Medical Marijuana she hadn’t read a book in years. Now she reads and then sleeps for five or six hours. And also, we now light up the vaporizer again before her lunch, which she now actually eats and then she takes a two-hour nap! Medical Marijuana has been a blessing for her. And it really does help with her arthritis pain too.”
Kathy (Washington) in a Panaceachronicles.com comment
If Cannabis Flowers did nothing else but help people get a good night’s sleep or a restful afternoon nap then the fact that it is helpful in so many other ways almost wouldn’t matter. But the fact is that, for most older people, pure, natural Cannabis flowers are the only sleep-aid they will ever need. The bonus is that these natural little beauties are not addictive like so many pharmaceuticals and don’t cause collateral damage to your brain or body like almost all pharmaceuticals.
Where most prescription and OTC sleeping pills operate by knocking you out without even a hint of subtlety, and leave you with brain fog and a nasty headache, not to mention organ and neurological damage with long-term use, you can tailor your Cannabis flower sleep medicine to give you exactly the kind of sleep you’re looking for without paying for that relief with ugly side-effects afterwards.
Since there are over 800 recognized strains of Cannabis, and since each strain has its own treating & healing properties, let’s begin by discussing the best kinds of Cannabis for promoting sleep.
In one sense this is an easy task. Almost any landrace or hybrid Kush, a family of Cannabis strains that originates in the mountains of Central Asia, has strong sleep-inducing properties. Commonly available Kush strains include Hindu Kush, OG Kush, Purple Afghani and Purple Kush.
Some strains based on Kush genetics without “Kush” in their names also have the sleep-aid properties of pure Kush strains including AK-47 and White Widow. A little research at a credible website such as leafly.com will give you all the information you need, and if there is a dispensary in your area that you trust you’ll probably be able to get good advice on the spot.
With a number of excellent choices available, if you are using a medical Cannabis dispensary as your source then choosing which Cannabis strain is right for you, or the older person you are caring for is simply a matter of what is available in your area. In states that allow medical Cannabis sales through dispensaries your challenge is going to be finding the most helpful, knowledgeable dispensary and then working with them to determine which of the strains they carry will work best in your individual situation.
When discussing Medical Marijuana with any advisor for use as a sleep aid remember that it is important to take into account whether you are taking any pharmaceuticals for any other medical conditions. If you are fortunate enough to live in a legal state and have a doctor who is knowledgeable then you can get advice from them, but the reality is that Cannabis conflicts with very few pharmaceuticals. However, if for example you have Diabetes then you will want to choose a strain that does not promote the “Munchies” which could easily lead to a blood sugar overload. In case you weren’t paying attention or weren’t around in the 60s, the “Munchies” are simply an uncontrollable to eat. Anything. Preferably sweet. Not good if you have Diabetes.
This is just one example of the kind of common-sense precaution that anyone using Cannabis for any reason needs to take. Without doubt the greatest precaution that everyone needs to take is to buy only organic Cannabis, as far as that’s possible. Cannabis growers can’t technically say “organic” because USDA is playing “Cannabis is Federally illegal” games, but there are plenty of ways for growers to communicate with the comunity. Others include precautions that asthmatics need to keep in mind when thinking about inhaled vs ingested Cannabis, issues that a person challenged with obesity might face if the Cannabis strain that they choose for sleep instead makes them want to raid the fridge, and potential hazards from falling that an elderly person might face unless they are all tucked in before their Cannabis sleep aid starts to come on strong, or if they have to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and are still half-asleep. Any such issues can be resolved by taking a thoughtful approach to the use of Cannabis as a sleep aid, and by asking knowledgeable people for advice on potential issues before beginning.
In states that allow patients to contract with growers for their medical Cannabis supply you won’t be limited to what a dispensary has in stock as a sleep aid choice, since a responsible medical Cannabis grower will have access to seed stock for virtually any strain you feel is best, and of course a good grower will also understand the properties of each strain and be able to make knowledgeable recommendations.
Finally, if you are in a position to grow a personal legal crop of medical Cannabis for yourself or for someone technically your “patient” if you have a medical Cannabis license, you will be able to choose from among dozens of first-rate Cannabis seed suppliers, and you’ll be even more certain of the provenance of the strain you are growing. These are people who have been in the trenches of the “War On Drugs”, and who have dedicated their lives to making authentic, pure Cannabis seeds available to growers worldwide despite the terrible risks. Now that Cannabis is finally coming into its own as a natural medicine these seed producers have come out into the open and as long as you live in a Cannabis-legal state you’ll be able to buy your seeds from any of them online.
