CBD is absolutely amazing and is a life saver!!! It got me off of Benzodiazepines with absolutely zero withdrawals. It also got me off of antidepressants. I am now healthy without using any prescriptions. Just a healthy diet, plenty of exercise, CBD and vitamins.
No talk of big pharma having the greatest influence over this being illegal and the lack of research on medical benefits and control over federal government policies laws are still way way too harsh
Legalize it or don't I'm going to use it either way but it's incomprehensible that people are considered criminals for something the majority of us either do or have done
All he talks about is how great it is. He doesn't talk about how they are industrializing it. It's being turned into an industry. A handful of companies are going to make billions of dollars off of it. He talks about how it's been used for thousands of years as a medicine. What you get now is nothing like or even close to what they used. It has been changed to increase its potency. What was once a medicine will now be turned into a poison. As long as money can be made you are not important. Only money Above All.
It shouldn’t be legalized, but decriminalized. The difference is decriminalization would prevent big business from turning it into an industry. It should be left in the hands of the people and not industrialized!
Monsanto just invested a ton of money in cannabis research and development. Be sure to buy locally to keep the diverstiy of seeds healthy and plentiful.
There are many compounds besides just THC and CBD in marijuana, the fact that we haven’t done enough research means that we may be missing out on crucial compounds that help specific ailments.
People: What should be illegal? Cigarettes, alcohol or marijuana? Government: Tell us something about those three. People: Marijuana can be grown at home, while cigs and alcohol are made in a specific way. Government: Wait... That means people can buy the marijuana plant once and never pay again, but they have to pay for alcohol and cigs every time? People: Yes. Government: More money!- I mean... Marijuana is deadly! It needs to be illegal.
The Americans were the first to outlaw it and with this you condemned the world for 40 years, now they are the first to realize that they made a mistake and are amending it. Help not only in your country but in all countries to legalize it. (Sorry for my bad english)
Sold! I found my perfect TEDx Talks video on The subject of marijuana. I will be doing my American government final with some of this as research. Thanks for this video👍
I have adhd and I can’t get my prescription if there’s cannabis in my urine. I need my prescription but I enjoy a joint on the weekends when I don’t take my medicine. It’s very frustrating for me. Legalize. 😭
alcohol does not stop seizures in tiny babies though... cannabis does... no comparison whatsoever... the LD50 rating for alcohol is severely low... LD50 for cannabis hardly registers at 50,000 to one
Sucks for me. I suffer from anxiety panic attacks and insomnia not very often but ever now and then. The sucky part is that I'm a permanent resident (green card) and because of that I couldn't get a medical card because even though that in my state, medical Marijuana is legal I could face deportation if I get cougt using it. For now I've found great comfort and relief with cbd and I'm on love with it. But can't get my hands on a medicinal plant.
Cannabis is a medical necessity for all those of us who have been consuming metabolically poisonous Vegetable oils in our diets and getting one or more of many more modern diseases. The solution is to go vegan and take cannabis supplementation until you are better while getting all vegetable oils out of your diet. You can use some polysaturated animal food-based oil, that in all animal products if you are not quite so worried about living as long as reasonably possible while remaining perfectly healthy.
I agree with what he says. However, see another TED talk for starters - demystifying the endocannabinoid system. There are benefits and there are concerns of cannabis. People are going to have to be their own best advocates here and do their own research. I can't unpack it all in a few sentences and I'm not even going to try.
9:18- the phytocannabinoids are lipophilic and do not crystallize into salts... so they aer not easilly identified... it took radio isotopes to identify the isoforms
Good information, great talk. If 97% of Americans would like medical marijuana to be legal, why isn't it being put up to a VOTE across the board? Who is in charge? Isn't it the VOTERS? Or is it our elected officials we VOTE for? I am glad things are going better for his sister
...or they don’t think of someone with the RFIB mutated gene that causes red hair but also causes resistance to pain medication. Same said redhead also has another gene mutation that causes a pain disorder. A cruel combination. That person is me. And I’m a cannabis user because it’s the only thing that eases the pain. It doesn’t take it 100% away but it does lessen it to a greater intensity. It also lowers my anxiety. I don’t use it to get high and I’m so resistant that I don’t get high really. But I certainly use it so I can experience a better day and get out of bed on days I wouldn’t otherwise be able to.
It’s not such a simple story. This speaker is either unaware of or ignores the serious problems with chronic recreational use. Marijuana is extremely psychologically addictive. I’m not talking about “reefer madness“. I’m talking about witnessing, and myself experiencing, how chronic use is emotionally stunting and harmful. Anybody who denies this is either not being honest, or does not know any habitual users.
