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Associate Professor, Dr. Robert Melamede, of the University of Colorado, testified at the Holy Smoke Trial on Thursday, in the defense of the four men accused of drug trafficking in the Holy Smoke Culture Shop. Melamede informed B.C.’s Provisional Court that cannabis is safer than aspirin and can restore the balance in people's bodies to help fight illness. In a not so brief, systematic explanation, Dr. Robert Melamede enlightened the court that the human body produces marijuana-like compounds, or endocannabinoids, which act as a "lubricant" for food produced chemicals called "free radicals" that are very reactive and can cause an imbalance in the body.
Formation of Free Radicals
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You can look at the harm caused by free radicals as biological friction or biological rust and the endocannabinoid system minimizes the impact of that and directly acts as an antioxidant as well as modifying the biochemistry in a way that minimizes the impacts," said Melamede outside court Thursday. "
Likening, endocannabinoids to humans like oil is to cars....if you don't have lubrication in your car, your car breaks. In the human body, the damage comes in the form of age-related diseases."
He went on to say, "
I'm saying what science has now shown is that marijuana and cannabinoids are effective anti-aging agents which means that they are effective in minimizing the onset and the severity of age-related illnesses which include cognitive dysfunction things like Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease be it heart attacks, strokes, or clogged arteries."
But while it does not work for every one, cannabis can also help those people with auto-immune diseases and cancer. Melamede explained that you would have to take 40,000 times the therapeutic dose before causing harm to your body. But the therapeutic index for aspirin is 15 to one.
"It's extremely safe," said Melamede of marijuana, noting the overdose amount would equal 40,000 joints.
"And you die happy," added Judge Don Sperry during a rare moment of levity in Thursday's testimony.
Prosecutors took about 15 minutes to cross-examine Melamede and pointed out that he ran for Senate and the House of Representatives in Vermont for the Grassroots Party.
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Overall Correspondence:
- Where's Your Head At?
Good defense …to LEGALIZE MARIJUANA! Otherwise, completely irrelevant to the case.
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7:46 PM
Associate Professor, Dr. Robert Melamede, of the University of Colorado, testified at the Holy Smoke Trial on Thursday, in the defense of the four men accused of drug trafficking in the Holy Smoke Culture Shop. Melamede informed B.C.’s Provisional Court that cannabis is safer than aspirin and can restore the balance in people's bodies to help fight illness. In a not so brief, systematic explanation, Dr. Robert Melamede enlightened the court that the human body produces marijuana-like compounds, or endocannabinoids, which act as a "lubricant" for food produced chemicals called "free radicals" that are very reactive and can cause an imbalance in the body.
Formation of Free Radicals
"
You can look at the harm caused by free radicals as biological friction or biological rust and the endocannabinoid system minimizes the impact of that and directly acts as an antioxidant as well as modifying the biochemistry in a way that minimizes the impacts," said Melamede outside court Thursday. "
Likening, endocannabinoids to humans like oil is to cars....if you don't have lubrication in your car, your car breaks. In the human body, the damage comes in the form of age-related diseases."
He went on to say, "
I'm saying what science has now shown is that marijuana and cannabinoids are effective anti-aging agents which means that they are effective in minimizing the onset and the severity of age-related illnesses which include cognitive dysfunction things like Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease be it heart attacks, strokes, or clogged arteries."
But while it does not work for every one, cannabis can also help those people with auto-immune diseases and cancer. Melamede explained that you would have to take 40,000 times the therapeutic dose before causing harm to your body. But the therapeutic index for aspirin is 15 to one.
"It's extremely safe," said Melamede of marijuana, noting the overdose amount would equal 40,000 joints.
"And you die happy," added Judge Don Sperry during a rare moment of levity in Thursday's testimony.
Prosecutors took about 15 minutes to cross-examine Melamede and pointed out that he ran for Senate and the House of Representatives in Vermont for the Grassroots Party.
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Overall Correspondence:
- Where's Your Head At?
Good defense …to LEGALIZE MARIJUANA! Otherwise, completely irrelevant to the case.