Are We Talking Naptime or Nighttime?
Normal sleep patterns vary so much that there’s no general prescription the best use of Cannabis therapy for an individual who is experiencing a short-term or long-term disruption of their sleep. Fortunately, plenty of people have talked online about their experiences with Cannabis as a sleep-aid.
It’s important to keep in mind that a person with sleep problems might not need a Cannabis strain that will essentially knock them out, and some of the “couchlock” strains of Cannabis Indica can do just that. But a given individual may benefit more from a Cannabis Sativa strain that simply relaxes them and helps them enjoy reading a little before falling asleep, and might reject the more compelling hammer of Indica at bedtime. Because Cannabis lets a person choose from among different pathways to sleep it’s important not to throw away this advantage by simply assuming that everyone needs a strong Cannabis Indica for sleep.
One pathway to sleep that many seniors enjoy is a daytime nap, and yet many people who suffer from conditions that create pain and discomfort have a hard time getting any rest during the day, much less at night. So in some sense the ability to nap peacefully may simply depend upon relief from the conditions of body and mind that are interfering with that daytime rest.
This leads to a consideration of what strain or strains of Cannabis are already being ingested, if any, to treat any of the person’s other health issues besides sleep and rest? If Cannabis is not already being used to treat any other conditions, then the choice of strain or strains and the method and timing of use in promoting daytime and nighttime sleep become less problematic.
But if a heavy strain is already being used, say for pain, and the person is still having a problem with sleep, the problem may be that the heavy Cannabis strain being used to help control the pain has lost some of its sleep-promoting effect in the process. This may mean that the pathway to sleep is blocked, and if it is, then the relaxation & meditation pathway to sleep may still be opened by the use of a mentally stimulating Sativa strain. If the environment is right and if the person is able to relax in bed or a comfortable reclining chair doing something they enjoy like reading or watching a movie, then a little Sativa flower in a cup of infused tea or in a vaporizer can send a person onto that longed-for pathway to sleep, perchance to dream, with just a light touch of the sacred blossom even if they are also taking a heavy-duty strain for pain.
Another important consideration is whether or not to smoke Cannabis as a way to enjoy its sleep benefits. For Seniors who don’t mind, or who enjoy smoking, this is a good choice for shorter dozes like an afternoon nap, or as a way to get back to sleep in the middle of the night. The sleep that comes with smoking a nice pipe of Kush will last at least several hours, but not much longer, and there is very little residual mind cotton. However, for a Senior who for whatever reason doesn’t want to smoke, which for many Seniors is a good decision, vapor devices offer a great alternative.
There are several big differences between smoking Cannabis bud and using a Vapor device.
First, since the vapor device doesn’t combust the THC in the bud, it takes fewer puffs to get the desired result. Which also means that if you are buying Cannabis, your usage is less expensive and if you grow your own or a friend grows it for you, you use less per session.
Second, also because there is no combustion, there are no nasty combustion byproducts. In spite of all the positive aspects of Cannabis use, Cannabis buds are still organic plant material and when you combust any plant material – Cannabis flower or firewood – you get hundreds of chemical compounds in the smoke, many of them harmful and even carcinogenic, along with particles that lodge in the tiny air sacs in the lungs.
A third benefit is that with pure vapor you get more of the great tastes of the terpenes and oils in the Cannabis bud and almost none of the “gag and cough” components. Not that you can’t overdo it with a Vapor pipe too – the secret is to take small, light draws and to figure out from experience how much you need to get a good sleep and not to exceed that amount.
The final option for Seniors is edible/drinkable Cannabis in just about any food or beverage form that you can imagine from gummy bears to classic brownies to infused teas. The advantage of ingesting Cannabis for sleep is that the effects last much longer than inhaled Cannabis. The effects take longer to come on, and when you wake up they take longer to wear off, but ingested Cannabis is definitely the solution for a Senior who wants a long night’s deep sleep. It is important to note that with ingested Cannabis dosage control is important because unlike smoking, you won’t know that you have taken too much until it’s too late to stop. This means that Seniors using ingested Cannabis as a sleep aid should be very particular about anything they buy, making sure that it is produced by a reputable company with solid dosage controls in place. Buying Cannabis edibles from local entrepreneurs can be just fine, or it can be a disaster in terms of dosage control.
Other than buying reputable Cannabis edibles, the other option is to make them yourself, and if you are buying your Cannabis from a good dispensary they ought to be able to tell you the concentration of THC per gram in the buds you are buying, as well as offering you everything you need in the way of scales, thermometers etc. to make your culinary efforts a success.
