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Originally published September 14 2015
The science behind cannabinoids is clear: marijuana helps brain achieve breakthroughs in learning, consciousness and understanding
by Jonathan Benson, staff writer
(NaturalNews) A great misunderstanding regarding the therapeutic value of the cannabis plant persists, even within some reform circles. Marijuana is often lumped into the same category as cigarettes, hard drugs, and even alcohol, with the latest trend being to designate cannabis as "less harmful" than these other substances. In reality, cannabis isn't actually harmful at all, and it can help improve the way people think, process and understand information, and even function physically.
If you think of your brain as a computer hard drive that is constantly being imprinted with new information in the form of magnetized particles, cannabis and its associated cannabinoid constituents are the organizing and formatting tools that the drive uses to erase bad data, rearrange and reconfigure important data, and maintain and optimize the drive. In other words, cannabis is what helps keep certain parts of the brain tidy and well-performing.
This is a somewhat oversimplified analogy, but it gets at the heart of what cannabis is and is not, why it's beneficial to human physiology, and ultimately why the economic and social engineers don't want you to have it. Cannabis is much like a "counselor" for the brain, science has revealed, acting specifically on cannabinoid receptors inherent to both the cerebellum and basal ganglia, which govern coordination of movement, and in the limbic system's hippocampus, which "gates" information during the consolidation of memory.
As the "grease" of the brain, cannabis doesn't alter dopamine production like alcohol, cigarettes and hard drugs do
Originally published September 14 2015
The science behind cannabinoids is clear: marijuana helps brain achieve breakthroughs in learning, consciousness and understanding
by Jonathan Benson, staff writer
(NaturalNews) A great misunderstanding regarding the therapeutic value of the cannabis plant persists, even within some reform circles. Marijuana is often lumped into the same category as cigarettes, hard drugs, and even alcohol, with the latest trend being to designate cannabis as "less harmful" than these other substances. In reality, cannabis isn't actually harmful at all, and it can help improve the way people think, process and understand information, and even function physically.
If you think of your brain as a computer hard drive that is constantly being imprinted with new information in the form of magnetized particles, cannabis and its associated cannabinoid constituents are the organizing and formatting tools that the drive uses to erase bad data, rearrange and reconfigure important data, and maintain and optimize the drive. In other words, cannabis is what helps keep certain parts of the brain tidy and well-performing.
This is a somewhat oversimplified analogy, but it gets at the heart of what cannabis is and is not, why it's beneficial to human physiology, and ultimately why the economic and social engineers don't want you to have it. Cannabis is much like a "counselor" for the brain, science has revealed, acting specifically on cannabinoid receptors inherent to both the cerebellum and basal ganglia, which govern coordination of movement, and in the limbic system's hippocampus, which "gates" information during the consolidation of memory.
As the "grease" of the brain, cannabis doesn't alter dopamine production like alcohol, cigarettes and hard drugs do
