About Cannabis and Cancer (2019) - full transcript

* And then you gotta adjust your
sound for this voice,

I'll tell you that right now.

My name is Michael Lynch.
I am a 67 year old man, retired,

mechanic, arbitration manager
of automotive auctions.

I'm married. I have three
children and four grandchildren.

My name is Charles Ray Mason,
I go by Ray.

I met Eddie probably in 2016, 2017.

All of this happened
in my search to address

a new diagnosis of
multiple myeloma cancer.

My name is Eddie Funxta.

I was an all-around neighborhood
thug having fun in the ghettos
Cannabis Advocate



that wanted to wait
an access out of it.

At the time proposition
215 came on the ballot

and that's kind of been my
entire drive since then,

I'm kind of a plant guy.

Cannabis is one of my very loving plants
that I've done a lot of work with,

all the seeds, all the plants,
everything in general. I'm

pretty much a street botanist.

My name's Ken Olson.
I'm 41 years old. I'm
Lost wife to cancer

a father of four.

I do that as a team now
actually with somebody else,

not with my original partner.

A lot of cancer in my family,
a lot of cancer.

My grandmother died of pancreatic
cancer; my grandfather, colon cancer;

an aunt, lung cancer;
another aunt, brain cancer;



another aunt, breast cancer...

My brother had thyroid cancer.
My mother, she had

ovarian cancer that
she was treated for

and she went through
a surgery and chemo.

I was a young teen mom. I had
a daughter at 14 years old. And

I realized at that age that,
if I smoked weed,

that my anxieties of
being a mom went away...

and I was a better mom.

And I know that at that
time and it was very taboo.

You're not even supposed
to be smoking it, period.

I honestly was struggling because I
had nobody in my peer group to talk to,

nobody had kids, it was me.

Started in the early 90's,
around 91.

It was the first time I
ever smoked a joint...

A friend of ours, some girl I liked,
I thought she was nice, pretty.

She pulled out a joint, I took a hit
of it, didn't do really much to me.

A couple years later, when I
became a freshman in high school,

I hit a bong for the first
time and it really put me in a

very unusual space. And I didn't
know if I liked it or if I didn't,

I just knew that I took
too much at the first time.

So, I was kind of
on the fence about it.

So, I felt alone and...

smoking weed put me in a place where
I could actually calm myself down

and get on my child's
level in such a way

I've never been able to
do with anything. And

I was just, honestly, a better mom,
more in tune with her and

had a great time and it just...
I didn't have to take anything

over the counter or prescription-wise
that probably would have damaged me.

I was a very bad kid in school.
I lived in the projects and so,

I was used to... I was totally
against authority, teachers,

cops, everything.

One of my teachers was like:
hey, Eddie...

My history teacher, she's like:
you seem like a good kid and

I don't want you to fail this class,
you've been failing

all your classes for years and,
you know, I think you have potential.

And she said: if you go to
the register's office and

just do anything with any of
the ballots, get signatures,

go door-to-door, make phone calls,
I'll pass you in this class,

get a piece of paper.
I said: Okay, cool.

So, I go down to the
register's office...

Medical marijuana,
they needed signatures.

So I said: yeah, I'll do this.
It's very cool.

So, they stood me up at
my local grocery store

and I got signatures. I was
17 years old, the law passed.

I passed my class, you know, it was
amazing. I got a C in that class.

And so, this whole wheels
just started turning about,

what this movement was.
First, it was

a couple of friends of
mine getting cannabis cards

and not getting in trouble running
around with a couple of pounds of weed.

And that made a lot of
sense to me at the time.

I didn't feel like it was a bad thing
and the projects where I was at,

people were selling crack cocaine,
people were selling heroin

and methamphetamine and those drugs were
terribly ravaging the neighborhood and

causing huge disruptions
in families...

My stepfather was addicted to heroin,
slamming heroin with

needles and stuff. And so,
I was very, very immersed in

the terrible culture of drugs.

I wanted a way out and one
thing I couldn't figure out was

how to get out. We didn't
have many opportunities there.

The schools that we went to, there's
not a lot of counseling services

or any positive drives. So, you had this
two influences in my face at school.

I had these people that were
thuggish, running rough,

had no positive drive in their life.
And

then I had these kids that were getting
tremendous support from their family

and going to college and
learning things. And so,

I was never against, you know,
doing better in life and so,

I started realizing like...
I used to tell my friends like:

hey guys, you guys are selling,
you know, weed and

drugs and stuff to each other.

Nobody's gonna ever get better than
who you're getting your stuff from

and we're only selling stuff to
each other here on these projects.

We're only going to live in the
next project apartment over.

We're never going to
leave the projects.

We have to learn how to get
money from those people up there,

that have money every week,
they get a paycheck, they get...

What drives them, what
influences them and not drugs,

like: can we do art,
can we make music?

I became a musician,
I was an artist for years...

And those people kind of directed
me and pulled me out of the projects

and they showed me other...
I got to see other things.

Those people were still
very much into cannabis.

And one of the things that I was
very successfully blessed with

was an access to a very,
very good quality cannabis.

When the medical cards came in,

I just felt like it was time
to get one. So, I got one

and it was mostly just for protect
me from growing weed, so I can

provide for my sons.

I started to meet patients, started
to meet people and... it made sense.

I am an ER doctor who has
segued into cannabis work

and still work in the
emergency department.

I work with patients with
cannabis only in the office

at the Relief Institute here
in Santa Monica, California.

So, I started all of this about
three or four years ago, when my...

two very close family members
were diagnosed with cancer.

Both of them were
at different stages:

one had breast cancer and was young,
relatively young, a 40 year old woman.

And one was older,
in his 60's or 70's

and was diagnosed with
esophageal cancer.

Both of them were recommended
by their physicians

to start using cannabis products.
Both their oncologists say:

you should probably
smoke pot and it'll help.

And that was the end
of the conversation.

And so, when I went in and discussed
all of this with the oncologist,

the same question keep coming up.
Well,

what are they supposed to do?
How are they supposed to do it?

How often are they
supposed to use it?

What is it good for?
What is it not good for?

What should we look out for?
You know, we don't want her to be

high all day because she's
got little kids around.

How do we do this better?
And what ended up happening,

which we know (?) happens for a lot
of individuals is we went into a

"pot shop" and talked
to a bud tender who

sometimes gave us good advice and
sometimes didn't give us good advice.

And so, for the 40 year old female,
she did really well

and kind of figured it out.
For the 70 year old male, he didn't.

And that was where I thought
if something's so good

is being touted by so many
people as being helpful,

especially in terms
of cancer control

or cancer symptomatic
treatment control,

then why is it that we're
not able to do this better?

And why is it that the
physician group, you know,

the medical clinical world, is
turning their backs on these patients?

And that was what prompted me to
make a change in my personal career

and my path in
understanding all of this.

When I was a sophomore in high
school, a good friend of mine

got abdominal cancer. And his
mom used to come to the projects

and buy an ounce of weed
from us every week. And we

had a talk with her one time.
We said: why are you buying him weed?

* He doesn't even like to smoke weed.
She was, his cousin came over

and his cousin or my friend Forrest,
rest his soul, it's been many years,

he liked to drink. And so, his cousin
came, he's like, man, I don't drink

liquor, I want to smoke a joint
with you. And Forrest was like,

man, I can't smoke, you know.
I got cancer, I'm dying. He's like,

that's why you should smoke some weed.
So, he give Forrest a hit,

Forrest got an appetite, start feeling
better and his mom recognized this thing.

She came to us in the projects
and started buying him weed.

It still didn't resonate with me yet.
These are the things

that were making sense to me of
cannabis and how it helps people.

She was 37 years old and...

She had been complaining like,
about...

headaches for a couple years and...

starting to get lumps in
her throat and stuff and

went to doctors over
and over and over and

every single one of them biopsies her
and everything and everything was fine.

That's when I got the call
that she was in the hospital...

and I rushed down and... told her that
everything was going to be cool...

I actually I talked to Eddie
before I ever made it home to her.