Thank you, Michael, an incredibly accurate statement. I don't know if society is ready for blanket legalization. Sure it'll never be as dangerous as all those other manufactured painkillers, or alcohol and tobacco, some of the most harmful legal drugs in human history, but it's got dangers of its own. And we won't see those effects for decades.
I just wish it didn't make me so dizzy, the tiniest puff of either indica or sativa just wrecks me. I keep trying it to create a tolerance, but no success, I just get the sensation of my brain leaving my body.
@Kendra Stetler the problem with some full spectrum products is that some do not contain CBD, as they are extracted from parts of the hemp plant that have minuscule amounts or no CBD (which is expressed primarily in the flower and stalks), not the seeds of the hemp plant.
Don't smoke it, you don't need it. Not all herbs are compatible with EVERYONE. Same as lavender, garlic, echinacea, Horehound yellow dock, mint, slippery elm, Organo,lemon balm...I could go on and on. It is absolutely a medicine and should be respected as such. Do you take high blood pressure medication or acid reflux meds etc, if you don't need them?
Janice Billington the point I was making was about the democratic initiative process happening state by state driving change and not federal legalization. The UK medical cannabis legalization happened in 2018.
The receptors are native to the human body, cannabis just happens to produce molecules that interact with that system. This is the main reason why cannabis has such wide ranging effects, it works with a core human biological system that controls inflammation, appetite, anxiety, pain, pregnancy, etc. called the "endocannabinoid system"!
@@terrysavoy502 I don't think he did. Kelly is right, legalization is coming, but there are different definitions of legal. Given that the entire foundations for cannabis prohibition were based on fear (of foreigners and people of color), fraud (lying about its use in medicine and agriculture at the congressional hearings, and by using the prejudicial slang marihuana to trick farmers and doctors), and greed (Rockefeller and his big-pharma / allopathic MD industry and oil profits, Hearst and his timber holdings, and Anslinger and his anti-narcotic bureaucracy), it only seems right that true legalization must revert to the status quo ante. Anything less would perpetuate the damages of the ongoing prohibition and enrich unjustly parties who have benefited from the suffering and misery of the former prohibition. For example, hemp is now federally legal, but many states are making farmers jump through hoops and obtain licenses to grow a completely non-psychoactive plant. In 1936 no farmer needed to tell the government that they were growing cannabis. He did not have to fear arrest for failing to have paperwork in place and did not have to pay for a license to grow a plant that was given to all of us by nature and bred to such great usefulness by his forebearers. He didn't have to worry if he harvested his own seed for the next year and his THC levels bumped above 0.3%. True freedom and legalization is only achieved when one does not need permission to perform an act and to carry out ones livelihood, given the constraints of remaining within ones personal property and respecting the rights and properties of others. The cost of these licenses and pseudo-legalization are felt by people like Kelly's sister, Sasha. They pay a higher price than they would without the licenses. Even worse, they miss the opportunity to have people like Guiseppi involved in the production and hybridization and medicalization of this plant because he has principles, or the cost is too high for him to be involved. They also lose out on the many farmers who don't want the fear of messing up paperwork hanging over their head when just about every other crop doesn't have that kind of B.S. attached to it. I am glad that there are steps toward legalization, I am also particularly grateful for the opportunity for those who need this plant as medicine, but justice is not served to this plant and its users and potential producers until it is regulated or unregulated to the extent that other agriculture commodities are.
Without taking a position on legalization... I have to say it is so upsetting to see you offer this presentation and offer ZERO evidence for, or against, the use of cannabis. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, it is opinionated conversations like this that lead us nowhere. You had the opportunity to EDUCATE and rather, seized your minutes as an opportunity to persuade. You appear intelligent and I'd assume you are educated on the topic... how could you offer zero evidence for those that are hoping to learn? 23,000 studies and you referred to .......zero......
Anthony these speeches are highly curated and we're encouraged to abide by TED's core ethos: inspire viewers to question why, and seek further answers. There are many studies on the topic, including many speeches and even TED talks on cannabis. Yes, I am educated on the topic, and no, this was not the venue to reference studies, although my original script had several of them linked in footers. I disagree that this leads us nowhere, quite to the contrary, had you been present you'd have seen that many people there, and since have reached out to learn more. Many had no idea cannabis had ever been "medicine", and instead only known the stigma of it as an illegal substance. I respect your opinion, and can only ask you to see if from the perspective of it's intent: provide a history of cannabis as medicine, and reframe the stigma entrenched in nearly 50 years of prohibition in 13 minutes or less.
