Rethink Cannabis: Is Cannabis A Dietary Essential? No matter what your relationship with cannabis, this is your opportunity to broaden your horizons. Reach out and share your story, rejoice in others. Cannabis connects us all and rethinking cannabis is our chance to reframe the conversation as a community. “Treating cannabis as a food also means rethinking how we regulate it.” - Emily Morris “Treating cannabis as a food also means rethinking how we regulate it. The activism community has had great success demonstrating the medical benefits of consuming cannabis. Unfortunately these victories have been bitter sweet. Regulating cannabis as a drug often results in the high cost of cannabis, which keeps it out of reach for the people who need it most. It could also lead to a takeover of the industry by big pharmaceutical firms. If we regulate cannabis like a food, these problems disappear,” says Emily. At first glance, the idea of cannabis as a food can feel silly, almost forced. If you then consider the form we have grown accustomed to seeing a cannabis flower, you realize how unnatural our standards have become. By taking the plant indoor, hidden from any real world exposure, etc. is all highly aberrant. Historical cannabis in the wild would be filled with seeds, natural breeding processes, and the flowers would rarely get the opportunity to be properly dried and cured. The reaction to psychoactive effects of THC have hindered the progress of the approach of cannabis as a food and medicine for the past 80 years.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 03:00:01 +0000
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