The movement just kept
thrusting me into this.

I meet a person with cancer and
it was almost the same story.

He was like, I don't really
smoke weed, I never really did,

but the doctor suggested
I seek cannabis.

And so, I was like, okay, cool, I can
get you some cannabis. Here, some weed.

So, we give him some weed and then
he introduced me to somebody else

and the door just started rolling.
I had flower, I had weed,

I was growing weed, I was facilitating
cannabis to these patients.

We call them patients,
unfortunately,

because that's how they
recognize themselves.

So, I started going into the homes,
I started going to houses and

hospitals and people were just
asking me if I could bring weed.

And I was like, sure, I'll bring
weed and see if this (?) happens.

A drastic change one day is
when I went to the hospital

and one of these people...
this is early 2000's...

they asked me to come
help their loved one.

So, I go into the hospital and I
bring in a joint and I get ready to

pull the joint out, getting ready and
the guy barely alive and he's like,

no, no, what are you doing.
Everybody in the hospital rooms,

what are you doing?
You're gonna blow up this hospital!

There's oxygen in this room. And I
was like, what are you talking about?

We breathe oxygen all the time. And
they're like, hey, stupid from the ghetto,

you need to learn something if
you're going to come in here

and try to help these people.

He can't even breathe,
he's out of breath in a respirator.

How are you going to give him weed?

How are you gonna give him this?
And it didn't make...

And I was lost. I was completely
sitting there in a world of failure.

And instead of,
you know, running and

dealing with people
that only wanted joints,

I just expanded my thoughts
and started figuring out things

and exploring and diving into other
utilizations of cannabis besides a joint.

I felt like a joint and a bong was,
you know, what a lot of people

were attacking and going after.
They didn't like the hippie culture

of smoking a joint. They don't like
the glass culture for making bongs.

And so, it's... it made sense
to me of like, okay, well,

if I'm gonna help these sick people,
maybe I need to stop

coming in there with joints.
So, we learned how to make tinctures

and we started making tinctures.
And then I started going to hospitals

* and I started giving these
droppers in the people's tongues.

And some, a lot of them were getting
better and starting to feel better.

And so, this is the early
2000's and 2000, 2001.

There's no information. There was no ???
University, there's no internet...

* I mean, there was internet, but it was
really scarce and farce information

to find anything that was positive.
I just kind of felt that

people needed it and the movement of
the medicine was more important than

the people that are the movement,
you know.

The movement's going to be
there, whether I'm here or not,

and we learned that with
Jack Herer and Dennis Barone.

They're gone and the movement
is still very strong.

And so, I just learned that
putting the plant on the pedestal

and running with that
pedestal of the plants

is what the benefit of all this is.
And creating these products

and listening to the people
and respecting the plant,

the information will
just fall into your hands

to the point to where we started
creating water hash, bubble hash and

we started making
concentrates and learning

what is these products doing to
people when we're using them.

Coming all the way down to the line
where we started creating suppositories

for liver cancer patients that were...
had no accident. They couldn't

eat and take anything orally,
they couldn't smoke, they couldn't eat.

And how could you give them an edible?
How could you give them a tincture?

That stuff doesn't work.
We have to utilize...

We have to get cannabis into
people because we know it heals.

And so, we started
creating suppositories and

giving these to thousands of people.
I've helped over 2,600 people pass.

And that's what I thought
medical marijuana was

at the beginning of my years.
I thought it was helping dying people.

I was going to the hospice,
going to home care.

I was doing these things and I was
watching these people pass away.

She was originally
diagnosed with lung cancer

that had metastasized to the brain.

By the time we saw any
pictures of any of it,

before any treatment was
started with the cannabis,

she already had eight
lesions in the brain.

We started the treatments
and within 30 days

we got her up to a full gram,
which...

it was probably a little bit less than
that actually because I remember thinking,

wow, you know, we got her
to a place where normally

people take a month plus
to get to that point,

so that they don't just end up in a
comatose state and sleeping all the time.

And she definitely was tired,
but she didn't sleep all the time

and her body started healing and
reacting very well to the medicine.

We went in for a scan and
she actually had gone down

to three lesions on the brain
and we were completely excited.

We went and had to go for a
doctor's appointment and we went in.

We actually sat first with
the doctor's assistant

and when she saw the results,
she was ecstatic with us

and happy and she
actually condoned and

asked for us to persist
in the cannabis treatment,

where her own boss didn't agree with it.
And all he would say is, you know,

this is, you know, it's not
going to do anything for her.

And even when he saw the scans having
five less lesions in the brain,

he continued with the negativity
and really just pulling her down.

So, she went from a place of being
positive and actually healing

to pull right back down to this
place of negative frequency,

just hopelessness, instead of
knowing when she, literally,

she knew it that she was healing.
And she told people about it,

she was excited and... How on Earth could
you put something like that out there

and to bring upon her your
hopelessness of the situation?

Again, I really feel that,
at the end of the day,

when Danielle finally
succumbed to the cancer,

it was because she got to a point
where she no longer believed.

My mom was diagnosed
with brain cancer

many years after she had gone
through the ovarian cancer.

And when they found it, she had two
different tumors in her brain and

they sent her home on hospice.

I got asked to come to this home and I
walk in the house and there's hospice.

There's a couch here in the living room,
there's a bed in the living room

and the gentleman's in the bed. And

this gentleman was very alive
when I walked in that door.

And he told me his military status,
this whole veteran...

this whole long list of what
he's done in the military.

And then he asked what
was I doing there.

And I told him I was called
to come and help you.

At the time, I had
dreadlocks almost in my butt.

And so, he was like, who are you.
I was like, well,

I was asked to come and help you.
Because you don't look like a doctor,

you're not a doctor.
And his daughter goes,

Dad, I asked this gentleman
to come here to help you.

* He ???: is he bringing that
weed stuff? I told you

I'm not taking that weed stuff,
not in my house, not on my clock,

not on my time. And she's
like, Dad, this is my home.

You're here, I want to help you, I love
you. And he's like, I'm not taking this.

Three hours later, he was dead.
She's sitting, I'm in this house.

This gentleman is laying there dead
on the couch, dead on in his thing.

And his daughter and his
two sons are sitting there,

watching this in a room
of complete silence.

Death is a heavy feeling in a room.

I spark a joint. I lift the
joint, I took a couple of hits

and I passed it to the daughter.
And the daughter said: I can't do this,

* I'm a teacher. I can't weed (?).

I said: you asked me to come
and give this to your father.

I couldn't have done anything.
Even he would have took a hit,

he wouldn't have been alive
right now, he was too far gone.

You know what this is for?
Right there, in that moment,

it realized to me what
cannabis was important for:

it's for the people living right
now that want to stay alive,

the people that need to be alive,
the people that have jobs,

have family, have friends,
have motivation, inspirations.

People that want to go in the garden,
people that want to paint cars,

people that want to, you know,
go play golf or miniature golf,

or people that want to go sit down
and have a meal with their friends

and family and laugh and joke,
that's what cannabis is for.

It wasn't for this
debilitating disorder

* where people are dying in
their last ??? and,

hopefully, we can give another 10
minutes, so we can wait for Billy Bob

* to come in and give him a hug. Death,
I've watched that so many times over

and I've watched families
completely disintegrate after death.

I've watched people fight over
where did he bury the money,

did he tell you where
he has the money,

did she tell you where
the trust funds are.

* ??? people have (?) really cared about.
And so, in that, I just learned that

it's the living people
right now that are trying to

understand purpose for their life,
have a good night's rest,

not be anxietal,
depressed, full road rage.

That's what's most
important about cannabis,

it's all day moments,
everyday things. It's not PTSD

and there's no such thing as PTSD.
Post-traumatic stress disorder?

No, it's PTLD and every human
being on this Earth has it.

It's post-traumatic life disorder
and we're all suffering from it.

* And one thing I've learned that have
happened to almost 3,000 people passed away,

we're all terminal,
nobody's making it out alive.

And we all need to just be
appreciative of ourselves

as the moments that we're here and
being okay with right here, right now.

