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US: Seminar brings together supporters of medical marijuana Jeff Bahr Grand Island Independent Sunday 18 Sep 2016 About 20 people were gathered in a hotel conference room Saturday afternoon, attending a cannabis seminar. The air above them was not filled with haze. Heidi Huebner, one of the attendees, said it’s a myth that users of medicinal marijuana sit around stoned all the time. People wracked by pain take one or two hits just to help them get of bed, she said. Click Here! Jane L. Stanley of Hastings organized the all-day cannabis seminar at the Grand Conference Center Hotel. Stanley said she put the event together to educate Nebraskans about the “lies” behind the prohibition of marijuana. She wants to uncover the truth about the plant. Not only does cannabis have many medical benefits, “but it’s a preventive herb. It has also been used for religious sacraments and rituals,” she said. Those rituals date back to 800 B.C., she said. “In fact, in 600 B.C., India was curing leprosy with cannabis oil,” Stanley said. The U.S. government is lying, she said, when it says cannabis has no medicinal purpose. She has found close to 15 patents the government owns on cannabis and synthetic cannabis, she said. Cannabis, she said, is actually prescribed in the Bible, in references to kaneh-bosm. In Exodus 30: 22-25, you can find the recipe that God gave to Moses, she said. For the longest time, kaneh-bosm was thought to refer to calamus, a reed that has some healing and psychoactive properties, Stanley said. But in 1936, linguist Sula Benet discovered an error in translation. Linguists didn’t go far enough back in the history of language, Stanley said. Benet concluded that kaneh referred to cannabis and bosm means fragrant reed. “A lot of people accused her of just wanting to change that to cannabis because she had some type of agenda,” Stanley said. But many churches today are “using cannabis and they’re using it to heal. And they’re using the recipe in the Bible,” Stanley said. The recipe consists of nine shekels of cannabis oil, six shekels of olive oil and fragrant herbs and spices, Stanley said. Stanley, 52, was diagnosed 10 years ago with interstitial cystitis, which causes pain in the bladder and intestine. People with that condition experience more pain than cancer patients, she said. Many speakers delivered remarks via Skype to the gathering, which ran from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Five of the speakers appeared in person, Stanley said. One of the speakers was Edward Williams of Lincoln, who runs an organization called Nebraska Veterans for Medical Marijuana. Williams, who was in the Navy from 1974 to 1978, damaged his back while in the service when he fell 30 feet. He also suffers from neuropathy. Cannabis doesn’t remove pain completely but it takes the edge off the pain, he said. “I believe it has an effective medical use that should be investigated,” said Williams, 61. Huebner says it’s a proven fact marijuana is not addictive. She also said it does less damage to the body than prescription medicine. Huebner, who lives in Grand Island, was born with Klippel-Feil syndrome. “I’ve got 14 screws, two plates and a rod holding my neck together,” she said. But she’s grateful she’s not paralyzed. She is on Dronabinol, a generic version of Marinol, which contains THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. That medicine costs her almost $500 a month. Pharmaceutical companies oppose the legalization of marijuana because it would hurt them financially, said Huebner, who says she has been in pain almost constantly since she was 15. Her therapy dog, Lita, helps her with her balance. People don’t have to smoke marijuana, Stanley said. “There are so many ways to use this plant, including juicing.” People can eat the leaves raw. “You can also cook, bake, barbecue. You can infuse all kinds of foods with cannabis,” Stanley said. If parents juice a plant that contains 27 percent THC, children can receive health benefits from cannabis without getting high, she said. In a world in which marijuana is legal, dispensaries would play an important role, Stanley said. Another seminar attendee, Brad Kallio, is definitely not a Republican. Kallio, who lives in Mason, Mich., says the entire American economy is based on petroleum and profits. Capitalism raises people in a world that is not reality, he said. Kallio quotes the lyrics of the Steve Miller song, “Jungle Love.” To him, the most relevant part of the song is “You live in a world of illusion, where everything’s peaches and cream.” But because of the internet, the world can now talk to itself, he said. About 3.7 billion people are now online, notes Kallio, a scientist who heads an organization called the Zynoc Foundation. “I think the internet is allowing mankind to grow up,” he said. http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/seminar-brings-together-supporters-of-medical-marijuana/article_5a76b398-7d4b-11e6-92a2-67c38dc35fad.html
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