Mental health

I had a broken hip and an upper sinus infection. I couldn’t walk and I couldn’t sleep. It hurt to stand still, or to lie down. I was very badly broken and I could not function any more. I began talking to God, and learning how to survive. This was interpreted as crazy.

Older people are not crazy. They are sick, in many ways they cannot do things and they cannot even do nothing without suffering. They need some help, and they are asking for it by saying things and doing things that seem strange, nonsensical. So they are given drugs, phenothiazines, which pacify them. They don’t help anyone. They stop the patient from acting out because they make the patient unable to think at all. An IQ that might have been supergenius could be reduced to a qualified moron, incapable of performing basic skills like reading and writing.

I’m not speculating, this was done to me. I’ve recovered.

Cannabis is what fixed me, finally. It heals the pain. It heals the reason you cannot function, and then you are acting properly again, and speaking sensibly. Of course if you have been talking to God, you are going to be religious now. And a lot of older people are going to be expressing their understandings in terms that are like this, now that they are going to be helped.

Cannabis allows the brain to recover from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Cannabis is the cure for “psychosis.” These are side-effects of pain you cannot diagnose, but the body can. The body needs neural help, the protection of cannabis or tobacco.

Yes, tobacco in this case becase tobacco is a neural sedative for pain. When those neurons are screaming, tobacco makes them go numb for awhile. But if you must use tobacco it should be only for a short time and with a high quality leaf, like you might obtain from American Spirit and preferably their organic. Cannabis can then allow them to heal, and the tobacco should then be withdrawn. This is herbal medicine, and it works.

Other than that, tobacco is really not good for you and has a lot of downsides that recommend against using it for any reason if you can obtain cannabis. When I did not live in California, I could not have cannabis in very much quantity nor as high of a quality as I can now. Tobacco was a crutch that is perhaps unnecessary for others.

It should not be illegal to smoke what works.

In today’s New York Times, Benedict Carey writes, based upon a large study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine,

The drugs most commonly used to soothe agitation and aggression in people with Alzheimer’s disease are no more effective than placebos for most patients, and put them at risk of serious side effects, including confusion, sleepiness and Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms, researchers are reporting today.

Right.

And what are these drugs? Phenothiazines?

Phenothiazine (a phenol derivative of thiazine) is a pesticide and industrial chemical used in pharmaceutical manufacturing. It is sometimes used as an antihelminthic. It was introduced by DuPont as an insecticide in 1935. It is now most commonly used as an intermediate chemical in the manufacture of various psychiatric drugs.

Pesticide.