And if right here, right now, I interact
with somebody that is in chemotherapy,

going to radiation or has AIDS or
some other disabilitating disorder,

and I give them size of
a grain of rice of this

and I tell them to take
it when they go to bed.

You don't take it in the afternoon.
You've never smoked cannabis

in your entire life. I don't tell
you to take this in the morning,

when you wake up with your
cup of joe. No, I don't.

I take this at night
before I go to bed.

Take the effects while
you sleep through it.

Don't get excited, don't freak out,
don't have a conversation with yourself,

feeling like you're in a
psychedelic experience.

Go to sleep, take it, go to bed.
You can get a full night's rest

and 99.9999%, the nines keep going,
every single person I interact with,

* the first thing they tell me is they
don't have a full night's of rest.

Cuz the first thing this
thing does is recharge the body

and give you full rest. As soon as
your body gets to rest in recovery,

your body can start healing.
Most people, I tell them,

you go to bed, let's say, 10 o'clock
at night, by one in the morning,

I don't care who you are,
you could be in a dead sleep,

your eyes open up, you wake
up and the rest of the time

until your alarm goes off,
you're tossing and turning

and trying to figure out
how to get back to sleep

and fall back asleep five minutes
before alarm goes back off.

Rick Simpson Oil (RSO)
An unrefined, potent cannabis oil

using ethanol and named after the man who
created it and first benefited from it.

Canadian Rick Simpson claims
he cured his own skin cancer

with a custom blend
of cannabis oil,

which has come to be known
as Rick Simpson Oil (RSO)

or Phoenix Tears (the name
of Rick Simpson's website).

Since then, he has touted the
benefits of medical marijuana

and used to give away
his oil for free.

* Friends of mine ??? and various things

'till they told me about Eddie
and I got on the internet

and I researched him, I found him,
I messaged him, I met him

and he started taking care of me
with his RSO, which, you know,

he put this stuff in a capsule,
you take it

and you go to sleep, you sleep
like a rock. It's amazing.

Everything I researched
made me understand that

if I didn't change my
diet and try to find

something that was going to help me
eliminate all the pain that I was in,

that I wouldn't be here much longer

because it became too unbearable
to just get up and go to a job.

In that process, my doctors
told me that there was...

pain clinic and there was
go see a counselor or

* employ assistant
counseling that talk about

all of this that's going on and...

just one medication after the next.
And one day,

I looked up and I had like
17 different medications and

I just wanted to do
something different.

My first experience with helping
somebody other than myself

was my mother. She was diagnosed
with cancer in October of 2016.

I actually had told her instead of taking
sleeping pills and things like that,

I was offering her smoke weed,
because that was what I knew to do.

But when she was diagnosed with
cancer, I was kind of at a loss.

I knew that from experience
of watching other people

going through cancer that
chemotherapy was destructive and

very, very sad and harsh and...
But, when she was diagnosed,

we didn't know exactly
the extent of it and then,

a couple weeks later, found
out that she was probably...

she was terminal by then already.
They gave her, like,

three and a half months to live.
I had basically decided within me

that I didn't want her to go
through with the treatments,

but, if that's what she
wanted to try to do as far as

what western medicine
was telling her, fine,

but I was asking her to try cannabis
as well. And then she was: but how?

How much? What do I take?
And I said: I don't know.

I basically didn't know.
I just went out to a dispensary

and was, like: hey, my mom's
dying and I come here every week,

five times a week to
buy my own weed smoke.

You guys have anything
that my mom could take,

that would help her live or
at least like feel better? And

they couldn't answer anything,
nobody knew anything.

Well, we have this and
we have that and...

This is $ 90 dollars and this is $ 150.
I'm like: it's $ 150 stuff stronger,

better, make her better faster?
No. Well, we don't know.

How much do I give to her?
I'm not sure.

And then CBD was the cure-all too,
that was the other thing.

You just need to give her lots of CBD.
And I'm like: well, how much?

What form, you know?
Do I rub it on her body,

do I put it in her mouth? Like,
what exactly do I do? And it was...

it was scary, because they
were willing to take my money,

but they weren't willing
to tell me what to do

with this thing they were
giving me for my money.

They do believe, in some of
the studies, they say that

smoking a joint, when it
gets into medicinal aspects,

you're getting anywhere between
12 to 16% cannabinoid absorption.

The endocannabinoid system
is complementary to cannabis,

which is why it got named as,
partially, endocannabinoid system.

Cannabis, in and of itself, is hundreds
and hundreds of different chemicals

that we are now
starting to pick apart

and take a look at on
a much deeper level.

So, you're smoking a joint,
some of the best weed there is and

you're still, even
though you're 100% stoned

and 100% medicated or high,
you're only getting up to 16%

of cannabinoid absorption in your
body. If that's trying to kill cancer,

that's not going to do anything when
people take up to 1,000 milligrams

of concentrated oil to battle the
cancers. So, that's smoking it.

Then, there's topicals.
Topicals come in there also

and you get anywhere from,
they believe,

a 16 to 24% absorption
with topicals.

Edibles, they believe,
you get a 40 to 52% absorption.

Rectally, you get from
86 to 91% absorption.

But when you get into
suppositories, you can't just

make it like you make ganja butter,
you have to use a refined oil

which has has to be broken
down in certain ways.

This is a full plant extract, meaning
that we cut the whole plant down,

we soak the whole plant in a
solvent and, whatever's made,

whatever's left after we remove
the solvent, is the pure product.

We keep it at certain
volatile heat levels,

so it doesn't burn off
certain properties.

And that's what the
entourage effect is.

Nowadays, with all the legalization
going on the vape carts,

that's called distillate.
And so, distillate is actually

a step after you make the NHO, RSO.

The full plant extraction
oil is in a solvent.

And then you take that solvent and,
what I do is I just remove the solvent

and what I have left is my product.

What other people do is,
once they remove the solvent,

they take this product, they put it
into a machine they call it a mantle,

they heat that up with vacuum
pressure steam and cold air

and they collect what's
called distillate.

And that's an isolation of THC.
You are now burning off

all the entourage components,
everything is gone now

and all you're removing is the THC.

And so, that's what everybody's using
in the vape cartridges and stuff

which I believe is a generic high.
I've had no medical benefits

of anybody feeling any better with them,
unless they're having headaches,

need a quick appetite boost or

a recreational setting where
they just want to smoke

something real quick and move on.
But when it came to all around healing,

you have to internally eat it,
you have to ingest it.

And I've stayed away from
making edibles and stuff

because a lot of it had
sugars and preservatives.

And those are the
things that were...

preservatives were preserving
the cancers and all the anomalies

and the sugars were just feeding
the cancers in the anomalies.

And so, I just figured,
instead of me making edibles,

I should create a pure
concentrate oil that, if you take

a very, very tiny amount,
it goes a long way.

So, instead of you having to have
medicated brownies or medicated cookie,

I am now medicated.
Whatever I eat is medicated now.

I can have medicated lasagna,
I can have medicated burritos,

I can have medicated tortilla chips,
I can have medicated salsa

because I am medicated.
So, I am the standard.

I don't need all these other
outside anomalies messing with me,

especially when you have
diabetic patients or people

that are on strict diets, they just
need to take a piriform of the oil.

And I feel like that's
the best way to do it,

instead of using all these
extra stuff that just cause,

you know, food allergy problems or,
you know,

I have people that are
making the oil now and

putting all kinds of essential oils in
it and, no, it just needs to be the oil.

Just stick to the plant. It comes to
their face like they're designers again.

And the plant has been healing for
thousands of years without our effort.

It's going to be here on this Earth for
thousands of years after we're gone.

I've been using this
medicine for years

because I was addicted to
opiates after I broke my back

and they told me I
had stomach cancer.

And so, I went after
all these things myself

because I didn't
believe in their lies.

I didn't believe in the tools
that they're going to show me,

that I watched so many people
lose their hair, lose their teeth,

get their throats burnt out. They
call it, they call it burning in chemo

and radiation when they
actually zap the wrong part

and you get these burn blisters and

I've helped people with agent
orange issues, to AIDS, dementia...

ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease,
the list can go on forever.

But, at the end of the day,
it's poor diet, negative efforts

and negative community
around people.

And once you give them a
positive good night's rest

and you get rid of all those ailments,
they wake up the next day,

they eat better, they want to do
things and have fun with their life.

I had to go... do my own research.

I saw people in my surrounding...
There's a group on Facebook

called: I love San Bernardino. And I
live in the city of San Bernardino.

And I was like, well,
why not reach out to the community

and see if there's people within
my community that can help me

or know somebody who
might be able to help me.

And that's exactly what I did.
I said my mom's really ill.

I have all these things that
they gave me at the dispensary

and I don't know
what to do with them.

Can somebody send me an
angel who can just say:

this is how much you give them or

this is how much she shouldn't take
or don't give her that, you know?

Somebody just give me
some information and

a gentleman by the name of
Robert Porter, he was like,

I know somebody.
He doesn't live here right now,

but he... I'm gonna
contact him, he's in town

and I'm going to talk to him about
what's going on in your situation

and he might be able to help you.
And I was like, thank you.

Anything's better than nothing.
Within a few days,

he said he had spoken to
Eddie and he said that

I told him about your mom
and he gave me some medicine

and you're gonna give it.
And on the back of this package,

it says how to administer it to
your mom and I was just like, what?

Wait. What!? Okay, crazy.
Okay, cool, you know.

And I was excited because like,
I was like, I got an answer!

It's not the answer, but it's an
answer and I might be able to help her.

Within 15 minutes of administering
the medicine to my mom,

she was... she was happy and my
one and a half year old niece

was able to interact with her and

it didn't make my mom sad or
in pain, because she was just

in complete... she was like... And
then she pulled me aside and was like,

cannabis is what's gonna cure people,
Amethyst, don't forget that.

Because she could feel it.
She told me, when you give me...

I was giving her Dilaudid
on every four hours.

And then I was giving her fentanyl
patch, and I was giving her

so many, so many medications.
And I'd put those things on her

and I watched her go
from chill to just

watch her feel like she's,
like, scared.

Mom, are you okay?
No, I feel not okay.

I don't want to die.
I don't want to die. I'm like,

mom, you're not gonna die. I'm
just making you feel out of pain.

No, that's not what I feel, though.

I feel out of pain,
but I feel like I'm dying.

And she said with cannabis it
brought life back into her.

And so, for me, that right
there was all I needed to know.

Like, I knew my mom
wasn't going to live,

but I knew that she had life in
her before she died, so she was...

she was better than if she
was on opiates. And so,

that was probably the best
healing for us as a family,

because she didn't want to leave us
in turmoil and hurt, in having a void.

And she wasn't. When she left,
we were all there with her

and she... we knew she went well,
because she was in a state of mind

where we knew she was okay.

This isn't an isolate. I don't
take it and just take THC out.

No, we've learned that the
entourage effect of this,

all the constituents in the plant is
what benefits the body. Our body has...

It's a whole unit of
symbiotic relationships

and cannabis is like the conductor.

In the meantime, I've also
had a chronic pain problem.

I have a bone spur on
my lower vertebrae.

I had been on Gabapentin,
Vicodin, Flexeril...

I had a nerve stimulator
that I wore on my back.

Well, now, I had these edibles
that I'm making for other people

and I thought, well, you know,
I'm going to give it a try.

First, I went off the Flexeril...

I had already gone
off the Gabapentin.

It's like I'm sleeping
good at night.

And it was... I never went after this
for myself, it was all about cancer.

I wasn't trying to help
myself, but... it's helped me.

It made me remember everything I
ever wanted to do since I was young.

I always told my mom: I don't know
what I want to be when I grow up,

but I want to help people.
And, therefore, I was like,

okay, so she's basically explaining
to me that I need to inform people,

just inform them,
give them some knowledge

and if they take it and they run with it,
great. If they don't, then they don't.

Okay, before I met Eddie,
I panicked.

After I met Eddie,
I got a little... better

because now I'm applying this
native healing oil to my gums and

I'm doing baked goods,
doing other products

that started relieving the
pain in the back, you know.

And I'm like, okay,
I might have something here.

That gave me hope, man.

Eddie had reached out to me and said:
because I take the medicine myself.

My wife passed away two weeks after
my mom passed away in an accident...

a block up the street from my home
and it put me in a depressed state,

where I couldn't sleep.
I started taking the medicine myself

because he told me: you need to
take this so you can sleep and...

it'll give you the right
kind of sleep and it'll help.

With that, I was able to take
the medicine and find out like,

you know what,
this is what I want to do,

I want to help people that are
like me... and like my mom.

And so, what I started to do is
I talked to him and he told me:

I have this medicine and
it's available to people,

but people don't know about it.
So, what I did is I would

take his pamphlet and I would
see people that needed the help

and I would explain
to them how this helps

and this is who you
need to contact.

Now, to get on to somebody
that was really helped by this,

my husband,
he had quit work years ago.

He had a mental breakdown, he's
been diabetic since he was a kid,

bad arthritis, he's
had a few heart attacks

and he was diagnosed with dementia.

I didn't even think to give him
any of the edibles and stuff

that I was working with or any of
this oil, even though I thought,

you know, I thought this really is
a tool that everybody should have

if they want it,
if it's going to help them.

But I didn't think about it helping him,
because he's already confused,

you know, I'm not going
to make it worse...

I forgot to order his
sleeping medication and

the doctor was just getting
ready to put him on...

it's the step just before hospice,
because I told her, I said

I am just overwhelmed, I said I cannot
take care of him the way I need to

and take care of my grandson
who I had and the grandbaby that

my daughter had and I was
just totally overwhelmed...

And she says, well, we're going
to put them on a pre-hospice

and get you some more help. Well,
I ran out of sleeping pills for him

and I was... he's just like, frantic:
I'm not gonna sleep, I'm not gonna sleep.

So, I gave him a cookie.
I said, here, have this.

The next morning, he woke up
and he said he slept so good

and that he felt so good that
he wanted to try that again.

Well, now he's totally off of Trazodone,
he's off most of his psych meds,

he was on Prednisone every day

for the horrible pain of
arthritis in his joints...

He can't lift his arms up
because his shoulders are frozen.

Oh, God, he's fallen and broken his
hip, you know, he's just a mess.

He is off Prednisone completely
for the first time in years,

his diabetes is way better controlled
and his mind is working again.

He takes care of all his own doctors
appointments, all his prescriptions...

he's picked up chores back in the
house again, he does the dishes,

he does the laundry... Yeah,
he doesn't, he's not real good about

separating the whites out,
you know, but he...

converses like a normal person, he
remembers where we're going tomorrow...

This was his miracle and
my miracle, this was it,

to be afraid to give it to him
because I thought it would make him

more confused when he
already had dementia

and to have it be what has
helped his mind recover,

because he's not on all
those toxic drugs anymore...

I just... I think it's a tool that we
should all be able to use if we need it.

It should just be available to us.

I think it's a damn shame
that the government has

done things the way they have, when

they really need to be helping
people, not hurting people

and not denying in
what can help them.

I watch cancer with double
mastectomies in my family

and I have watched throats
and voice boxes come out.

What am I going to do now,
you know? So,

I just got serious about
being anti-chemo...

And once I went and got on YouTube,
my world changed.

You know, Ray is like a ray of
sunshine for all his friends and...

I mean, he'd walk
through the hospital and

just seeing him would make
people smile. And for me,

to lose this ray of sunshine to
cancer was just horrible and I said,

whoa, Ray, Ray, I said I'm
gonna look some stuff up.

I said, you want to try this oil,

I printed up a bunch of
stuff for him to look at...

I said, let's go get cards,
let's go find this oil.

We went from store to store and
we couldn't find this stuff.

We couldn't find it at all.
We saw lots of...

lots of just marijuana bud and...

all kinds of different products
and some edibles and stuff, but

we just couldn't find it. And so,

I told Ray, I said, well,
I said I'll make it.

