Frequently Asked Questions
ABOUT HEALING HEMP OIL MEDICINE
Q: WHAT IS HEMP OIL?
A: Hemp oil is a concentration of the extracted resins from the female variety of the cannabis/hemp buds (flowers).
Q: IS HEMP OIL THE SAME AS HEMP SEED OIL?
A: Hemp oil and hemp seed oil are completely different. Although hemp seed oil is nutritious and full of
Omega 3 and Omega 6 essential fatty acids (EFAs) which are necessary for a healthy body, it does not contain the concentrations of cannabinoids (including tetrahydrocannabinol - or THC) necessary to cause programmed cell death in tumors (apoptosis). Hemp oil is extracted cannabis/hemp resins and is the cure for all cancers, while hemp seed oil is only pressed seed oil that is very healthy to eat but does not contain the real medicine - the cannabinoids.
Hemp seed oil that is found in health stores and nutrition centers is NOT the cure for cancer. Hemp oil containing the necessary cannabinoid compounds is illegal to have and illegal to grow in almost all parts of the world.
Q: IF IT IS MARIJUANA WHY ARE YOU CALLING IT "HEMP OIL"?
A: The term "MARIJUANA" has been demonized and has been at the brunt of many fear-associated campaigns since its prohibition to prevent the use of the most medicinal plant ever known to exist. Due to the damaging misinformation that has been propagated against marijuana by Governments, medical associations, and industrial interests since the 1930's - it seems only sensible to revert back to the original historical name for the plant, the name that was synonymous with healing and did not have a negative or fearful stigma attached to it... and that word is HEMP.
(Above: Anti-Marijuana Campaigns from as early as the 1930's present cannabis/hemp as
an insanely dangerous, devil-worshipping, sex-crazed orgy drug.)
Q: HOW DOES HEMP OIL CURE CANCER?
A: To answer this question we turn to Dr. Robert Melamede, Professor of Biology at the University of Colorado, as he explains in this 2006 video how the body's Endo-Cannabinoid system (and plant based Cannabinoids as suppliment) kills cancer cells and inhibits tumor growth. Dr. Melamede's website is very educational on the topic of endocannabinoids and has many anti-tumoral references and information that you, as someone considering a treatment of hemp oil, must see.
The following article titled "POT SHRINKS TUMORS: GOVERNMENT KNEW IN '74" contains vital and suppressed information about how medicinal anti-cancer cannabis/hemp research has been suppressed throughout the last 25 years - written by Raymond Cushing, (29 Mar 2001) for the "San Antonio Current", Texas, USA
- The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February 2000, when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals. In 1974, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.
The DEA quickly shut down the Virginia study and all further cannabis/tumor research, according to Jack Herer, who reports on the events in his book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes. In 1976, President Gerald Ford put an end to all public cannabis research and granted exclusive research rights to major pharmaceutical companies, who set out -- unsuccessfully -- to develop synthetic forms of THC that would deliver all the medical benefits without the "high."
The Madrid researchers reported in the March issue of Nature Medicine that they injected the brains of 45 rats with cancer cells, producing tumors whose presence they confirmed through magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ). On the 12th day they injected 15 of the rats with THC and 15 with Win-55,212-2, a synthetic compound similar to THC. "All the rats left untreated uniformly died 12-18 days after glioma ( brain cancer ) cell inoculation ... Cannabinoid ( THC )-treated rats survived significantly longer than control rats. THC administration was ineffective in three rats, which died by days 16-18. Nine of the THC-treated rats surpassed the time of death of untreated rats, and survived up to 19-35 days. Moreover, the tumor was completely eradicated in three of the treated rats." The rats treated with Win-55,212-2 showed similar results.
The Spanish researchers, led by Dr. Manuel Guzman of Complutense University, also irrigated healthy rats' brains with large doses of THC for seven days, to test for harmful biochemical or neurological effects. They found none.
"Careful MRI analysis of all those tumor-free rats showed no sign of damage related to necrosis, edema, infection or trauma ... We also examined other potential side effects of cannabinoid administration. In both tumor-free and tumor-bearing rats, cannabinoid administration induced no substantial change in behavioral parameters such as motor coordination or physical activity. Food and water intake, as well as body weight gain, were unaffected during and after cannabinoid delivery. Likewise, the general hematological profiles of cannabinoid-treated rats were normal. Thus, neither biochemical parameters nor markers of tissue damage changed substantially during the seven-day delivery period or for at least two months after cannabinoid treatment ended."
