Big Pharma may appear to be the zenith of craven greed and duplicity with their billions made off vaccines they knew were not up to standard, but they are conspicuously matched by their same financial backers who are pushing another product just as hazardous and ineffective.
Massive US-wide and European population studies were published in 2021 and 2022 which demonstrated what research had portended decades before – that cannabis used medicinally or recreationally is causal for cancers and birth defects.
The studies used new computer geo-spatial-temporal software with a methodology described in one of the world’s top scientific journals – Nature Scientific Reports. They found it causal in 33 cancer types, more than double the 14 of tobacco, and causal in 89 of 95 birth defect types tracked by the European Medicines Agency. These birth defects include non-deadly as well as potentially fatal birth defects such as cleft-lip palate and hole in the heart. In a pre-2020 universe, these findings would have led to medicinal cannabis products being immediately withdrawn from the market, but in an environment of cashed-up institutional investors, captured regulators, and media organisations that parrot their talking points and guard their priorities, there is a deafening silence where previously they would have fallen over themselves to sound the alarm.
From in vitro and animal studies, cannabis has been known for decades to severely damage human chromosomes (genotoxic), cause mutations (mutagenic), and cause birth defects (teratogenic), the effects all of which have now been verified in spades at the population level. Yet any cursory glance at medicinal cannabis advertising paints the picture of the substance as God’s herbal gift to mankind, with miracle cures promised for virtually any malady, making it the 21st century snake oil. Front and centre is the non-psychoactive and ostensibly benign Cannabidiol or CBD which the population studies have demonstrated to be more causal for cancer than any of the other cannabinoids, being causal in 12 cancer types. It is not exempt from birth defects where it is fortunately less implicated than some of the other cannabinoids.
This newly confirmed destruction only adds to the doubled chance of psychosis and schizophrenia, the substantially elevated rates of suicide, violence – including domestic violence – and even homicide, which Alex Berenson’s Tell Your Children documents so well. Add to that the cognitive disorders and a motivational syndrome afflicting our young people and there is no redeeming reason to defend cannabis.
62 per cent of Australians have it prescribed for chronic pain yet a sweeping review of 104 journal studies comprising almost 10,000 medical cannabis patients found that it only competently alleviates pain at the 30 per cent level, making it only useful as an adjunct to other forms of pain relief such as opiates with no adequate effect on its own. Those activists pressing politicians to allow drivers to legally drive 6 hours after using medical cannabis don’t wish to concede that cannabis used with opiates works synergistically, multiplying the levels of cannabis intoxication and thus multiplying the dangers to other drivers and pedestrians.
Our media appears to not want the facts to get in the way of a nice little earner. Since a Taskforce of Australian drug prevention organisations disseminated a media release on the newly verified linkages between cannabis and cancer, a media release that fortunately got airplay in over 100 media outlets, the legacy media there has gone dark on any emerging science since that time. Nothing is found in the media about cannabis being causal in 70 per cent of pediatric cancer types, nor that it prematurely ages a 30-year-old user by 30 per cent. Most alarming of all is that the media won’t mention that the mutations deriving from the mechanism of chromothripsis which causes those cancers and birth defects are genetically or epigenetically passed down to a cannabis user’s children and grandchildren. Cannabis, whether used medicinally or recreationally, does not discriminate.
In 2020 the Australian TGA advertised a willingness to downgrade CBD from prescription-only to ready availability on supermarket shelves. In May of that year, the preventionist organisation Drug Free Australia submitted an 87-page document spelling out the decades-long research on cannabis and its genotoxic, mutagenic, and teratogenic nature. The submission described the chromothripsis mechanism, asserting that CBD was not exempt from the deleterious effects of cannabis use. Written communication was also forwarded from the Australian researchers responsible for the then soon-to-be-published population studies indicating that CBD was more causally implicated than THC in autism and another birth defect gastroschisis. All indicated that CBD was not at all benign. It is my belief that before 2020, a once cautious TGA would have urged more study.
Most Australians wrongly believe that medicinal cannabis is somehow different to recreational cannabis. But every damaging cannabinoid in recreational cannabis is present in medical cannabis preparations, often in an even more concentrated form. The upshot is that this substance will wreak health havoc amongst an unwitting population, as well as coming generations. All the result of unbridled greed and the immorality of powerful financial forces.