I suggest you grow
your medicine yourself.

I suggest that you
make this yourself,

you don't need anybody's help.
I'm no better than you,

you're no better than me,
we're all one.

This medicine does show us that
we all come from the same root

and we all thrive in the same stock
and we all have different leaves.

Just grow, you have to grow

and you have to not let anybody
be in control of you.

And if you like... Rick
Simpson's told me to my face:

a lot of people are
brainwashed by the white coat,

be careful what the doctors tell you,
they're selling a profitable industry.

We want you to learn how to grow this
in your backyard using only water

and making this medicine after
four months of growing it.

And you should be able to make
enough to hold you over for a year,

as long as you don't have
a terminally ill situation.

And if you do, maybe your friends
will want to grow some weed for you.

It's pretty fun to do.

You know, they have...
with the marijuana oil, the extract,

they have... Rick Simpson shows
a thing on how to make it.

But, of course, then you have
to get the product to make it.

And, you know, you want to make
sure your product is good product.

But I did. I found...
I found product, Ray bought it,

I made the oil and got
him started on this.

Before the diagnosis,
I was enduring the pain

and just taking the prescriptions.

* It was trying to think my
way through all of this and

* ??? getting so overwhelmed
with so much information

would always had my head spinning.

I was going a bad path and that's where
I had to really change my life at,

you know. Even going into this
avenue where I started using

all these wonderful products
that Eddie had to offer with

the native healing oil, you know,
working out all the time and...

I was killing my stomach because I
was coming up with hemorrhoids and

taking all kinds of supplements
and not knowing how to

flush my body properly and
just one thing after the next.

I was becoming a detriment to my own
self because I was trying so hard,

but this got me on a path
to slow it down a little bit

because it gave me some hope.

I would say within the first 30 days
is when I actually started seeing it.

And I've been going to the skin
doctors and having surgery done.

I have a cream at home,
it's a jar like this

that I put on my arms
every night twice a day,

once in the morning,
once at night and it peels my skin,

so we can peel the
layers of the cancer off.

I have not used that
since I met RSO.

I still have that jar, that $ 30 jar
stuff that I don't use anymore because...

I just make a pill of this and I
take it and it takes care of me.

And that's what I like about it.

I've been making my own
seeds and my own plants

because I do believe the diversity
of this oil is what actually...

does the success of the oil.
You can't just make OG kush

or sour diesel oil and
expect to cure everything

because cancer is a very,
very smart organism.

And what that thing does is figure out
what we do and how it can live off of it.

So, if you can constantly
change what's killing it,

it'll never figure out the
combination on how to kill you.

And I figure that that's what I
believe and that's what I push in

and you have to have an
allotment of diverse genetics

and you have to
understand growing and

quality proper medicine,
without pesticides and without

other things that are
going to cause problems

that people do to grow
weed in their backyard and

some of these big companies
do it in their warehouses too,

they spray crazy stuff
on those plants too.

There's a lot of different
modalities of administration,

just like we have with regular
pharmaceutical prescriptions.

You can use an oral pill, you can
use oral pill, a spray in the mouth,

you can use something that's been mixed
in with food, also known as an edible,

you can use the classic flower
smoking in a joint or in...

you can vape in a cartridge,
you don't have to vape oil.

Right now, that's, unfortunately,
not the route we're recommending

until we figure out what's going
on in this day and age of vaping

lung deaths and lung incidents.

We have a few ways we can do this.

I mostly suggest that people
put it into a capsule.

They sell capsules at your health
food stores and stuff like that. And

they separate themselves and I tell
people about the size of a grain of rice

into the capsule and take the capsule.
You can take a pill anywhere,

nobody has a problem
pills going anywhere.

You take the capsule,
it's more like a time release,

takes up to 40 minutes before it
actually releases in your stomach.

And now you have the duration of six...
four to eight hours of relief

or you can pull it off, put it on your
finger, eat it right off your tongue.

And the onset of that is minutes,
two to three minutes.

You're feeling warm in your body
and it's a quick onset of relief,

but it's also...
it doesn't have a long duration.

You only get about 2 two hours, an
hour and a half to two hours of relief.

So, I just recommend people
that are really going,

that need a lot of help with chronic
pain, debilitating disorders,

put it in a capsule and ingest it,
take it.

If you're having a really bad
problem, take the capsule,

put some on your finger, take that
too. You get the immediate relief

and, when that starts to wear off,
it's barely kicking in with

what you took in your gut.
And I do believe that

your stomach is your first brain,

* you have to eat it,
get it into your first brain,

it makes sense to the
one that we think with

because this is the one
that's into... it's intuition.

And that knows that you're
feeling good, it knows that

the healing has been put in you.
And it's way different than your mind.

Your mind is thinking about:
oh, man, you know,

my mom better not know I'm stoned,
my boss better not know

I took a little bit of medicine, oh...
that's your mind.

If it's your gut, it's like,
thank you, we need this,

it releases what's stuck inside of
you and it gives you enlightenment.

Yeah, so, CBD. We learned about
CBD around 2008, I believe,

2008, 2009.
Good friend of mine, Ed Borg,

out of Delta-9 Labs, in Amsterdam,
was creating genetics

and came up with a plant
called catatonic and

we didn't understand what was
really going on with it at first,

because nobody was
really getting high.

And then we figured out CBD. So,
we're like, oh, wow, this thing is like,

it's not getting us higher, but,
you know, people's pain is going away,

so this is interesting.
So, that's when

the cannabis industry,
if you want to call it,

* would call it a community at the time,
2008. We're still a community, because

* when they figure this things out,
they access some of us

to work with these genetics, so we're
able to get some of these genetics

and actually experimenting
with them with people.

And so, when you take a look
at each one of these chemicals,

we're starting to see the
body respond differently

and it's this balance that
we're looking at now, to see

when could something be lacking.

So, when could it be that
our body is lacking in CBD?

There's a lot of theories out right now
floating around about autism and CBD

and seeing what part of this
spectrum can we match up.

For years, we've known that autism
is a diagnosis that we've had around.

And for years, we haven't been able
to figure out how to treat autism.

And part of it is is
because we don't understand

the chemical imbalances or the
physiologic imbalances of autism.

So, now that we're starting to look
at it from a different perspective

or perspective that we never
approached in the past,

such as the endocannabinoid system,

one of those things
that we're looking at is:

could this be a deficiency
of the endocannabinoid system

and is that why we're
seeing a lot of changes

and positive changes and
positive outcomes for patients

who start using cannabinoids,
in terms of better outcomes,

that are language control, less anger,
irritability and less anxiety?

Could that be a part in
this bigger diagnosis?

When we look at where is
CBD being kind of overhyped

or really overly suggested
is beneficial is sleep.

I, unfortunately, I don't think
that the data is going to pan out.

And looking through all the
research what we are seeing is

that CBD can be disruptive for
sleep as opposed to helpful.

And one of the caveats to this is,
you know,

every once in a while, people be like,
well, I use CBD for sleep

and it helps me really well. And
that's great and I'm so happy for that,

but the general...
the general public really, I think,

is being advertised falsely
that CBD is helpful for sleep.

There's a couple of reasons:
number 1,

it tends to be awakening or alerting.
I oftentimes say

you can't use something during the
day that is awakening and alerting

and then use it at night and it's
magically now sleep inducing,

you have to pick a
side, can't be both. So,

* THC tends to be sedating. And we
know the age-old "couch lock" concept

kind of concept and it plays
out a little bit more than that,

it does help for sleep,
whereas CBD, again,

tends to be more beneficial
during the daytime.

The times I do see CBD
beneficial for sleep

is when there's pain involved
and causing problems for sleep.

So, let's say you've got a bad
hip or you've broken a bone

and you're using CBD as a secondary
or an additive to your regimen

and that is what's preventing you
from falling asleep, then yes,

that will be helpful for your sleep.
But, if you've got

insomnia for some other
reason and it's chronic,

or if you're taking, you know,
Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata,

one of these hypno
sedative-type medications,

it is very, very, very difficult to
get patients off of those medications

through the use of CBD.
I find it is

incredibly infrequent
to have that happen.