Guzman's investigation is the only time since the 1974 Virginia study that THC has been administered to live, tumor-bearing animals. ( The Spanish researchers cite a 1998 study in which cannabinoids inhibited breast cancer cell proliferation, but that was a "petri dish" experiment that didn't involve live subjects. )
In an e-mail interview for this story, the Madrid researcher said he had heard of the Virginia study, but had never been able to locate literature on it. Hence, the Nature Medicine article characterizes the new study as the first on tumor-laden animals and doesn't cite the 1974 Virginia investigation.
"I am aware of the existence of that research. In fact I have attempted many times to obtain the journal article on the original investigation by these people, but it has proven impossible," Guzman said.
In 1983, the Reagan/Bush Administration tried to persuade American universities and researchers to destroy all 1966-76 cannabis research work, including compendiums in libraries, reports Jack Herer, who states, "We know that large amounts of information have since disappeared."
Guzman provided the title of the work -- "Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids," an article in a 1975 Journal of the National Cancer Institute -- and this writer obtained a copy at the University of California medical school library in Davis and faxed it to Madrid.
The summary of the Virginia study begins, "Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC ) and cannabinol ( CBN )" -- two types of cannabinoids, a family of active components in marijuana. "Mice treated for 20 consecutive days with THC and CBN had reduced primary tumor size."
The 1975 journal article doesn't mention breast cancer tumors, which are featured in the only newspaper story ever to appear about the 1974 study -- in the "Local" section of The Washington Post on Aug. 18, 1974. Under the headline, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," it read in part:
"The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity reaction that causes rejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered." The researchers "found that THC slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers, and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."
Guzman, writing from Madrid, was eloquent in his response after this writer faxed him the clipping from The Washington Post of a quarter century ago. In translation, he wrote:
"It is extremely interesting to me, the hope that the project seemed to awaken at that moment, and the sad evolution of events during the years following the discovery, until now we once again draw back the veil, over the anti-tumoral power of THC, 25 years later. Unfortunately, the world bumps along between such moments of hope and long periods of intellectual castration."
News coverage of the Madrid discovery has been virtually nonexistent in (North America). The news broke quietly on Feb. 29, 2000 with a story that ran once on the UPI wire about the Nature Medicine article. This writer stumbled on it through a link that appeared briefly on the Drudge Report Web page. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times all ignored the story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors.
Raymond Cushing is a journalist, musician and filmmaker. This article was named by Project Censored as a "Top Censored Story of 2000."
Q: HOW IS HEMP OIL TAKEN?
A: Hemp oil is taken in 3 different ways under different medical circumstances, and in some cases methods should be combined for maximum effectiveness.
1. Ingestion - Hemp oil is taken orally in small doses at first and gradually increased over a period of about 2 weeks. A starting amount is equal to about half of a single piece of long grain rice, 4 times a day. Dosage is individualized and we recommend gradually increasing dose size as the patient's body becomes acclimated to the medicine. After a period of about 4 to 5 days at the most, a cancer patient should be consuming more hemp oil very gradually, but should never cease ingestion of the hemp oil treatment and should definitely not be accepting chemotherapy due to the high toxicity of chemo drugs.
Taking too much hemp oil at one time may cause a heavy sleepiness which will wear off after several hours and is completely harmless. Because ingested hemp oil goes into the bloodstream as a natural part of digestion, the medicine is distributed throughout the entire body. The quicker a patient can ingest a full treatment, the sooner the anti-cancer effects of the medicine begin.
2. Vaporise - Patients suffering from lung cancers or asthma (for example) can benefit from the effect of inhaled vapors from hemp oil.
Combined with an ingested treatment, lung cancers can be treated from both angles (from within the lung in vapor form and from the walls of the lungs through the bloodstream).
3. Topical applications - Hemp oil can be used directly on the skin for painless removal of abnormal skin conditions such as skin cancers, warts, abnormal moles, age spots, skin tags, burns, etc. Hemp oil also has natural UV protection from sun damage to skin.
(We are not advocating for the smoking of medicinal hemp oil. When hemp oil is burned the medicinal value of the oil is significantly reduced.)
Q: HOW MUCH HEMP OIL SHOULD I BE TAKING?