My wife and I both prefer to use Cannabis edibles as our sleep aid, and we also prefer to cook them ourselves because we can be certain of what ingredients are in the edible as well as how much THC there is in a given dose. Not all Seniors would want to go to this much trouble, which is why taking precautions is necessary if a Senior is using a commercial product, or even a batch of Alice B. Toklas brownies baked for them by a well-meaning friend.
Speaking of making edibles for yourself or a friend, although there are a lot of choices in Cannabis cookbooks these days I like to think that the recipes and extract techniques that my wife and I invented for my 1981 book “Marijuana Foods”, which was the first book written specifically for people who wanted to use edible Cannabis for medical and recreational purposes, still offer some of the easiest and most delicious ways to cook with and ingest the divine flower. You can find the hardcopy version of Marijuana Foods on Amazon.
With all sensible precautions taken, and all important choices made thoughtfully, Seniors who have access to high quality Cannabis can simply forget about any sleep issues they may have been having, and can take those poison pills hawked by Pig Pharma back to the pharmacy where you got them and ask them to please dispose of this dangerous shit responsibly.
As of 2011 Federal law (cited below) specifically forbids tobacco manufacturers from using pesticide contaminated tobaccothat exceeds US pesticide residue standards for domestic tobacco whether that tobacco is domestic or imported. Every tobacco company, US and international, is in gross, reckless and conspiratorial violation of this law.
The law has been on the books since 2011 but apparently nobody at FDA is testing, reporting, or investigating anything. I looked hard and saw zero evidence of concern but who knows, maybe I missed something.
Since I couldn’t find any evidence that FDA was doing its job, or get any response from them when I asked, I just paid for the lab tests that FDA should be doing and am publishing data below showing that every brand we tested violates 907(a)(1)(B) of Section 907 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. These products we tested and reported to FDA in January 2019 (“Potential Tobacco Violation Report ID 19C00160“) should be re-tested on a national scale and if they are in violation they should be withdrawn and the manufacturers subjected at least to fines. I am of course holding my breath.
Here’s the core language of the Federal statute which along with the accompanying language gives any health authority at any level powers to act immediately in protection of public health and safety.
907(a)(1)(B) of Section 907 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: (B) ADDITIONAL SPECIAL RULE. “Beginning 2 years after the date of enactment of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, a tobacco product manufacturer shall not use tobacco, including foreign grown tobacco, that contains a pesticide chemical residue that is at a level greater than is specified by any tolerance applicable under Federal law to domestically grown tobacco.”
Here is violation of the law.
Community Tobacco Control Partners Test Results 12/18
The law means no DDT (zero tolerance under US law), no Carbendazim (zero tolerance under US law), and none of about 13 others just in the little sample of tobacco products we sampled in December 2018. The tobacco material in at least one of the products – Swisher Sweets – violates this law multiple times with contaminants that are a clear and present danger to public health.
The Feds know what the industry is doing, because they wrote this law forbidding it. But they have never published one single test or as far as I can ell conducted one inspection, which means that since 2011 they haven’t prevented one single child from inhaling DDT from a Swisher Sweet their older friends bought at the bodega.
By imposing reasonable pesticide regulations based on existing, effective Cannabis pesticide limits in Oregon and other states, millions of smokers could be protected from exposure to pesticide residues in tobacco products (shown below) that are strongly associated with or in some cases proven to cause breast cancer, testicular cancer, obesity, diabetes, prostate cancer, liver cancer, childhood leukemia (ALL), atrophied testicles, compromised immunity and ruined HIV/AIDS treatments. And there’s more, but I hope this awful list of preventable slaughter is enough to demand that 907(a)(1)(B) of Section 907 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: (B) ADDITIONAL SPECIAL RULE. be enforced. Here is the full data
Tobacco Product Pesticide ResidueTest Sample #1: 12/15/2018Community Tobacco Control Partnersbilldrake4470@gmail.com
Too often with barely-concealed malice, doctors routinely make the end of life unforgivably hard for lung cancer victims who were or are smokers. Because of their stunning ignorance of pesticide contamination of tobacco products, and their complete ignorance of how this murderous industry operates, lung cancer doctors too often turn into judgmental terrorists who use their invulnerable position and authority to attack helpless, dying smokers and ex-smokers using contempt, rejection and invective. Lung cancer victims of smoking are routinely told that they are guilty, stupid, worthless parasites taking up a hospital bed needed for people who deserve care. There is no vestige of care in this treatment.