When CBD came, "oh, my
God, it was a godsend".

It's like anybody today
that just hears about CBD,

it's the most miraculous
thing on the planet.

And we really thought it was. And so,
CBD has a non-psychotropical effect

of cannabis. So, you
don't feel any effects,

which you still do feel effects,
because if you're in a lot of pain

and you take a lot of CBD,
that pain is gone, you're in a world,

you're in a different fear and
you're in a different space,

you don't know what normal is
because you're in constant pain.

And when that pain is turned off,

you're kind of lost for
the first few times,

you don't know what
to do with yourself

and we learned that we made
more people injure themselves

giving them pure CBD,
turning pain off completely.

With CBD, to me,
it's a double-edged sword.

I haven't had anybody
beat cancer with just CBD.

I've had epileptic
patients seizures

slow down to almost
stop using a lot of CBD,

but the problem is we
call it the CBD monster,

you have to keep taking it,
upping your dose.

And it's really hard when you
start at 50 milligrams of CBD,

which you can get for, I don't know,
maybe 20 bucks at a gas station nowadays,

which is weird, but you get 20 bucks,
you get 50 milligrams of CBD.

But then, you take that
and then it doesn't work

and now you're spending 40 dollars
because you need 100 milligrams.

And then, in two weeks, you're up
to 500 milligrams and that's...

that's almost 500
bucks some places.

CBD just turns pain off. In my whole
experience, just turns pain off,

doesn't make you feel better,
doesn't get rid of anxiety,

doesn't get rid of inflammation.
If you're going to use CBDs,

I recommend CBD to be used when
people are getting out of surgeries

and you need to make somebody mobile,
they need to use the restroom,

take some CBD, go take a shower,
go change your clothes,

sit down on the couch, now just relax,
get healed, get some rest...

Oh, you need to go to the store,
you need to go pay some bills?

Take some CBD, go get your bills
done, be cognitively there,

don't take THC or you're kind of
looping, you're not all there.

CBD is more of understanding how to
utilize the CBD and how it benefits.

When I meet people and they have
diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis or cancer

and they tell me they need CBD, I
directly started directing them to THC,

because once THC is used,
it's everywhere.

Low grade THC can
be found anywhere.

High grade THC can be accessed
with the right people.

THC is needed, you always need THC.
And you need full plant THC,

especially if you're using
CBD for out of surgeries,

because THC gets rid of the inflammation,
gets rid of the irritation.

Not only that, the CBD will turn off
the pain, but the THC will relax you

to where you don't go mow the lawn,
you don't go wash the dishes

and clean the house until
you injure yourself again

and your family isn't enjoying
you anymore again and you're

bipolar, because you're going
through these pain issues in and out.

And so, the THC puts you on a level
where it just makes you relaxed.

The CBD lowers the
pain and in that

you have a little bit more
respect for your healing.

People are just looking for
the quick fix, quick trick

and they're looking for that "oh,
it doesn't show up on a drug test."

Well, I recommend people
finding a new career, because

money's not worth your life,
everybody I've watched die

didn't take a dollar with them
or take anything with them.

So, working for the
benefit for your children

it's not going to benefit anything
if you're not here for your children.

And if you're going to
spend all of your money

on something that's just the
ultimate snake oil right now,

enjoy it, it does have a
lot of beneficial factors.

And THC is the ultimate
healer because,

if you turn down the
pressure in the body,

most these anomalies
never actually take hold.

So, if I can lower the pressures
of anxiety, seizures don't trigger;

If I can lower the anxiety
pressure from the inflammation,

they don't get anxiety from
the pain from the inflammation.

THC does that,
CBD does not do that.

Some people are
completely afraid of THC.

Fear, not knowing,
they've been taught

that this is a dangerous medicine and
it's going to make them a monster,

they're going to do crazy things that
they've never wanted to do before...

especially our elderly, like,
they're just very ill-informed.

They've been taught that
this is a dangerous drug

and that it's going to make them
do crazy things. And it's just

explaining to them that it
might make you feel funny.

A lot of opiates that these elderly
people are on make me feel funny

when I've tried them.
So, I can tell them from experience

of taking an opiate, it won't
be any funnier than that feel,

I guarantee you that, you know.
What I mean,

it's not scary,
it's kind of like a nice feeling...

I think it's an... For me,
it's an uplifting feeling and I think

that's where the fear lies,
that they're just not used to feeling

* that freeness and it's
just allowing (?) them like,

but do you feel better?
And they usually like, yes.

It's THC, THC will mellow that out.
If you get home,

you've had a hard day of work,

there's no problem with people
drinking a glass of wine,

people smoking a cigarette...
Now, you can take a bong grip,

you can smoke a pre-roll,
you can hit a vape pen.

Well, why don't you get good rest
and take some full plant medicine

and get your body
to actually relax?

We have more receptors in our
stomach and our abdominal system

than anywhere in our whole
body for cannabinoid receptors.

So, the first thing we
do is we detox our body

and we completely flush
our intestines out,

get rid of all the stuff
that's been preserved in foods

that are stuck in our intestines and are
just getting us sick, keeping us sick.

All the preserved food that's stuck
inside of our gut, it washes it out,

clears the mind, gets you good rest,
you wake up feeling refreshed.

And so, that's...
it's really hard to put into context

when people think it's just
snake oil or it's just weed or...

You talk to somebody
that really understands,

you get to a regimen
that makes sense,

understand why you're
using these things.

Just don't use CBD because

somebody told you it's going
to keep your seizures away.

Find out how and where
do you get seizures from.

My daughter, she was
expecting her second child

and she was having a really,
really rough pregnancy.

I mean,
she was just in horrible pain.

Of course,
the doctors wouldn't listen to her.

I worked with doctors and they...

and granted, they have a lot
going on in their head and

I have a lot of respect for a lot
of the ones I worked with, but...

some of them, they have so
much going on their head,

they never hear what's
coming into them.

They make a decision before
they even talk to you.

She could not get anybody
to take her seriously

and she finally got to where she
felt like she couldn't breathe.

I said: go to a
different emergency room.

And when they took an X-ray,
she had a tumor in her liver

that was so large,
it was up into her right chest.

So, she went into the hospital.

I wanted her to take the oil,

but, of course, she was afraid
to because she was pregnant.

Well, then they took the baby and

I continued to try to
get her to take the oil.

And the thing is, my daughter
taught high school French,

she was a high school teacher.

She said: Mom, she says, I'll lose my
license if I test positive for THC.

And... I'm just...

frantic with wanting her to do it,
but I also

would never force anybody
to do anything. I mean,

she went through a lot of Education
to get to her teaching credentials,

she didn't want to take it
and didn't want to take it.

And then they told her
she was dying and...

and then, and then she died.

I don't know that it
would have helped her...

I believe it would have
given her more time and...

maybe come home, helps her,
help her quality of life,

get her home to at least spend
some time with her baby...

I mean, it's a tool that we are
denied, she was denied it, because

of this stigma, you know,
she would lose her job.

And so, she couldn't even use it
for the comfort it would give her

towards the end.

So, when I talked to my colleagues,
my other fellow physicians

about cannabis,
I get a lot of this.

I don't know, I get a lot of:
well, I can't talk about that,

because it's illegal.
I get a lot of:

I can't attend that conference,
because they're talking about cannabis

and would that would create
a problem for my practice.

All of these fears that have been
instilled in us as a medical community,

I am working diligently
on proving wrong.

You know, health care
providers in general right now

are not doing a very
good job of discussing it

and part of the reason for that
is that we've been told this myth

that we're not allowed to.
When are we going to

be encouraged to talk about
this with our patients?

When is this going to be required?

When is this going to be
taught in medical school,

in residency, in internship,
in fellowship?

When is it going to be
part of the discussion?

When is it going to
come to the table?

When will we start talking
about the medical indications?

And that's been on the shoulders
of the patients for a long time.