CBD is absolutely amazing and is a life saver!!! It got me off of Benzodiazepines with absolutely zero withdrawals. It also got me off of antidepressants. I am now healthy without using any prescriptions. Just a healthy diet, plenty of exercise, CBD and vitamins.
Emens Travels I’m glad to hear it. My first doses will begin next week. Hope it works as well.
Emens Travels what brand do you use?
Oh man i wish i could do that, living in finland i might never get to try CBD based withdrawing :(
I can't hit like enough times. Happy for you Emens
What CBD do you use ? I've tried loads that haven't worked.
No talk of big pharma having the greatest influence over this being illegal and the lack of research on medical benefits and control over federal government policies laws are still way way too harsh
Legalize it or don't I'm going to use it either way but it's incomprehensible that people are considered criminals for something the majority of us either do or have done
I wonder what percentage of people are killed by drunk drivers compared to those with THC in there system? 🤔
All he talks about is how great it is. He doesn't talk about how they are industrializing it. It's being turned into an industry. A handful of companies are going to make billions of dollars off of it. He talks about how it's been used for thousands of years as a medicine. What you get now is nothing like or even close to what they used. It has been changed to increase its potency. What was once a medicine will now be turned into a poison. As long as money can be made you are not important. Only money Above All.
It shouldn’t be legalized, but decriminalized. The difference is decriminalization would prevent big business from turning it into an industry. It should be left in the hands of the people and not industrialized!
Fully legal protects homegrowers, industry only makes you lazy, if you want good stuff, do it yourself, legally.
It' s one of the only naturally occurring materials that mimics our own endocannbinoid. system.
Legalize! Legalize! Legalize!
Be careful people " Kmart marijuana ". They gonna change it
Screw Kmart when its legal we can grow it
Me had has bad pains had to get off pain killers now have to take cbd I praying for all to pass alk over the states
Great job Kelly. Inspirational presentation!
RELAXADO thank you!
Legalize federally
Kevin Y
Fact.
The fed is just trying to stop you from burning a hole in your pocket.
@@sthomas7211 yeah that's why they fine you
Monsanto just invested a ton of money in cannabis research and development. Be sure to buy locally to keep the diverstiy of seeds healthy and plentiful.
Of course they did!!!😑
They will be taking and monopolies the seeds changing the seed strains, so we the public can’t grow are own. Just like the conglomerates do with corn.
From what I’ve been told, the problem is THC, not CBD.
So, why are people clamoring to legalize both?
THC is just as medical as CBD, even more so for certain conditions... the prison system needs THC to be BAD BAD BAD
There are many compounds besides just THC and CBD in marijuana, the fact that we haven’t done enough research means that we may be missing out on crucial compounds that help specific ailments.
People: What should be illegal? Cigarettes, alcohol or marijuana?
Government: Tell us something about those three.
People: Marijuana can be grown at home, while cigs and alcohol are made in a specific way.
Government: Wait... That means people can buy the marijuana plant once and never pay again, but they have to pay for alcohol and cigs every time?
People: Yes.
Government: More money!- I mean... Marijuana is deadly! It needs to be illegal.
So true😝
Home brewing beer was illegal until the 1970's. Jimmy Carter made it legal.
Cbd works and the way it helped my daughter turned me into selling it and sharing with everyone.
The Americans were the first to outlaw it and with this you condemned the world for 40 years, now they are the first to realize that they made a mistake and are amending it. Help not only in your country but in all countries to legalize it. (Sorry for my bad english)
Great Ted talk
Sold! I found my perfect TEDx Talks video on The subject of marijuana. I will be doing my American government final with some of this as research. Thanks for this video👍
End war . Legalization is the route
I have adhd and I can’t get my prescription if there’s cannabis in my urine. I need my prescription but I enjoy a joint on the weekends when I don’t take my medicine. It’s very frustrating for me. Legalize. 😭
so theres collusion going on, and we cant do anything. but hey lets all get together for a taxed plant
Sounds like a plan...👉👍
I believe it should be regulated similar to alcohol and kept out of the hands of children.
alcohol does not stop seizures in tiny babies though... cannabis does... no comparison whatsoever... the LD50 rating for alcohol is severely low... LD50 for cannabis hardly registers at 50,000 to one
It should be kept out of the governments hands.
@@cosmopolitanwonder9675 Yup....after all, there's that government can't screw up.