A: Hemp oil should be taken as follows:
One pound (500g) of bone-dry hemp buds will usually produce about 2 ounces (55 - 60 mL) of high-grade hemp oil. This amount of oil will cure most serious cancers; the average person can ingest this amount in about 3 months. This oil is very potent so one must begin treatment with small doses. A drop of oil about half the size of a grain of rice, two to four times a day is a good beginning. After four or five days, start increasing your daily dosage very gradually. As time goes on the body builds a tolerance to the oil and more and more can be taken. In cases where people are in a great deal of pain, Rick Simpson recommends that their dosage be quickly increased until it kills the pain. High quality hemp oil will stop pain even when morphine is not effective. The oil can be applied to external injuries for pain relief in minutes.
In any case, hemp oil IS a powerful medicine and should be respected and not taken recreationally. As with any strong medicine, do not drive or operate machinery while using hemp medicine until you are acclimated to it. We are not liable or responsible for personal injury as a result of misuse of any of the information contained on this website.
Q: HOW DO I MAKE MY OWN HEMP OIL?
A: Making your own oil is dangerous because of explosive fumes from solvent used in the process. Rick Simpson's hemp oil making process can be found here at the Phoenix Tears website. We offer this only as information and we will not be held responsible if any accidental property damage or personal injury or death occurs as a result of misuse of any information on this website. This oil has been made successfully all over the world when extreme caution and careful planning were used wisely.
We give these extreme warnings because they must be taken seriously when working with high quantities of solvent fumes. Explosion and/or fire are real risks when making oil, and we must be crystal clear about the risks involved in this process.
Q: WHERE DID THIS IDEA FOR HEMP OIL COME FROM?
A: Contrary to popular belief, Rick Simpson did not invent the idea of hemp medicine as a cancer treatment, but he did rediscover it in a series of circumstances that have brought the information back to the forefront of choices for cancer patients who do not want to destroy their healthy cells while destroying cancer cells. Rick Simpson has developed the idea of hemp oil made from cannabis/hemp buds for the purpose of healing, a form of medicinal cannabis/hemp use that was virtually unheard of before. You can watch and/or download Rick's documentary RUN FROM THE CURE outlining how he rediscovered the world's safest and most medicinal plant quite by accident.
Hemp medicine had been safely used in medicine for decades prior to the industrial boom of the 1920's when hemp was outlawed and then publicly slandered to satisfy wealthy industrial interests. Marijuana/cannabis/hemp has many names and many myths associated with its "terrible psychoactive effects".
Put simply, hemp is the safest known medication ever known to exist. In the history of medicine, there has never been a recorded case of cannabis/hemp causing death; in contrast, caffeine - one of the most commonly used and accepted drugs - has been shown to lead to dependence, addiction, and death.
FACT: Caffeine IS a central nervous system stimulant and IS the world's most popular and most widely used "psychoactive" drug.
So what is the fixation on the word "psychoactive"? The simple answer - scare tactics, used to frighten the public away from using the world's safest and most medicinal plant.
Q: IF THIS IS FOR REAL WHY HAVEN'T I HEARD OF IT BEFORE?
A: The answer is as simple as it sounds but it can be difficult to initially accept. The answer is MONEY and GREED.
Big money industrial interests knew that hemp would counter their profit margins, and had it outlawed in 1923 through fraudulent corporate/government means.
Hemp can be made into paper, automobiles can be powered by hemp-alcohol (ethanol), and it can cure cancer. Just when the major world industries began to soar financially, we lost the cure for cancer and gained a chemical age that has caused a cancer epidemic. Cancer was never as prevalent as it is today and we can thank the successful brainwashing efforts of Governments, medical establishments, and the pharmacuetical companies worldwide for assisting in spreading anti-marijuana propaganda that was developed to purposely mislead the public and create organized fear campaigns against its use. Mature readers of this website may remember television ads like this one from the earlier days of television.
However, despite attempts to prevent the use of smoked cannabis/hemp, it is the most widely used and accepted "controlled substance" in the world. What does that tell you about the supposed dangers of using this substance and the importance of its use in our society? Commonly known for assisting cancer patients with pain, nausea, and renewed sense of appetite - smoked cannabis hemp has had many uses in medicine with physician's prescriptions; however, smoking cannabis/hemp will not deliver the amounts of THC and other anti-cancer cannabinoids needed to rid the human body of tumors, and Governments, medical establishments, and the pharmacuetical companies are well aware of this fact.