Well, since I worked
in respiratory therapy

and I worked at the
Veterans Hospital,

the big thing we talked about was
that people with air hunger...

Now, a person that's
dying from emphysema,

they feel like they're suffocating.
And so,

it starts with they feel like you've
got something in front of their face

until they feel like they have a
pillow over their head all the time.

And that's their life:
I can't breathe, I can't breathe.

They have a hard time eating
because they can't breathe.

Well, the Veterans Hospital actually
started giving these patients

synthetic marijuana oil to
help with their air hunger...

Now, let me tell you,
I've even put a morphine

in a little inhaler thing for patients
because their air hunger was so bad

and we were trying to find some
way to ease their breathing. And

the thing with morphine
is it works great

to make you feel not short
of breath, but it also

makes you not feel like breathing.
And so, you know,

you already got somebody that
can't get enough air in and out

and now they don't feel
like breathing? So,

it was really rough to
try and give them that.

The medical marijuana oil
that we gave our patients

was like a lifesaver
for many of them

because it got rid of their air
hunger, it improved their appetite...

I mean, I can't tell you how
many patients I talked to

that this... it made such a
difference for their quality of life.

I still talk to them,
I talk to them all the time.

I'm teaching them now
because I'm still here

and I'm still getting better.
My numbers are changing,

I don't come in asking
for a pain medication,

I'm asking them for
what the blood work says

because I know what
I'm doing for myself.

All they want to do is hear
what I have to say and document

and then they can leave
me in the direction of

whatever pharmaceutical company
that accommodates that type,

that type of pain. But, if I
don't come in with pain, then

* were you at psychologically?

So, having to turn people away
is the worst part of my day.

I do not write for
recreational use of cannabis.

I cannot risk my medical license
or risk you being put in a position

where you get pulled
over by the police

and the police look at
your medical recommendation

and blow it off because they
think it's nonsensical or BS.

We need to have these protections
under the law and, in order to do that,

we have to be really
strict with who we allow

to give these prescriptions
to or recommendations to,

because we don't want it ever
to blow up in any of our faces.

If I lost my license tomorrow,

not only would it be a
problem for me and my family,

but it would also be a problem for all
the thousands patients that we treat.

It would be a problem for
all of the patients who

no longer will have
access to a physician

who can talk to them about
dosage and medication use.

And, as we talked about earlier,
here, in Los Angeles,

we have about three physicians
who are willing to go

the distance and do these
types of discussions,

recommendations for
patients and their families.

Like Rick Simpson told me
years ago in Amsterdam:

this is what works. And he's
not lying and I've witnessed it.

And the reason why I call it NHO,
my company, Native Healing Oils,

is because I'm not Rick Simpson,
I don't call it Rick Simpson Oil.

Rick Simpson doesn't even
call it Rick Simpson Oil.

He's not that a boasty person.
It was called Phoenix Tears,

rise from the ashes, that's
what this medicine was about.

Health, help, life, encouragements
and bringing youth up proper,

self-respect, community respect,
plant respect.

There's a lot of
tools here to help us,

but then everybody's been
ridiculed and afraid of them

because of crazy stories
and all these other things,

but we have to come back to
the brass tacks of reality.

You take this,
you feel like a human being again.

And that's one thing that is missing
on this entire planet right now,

unless you can get lost in nature.

So, as long as you're working every
day for that big house, that nice car,

for some reason,
society has told you

that these things make you
feel happy and you don't,

and then you get some messed
up disorder or disease

and you can no longer provide for
that, you lose that big house,

you lose that big car,
you live on your kid's bedroom,

in a hospital chair,
in a bed with IVs and

tubes running down your mouth
and your face and your nose,

and you can't even tell
your child you love them,

you can't even laugh with your
friend because you can't breathe,

you don't feel good, those are
all the things that are happening

all day every day.
And I believe that this medicine

works for every single person.

It's the personalities
that we're dealing with,

the upbringing that you've had,

if you have the strength
to push through pain

and if you know that there's
a better end of the effort,

there's always a good story
at the end of the effort.

This medicine will help.
This tool is very effective,

but if you continue to eat terrible
and keep going to McDonald's

and you keep doing terrible things,

this medicine is going
to do absolutely nothing.

You have to understand,
when I meet my patients

and they tell me they have cancer,
they have these disorders

and they need my help,
the first thing I tell them is

that they have to be willing
to get rid of the whole life

that they lived before they've
met me and shook my hand.

It is time to change and things
are going to be different.

You had a good run,
40, 50, 60, 70 years of eating

whatever you wanted,
do whatever you wanted. Well,

maybe it all caught up to you now,
you have this anomaly in your body,

it's time to change it,
that's what makes us human beings.

We have the option of change
and we can change ourselves

to believe in good and look at
all the people that you witnessed

that are using this medicine. And
nobody's holding a gun to their head,

this is all their free will,
they want to feel better,

they're tired of the
pharmaceutical system,

they're tired of the medical
system and the industry.

I just watched on the news
the other day that Kaiser is

pretty ecstatic about the best profits
they've ever had in their business

and which really sickens
me to my stomach, because

I know a lot of people that
are in Kaiser systems right now

and they can't even let them
know that they're using cannabis.

And they're profiting off the
drugs that they give these people

that they don't even take. And so,
there's all this misinformation

out there because patients are
afraid to tell their doctors

why they're feeling better,
how come they're feeling better

and they're getting all
these fake medications,

are getting the glory
for cannabis because

the thousands of people that I've
helped never told their doctor

that this is why they're better.

And they have all the prescriptions
that the doctors gave them

sitting in a bag
underneath their bed.

You can't change my mind,
20 plus years, over 5,000 people

I've seen go and some of them
have gone to other worlds,

some of them are in better places,

some of them are
working on it right now

trying to be better than
they were yesterday.

They do get a good night's rest, they
don't have inflammation, irritation,

they're not anxietal and freaked out,
they are not their ailment.

You know, everybody's talking about,
you know, f cancer,

f this, f that. No, no, f
what causes those things,

they're gonna be
here no matter what.

So, why don't you learn how
not to fall into that conundrum

of its endorment and you
just try to find a better way

for other answers, question
things and don't be content

until it resonates with
your heart that it's right.

And that's hard to tell people
when they're used to saying:

well, do I take this
every two to four hours,

am I taking 100 milligrams or
do I need to take 25 milligrams?

It's too much information. In
Washington, when legalization went,

patients were coming into our
dispensary with prescriptions like that:

1,000 milligrams of CBD and
200 milligrams of THC. I said:

where are you going
to find this stuff?

When has this made sense to
this doctor to offer it to you?

And that's where things
started making sense.

Well, if I can get them a
first full night's of rest,

I've gotten rid of so many
more problems just with sleep.

And this is giving people the
deepest sleep that they've had

since they were children. And I've
heard that thousands of times over

and that's the only reason
why I use this today now,

after they wanted
to replace my spine,

tell me I had all kinds of
issues and they had a lot of...

I was hooked on opiates
for a long time,

this got me off opiates and, for years,
I used to go to methadone clinics

and help people get off of methadone
and heroin using this medicine.

We actually stopped my
friend's 19 year old son

from slamming heroin in his arm
using RSO, NHO, Phoenix Tears,

whatever you want to call it.

I didn't do it with vape pens,
I didn't do it with brownies,

I didn't do it with joints,
I did it with heavy doses of this.

It took us two weeks for
a son to get out of detox

and not go into a hospital system,
but we were able to stop

numerous people from
slamming heroin.

And that's one of my most favorite
things about this medicine.

Everybody loves the cancer stories,
people love the age stories,

but I get to stop people from taking
opiates, that's one of my meanest,

meanest efforts on
this planet right now,

because it's the worst
drug ever given to society.

And you know what
I'll do until I die?

Is teach everybody how
to make this medicine

so they don't ever have
to touch an opiate.

Oh, I think the main thing that
is necessary, which I believe

my good friend Pete, me and him
have been on the same wavelength

for quite a few years,
is we need Healing Centers.

