Each year, millions of people are prescribed pharmaceutical drugs for various reasons. Some reasons are psychological, while others are for physical illness. Some people use illegal drugs to treat themselves, such as cannabis which is much safer than most pharmaceutical drugs and has far less side effects to worry about.
Treating Symptoms
Many (or most) of the pills only address the symptoms of the underlying causal illness, that is, they only target the effects and try to reduce how those effects are affecting an individual. Someone who is treated for a temporary mental instability like depression, while take pills to "correct" the effect of a negative emotional state by essentially getting high. Someone with a physical illness will alleviate the problems that the illness manifests as, but they will still have the physical illness.
Deaths
Street drugs account for less deaths than pharmaceutical drugs. But that doesn't stop big pharma from making their dangerous drugs legal.
People are being legally offered dangerous drugs that often lead to their death, either by accident or suicide.
This is such a problem in the USA, that drugs are now the #1 accidental killer.
Prevention with Food
Many diseases are preventable, with proper nutrition and not putting garbage into our bodies. As the old saying goes, garbage in garbage out. What we out into our bodies becomes our bodies. If we put in junk, we become junk in a sense.
The body is pretty amazing. It's constantly at work, and fighting back problems at a biological level. But it can only fight mistreatment at a biological level for so long before it's overwhelmed.
Plants and Fungi as Treatments
Instead of taking pill that make big pharma rich, we have other solutions, like correcting our poor eating habits. We can also work with plant medicines that have potent effects on our bodies, brains and mind. Recent studies have shown how psilocybin in magic mushrooms can help people get over depression, for instance.
One of the safest plants to consume with a great potential for healing, is cannabis. But this plant has been vilified by media and governments for decades. Their is a whole drug war in many Western nations that have criminalized cannabis for decades. This is starting to change in recent years though, thankfully.
It many states, the use of cannabis has resulted in a 25% drop in prescription painkiller deaths.
Safer Relief of Symptoms
The most benefits from cannabis consumption come in the form of ingestion.
Cannabis extracts and cannabis juicing has been shown to help people greatly in various ways. Some people manage to get off their multitude of pharmaceutical drugs that they have been hooked on taking to alleviate various health symptoms, but their cause never gets dealt with. And this costs them a lot to keep putting money into the pockets of big pharma. Cannabis has helped people cure their own cancers while doctors told them it couldn't be done.
Smoking it also has benefits, but smoking anything is not too great for the lungs.
Cannabis can help with many issues, and even if the causes aren't addressed, cannabis can deal with negative symptoms in a safer way because it's not going to produce great negative effects on the body or mind like pharmaceutical drugs will.
Cannabis can help do the following:
- Kill Cancer Cells
- Chronic Pain & Inflammation Reliever
- Reduces & Eliminates Nausea + Vomiting
- Appetite Stimulant
- Treats Mental-Health Conditions
- Improves Creativity
- Anti-Spasmodic
- Provides Relief for Digestive Health Problems
- Anti-oxidant
- Euphoric Effects
Cannabis can't result in an overdose. It's technically safer than peanuts!
In the end, do your own research. Really look into what cannabis can do. Only you can decide what you really want to be putting into your body.
You have to make a choice on how to deal with a health condition if you have one. You have to do your own homework to make an informed decision, but it's your decision. Getting onto a proper nutritious diet is always the best way to try to heal yourself, but cannabis can often help you in safer ways than the medical establishment will try to "help" you with prescription drugs from big pharma.
When you inform yourself on the dangers of legal drugs, you can see that a safer choice exists in cannabis, despite what all the fear-hysteria has been saying for decades. More and more real scientific research is showing how safe and beneficial cannabis can be for those with health issues.
I hope you will choose to learn more if you weren't aware of these issues before, and make a better informed choice the next time a doctor tries to give you a potentially harmful drug to treat the symptoms of an illness.
As I said earlier, always look try to improve your health with proper eating habits. This means to eat plants. Plants are what heal. Plants are amazing. There is a field of medicine called herbal medicine for a reason. Learn how to eat well and thrive on a plant diet to reverse many illnesses, such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and more. Go do some research and learn what is really the proper source of food for humans to eat.
If you need some relief from health issues, and want to get rid of negative symptoms that come from unaddressed underlying causes, then please consider cannabis as a potential source of short-term remedy while you figure out how to heal yourself with food and better physical fitness.
Remember, you are the authority of your body, and you get to decide what you can or can't put into your body: for better or worse. Hopefully, you choose to put only healthy things into your body. Many doctors know nothing of nutrition or how to heal with food. And most certainly don't promote the use of cannabis over their conditioning in school to prescribe drugs.
What do you think? Have your say!
- Do you consider cannabis safer than the drugs big pharma creates (in general)?
- Have you used plant substances like cannabis or psilocybin to heal from an ailment?
- Would you use plants -- either 'illegal' ones or regular food plants -- to heal your body if you were ill?
- How many times have you gone to a doctor and they started to prescribe you something almost without even thinking more or seeming to care much at all?
- Have you ever been prescribed something that didn't help you at all, or even made your overall health condition worse?
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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