Take Your Cannabis Daily for Good Health

I have used cannabis medically and recreationally and, to be honest, the two uses have merged a bit. I started to smoke cannabis to help with symptoms associated with crippling insomnia and the results were simply amazing. It changed my entire perspective on life.

I was a big drinker before I started to use medical cannabis. Nowadays, I just don’t even feel like drinking much at all. At parties, I always opt for getting nice and stoned, and then just nurse a beer or two throughout the night. I still have a great time and I don’t really deal with hangovers anymore.

Somewhere along the line, my views on medical marijuana grew beyond application for a specific condition. I began to view cannabis use as a supplement, a daily vitamin to compliment the other things I do to maintain health and wellness.

It makes sense. Cannabis is a powerful anti-inflammatory agent and anti-depressant. Much of our mental anguish manifests in the body, which translates to inflamed tissues, which is present in nearly all physical sickness. So, it really makes sense that cannabis, which acts twofold both as an ameliorative force on mental stress and an anti-inflammatory to help with physical suffering, is a key that fits many doors on the quest to wellness.

Sometimes I feel that, in the push to justify medical cannabis to non-believers, doctors and scientists scramble to make it fit specific types of disease. I’m not saying that’s bad. Cannabis is remarkably effective for a variety of specific conditions.

However, I do wonder how much disease could be all together avoided in the first place by keeping a base line of cannabis in your blood stream.

Nature knows what it’s doing. Explain to me why humans have a endocannabinoid system and highly specialized neural receptors designed to interact with cannabis. We aren’t born with ready-made receptors for alcohol, yet a drink after work is always socially acceptable.

Have we ever stopped to think that the reason cannabis hangs out in our tissues for as long as it does (one of the longest of any drug) is because our bodies are making use of it?

Recently, Israeli scientists released a study that shows that cannabis does, in fact, delay or stop the growth of cancer cells. We take daily vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids as a precaution, a protection for our brain and cardiovascular tissues. Will we one day take our weed pills as a preventative health measure?