We need understanding Healing
Centers, we need places that,

like I explained earlier, you've
got to find what you're good at

and you gotta, like,
just thrive in that, you know.

You can't just be good at this
and then say you're good at that

and you say you're good at this
and then everything falls apart.

No, you gotta be good at what you're
at and you got to find somebody

that fills the gaps
of all those things

and that's what a
Healing Center will do.

A Healing Center will bring
nutritionists, it'll bring physicians,

it'll bring nurses,
it'll bring scientists and chemists

and it'll bring people that
have been in this movement

since the beginning
of the signatures

that have witnessed it on so
many levels to just hear us out.

You don't need to slap us
in the face with science and

the understanding of
what it is, because

we couldn't even talk
about what we've done

and what we've
accomplished since 1995.

And we've accomplished
so much that it's legal

almost around the world now,
we're getting there.

California's movement
of medical marijuana

is the true movement of cannabis

and I do believe that we need this
in its own personal health systems,

not in Kaiser, not in Blue Cross,

this needs to be an independent
building funded by independent people

for independent human beings to walk
in and get an independent understanding

of why they need to use it, how it
benefits them, how they can utilize it.

And that's what I think is the most
beneficial thing out of all this.

Open your mind to things that

maybe you didn't think
positive about before,

be open to people using what
helps them, whatever that may be,

whether it's medical.... From being
somebody that was so against it

and I've seen so many
people helped by it and

I haven't seen anybody
overdose on it,

I haven't seen anybody
be addicted to it...

When you have something that's
safe and effective for many people,

I mean, obviously, not everybody,
everybody's different, but...

be a little bit more open to
what's in front of our face,

instead of rejecting it.

I can take that product
and it'll give me a calm

which will give me an opportunity
to wrap my mind around,

eat that bowl of cereal,

have a piece of fruit.

And if you can get that in your gut

and start your body to
functioning and it's natural,

that's what you're trying to do,

because that energy is
going to bring more life

and you're going to be able
to inspire somebody else

to get some good habits.

If we stop demonizing, you make
people reach at it even harder

when you want to keep it in
that state of being illegal.

Whether or not you believe in God,
or you believe in, you know, evolution,

either way, inside of
these little meat puppets

we're riding along inside of, there's
a system, endocannabinoid system.

And it only talks to cannabis and,
if you believe that we evolved,

then for something like
that to evolve took

probably tens of thousands or
millions of years, you know, and...

and it was very special,
a symbiotic relationship

that we've now been thrust
into a time in an age where

we're being told that it's dirty
and it's terrible, it was demonized.

We, ignorantly,
in America, think that

we got it all figured out,
we got this great system.

And the most important
thing about any society

is caring for people and their
health. And in this society,

we send people to a place where
they give you hopelessness,

where they fill you full of
drugs that make you sicker

and make you then
rely upon more drugs.

And we exist in this system
what we think is so great

and we're torn away
from our natural habitat

that has every last thing
that we ever needed.

And, again, if we evolved,
that we evolved with

and now we've been crammed into
this little box of synthesized goop

that's now being pumped into our
natural bodies and making them sick.

So, right now, what we're seeing
a lot of is this dichotomy

between patients wanting to
be honest with their doctors,

which is what I always suggest
and wholeheartedly recommend and,

at the same time, physicians
turning their backs on patients

* who do use cannabis products, again,
because of lack of education.

It's not because doctors
want to turn patients away,

they want to engage with you,
they enjoy engaging with patients,

they thrive from helping people,
that's why they go into this business,

otherwise, it would be a big problem.
That being said,

if we don't educate our
patients or our physicians,

we will find a place where patients
are going to start being dishonest

and it's going to cause
problems medically for them.

We're talking about, you know,

peri-operative changes
in medication usage

and how much anesthesia
patients need,

but I can't tell you that if you
don't... if you're not honest with me.

If you don't tell me that you're using
cannabis products 3, 4 times a day,

I can't tell your surgeon
and your anesthesiologist

that they need to up
their dose of anesthesia

because you may still be
awake when you go under.

So, let's have these open
conversations and let's make sure

that our physicians are educated.

Things are so different than
I thought they were, you know?

You know, you do this whole
everything is black and white,

but, as you get older,
hopefully, you begin to realize

that there is no black and white,
it's all gray.

And so, I think that we
need to have people with

the understanding, the spiritual
understanding of what...

what medical cannabis's
movement for 20 years was about.

It was about getting sick,
reaching out, finding help

and then building friendships
and relationships.

I'm 67 years old. I didn't even
know how sick I was. You can't...

I can't tell you how much
energy I have right now.

Take this man that you see,
this old man sitting here

and I could do what a 20 year old could
do today right now, that's how I feel.

There's already going to be propagandists
out there saying it's snake oil

and they don't understand, it's hoopla
and it's... it's herbal healing

and it's also, you know, weird

compartments they try to
put us in to segregate us.

No, we're normal people. We, you
know, we work regular jobs, we

have families, we, you know,
want to go to dinner parties and,

* you know, we want to experience
a good time while we're here and,

if you fall into a
little situation,

you should have a place in every
community that you can walk into

and have the understanding from
people that have been doing this

for a lot of years.

And most of the people that
go to a doctor understand that

they just need some treatment.

And that's what they don't do right
now, there's no care in healthcare.

And there's no health in healthcare
either and it's a business.

And so, that's what's needed,
is the care of a facility

to care for these people,
that's funded,

that we can sit there and just wait
for somebody to walk in that door,

whether they have a two-month-old
baby or a 100 year old grandmother,

it's the same community, it's just
people wanting to feel better.

And that's what's really needed.
And I have this

whole scenario thing of, you know,

I've worked in a lot of different
worlds when it comes to medicines.

And one of the experiences that
I went through is I had this...

epiphany thing, is that I try to
live this life right now of what

the Health Care system was when
they kind of found it, you know,

in the 1600's, if I would have got sick,
I'd send my son on a horse

into town, which would be a two
or three day trek, he'd get there

and there'd be a receptionist there
with a pad of paper and a note,

* for him to leave a note.

And that note would be directions
to my house and who I am.

And the doctor, he'd get
back and he'd get this note,

he'd jump on his horse and ride
to my house, gets to my property.

So, when he gets there,
he walks up to my property

and all of my vegetable garden is
dead, all my livestock is gone.

He opens up the door in my house,
I'm sitting on my couch

and my foot is swollen,
I have gout,

I have all these problems with
me that I brought on myself.

You know what the doctor says
as soon as he walks in my door?

He says: hey, lazy. Get back in your
garden and water your vegetables.

Quit killing your livestock and calf
them, fertilize your vegetables.

Stop being so lazy and gluttonous,

have a purpose for this planet.

And the doctor would say:
you're wasting my time,

you selectively did
this to yourself.

There's somebody over here with
an infection I need to go help

and you're just wasting my time.
Instead, today,

we make an appointment
which is like 30 days out.

You sit in a sterile, pristine
office with 20 other people.

The time that you were supposed
to be there comes and goes,

but God forbid you're 10 minutes late,
they won't see you for another month.

You walk into his office,
he never looks at you in the face,

he's looking at a... Well, now
they're looking at a tablet,

they used to look at a clipboard,
they never look at you,

they never ask you
how you're doing,

they never know what's
really going on in your life.

They prescribe you a couple
prescriptions, they kick you out the door

and then it's just a cattle run,
the next one's right behind.

Marijuana's been,
since the beginning of time,

they've been using
it as a medication.

You know it, I know it.
You know, this man here,

he's managed to come up with
a product that's unreal.

I walk into homes, I talk to people,
I open their fridge...

I see what's bothering them,
I drive around with someone

in the doctor's appointments... I've
administered suppositories to people.

I do what it takes to
let them understand

the compassionate
healing of cannabis.

And when Dennis Perone looked
at me in my face and told me:

this is about dying people,
it's not about your life.

I love you, Dennis.

It will kill cancer...

it will kill cancer.

If taken in the right way,
it will kill cancer.

It's not a "does it kill cancer?",
it does.

Any other questions?

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