Love this video!
I've always said Cannabis will someday save mankind and possibly the planet.
Yesss
Sucks for me. I suffer from anxiety panic attacks and insomnia not very often but ever now and then. The sucky part is that I'm a permanent resident (green card) and because of that I couldn't get a medical card because even though that in my state, medical Marijuana is legal I could face deportation if I get cougt using it. For now I've found great comfort and relief with cbd and I'm on love with it. But can't get my hands on a medicinal plant.
Cannabis is a medical necessity for all those of us who have been consuming metabolically poisonous Vegetable oils in our diets and getting one or more of many more modern diseases. The solution is to go vegan and take cannabis supplementation until you are better while getting all vegetable oils out of your diet. You can use some polysaturated animal food-based oil, that in all animal products if you are not quite so worried about living as long as reasonably possible while remaining perfectly healthy.
I agree with what he says. However, see another TED talk for starters - demystifying the endocannabinoid system. There are benefits and there are concerns of cannabis. People are going to have to be their own best advocates here and do their own research. I can't unpack it all in a few sentences and I'm not even going to try.
Yet alcohol is legal, how many people do you think die per year from cirrhosis of the liver? How many people get drunk and kill people driving?
CBD is legal; has benefits and is not psychoactive (doesn't make you high/destroy brain cells).
9:18- the phytocannabinoids are lipophilic and do not crystallize into salts... so they aer not easilly identified... it took radio isotopes to identify the isoforms
would be the dream come true!
If everyone would just smoke a joint…. The world would calm tf down!!!!
I live in Texas I'm facing a paraffiela charge that's $2,000 just for a pipe that I used to smoke out of when I went home to Washington.
Good Stuff ✔
Good information, great talk. If 97% of Americans would like medical marijuana to be legal, why isn't it being put up to a VOTE across the board? Who is in charge? Isn't it the VOTERS? Or is it our elected officials we VOTE for? I am glad things are going better for his sister
Pot is a gateway to freedom from the Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex.
💚💙💗💞FREE THE FREEDOM TO BE FREE!!!!!!! 👍✌
...or they don’t think of someone with the RFIB mutated gene that causes red hair but also causes resistance to pain medication. Same said redhead also has another gene mutation that causes a pain disorder. A cruel combination. That person is me. And I’m a cannabis user because it’s the only thing that eases the pain. It doesn’t take it 100% away but it does lessen it to a greater intensity. It also lowers my anxiety. I don’t use it to get high and I’m so resistant that I don’t get high really. But I certainly use it so I can experience a better day and get out of bed on days I wouldn’t otherwise be able to.
❤❤❤
Illegal but guess what?
I still find dealers 😝 love that herb y'all
It’s not such a simple story. This speaker is either unaware of or ignores the serious problems with chronic recreational use. Marijuana is extremely psychologically addictive. I’m not talking about “reefer madness“. I’m talking about witnessing, and myself experiencing, how chronic use is emotionally stunting and harmful. Anybody who denies this is either not being honest, or does not know any habitual users.
Thank you, Michael, an incredibly accurate statement. I don't know if society is ready for blanket legalization. Sure it'll never be as dangerous as all those other manufactured painkillers, or alcohol and tobacco, some of the most harmful legal drugs in human history, but it's got dangers of its own. And we won't see those effects for decades.
Who needs peer reviewed science when Mike has anecdotal evidence and “seen it himself!”
Prodigysportsman because peer reviewed science says marijuana isn’t psychologically addictive??
@@mikedowd66 it claims it is not physically addictive... cannabis is psychologically addictive ( the act of use)
nice
I just wish it didn't make me so dizzy, the tiniest puff of either indica or sativa just wrecks me.
I keep trying it to create a tolerance, but no success, I just get the sensation of my brain leaving my body.
NightsMay try CBD, which isn’t psychoactive.
@Kendra Stetler the problem with some full spectrum products is that some do not contain CBD, as they are extracted from parts of the hemp plant that have minuscule amounts or no CBD (which is expressed primarily in the flower and stalks), not the seeds of the hemp plant.
Don't smoke it, you don't need it. Not all herbs are compatible with EVERYONE. Same as lavender, garlic, echinacea, Horehound yellow dock, mint, slippery elm, Organo,lemon balm...I could go on and on. It is absolutely a medicine and should be respected as such. Do you take high blood pressure medication or acid reflux meds etc, if you don't need them?