A young friend and I were talking about her mother’s recent death from lung cancer. I was showing her the results of pesticide residue tests that we had just run on a sample of tobacco products that happened to include the cigarette brand that her Mother had smoked – Marlboro Red 100’s. She wondered how all those pesticides and fungicides were allowed.
“EPA does not assess intermediate or long-term risks of pesticide residues to smokers because of the severity of health effects linked to use of tobacco products themselves.” EPA report To Congress: Pesticides In Tobacco, 2003
She said that the hardest part of her Mom’s cancer journey was the constant shaming that her mother had to endure. Her Mom was told every day in one way or another that she was dying because of stupid choices she had made and that all these problems she was causing for other people were the result of her own selfishness. There is a deep streak of judgmental meanness that runs through anti-smokers that is wide and deep in the medical profession, and while the industry is simply judged evil and not given another thought, all the doctor’s anti-smoking anger is directed at the dying patient who immolates themselves with shame and guilt. Which suits the tobacco industry just fine. Nobody is really paying them any serious attention. Their role in this has been written off as fully understood.
“Because use of tobacco products, with or without pesticide residues, is so hazardous to health, all of the Oregon Health Authority’s efforts around tobacco are aimed at discouraging use of tobacco products and encouraging cessation of tobacco use in people already using it.” Oregon Health Authority 2018
Imagine how much legal and lobbying effort it took for the tobacco industry to put that attitude and legislation in place.
So because of that kind of work, in every hospital in every town the attitude is – “She brought this on herself and everybody else. How could she be so thoughtless. She could have quit – lots of people do. She should have thought about the consequences before it was too late. All these resources being wasted on someone dying of their own actions. For shame.”
It’s almost like the fear of Satan in early America. Many doctors hate Tobacco with all the fervent belief and as little hard evidence as those ministers in Salem who hated Satan, and since haters can’t actually get their hands on either Tobacco or Satan (because they are a fantasy, an illusion), in the old days the Ministers of God burned the women who were obviously possessed by theEvil One, and today the priests of medicine shame and revile the smokers of the Evil Weed and condemn them to death.
Doctors and nurses are naturally frustrated by what they see as people sickening and dying because of totally avoidable bad decisions. They blame the tobacco industry, but they blame the people dying from lung cancer way more. After all, it says right there on the pack “The Surgeon General yada yada ….”. And besides, everybody knows that tobacco kills.
I always get suspicious when “everybody knows”, don’t you? It’s just like I feel whenever a doctor talks about what “we” know to be true. That “we” raises my hackles – it always has a touch of pretentiousness that is always associated with ignorance. What if I could easily prove beyond any doubt that every medical and scientific study since 1972 that has used University of Kentucky “Reference Cigarettes” is fatally flawed?
Yes, people with lung cancer are being killed by smoking, but not by smoking tobacco because they aren’t smoking tobacco these days. They are being killed by manufacturers greed and not their own stupidity, unless you are into blaming victims for being stupid and if you are then the shame is on you. Take a look at the pesticide contaminants in my friend’s Mom’s Marlboro Red 100’s and you tell me – was it most likely the tobacco, or what the manufacturer calls tobacco in those cigarettes that gave her lung cancer, or could it have been all those fungicides and pesticides? You know, the pesticides that “we don’t regulate because smoking tobacco itself is so bad…”
My friend’s Mom undoubtedly thought she was smoking tobacco. She wasn’t.
She probably assumed that any tobacco that actually might be in her cigarettes would be American. It would not.
She probably assumed that she was smoking the cured leaf of a plant rolled in a little paper tube. She wasn’t.
She probably thought the government had her back and regulated the harmful ingredients in tobacco products like they do in all food and beverages. It doesn’t.
She probably assumed that getting lung cancer was a crap shoot and that she could play the odds, not knowing that the game is fixed and she didn’t have a chance. She really didn’t.
Community Tobacco Control Partners Test Results 12/18
Bottom line – it wasn’t tobacco in her Marlboro Reds that killed my friend’s Mom, because there isn’t any real tobacco in those things, and the tobacco waste materials that they use to make them are so contaminated with poisons and toxins that if they were in any other product it would be seized and destroyed be the ever-alert health authorities.
But pesticides in “tobacco” products – good to go. The US government, and the government of Oregon officially don’t care. Sorry about your Mom. In reality, only you and a few who loved her give a shit. Everybody else is just getting a paycheck and telling themselves, and each other, what righteous people they are.
Too often with barely-concealed malice, doctors routinely make the end of life unforgivably hard for lung cancer victims who were or are smokers. Because of their stunning ignorance of 