If you approach your doctor about hemp medicine or medical marijuana, be prepared for opposition. Many doctors will still not prescribe medical marijuana. We obtained an information document prepared for physicians by The Canadian Medical Protective Association that explains "What to do when your patients apply for a licence to possess MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES" which will soon be available for public access on this website.
As it stands, even a person who is granted permission in Canada to possess marijuana for medical purposes would never be legally allowed to possess the amount of cannabis/hemp that one would require in order to process hemp oil and cure any form of cancer, and again - Governments, medical establishments, and the pharmacuetical companies are all well aware of this fact.
And now a word from now-U.S. President Barack Obama, as a senator. How can a man who smoked marijuana and inhaled it frequently become the President of the United States? There is no question about it - it simply doesn't harm your brain, and it doesn't lead to use of addictive harmful drugs and there is simply no evidence to support those imaginative claims. In fact, cannabis/hemp oil is more benign in nature, and more medicinal than any pharmacuetical drug that is available today.
Q: WHERE CAN I BUY HEMP OIL?
A: Simple answer, in any U.S. State that allows medical access to cannabis with a prescription from a licenced doctor. Cannabis/hemp oils contain THC which is one of the the cancer-curing cannabinoids in hemp medicine, and it is illegal to possess it. As we mentioned before, hemp seed oil is not the same thing and will not cure cancers due to the "low to no" cannabinoid/THC levels in the seeds.
Some people are claiming to make this hemp oil now and are trying to sell it over the internet for profit and are neither making it correctly nor supplying the correct amounts to cure cancers. The public must be cautioned about the potential to be duped by scam artists trying to make money from selling improperly made hemp oil. Because Phoenix Tears is a not-for-profit grass-roots organization, we provide the instructions in our free downloadable documentary RUN FROM THE CURE: The Rick Simpson Story to make hemp oil, although we caution that the process involves fumes that can explode and cause serious personal injury and/or property damage if not handled with extreme caution.
The tubes of hemp oil (actually they are oral medicine syringes - the type with no needle) shown on RUN FROM THE CURE: The Rick Simpson Story and in the above pictures contain 5 to 6 mL of hemp oil each. It takes at least 10 tubes (approximately 60 grams) of hemp oil to cure most serious cancers over a 2 to 3 month period. At least two cancer patients have reported taking the entire cancer treatment (10 tubes) in under 4 weeks with amazing results. The average cancer treatment takes about a pound of dry cannabis/hemp bud to produce, and at street value costs around $2,400 Canadian if you were to buy the material from a grower, which of course is illegal for both you and for the grower without a licence to possess or grow, respectively.
Of course, growing the cannabis is also illegal unless there is a licence to grow it so the grower does take a considerable risk to have it available in the first place, although compared to the ridiculous cost of a chemotherapy treatment and considering the risk of death associated with chemotherapy - for most people the continuation of a person's own life often outweighs the risk of what a court could impose as a penalty for standing up to your right to life.
Different countries have different laws surrounding possession of cannabis/hemp, and we are unable to provide details of each country's drug laws and how they affect you as a resident of your country specifically. You should research drug laws in your own country to be sure of the possible consequences. We do not advocate for breaking the law, but we do encourage free thinking and self-healing through any other means you can.
Q: WHY MAKE HEMP OIL AT ALL? CAN'T I JUST EAT RAW CANNABIS/HEMP?
A: Hemp oil that has been used in Nova Scotia (and now also around the world) has been through a chemical process called decarboxylation, which is the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound, as amino acid, usually resulting in the formation of carbon dioxide.
Simply put, Rick Simpson's hemp oil process raises the temperature of the cannabinoids in the plant oils enough to cause the cannabinoids in the oil to become super-active by raising the medicinal level of the THC to what is known as Delta-9. The proof is in the medicine itself.
Eating raw cannabis/hemp will not produce the same effects as consuming hemp oil because the oil is super-concentrated and contains high levels of cannabinoids that have been heated to the right temperature to be effective, and they have been stripped from the plant using this same process that makes the ingestion quick, simple, and effective.
Since cannabis is non-toxic and non-addictive, ingesting it for cancers or other illnesses is completely safe. Driving and operating machinery should be avoided initially until each person is acclimated to the drowsy effects that hemp oil can cause. With sleep comes more healing and simply put, that is how you heal yourself of cancer. It is actually a very simple process.
Happy Healing!
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which contains all original releases of all videos produced for and with Phoenix Tears since 2008.
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