Yes Cleaning For Beautiful Absolutely Life And Cannabis is Healthy Forever A+!‼️💚🏳️🌈
No it is not unique in America, it is happening here in the UK also and I suspect in other countries all across the globe.
Janice Billington the point I was making was about the democratic initiative process happening state by state driving change and not federal legalization. The UK medical cannabis legalization happened in 2018.
(laughng)a grassroots movement powered by folks that paid their producers tax(permit fees) to the state.
damn....criminalizing a harmless plant for no reason. silly
🙏🙏🙏🙏💯
CANNABIS IS SO POWERFUL BECAUSE OUR CANNABIS CREATES RECEPTORS IN ALL OF OUR ORGANS FROM HAIR TO TOES,
The receptors are native to the human body, cannabis just happens to produce molecules that interact with that system. This is the main reason why cannabis has such wide ranging effects, it works with a core human biological system that controls inflammation, appetite, anxiety, pain, pregnancy, etc. called the "endocannabinoid system"!
The Trump Administration should legalize Federally for 2020 to get Trump reelected
Noice
Unfortunately,I'm not going to buy my right to use this plant.I will not purchase a socialist fun card ( medical marijuana) card.
Your loss
Guiseppi Gambini I think you totally missed the point...
huh
Guiseppi Gambini
SAD; When Legalized; Grow Your Own In Your Garden (next to your Roma tomatoes).
@@terrysavoy502 I don't think he did. Kelly is right, legalization is coming, but there are different definitions of legal. Given that the entire foundations for cannabis prohibition were based on fear (of foreigners and people of color), fraud (lying about its use in medicine and agriculture at the congressional hearings, and by using the prejudicial slang marihuana to trick farmers and doctors), and greed (Rockefeller and his big-pharma / allopathic MD industry and oil profits, Hearst and his timber holdings, and Anslinger and his anti-narcotic bureaucracy), it only seems right that true legalization must revert to the status quo ante. Anything less would perpetuate the damages of the ongoing prohibition and enrich unjustly parties who have benefited from the suffering and misery of the former prohibition.
For example, hemp is now federally legal, but many states are making farmers jump through hoops and obtain licenses to grow a completely non-psychoactive plant. In 1936 no farmer needed to tell the government that they were growing cannabis. He did not have to fear arrest for failing to have paperwork in place and did not have to pay for a license to grow a plant that was given to all of us by nature and bred to such great usefulness by his forebearers. He didn't have to worry if he harvested his own seed for the next year and his THC levels bumped above 0.3%. True freedom and legalization is only achieved when one does not need permission to perform an act and to carry out ones livelihood, given the constraints of remaining within ones personal property and respecting the rights and properties of others.
The cost of these licenses and pseudo-legalization are felt by people like Kelly's sister, Sasha. They pay a higher price than they would without the licenses. Even worse, they miss the opportunity to have people like Guiseppi involved in the production and hybridization and medicalization of this plant because he has principles, or the cost is too high for him to be involved. They also lose out on the many farmers who don't want the fear of messing up paperwork hanging over their head when just about every other crop doesn't have that kind of B.S. attached to it.
I am glad that there are steps toward legalization, I am also particularly grateful for the opportunity for those who need this plant as medicine, but justice is not served to this plant and its users and potential producers until it is regulated or unregulated to the extent that other agriculture commodities are.
Without taking a position on legalization... I have to say it is so upsetting to see you offer this presentation and offer ZERO evidence for, or against, the use of cannabis. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, it is opinionated conversations like this that lead us nowhere. You had the opportunity to EDUCATE and rather, seized your minutes as an opportunity to persuade. You appear intelligent and I'd assume you are educated on the topic... how could you offer zero evidence for those that are hoping to learn? 23,000 studies and you referred to .......zero......
Anthony these speeches are highly curated and we're encouraged to abide by TED's core ethos: inspire viewers to question why, and seek further answers. There are many studies on the topic, including many speeches and even TED talks on cannabis. Yes, I am educated on the topic, and no, this was not the venue to reference studies, although my original script had several of them linked in footers. I disagree that this leads us nowhere, quite to the contrary, had you been present you'd have seen that many people there, and since have reached out to learn more. Many had no idea cannabis had ever been "medicine", and instead only known the stigma of it as an illegal substance. I respect your opinion, and can only ask you to see if from the perspective of it's intent: provide a history of cannabis as medicine, and reframe the stigma entrenched in nearly 50 years of prohibition in 13 minutes or less.
CBD yep THC nope
Don't fall for it you will be sorry.
Terry Miler don’t fall for what???